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Item Ships From: Bay Area
Thelma Gooch " Jester Entertaining "
Located in San Francisco, CA
C. Late 19th Century - Early 20th Century
This is a Portrait of a Jester Playing an Instrument ( Oil on Canvas ) Done by Thelma Gooch 63"
Category
Early 20th Century Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Terra Incognita 1 (Abstract painting)
By Jessica Snow
Located in London, GB
Terra Incognita 1 (Abstract painting)
Acrylic on 300lb. Arches hotpress paper - Unframed
Snow sees her work as a constant play between order and chaos, logic and emotion. She combi...
Category
2010s Abstract Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Surrealist Still Life with a Guitar
Located in San Francisco, CA
When you enter visually into the sumptuous scene captured in this painting, the unknown artist is playing with you. They are teasing you to slightly suspend your careful awareness of...
Category
1940s Surrealist Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
End of the Street I
By Sally Kissinger Wilt
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Sally Kissinger Wilt (American, 1936-2004)
Title: End of Street I
Year: Circa 1963
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 48 x 53 inches unframed
Signature: Signed “Wilt” reverse
Condi...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Chelleneshin 12 (Abstract Painting)
By Yari Ostovany
Located in London, GB
Chelleneshin 12 (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic on canvas - Unframed
"This artwork will be shipped rolled in a dent-resistant tube.
This method is especially safe for large works, and ...
Category
2010s Abstract Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Turquoise and Purple, Abstract Painting
By Natasha Tayles
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Part of Natasha's signature circles series. Loose, geometric abstraction of land and sky. Suggestion of the sun shining on a field of flowers. Hot pink, purpl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Arthur J. Krakower "Suffer - But It Was Worth It" Oil Painting c.1999
By Arthur Krakower
Located in San Francisco, CA
Fantastic Original Oil Painting by Noted California Artist Arthur J. Krakower (1921-2009)
Titled "Suffer - But It Was Worth It - Wasn't It?"
Signed and dated 1999.
Original oil on...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mount Shasta in Spring
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork Titled "Mount Shasta in Spring" c.1970 is an oil painting on canvas by California artist Robert Wagner. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The canvas ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Coastal Atmosphere, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Timon Sloane
Located in Yardley, PA
Oil on linen mounted on gatorboard. It is available unframed. :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Re...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Oil
People of the Village
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "People of the Village" c.1980, is an oil painting on canvas by Hungarian artist Anton Kowalski, b.1926. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The canvas size is 21 x 24 inches, framed size is 26.5 x 30.5 inches. Framed in original dark wood and green frame, with fabric liner. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
The artist was born in Sopron in Hungary in 1926. He was a student of the Academy of Budapest and during the uprising in 1956 against Communism he escaped from Hungary to Vienna where he now lives and works.
He has become internationally known for his (typically East European style) “Naive” paintings depicting Village life in the four seasons in glorious color. Children especially like his works as each one tells a story.
He has exhibited in many Galleries throughout Europe, particularly in Munich, Vienna, Tokyo, and Harrods in London. His work has been on permanent exhibition at the Stewart Gallery...
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Quiet Weather II, Oil Painting
By Kristen Brown
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A sunset over a rocky coastline and luminous clouds rendered with a bold and graphic approach. The divergence between the clouds and the shoreline embody the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Spring Composition no. 1
By Gary Bukovnik
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Spring Composition no. 1' watercolor on paper. Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth, intensity, and s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
The Heirloom / oil on linen
By Mimi Jensen
Located in Burlingame, CA
Persimmons, cobalt blue table linens and silver are the focus of this elegant and dramatic still life. Colors include silver, orange and blue. Photorealist oil painting on canvas. T...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil
Square of Sublimity IV / watercolor & mixed media
By Irene Zweig
Located in Burlingame, CA
Intellect and order are at play in shades of yellow in the abstract mixed media painting that visually references landscape and water, yet takes it's inspiration from music. 'Square ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Wood, Paper, Watercolor
Composition in Green
By Frédéric Choisel
Located in Burlingame, CA
French American Frédéric Choisel is inspired by the cities of France, New York and the Bay Area and creates elegant abstractions that tell a story of urbanized grace. In this series,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
"Daybreak" Original 20th Century Oil Painting After Parrish
By Maxfield Parrish
Located in San Francisco, CA
"Daybreak" Original 20th Century Oil Painting after Parrish
A fine original copy of one of the most famous paintings by Parrish.
