New York - Paintings

Theatrical figures Tempera painting by Dana Gilbert.

Oil on canvas signed lower left. Elisee Maclet (1881-1962) Very well listed French artist. Studied in Paris, was influence by many famous French artists...

René Zimmermann (1904-1991) was a French painter, printmaker and illustrator. His many landscapes includes this remarkable blue-skied oil painting, "Noria de la Province de Murcia, E...

Mid-Century illustration / watercolor of a bouquet of blue and yellow irises in a burgundy and light blue double mat and a rectangular giltwood frame.  

France, 1920s Art Deco Gouache on paper Stylized portrait of a woman in profile on geometric background in grey, black and cream tones. 20 x 16 framed.

Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's encaustic Painting of Nothing #15 is made of ceramic raw materials, dry pigment and wax. This piece is part of his ongoing Paint...

An energetic, richly hued abstract work on paper by the artist M.P. Landis. The artist's abstract paintings and works on paper are the type that take form through the artist's layeri...

Well executed modern industrialist oil painting, futuristic factory workers. Amazing use of color, texture and space. Artist unknown. Mark Kostabi meets Fernand Leger.

Vintage (20th Century) singerie depicting monkeys in a horse-drawn carriage surrounded by an ornate foliate border painted on weathered wood in a rectangular green, washed wooden frame.

Pair of Mid-Century Chinese style painted gray silk panels featuring a pond scene with koi fish, lily pads, and trees. (PRICED AS Pair) (Similar piece: NWL0614A) Finish on frames is...

Steven Colucci’s iconoclastic approach to performance and the visual arts have not only long blurred the boundaries between these disciplines, but have challenged its most basic assumptions. The title of this show references a most rudimentary dance move -- the plié -- and our assumptions of what to expect in relation to this. Also the suggestion that we can simply press a button and a preconceived outcome will be courteously delivered -- a form of prefabricated belief in itself. Steven Colucci’s artwork turns such basic assumptions on their heads. Finding early inspiration in the New York school of abstract expressionists such as Jackson Pollock with his action painting, and then further by his professor -- a then young Vito Acconci while studying at the School of Visual Arts, Steven Colucci went from exploring the raw existentialist experimentation of New York’s early painting and performance scenes, to investigating the other end of the spectrum -- the rigorously measured and controlled disciplines of pantomime and ballet; studying in Paris under the tutelage of world-famous Marcelle Marceau, and engaging with the concepts of dramatic movement pioneer and intellectual Etienne Decroux. Colucci has explained the difference between the extremes of pantomime and dance as being that pantomime forces movement via an internal capacity -- movement directed inward to the core of one’s self -- a source requiring extreme mental and physical control. Dance by contrast is an external expression; likewise requiring great precision, although instead an extension of self or sentiment that projects outwardly. While such historical ‘movement’ disciplines serve as foundation blocks for Steven’s artistic explorations, it is the realm in between that he is best known for his contributions -- an experimental movement and performance art that simultaneously honors, yet defiantly refutes tradition; rejecting a compartmentalization regarding art and movement, yet incorporating its elements into his own brand of experimental pastiche. Colucci’s performance works manifest as eerily candy-coated and familiar, yet incorporate unexpected jags of the uncanny throughout, exploiting a sort of coulrophobia in the viewer; an exploration of a cumulative artifice that binds human nature against its darker tendencies; highlighting traditions of artifice itself -- the fabricated systemologies that necessitate compartmentalization in the first place. It is evident in Steven Colucci’s paintings that he has established a uniquely distinctive pictorial vocabulary; a strong allusion to -- or moreso an extension of -- his performance works. Colucci’s paintings depict a sort of kinetic spectrum, or as he refers to them “a technical expression of physicality and movement”. Whereas the French performance and visual artist Yves Klein used the human body as a “paint brush” to demarcate his paintings and thereby signify a residue of performance, Colucci’s utilization of nonsensical numbers and number sequences taken from dance scores, as well as heat-induced image abstraction depicting traces of movement likewise inform his vocabulary. In the strand of the choreographed, yet incorporating moments of chance, Colucci’s paintings represent an over arching structure; a rhythm of being and state, yet detail erratic moments -- moments that denote a certain frailty -- the edge of human stamina. Colucci’s paintings dually represent a form of gestural abstraction -- and also the reverse of this -- a unique anthropomorphization of varying states of movement -- that sometimes present as a temperature induced color field, at others are juxtapositions of movement and depictions of physical gestural images themselves. Colucci’s use of vernacular and found materials such as cardboard evoke his mastery of set design, and also reference a sort of collective experience of urbanity and the ephemeral. Such contradictions seem to permeate not only Steven Colucci’s artwork, but also are reflected in his person -- one who grew up in New York’s Bronx during a zeitgeist moment in visual and performing arts in the 1960s -- one who shifts with ease from happenings and experiments in New York City, to his meticulously choreographed megaproductions at Lincoln Center or starring in the Paris ballet...

