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Item Ships From: Chicago
Mounted Dida Tie-Dyed Ceremonial Kerchief
Located in Chicago, IL
An incredible and rare mid-20th century Dida hand-plated Shibori tie-dyed raffia ceremonial kerchief mounted on a linen stretched board that floats off the wall in the shape of the k...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ivorian Tribal Chicago - Decorative Art
Materials
Raffia
$1,387 Sale Price
25% Off
Italian Ceramic Art Deco Hanging Wall Mask manner of Goldsheider
By Goldsheider
Located in Chicago, IL
An Italian ceramic Art Deco hanging wall mask bust of a woman. Similar to the works of Goldsheider. This mask is marked Italy on backside along wit...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Art Deco Chicago - Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic
Oil Portrait of a Victorian Lady, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
Painted in the 19th century, this exquisite miniature portrait wonderfully exemplifies realism in traditional oil painting. The small artwork is painted in the conventional portraiture style of the Old Masters, and achieves soft realism with fine brushwork and a subdued, neutral palette. The half length portrait depicts a fine Victorian woman dressed in all black with a delicate lace collar and bonnet. She wears a ruby broach...
Category
Mid-19th Century British Victorian Antique Chicago - Decorative Art
Materials
Paint
Chinese Monumental Mill Wheel, circa 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
Hewn from pine and held together with iron hardware, this provincial wooden wheel is a remarkable example of turn-of-the-century craftsmanship. Its monumental scale suggests it was u...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Chicago - Decorative Art
Materials
Iron
19th Century Sanskrit Prayer Book Pages
Located in Chicago, IL
19th century or older - Sanskrit Prayer Book Pages
Beautiful patina to the worn pages with very dark black background with Sanskrit. Black has subtle shee...
Category
19th Century Asian Antique Chicago - Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
$1,400 / set
"Rampage" Mosaic by Toyoharu Kii, 2021
By Toyoharu Kii
Located in Chicago, IL
Intricate, ethereal and highly textured, the abstract compositions of Japanese mosaic artist Toyoharu Kii reflect a sophisticated approach to the technical art of mosaic making. Clas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Modern Chicago - Decorative Art
Materials
Marble
“Weird Adventure” by Jan Pieter Fokkens
By Jan Pieter Fokkens
Located in Chicago, IL
Chicago-based artist Jan Pieter Fokkens uses his work as a means of processing the incomprehensible. Navigating the relationship between algorithmic abstraction and the tangible qualities of pattern and color, Fokkens meditates on how we as viewers negotiate our realities. Entitled "Weird Adventure," this diptych depicts a still from the Italian Classic film...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Chicago - Decorative Art
Materials
Canvas
$6,380 / set
Sandstone Wall Plaque
Located in Chicago, IL
This red sandstone carving was once embedded in the wall surrounding an aristocratic compound. It depicts scholars in a garden, eating and conversing. It came from Shanxi Province an...
Category
18th Century Chinese Antique Chicago - Decorative Art
Materials
Sandstone
$12,000
Josef Albers "Formulation : Articulation" Portfolio II, Folder 20
By Josef Albers
Located in Chicago, IL
JOSEF ALBERS (1888 – 1976)
"Formulation : Articulation" Portfolio II, Folder 20
Screen-printed geometric composition printed by Ives Stillman, Inc., New Haven, CT.
From the set of 12...
Category
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Chicago - Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
Hand Painted Ceramic Tile Art Of Woman Holding Wheat Sheaf
Located in Chicago, IL
Possibly Danish in origin tile mosaic of a young woman with a scarf around her neckk, and her arms wrapped around a bundle of wheat. Great colors of red, brown, grey, black and white...
Category
1950s Danish Vintage Chicago - Decorative Art
Materials
Wood
Yoruba Beaded Sash, c. 1950
Located in Chicago, IL
This intricately-constructed colorful train was painstakingly created by Yoruba artisans in Nigeria in the mid-20th century. Recent designs such as this were based upon...
Category
Mid-20th Century Nigerian Chicago - Decorative Art
Materials
Shell, Fabric, Beads
Large Eugenio Diez Illuminated Marquetry Wall Hangings or Cabinet Doors
By Eugenio Diez
Located in Chicago, IL
Large Eugenio Diez illuminated marquetry wood panels. These were from a very large cabinet. The doors could be repurposed for another cabinet.
Styl...
Category
Mid-20th Century Argentine Mid-Century Modern Chicago - Decorative Art
Materials
Wood
"Power Force" Ghanaian Movie Poster
Located in Chicago, IL
Power Force was an American-made martial arts movie from 1991. It starred Alphonse Beni, a Cameroonian born movie star as a crime-fighting ninja. Frequently unable to import official...
Category
Late 20th Century Ghanaian Chicago - Decorative Art
Materials
Fabric
"Ghost (Big Wings)" Mosaic by Toyoharu Kii
By Toyoharu Kii
Located in Chicago, IL
Intricate, ethereal and highly textured, the abstract compositions of Japanese mosaic artist Toyoharu Kii reflect a sophisticated approach to the technical art of mosaic making. Classically trained in Florence, Italy, Kii creates his modern mosaics using traditional techniques and materials, including hand-cut Italian marble and Venetian smalti glass. Eschewing the figural in favor of the abstract, his mosaics rely on contrasts of pattern and form to convey complex themes and achieve visual harmony.