No visible signat...
Category
1930s Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ether Sans Oiseaux II (Ether without Birds) / - Oil on Linen
By Frédéric Choisel
Located in Burlingame, CA
Ether Sans Oiseaux II (Ether without Birds) Elegant sophisticated whites and creams of the clouds on rich blue sky. 39 x 39 inches.
French American Frédéric Choisel, has had multi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Ether Sans Oiseaux I (Ether without Birds) / Oil on Linen
By Frédéric Choisel
Located in Burlingame, CA
Ether Sans Oiseaux I (Ether without Birds) Elegant sophisticated whites and creams of the clouds on rich blue sky. 39 x 39 inches.
French American Frédéric Choisel, has had multip...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
River Passage in the Levant
Located in San Francisco, CA
A flight of fancy, this work is a bit of a surprise for a 20th-century California painter. With its colorful dhows topped by lateen sails and attended by turbaned sailors, the artist Anthony Muscat...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Language of Flowers and Silent Things — horizontal
By Frédéric Choisel
Located in Burlingame, CA
The Language of Flowers and Silent Things — in four parts with luminous oil on linen. Each panel is 25 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches. Hanging the four paintings in a row with 1 inch between each canvas, the overall dimension is 25 1/2 x 81 inches. Drama and depth at play in this sophisticated painting in aubergine and plum on natural raw Belgian linen. Thin layers of oil paint, create a shimmering and provocative work that shimmers and changes with the light of day and differing seasons.
French American Frédéric Choisel, is inspired by the cities and countrysides of France, New York, and California's Bay Area. Like Gerhard Richter, with a background in hyperrealism and shift into abstraction, Choisel is taking us — the viewers of his work — along with him on a visceral journey.
Beautiful, rich, highest quality materials used throughout. Artist signed, titled and dated verso. Condition excellent. The four paintings can hang in a quad as pictured or four in a row...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Horse
Located in Napa, CA
Josh Brown has had a lifetime interest in creating art, most notably through his depiction of animals. He swiftly captures the mood of his subjects and brings the personality of each...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
$2,430
Grove Club
By Kim Ford Kitz
Located in Mill Valley, CA
Kim Ford Kitz grew up in Southern California Beach towns, lived in San Francisco as a young adult, and now lives and works in a former furnit...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Panel
Safety in Numbers: CT
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Safety in Numbers' is part of Frohsin's important and histoic 'Cautionary Tales' series that considers the true price of technology driven progress. Created with acrylic and mixed m...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Mixed Media
DangeroUS: Cautionary Tales
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Vibrant mixed media painting from Kim Frohsin, whose important and provocative Cautionary Tales series of 2015, considers the true price of progress and its repercussions on society ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Gouache
CT: Aerial Map, Zones / Ramps
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
An abstracted collage created in late 2015. The dynamic, mixed-media work is among the last of Frohsin’s critically acclaimed Cautionary Tales series, which considers the true price ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Mixed Media, Pigment
Flower Bloom, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Thong Le
Located in Yardley, PA
Oil painting on canvas, beautiful and colorful flowers in an impressionist style. :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed...
Category
2010s Impressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Jazz Lover
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Multidisciplinary artist Kim Frohsin’s work is held by the San Jose Museum of Art, the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, the Office of the Governor, State Capital, Sacramento, and th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Mixed Media
Wine Country Fall 4947
By Kate Salenfriend
Located in Napa, CA
Surrounded by artistic inspiration from a very early age, Kate Salenfriend learned most of her technical skills from her great-grandfather, Stewart Robertson, the registered Californ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Low Tide
By Kristen Garneau
Located in Mill Valley, CA
Although the paintings of Kristen Garneau begin with actual experiences in nature, she is influenced as much by Abstract Expressionist masters as she is by the more traditional lands...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Sacrifice
Located in San Francisco, CA
Given the subject of this painting, you won't be surprised to learn that actor and artist Vincent Price was a patron of Noel Rockmore (1928-1995), this work's American artist. Additi...
