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Item Ships From: Paris
Cuban Contemporary Art by Carlos Sablon Perez - From Serie "Blanc & Noir"
By Carlos Antonio Sablon Perez
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic on canvas
Carlos Sablòn Perez is a Cuban artist born in 1981 who lives & works in Châlons-en-Champagne, France. His talent is quickly recognized in the four corners of the C...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
Italian Contemporary Art by Andrea Vandoni - Paesaggio Urbano Bis
By Andrea Vandoni
Located in Paris, IDF
Signed on reverse
Andrea Vandoni is an Italian artist born in 1972 who lives and works in Novara, Italy. The artist studied and trained at the School of the Archaeologists and the S...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Cylcic movement #1 - Hélène Duclos, 21st Century, Contemporary figurative paint
By Hélène Duclos
Located in Paris, FR
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right
Unique work
1 / Hélène DUCLOS, 2016 – Artist Statement
“Questioning the human condition and the position of being alive – What is it to be a living being? Who / what can we believe? Who / what can we trust? How real is our view of the world? And how is that perspective angled, and ultimately limited? These are the issues at the heart of my work as an artist.
Painting, drawing, engraving and embroidery give me the freedom to approach my subjects from an ambivalent and flexible standpoint. I am building up a dynamic body of work, like pieces that you can put together in one way or another to shape different structures, pierced with numerous openings. And the title that I give each piece acts as a possible clue as to how to enter inside that system.
I can portray both softness and monstrosities. I focus on the links and barriers lying between living beings and their surroundings, and evoke how permeable these connections are. My aim is not to create a visual documentary reporting fact, but rather immerse myself in observing everyday life, and in a host of images depicting real events (pictures, photos and videos). Instilled with these images, I can give a more personalized, unique and allegorical vision of the world around me.
I am also interested in the key transition periods of human existence, those turning points that forge our identity within a family, a group, and society as a whole at the heart of a specific environment. I centre on what makes up and creates cohesion (rituals, myths and tales….), and indeed the opposite - what leads to life becoming shattered, hindered and frustrated (moving populations, exile and migration…)
Amidst a landscape roaming with wild beasts and hybrid creatures, between love and separation, metaphors for our own desires and fears lie in hiding, or reveal themselves in the painted or embroidered spaces. Sometimes they are etched with lines, symbols and tiny architectural designs. These works might depict our inner landscapes, as if harking back to a primordial and cosmic point of origin.
My most recent collections recreate the images of bodies or landscapes using abstract zones and figurative details that have no direct link with either anatomy or geography. Intimacy and the unspeakable are themes that run throughout my work, and I make sure to incorporate areas of both visual tension and relief, so as to give the viewer the space to project him or herself into the work. And here, such paradoxes can only be reached through the interplay between abstraction and figuration.”
2 / Thierry Delcourt
Psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and author of works on the process of artistic creation, and the conditions of existential and social creativity :
"Entering into the world of Hélène Duclos in her drawings, paintings, embroidery and words means letting yourself be carried away by a torrent towards strange shores of creation where only a few artists have ever dared to venture. As if perched on a watchtower on the threshold of different worlds, Hélène Duclos throws us out of our depth, plunging us into spaces filled with destitute mankind, and guiding us through her stem-like maze of a scheme, bristling with roots and clues. But the mystery here, like a poetic, human rebus that never ends, only compels us to take a closer look.”
3 / Hélène Duclos ‘s biography :
After graduating from the Duperré School of Applied Arts in Paris with a degree in textile design, I set off on a six-month sea voyage from Vannes in Brittany, to Dakar. On returning to France, I set up my atelier...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Contemporary Art by Karine Bartoli - Grease
By Karine Bartoli
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Karine Bartoli was born in 1971 in Ajaccio. She enrolled at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Marseille where she graduated in 1997. Since then she has ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
French Contemporary Art by Laurence Forbin - Exode
By Laurence Forbin
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Category
2010s Barbizon School Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$2,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Georgian Contemporary Art by Ramaz Chantladze - Untitled 13
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Ramaz Chantladze is a Georgian artist was born in 1960 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. He studied at Jacob Nikoladze School of Art. In 1979-1985 he studied at...