Toyoharu Kii’s latest body of work “Geophytes” continues themes of rebirth and renewal. A reference to plants that regrow from hidden elements beneath the earth’s surface, the series celebrates the resilience of the natural world. Each mosaic is imagined as a landscape that documents a history of environmental damage due to human activity, and the subsequent return of nature as a restorative force. Through the juxtaposition of patterns and the interplay of order and disorder, Kii creates man-made “images of destruction” and finds hope in the future by “reconstructing nature.”
In this mosaic entitled "Ghost (Big Wings)," Kii takes a more representational approach to his storytelling, creating figurative drawings out of thin lines of tesserae. The mosaic belongs to his “Ghost” triptych, wherein Kii uses “wings” to represent the presence of a heavenly being, the ghosts of past spirits or the presence of an angel or guardian. In “Ghost (Big Wings),” Kii mourns the extinction of many creatures due to environmental change and imagines their lonely spirits wandering the earth. Enveloping their silhouettes is “a bird with big wings,” writes Kii, depicted here within a dense mosaic of abstract patterns, a symbol for nature’s healing power. “The bird consoles...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Modern Chicago - Decorative Art
Materials
Marble
Clyde Burt Ceramic Charger
By Clyde Burt
Located in Chicago, IL
Clyde Burt ceramic charger in glazed stoneware. Signature to underside: [CB]. American, circa 1965.
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Chicago - Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic
Small Blush Silk Tassel with Star Knot Charm
Located in Chicago, IL
Chinese knotted tassels are used to add elegance to everyday items like hairpins or lanterns but they often hold sentimental value, and are passed down through families for generatio...
Category
20th Century Chinese Qing Chicago - Decorative Art
Materials
Jade
Josef Albers "Formulation : Articulation" Portfolio II, Folder 22
By Josef Albers
Located in Chicago, IL
JOSEF ALBERS (1888 – 1976)
"Formulation : Articulation" Portfolio II, Folder 22
Screen-printed geometric composition printed by Ives Stillman, Inc., New Haven, CT.
From the set of 12...
Category
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Chicago - Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
European Pagoda & Phoenix Embroidery Fragment, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
This antique embroidery fragment offers a Western interpretation of Chinese art styles and traditions. Densely stitched atop off-white silk, the embroidered scene depicts a tiered pa...
Category
Early 20th Century European Chinoiserie Chicago - Decorative Art
Materials
Silk
Josef Albers "Formulation : Articulation" Portfolio II, Folder 31
By Josef Albers
Located in Chicago, IL
JOSEF ALBERS (1888 – 1976)
"Formulation : Articulation" Portfolio II, Folder 31
Screen-printed geometric composition printed by Ives Stillman, Inc., New Haven, CT.
From the set of 12...
Category
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Chicago - Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
Tony Rosenthal Painted Aluminum Wall Sculpture, 2001
By Tony Rosenthal
Located in Chicago, IL
Tony Rosenthal Painted Aluminum Wall Sculpture, 2001
Monumental wall sculpture composed of layered geometric forms with cutouts, painted aluminum. A dynamic and dimensional example o...
Category
Early 2000s American Chicago - Decorative Art
Materials
Aluminum
$5,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Josef Albers "Formulation : Articulation" Portfolio II, Folder 18
By Josef Albers
Located in Chicago, IL
JOSEF ALBERS (1888 – 1976)
"Formulation : Articulation" Portfolio II, Folder 18
Screen-printed geometric composition printed by Ives Stillman, Inc., New Haven, CT.
From the set of 12...
Category
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Chicago - Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
Josef Albers "Formulation : Articulation" Portfolio II, Folder 25
By Josef Albers
Located in Chicago, IL
JOSEF ALBERS (1888 – 1976)
"Formulation : Articulation" Portfolio II, Folder 25
Screen-printed geometric composition printed by Ives Stillman, Inc., New Haven, CT.
From the set of 12...
Category
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Chicago - Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
"Urbane Profile" Mixed-Media Tile by Pauline Hughes
Located in Chicago, IL
Liverpool-based artist Pauline Hughes takes a fluid approach to her ceramic practice, integrating techniques of painting, collage, and printmaking into ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary British Chicago - Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic, Paper
'This is Not a Painting?, ' a Painting
Located in Chicago, IL
This is not a painting. What is a painting? Is it the brushstrokes of pigment on canvas that make a painting a painting? If you're a caveman, a painting is clay on the wall of a cave...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Chicago - Decorative Art
Materials
Maple
$3,600 Sale Price
25% Off
"NGC-6397" by Jan Pieter Fokkens
By Jan Pieter Fokkens
Located in Chicago, IL
Chicago-based artist Jan Pieter Fokkens uses his work as a means of processing the incomprehensible. Navigating the relationship between algorithmic abstraction and the tangible qual...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Chicago - Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
Chinese Relief Carved Architectural Panel with Fruit and Flora, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
It’s difficult to pinpoint what makes this handcrafted panel so impressive: the artful relief carvings of seasonal fruit and lush, foliage-filled vases ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Chicago - Decorative Art
Materials
Spruce
"Ladies at Tea" Mixed-Media Tile by Pauline Hughes
Located in Chicago, IL
Liverpool-based artist Pauline Hughes takes a fluid approach to her ceramic practice, combining aspects of painting, collage, and printmaking into her w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary British Chicago - Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic, Paper
19th Century Framed Botanical by Leopold Kny
Located in Chicago, IL
19th century framed botanical
Wall chart of a botanical cell structure produced by Leopold Kny.