Category
1950s Modern Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$8,250
Clown with Balloons
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Clown with Balloons" c.1980 is an oil painting on canvas by American artist Chuck Oberstein, 1935-2002. It is signed at the lower left co...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Oil
La Casa Amarilla (The Yellow House)
Located in San Francisco, CA
Alejandro Rubio
La Casa Amarilla (The Yellow House), 2022-2025
Oil on panel
18 x 18 inches
This is a one-of-a-kind oil painting on a wooden panel.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Evening at Harvey Bear" a Pastoral Painting of an Oak Tree by Joe Mancuso
By Joe Mancuso
Located in Morgan Hill, CA
"Evening at Harvey Bear Park" is a pastel painting by Torrance, CA based artist, Joe Mancuso. This painting was created during Colibri Gallery's 2nd An...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Board
Between Guests, Tower of London, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Terry Guyer
Located in Yardley, PA
I noticed this lovely young lady in period costume, out of the corner of my eye, at the Tower of London. Whether she was a guide working for the Tower of London or a leader of a priv...
Category
2010s Photorealist Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Oil
From the Peak
By Kim Ford Kitz
Located in Mill Valley, CA
Kim Ford Kitz grew up in Southern California Beach towns, lived in San Francisco as a young adult, and now lives and works in a former furnit...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Autumn 4946
By Kate Salenfriend
Located in Napa, CA
Surrounded by artistic inspiration from a very early age, Kate Salenfriend learned most of her technical skills from her great-grandfather, Stewart Robertson, the registered Californ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Sockeye
By Stephen Namara
Located in Burlingame, CA
Sockeye - sill life composition - exquisite highly contemporary still life acrylic on canvas painting, 22 x 28 inches unframed and professionally framed in maple measuring 22 3/4 x 2...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Cypher #25
By Tim Craighead
Located in Mill Valley, CA
Framed mixed-media painting on paper.
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Caribbean Sunrise 30" x 40", Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Details: * Original Abstract Art * Acrylic on stretched canvas, sides and edges painted * Size & Dimensions: 30 x 40 x 1.5 inch (76.2 x 101.6 x 6.35 cm) * Hand-Painted Original a...
Category
2010s Abstract Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Lost Horizon
By Craig Mooney
Located in Napa, CA
Craig Mooney makes paintings of dramatic moments and heightened emotionality that are known for being expansive and expressive. Though a representational painter, the artist incorpor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$12,000
Lobster Fishermen
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Lobster Fishermen" c.1945, is an oil painting on canvas by renown American impressionist artist Claude Curry Bohm, 1894-1971. It is signed at the lower left corner by the artist. The canvas size is 20 x 24 inches, framed size is 26.25 x 30.25 inches. Framed in a new wooden gold leaf plein air style frame. It is in excellent condition, it has been recently revarnish and new keys have been added to the canvas stretcher. Please note the the dark line on the top and left side of the painting are only the shadow, it is not a part of this artwork.
About the artist:
Claude Curry Bohm, a photographer, painter, and printmaker whose artistic career spanned five decades, was an integral part of the Chicago art scene in the 1920s and a very prominent part of the second generation of the Brown County...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Timeless Allure of the “Javanese Dancer”
Located in San Francisco, CA
Unsurprisingly, she was much admired when exhibited by artist Luis Cutron at the noted Laguna Beach Art Association, today’s Laguna Art Museum in coastal Southern California. Exotic ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Blue Clover
By Kim Ford Kitz
Located in Mill Valley, CA
Kim Ford Kitz grew up in Southern California Beach towns, lived in San Francisco as a young adult, and now lives and works in a former furniture warehouse converted into an airy art ...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Le Roi Yvetot, 1919 (no. 227)
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
Le Roi Yvetot (no. 227) from 1919 is a gouache painting on tissue paper mounted on board. The image size is 9.25 x 6 inches, framed in a gold-tone frame, 22.5 x 19 inches. Signed recto 'Erté' lower right, in the image and annotated verso, 'Les Rois des Lègendes, No 8, Le Roi Yvetot 227'. Erte name and 'Composition originale' stamps verso.
Le Roi Yvetot is a design by Erte for the 1919 theater production of Les Rois des Lègendes.
The King of Yvetot
William Makepeace Thackeray: 1811 –1863
There was a king of Yvetot, Of whom renown hath little said,
Who let all thoughts of glory go, And dawdled half his days a-bed;
And every night, as night came round, By Jenny, with a nightcap crowned,
Slept very sound: Sing ho, ho, ho! and he, he, he!
That's the kind of king for me.