Category
2010s Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$1,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Persian Contemporary Art by Aziz Anzabi - The Pubberty
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Aziz Anzabi is a British artist with Iranian origins born in 1970 who lives & works in London, UK. He exhibits many artworks in the U.S, the Netherlands, and Iran. Anz...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
French Contemporary Art by Helen Uter - Fin de Service
By Helen Uter
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Helen Uter is an established Franco-American painter born in 1955 who lives and works in Donnery, near Orléans, France. Heavily influenced by Edward Hopper, she crea...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$2,480 Sale Price
20% Off
Georgian Contemporary Art by Ramaz Chantladze - Untitled 4
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Ramaz Chantladze is a Georgian artist was born in 1960 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. He studied at Jacob Nikoladze School of...
Category
2010s Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$3,200 Sale Price
20% Off
French Contemporary Art by Claudine Loquen - Le Chat
Located in Paris, IDF
Claudine Loquen is a French artist born in 1965 who lives & works in Paris, France. She depicts portraits, especially women faces as Colette for liter...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Canvas
$1,322 Sale Price
20% Off
Georgian Contemporary Art by Ramaz Chantladze - Untitled 12
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Ramaz Chantladze is a Georgian artist was born in 1960 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. He studied at Jacob Nikoladze School of Art. In 1979-1985 he studied at...
Category
2010s Academic Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$2,400 Sale Price
20% Off
French Contemporary Art by Danielle Launay - Apres L'Orage
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed media on canvas
Danielle Launay is a French artist born in 1954 who lives and works in Paris, France. She started to work in the world of photography by working for L’Oréal as...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Canvas
$1,760 Sale Price
20% Off
Georgian Contemporary Art by Ramaz Chantladze - Untitled 9
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Ramaz Chantladze is a Georgian artist was born in 1960 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. He studied at Jacob Nikoladze School of Art. In 1979-1985 he studied at...
Category
2010s Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$2,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Kazakh Contemporary Art by Baurjan Aralov - Schnappschuss 1706
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on linen
Category
2010s Contemporary Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
$1,000 Sale Price
29% Off
French Contemporary Art by Caroline de Piedoue - Les Tuileries
By Caroline de Piedoue
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic on canvas
Caroline de Piedoue is a French artist born in 1954 who lives & works in Berchères-sur-Vesgre, Eure-et-Loire, France. Her theme of her paintings is largely urban b...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
$2,160 Sale Price
20% Off
Korean Contemporary Art by Cho Mun-Hyun - Landscape with a Moon Jar
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic on Korean paper
Category
2010s Contemporary Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
$12,240 Sale Price
20% Off
King Arthur's Legend - Anick Langelier, 21st Century, Outsider art
By Anick Langelier
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas
Outsider art
Signed
Unique work
Category
2010s Outsider Art Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
American Contemporary Art by Maxwell Stevens - Autumn Leaves Abstraction 1
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on panel
Category
2010s Contemporary Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Chinese Contemporary Art by Su Yu - Watching
By Su Yu
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Su Yu is a Chinese artist born in 1987 who lives & works in Beijing in China. He was an old student of prestigious art teachers as Shi Liang & Che...
Category
2010s Realist Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Mask #2 Zahra Zeinali Contemporary painting Iranian artist art animal pig blue
By Zahra Zeinali
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint and charcoal on canvas
Unique work
Hand-signed by the artist
THE IMAGINARY LAND OF ZAHRA ZEINALI
“Over time Zahra Zeinali develops her universe, which evolves slowly ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic
Korean Contemporary Art by Cho Mun-Hyun - Landscape with a Moon Jar
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic on canvas
Category
2010s Contemporary Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
$18,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Chinese Contemporary art by Du Ke - Dancer
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Du Ke is a Chinese male artist born in 1968 who lives and works in Tongzhou district, Beijing, China. He was graduated from the Painting Departmen...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,160 Sale Price
20% Off
French Contemporary Art by Danielle Launay - Zen
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed media on canvas
Danielle Launay is a French artist born in 1954 who lives and works in Paris, France. She started to work in the world of photography by working for L’Oréal as...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Canvas
$1,600 Sale Price
27% Off
French Contemporary Art by Danielle Launay - Petite Ruine au Printemps en Grece
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed media on canvas
Danielle Launay is a French artist born in 1954 who lives and works in Paris, France. She started to work in the world of photography by working for L’Oréal as...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Canvas
Chinese Contemporary art by Du Ke - Facing the Sea
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Du Ke is a Chinese male artist born in 1968 who lives and works in Tongzhou district, Beijing, China. He was graduated from the Painting Departmen...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Japanese Contemporary Art by Teppei Ikehila - Find a Tree Hotel 2
By Teppei Ikehila
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Teppei Ikehila is a Japanese artist born in 1978 who lives & works in Tokyo, Japan. He is graduated from Shimane University in 2001. Since 2000, he has held many priva...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$536 Sale Price
20% Off
Chinese Contemporary Art by Su Yu - Abandon
By Su Yu
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Su Yu is a Chinese artist born in 1987 who lives & works in Beijing in China. He was an old student of prestigious art teachers as Shi Liang & Chen Danqing at Oil Pain...