He was a professor and research scientist in the field o...
Category
19th Century German Antique Chicago - Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
"Day Turns to Night" by Michael Thompson
By Michael Thompson
Located in Chicago, IL
Chicago-based artist Michael Thompson creates unique kites crafted from split bamboo frames covered with stretched muslin and a collage of vintage Asian ephemera-including fragments ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Chicago - Decorative Art
Materials
Fabric, Bamboo, Paper
Greg Parker, Untitled, 1988; Graphite and Oil on Gessoed Panel
By Greg Parker
Located in Chicago, IL
Greg Parker, American, b. 1952
Untitled, 1988
Graphite and oil on gessoed panel
Signed and dated to verso. Geometric composition in monochromatic variations ending on a graphite...
Category
1980s American Modern Vintage Chicago - Decorative Art
Materials
Gesso, Paint
"Garage" by Patrick Fitzgerald
By Patrick Fitzgerald
Located in Chicago, IL
Entitled “Garage,” this work by Chicago artist Patrick Fitzgerald is one of a series of “track paintings” that materialize the imagined tracks navigated by his miniature soap-box car...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Chicago - Decorative Art
Materials
Wood, Paint, Paper
"Family Reunion 3" by Travis Somerville
Located in Chicago, IL
Deeply familiar yet nonetheless confrontational, Travis Somerville’s “Family Renuion” series disrupts nostalgia and memory, insisting on the idea that images and material objects are...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Chicago - Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
Golden Hued Landscape, Soft Pastel on Paper, Rural Scene with Tree Bank and Sky
Located in Chicago, IL
This serene impressionist landscape painting of a rural scene is created in soft pastel. The lush surface perfectly compliments the golden hues in the sky and the velvety earth and t...
Category
Early 2000s Chicago - Decorative Art
Materials
Paint
"Study for Event Horizon" by Jan Pieter Fokkens
By Jan Pieter Fokkens
Located in Chicago, IL
Inspired by images of deep space, computer compression algorithms, and early non-representational art, Chicago-based artist Jan Pieter Fokkens uses the tangible qualities of pattern ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Chicago - Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
"Great Wall II" by Ren Hui
By Ren Hui
Located in Chicago, IL
This woodcut, entitled “Great Wall II,” was made by renowned artist Ren Hui. His career has been an evolution across material and method. He began as a poet and photographer, but soo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Chicago - Decorative Art
Materials
Paint, Wood
Joan Miro Cover of Volume III of the “Journal De Gravure” Etching Framed
By Joan Miró
Located in Chicago, IL
Vintage Joan Miro Cover of Volume III of the “Journal De Gravure” Etching Framed
Miro, Joan - Journal d'un Gravure
1964-75
Etching in color on black ...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Modern Chicago - Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
"E0102-72.3" by Jan Pieter Fokkens
By Jan Pieter Fokkens
Located in Chicago, IL
The colorful paintings of Jan Pieter Fokkens transport us to distant worlds beyond our comprehension. Within his seemingly infinite networks of lines, dots, and crosses, he decodes t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Chicago - Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
"NGC-3201" by Jan Pieter Fokkens
By Jan Pieter Fokkens
Located in Chicago, IL
Chicago-based artist Jan Pieter Fokkens uses his work as a means of processing the incomprehensible. Navigating the relationship between algorithmic abstraction and the tangible qualities of pattern and color, Fokkens meditates on how reality is mediated by digital image. Entitled "NGC-3201," this vibrant drawing offers a representation of the globular cluster NGC-3201. Using an image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Chicago - Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
"The People People 5" by Tracy Crump
By Tracy Crump
Located in Chicago, IL
Tracy Crump uses washes of grey, white and aqua to both conceal and reveal sensitively drawn figures. Each figure stands alone as an individual, possessing unique features and hairst...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Chicago - Decorative Art
Materials
Paint, Paper
"The People People 6" by Tracy Crump
Located in Chicago, IL
Tracy Crump uses washes of grey, white and aqua to both conceal and reveal sensitively drawn figures. Each figure stands alone as an individual, possessing unique features and hairst...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Chicago - Decorative Art
Materials
Paint, Paper
"Sailing Boat" Woodcut by Ren Hui
Located in Chicago, IL
This woodcut, entitled “Sailing Boat,” was made by renowned artist Ren Hui. His materials and forms of expression have evolved. He began as a poet and photographer, but soon began wo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Chicago - Decorative Art
Materials
Wood
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