Michael Loew, American 1907-1985, Black Nude, 1968, Signed Lower right, India Ink/Paper, 26" x 20"

A dreamy abstract painting by the contemporary artist MP Landis. Titled "LP13.06 (Derek Bailey)". Landis creates lush surfaces rich with texture and color that evoke depth. In this p...

Italian Neo-classic style (20th Century) unframed still life painting of a lush and overflowing display of grapes, pomegranates and figs, alongside a serpent wrapping around the base...

Italian Neo-classic style (20th Century) unframed still life painting of a lush and overflowing display of grapes, pomegranates and figs, alongside a serpent wrapping around the base...

A richly-hued abstract work on paper by the artist M.P. Landis. The artist's abstract paintings and works on paper are the type that take form through the artist's layering of materi...

An energetic abstract work on paper by the artist M.P. Landis. The artist's abstract paintings and works on paper are the type that take form through the artist's layering of materia...

Abstract Painting in Purple, Blue, Pink and Black in a Custom Black Wood Frame with Non Reflective Lucite

Michael Mazur (American 1935) - The Lake II 1985 Pencil signed and dates 1985 lower right; titled lower left Color: Monotype Professionally framed. in very good condition. Proven...

This is a chromogenic print of a wax sculpture by the artist. The piece of work is limited edition to only 25 copies. This specific copy is 20th out of the 25 total. It is also signe...

English Victorian style (20th Century) oil painting depicting varied fowl, including chickens, chicks, pigeons and doves, pecking straw from both the ground and a bucket, on rectangu...

Vintage (20th Century) oil painting of a woman dressed in green, seated at a table next to an arrangement of yellow and red flowers, on canvas in a rectangular giltwood frame with a ...

Framed Italian Majolica plaque, Castelli, circa 1750.

"Drunk with Turpentine # 21" A Robert Motherwell painting. Oil on paper. Signed and dated " Motherwell 1979 " Framed: H 37¾, W 47½ inches. Provenance: Dedalus Foundation, New Y...

English Victorian (19th Cent) oil painting in a gilt frame entitled "The Smuggler's Cove" by James Ward, R.A. (1769-1859) (signed).  

James Carlin Listed American Artist (1906-2005) bar scene oil on canvas in a wood Frame. Measures: 30 x 40.

Parker Panttila (Brooklyn, New York 1924-2002) watercolor on board entitled, "Passion Eclipsing Enlightenment Don Juan.' Surrealist in style, evoking ...

Paintings on Mirror Glass Chinese 18th Century China. A pair of paintings made on mirrored glass. Made during the 18th century in China. Original fr...

English Victorian style (20th Century) painting of an 18th century town square captured from above, depicting figures moving throughout, greenery and lanes in the center, and buildin...

Dimensions: Height: 24” (61cm) Width: 20” (50.8cm) Frame width: 3.25” (8.12 cm) About: This very elegant painting is a part of the famous ‘Cantonese’ series of mainly female portraits, painter by David Anthony Tauszky...

Contemporary mixed media abstract painting with textured 3D shapes painted gold on gold ground rectangular canvas in black wooden frame. (BARBARA KISKOVSKI).

Liaisons III Original painting by Lynn Curlee One of a series of eight paintings Based Upon 17th century French engravings. Each pai...

Midcentury French abstract painting in thin vintage black wood frame. Multi colors include shades of yellow and gold, shades of blue, red, white and...

Vintage (20th Century) painting capturing four figures gathering on the riverbank while buildings with classical architecture loom just across the river, surrounded by a thin brown b...