Category
2010s Realist Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Georgian Contemporary Art by Natia Sapanadze - At The End of The Day
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Category
2010s Contemporary Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$1,680 Sale Price
20% Off
French Contemporary Art by Claudine Picard - Bicolore
By Claudine Picard
Located in Paris, IDF
Claudine Picard is a French artist born in 1949 who lives & works in Sainte Marie, France. She is graduated from the Ecole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs in 1973 (ENSAD).
Category
2010s Realist Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Kazakh Contemporary Art by Baurjan Aralov - Healing Session
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Category
2010s Contemporary Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$3,360 Sale Price
20% Off
Georgian Contemporary Art by Keti Shapatava - Untitled 6
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Keti Shapatava is a Georgian artist born in 1995 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. She was introduced to the world of art at Anastasia Virseladze Art Gymnasium ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$2,560 Sale Price
20% Off
Georgian Contemporary Art by Rusiko Chikvaidze - Blue Sky
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas,
''I offer art collectors series about the world we live in simultaneously with reality, they can live in these colorful, interesting, modern and dynamic world filled ...
Category
2010s Abstract Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$2,240 Sale Price
20% Off
Georgian Contemporary Art by Rusiko Chikvaidze - Ecological Blue Ocean
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas,
''I offer art collectors series about the world we live in simultaneously with reality, they can live in these colorful, interesting, modern and dynamic world filled ...
Category
2010s Abstract Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$2,560 Sale Price
20% Off
Georgian Contemporary Art by Rusiko Chikvaidze-The Shore of Aquamarine Ocean
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas,
''I offer art collectors series about the world we live in simultaneously with reality, they can live in these colorful, interesting, modern and dynamic world filled ...
Category
2010s Abstract Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Georgian Contemporary Art by Mariam Odishvili - Parallel Boundaries 3
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Mariam Odishvili is a Georgian artist born in 1994 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. She mainly uses oil on canvas. She had her first solo show in 2021 at Gamr...
Category
2010s Abstract Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Canvas
Chinese Contemporary Art by Wang Dianyu - Slide Practice
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Wang Dianyu is a Chinese male artist born in 1983 who lives and works in Beijing, China. He is a bachelor of Oil Painting Department at Minzu University of China. Betw...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Chinese Contemporary Art by Wang Dianyu - Pay Tribute
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Wang Dianyu is a Chinese male artist born in 1983 who lives and works in Beijing, China. He is a bachelor of Oil Painting Department at Minzu University of China. Betw...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$4,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Chinese Contemporary Art by Wang Dianyu - Dog 1
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Wang Dianyu is a Chinese male artist born in 1983 who lives and works in Beijing, China. He is a bachelor of Oil Painting Department at Minzu University of China. Betw...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Georgian Contemporary Art by Mariam Odishvili - Parallel Boundaries 1
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Mariam Odishvili is a Georgian artist born in 1994 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. She mainly uses oil on canvas. She had her...
Category
2010s Abstract Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Canvas
British Contemporary Art by Tobias Harrison - Administration
By Tobias Harrison
Located in Paris, IDF
Tobias Harrison is a British figurative painter born in 1950 who lives & works in Menton, France.