And every day it came to pass, That four lusty meals made he;
And, step by step, upon an ass, Rode abroad, his realms to see;
And wherever he did stir, What think you was his escort, sir?
Why, an old cur. Sing ho, ho, ho! and he, he, he!
If e'er he went into excess, 'Twas from a somewhat lively thirst;
But he who would his subjects bless, Odd's fish!—must wet his whistle first;
And sofrom every cask they got, Our king did to himself allot,
At least a pot. Sing ho, ho, ho! and he, he, he!
To all the ladies of the land, A courteous king, and kind, was he;
The reason why you'll understand, They named him Pater Patriae.
Each year he called his fighting men, And marched a...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
April
By René Romero Schuler
Located in Napa, CA
René Romero Schuler is an American painter and sculptor who creates powerful images that speak to the complexities of the human condition and the spirit that connects all human being...
Category
2010s Abstract Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Street Lights
By Craig Mooney
Located in Napa, CA
Craig Mooney makes paintings of dramatic moments and heightened emotionality that are known for being expansive and expressive. Though a representational painter, the artist incorpor...
Category
2010s Abstract Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Water Bloom 10
By Liz Barber
Located in Napa, CA
Liz Barber pursued painting while obtaining her degree from the Massachusetts College of Art and Moore College of Art. She currently resides in Marietta, Georgia. Barber’s paintings ...
Category
2010s Abstract Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic, Gouache, Graphite
$5,900
Celebration
Located in San Francisco, CA
Alejandro Rubio
Celebration, 2024
Oil on canvas
30 x 30 inches
This one-of-a-kind oil painting on canvas is stretched across wooden stretcher bars.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Backlit Tree Study, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Timon Sloane
Located in Yardley, PA
Oil on linen mounted on gatorboard. It is available unframed. :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Re...
Category
2010s Impressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Boy and His Dog
By Doug Smith
Located in Napa, CA
"Part of an exhibition of 12 notable American artists, the U. S. Embassy in Moscow, Russia. My five paintings, along with
paintings from Fritz Scholder, Richard Diebornkorn to name ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
$10,500
Beach Walk
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
Beach Walk - The painting was created in 2025 by celebrated American realist artist Willard Dixon, who has captured the undeniable beauty of the west for the past 35 years. Dixon’s w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Shes Got the Look, Painting, Oil on Wood Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
Taking reclaimed wood and making something striking is kind of my thing. I love rescuing materials and repurposing them to give people enjoyment. In the piece, I used my stencil tech...
Category
2010s Pop Art Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Oil
“Walking Among the Trees” A Winter Scene in Blue, Gray & White
Located in San Francisco, CA
Out for a breath of fresh air late on a wintery day, this adult and child are walking in a world of wonder in this painting. Crunching on the ice covering the shoveled pathway, the p...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Folktale, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Lisa Elley
Located in Yardley, PA
The vibrant yellow green shoots of Spring vines in the wine country create a colorful pattern as they turn from brown to green and yellow. The rich oranges of our beloved California ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Oil
blossom of spring, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Thong Le
Located in Yardley, PA
Oil painting on canvas, a blossom of spring :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :...
Category
2010s Impressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Venice, An Intimate View
Located in San Francisco, CA
It's the dream. One going back centuries. The glossy canals instead of streets reflecting the delicate hues of adjacent buildings, yes. But especially when these waterways are dotted...
Category
1960s Impressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,250
Brasserie, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Lisa Elley
Located in Yardley, PA
A textured deep impasto contemporary painting in oil by an award winning San Francisco Bay artist, featuring a colorful and textured Pari...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Oil
“Raising the Flag” by R. Kamal
Located in San Francisco, CA
You won’t find many wooden one-room schoolhouses these days—more likely utilitarian blocks of concrete and glass, fluorescents above, linoleum below, to do the job. The early schoolh...
Category
20th Century Folk Art Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Water View from the Terrace
By Thomas Creswick
Located in San Francisco, CA
On offer is a jewel of an artwork, a watercolor done with the delicacy of exquisite enamel work. The scene is set on a colonnaded terrace with a commanding view of a mountain lake or...
Category
19th Century English School Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Board
Power Grab in Primary Colors
Located in San Francisco, CA
Locked in an embrace, two of the three primary colors set against a yellow background might represent the contentment of enduring intimacy, or the grip technology has on all of us, o...
Category
1960s Abstract Bay Area - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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