Parker Panttila (Brooklyn, New York 1924-2002) watercolor still life of a forest tableau in attractive earth tones. The subject appears to be a partial...

with thought to be Izumo no Okuni (1578-1613). Mineral pigments and gold dust on mulberry paper with silk brocade border.

Italian Neo-classical style (mid-20th Century) acrylic genre painting on a wooden panel depicting a central group of people in a garden above a vignette painting of architectural rui...

Chinese partially distressed painted panel in green and pink against a crackle beige background depicting a landscape wtih trees ad architecture inside a floral border.  

Americana Amish "farmhouse" oil painting by Harvey Milligan, circa 1950s. Charming character scale and composition (figures are very small). Although n...

French (18th-19th century) large oil painting portrait of a woman holding flowers and a child bearing a torch in an ornate carved rectangular gilt...

Vintage (20th Century) painting portraying a large gathering of men and dogs preparing for a hunt in an expansive field under a gray sky, on rectangular, unframed canvas.   

Parker Panttila (Brooklyn, New York 1924-2002) pen and watercolor on board. Surrealist in style, incorporating both macabre and comedic sensibilities....

19th century gilt framed oil painting portrait of lady wearing black hat and blue striped dress.  

Mixed-media collage on panel painting by Ann Purcell (b. 1941). Untitled. Signed/Dated 1969. Black and coral against white. Provenance: Acquired from U.S. collector. Original metal frame. Artist bio by Paul Behnke: Ann Purcell is a nationally recognized and highly respected artist working in Redhook, Brooklyn. Her paintings are represented in over 17 major museums in the United States - including The National Gallery of Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Phillips Collection, The National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., Santa Barbara Museum, The Baltimore Museum, Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the New Orleans Museum. She has the respect and support of many prominent art museum directors and contemporary curators. She has had numerous solos and group exhibitions at prestigious galleries around the country including: Tibor de Nagy Gallery , New York City; Bernard Jacobson Gallery in New York and London; Dart Gallery, Chicago; Hokin Gallery in Chicago, Miami and Palm Beach; and Osuna Gallery in Washington, D.C., Bethesda, Md. and Miami; and Misrachi Gallery in Mexico City, and most recently, Berry Campbell in New York City. Her works are in both prominent private and corporate collections including: ATT, Vesti Industries in Cambridge, the "Art in the Embassies Program" of the U.S. State Department; Pepsico Collection, New York; Philadelphia Life...

"Blue Fence", an abstract acrylic on canvas by Brady Legler, American, 2015 (signed and dated on verso). Brady Legler is a talented painter and jewelry designer. His works are an exp...

Saint Brendan and the Iceberg Original painting by Lynn Curlee This was reproduced as an illustration for Into the Ice: The Story of Arctic Exploration...

Comic mask Original painting by Lynn Curlee, professional artist and author or illustrator of award winning picture books for children Acrylic on stretch canvas. The canvas is stre...

Pastel of angelic child by Forbes dated 1954 in a wood frame under glass.

Italian still life oil painting of gourds, grapes and various fruit, resting on a table with a white table cloth in a carved gilt wood ...

Mid-century Chinese acrylic still life painting in white, brown and beige on a gold leaf background depicting a flowering tree growing from a rocky base with a bird and dragon fly al...

Contemporary still life oil painting of a bouquet of wildflowers and thistles inside a blue and white teapot against a bold graphic red and black...

English Art Moderne (Mid 20th Cent) oil painting of Stewart's Cup horse race in wood frame.  

Vitaly Dlugy (Russian 1934-1990) white chair, 1989 oil on canvas. Signed and dated bottom center. Prov. Christies NYC Vitaly Dlugy was a Russian Postwar and contemporary painter...

English Victorian style (20th Century) oil painting capturing a group of sheep huddled in a field of browns and greens, under a cloudy, darkening sky on rectangular, unframed canvas ...

Mid-Century still life painting of a bouquet of assorted flowers in a brown vase on a table with butterflies and insects in a yellow and beige double mat and rectangular giltwood fra...

Abstract painting using acrylic on paper by contemporary British Artist John Taylor. Framed in a vintage frame. Signed by the artist. From a collection of four pieces. John Tay...

Acrylic on canvas abstract painting of squares in black, blue, and yellow strokes by Richard Rumi, "Ticking Away".

French Victorian pen and ink drawing of stylized figures in a gilt wood frame.