Category
2010s Contemporary Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Chinese Contemporary Art by Wang Dianyu - Celebration No.1
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Wang Dianyu is a Chinese male artist born in 1983 who lives and works in Beijing, China. He is a bachelor of Oil Painting Department at Minzu University of China. Betw...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$5,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Chinese Contemporary Art by Wang Dianyu - Passerby
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Wang Dianyu is a Chinese male artist born in 1983 who lives and works in Beijing, China. He is a bachelor of Oil Painting Department at Minz...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$400 Sale Price
20% Off
Chinese Contemporary Art by Wang Dianyu - Cold
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Wang Dianyu is a Chinese male artist born in 1983 who lives and works in Beijing, China. He is a bachelor of Oil Painting Department at Minz...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Georgian Contemporary Art by Maya Abashidze - The Sun is Gone, but I've a Light
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic on canvas
Category
2010s Contemporary Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Russian Contemporary Art by Anna Kazmina - Various States N2
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic, pigments & watercolor on canvas
Anna Kazmina is a Russian artist born in 1987 who lives between Moscow, Russia and Beijing, China. She was graduated from Department of Art,...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Watercolor, Pigment
$2,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Chinese Contemporary Art by Zhao De-Wei - Five Cakes And Two Fishes
By Zhao De-Wei
Located in Paris, IDF
Zhao De-Wei is a Chinese artist born in 1960 who lives & works in Beijing, China. Zhao’s art was initially based on Pollock’s select sprinkling techniques, but he also brings more co...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
$30,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Georgian Contemporary Art by Giorgi Kukhalashvili - Nude
By Giorgi Kukhalashvili
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Giorgi Kukhalashvili is a Georgian artist born in 1982 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. He's founder of the organization “Language of Art". In 2002, he finishe...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$3,760 Sale Price
20% Off
Georgian Contemporary Art by Mariam Odishvili - Winter
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas,
Mariam Odishvili is a Georgian artist born in 1994 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. She mainly uses oil on canvas. She had he...
Category
2010s Abstract Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$680 Sale Price
20% Off
French Contemporary Art by Claudine Picard - Grenades
By Claudine Picard
Located in Paris, IDF
Claudine Picard is a French artist born in 1949 who lives & works in Sainte Marie, France. She is graduated from the Ecole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs in 1973 (ENSAD).
Category
2010s Realist Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Chinese Contemporary Art by Wang Dianyu - Fishes in Tank
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Category
2010s Contemporary Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$2,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Chinese Contemporary Art by Wang Dianyu - Seagull
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Category
2010s Contemporary Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$800 Sale Price
20% Off
Swiss Contemporary Art by Ludimilla Moshek - Clouds
By Ludimilla Moshek
Located in Paris, IDF
Ludmilla Moshek is a Swiss artist born in 1953 who lives & works in Chemex, Switzerland.
Category
2010s Contemporary Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Toros en Arles - Bulls in Arles
Located in PARIS, FR
Jean Diffre (Toulouse 1864 - 1921)
Toros en Arles
Oil on canvas
140 x 90 cm
Signed lower right
Perhaps a poster project
Without frame
Category
Early 1900s Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Chinese Contemporary Art by Jia Yuan-Hua - Pixel Landscape No.1
By Jia Yuan-Hua
Located in Paris, IDF
Original digital print on canvas
The scenery in nature, no matter how beautiful it is, is composed of mountains, rivers, plants and trees. The scenery in the computer, no matter how...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Archival Pigment, Canvas
$1,360 Sale Price
57% Off
Russian Contemporary Art by Eduard Churkin - Matrix Motion 12.2
Located in Paris, IDF
Artificial aging technique, oil & tempera on canvas
Matrix Motion 12.2 is based on a feature about the film "Walkabout" from the director Nicolas Roeg in 1971
Category
2010s Contemporary Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Canvas
$9,440 Sale Price
20% Off
Georgian Contemporary Art by Ilia Balavadze - Behind the Scenes 2
Located in Paris, IDF
Pastel on paper
Ilia Balavadze is a Georgian artist born in 1968 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. From 1987 to 1993, he studied the painting at the Tbilisi State Academy of ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Paper
French Contemporary Art by Alexandre Akar - Bivouac
By Alexandre Akar
Located in Paris, IDF
Alexandre Akar is a French artist born in 1961 who lives & works in Gennevilliers, France.
Category
2010s Contemporary Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
$1,440 Sale Price
20% Off
Russian Contemporary Art by Anna Bukhareva - Prisosalis, Suki
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on board
Category
2010s Contemporary Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
$4,000 Sale Price
20% Off
NYC Biz
By Jérome Romain
Located in Paris, FR
Jerome Romain lives in Montpelier, France
Classic Painting for Contemporary History
He defines his painting as " The world as a representation " His oil on canvas paintings are born ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
NYC Kid
By Jérome Romain
Located in Paris, FR
Jerome Romain lives and works in Montpelier, France
He defines his painting as Classic Painting for Contemporary History
" The world as a representation " His oil on canvas painting...
Category
2010s Photorealist Paris - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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