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Art For Sale
Price: $1 to $2,500
David Shrigley - This huge cat
Located in Central, HK
David Shrigley This Huge Cat, 2022 80 x 60 cm Off-set lithography Printed on 200g Munken Lynx paper
Category

2010s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Spun the thread in grey
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Acrylic
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Acrylic

countryside spot, fields, blue abstract landscape, oil on canvas, expressionism
Located in LANGRUNE-SUR-MER, FR
"countryside spot" is a pictorial masterpiece by Sophie Dumont, crafted in oil on canvas using a knife technique. The painting beautifully captures the vast fields of Normandy in a p...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil

"Composizione" by Enzio Wenk, 2021-Acrylic on Canvas, Abstract, NeoExpressionism
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Composition". Acrylic paint on canvas.
Category

2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Light from Above
Located in Colorado Springs, US
One of a kind, original oil painting on canvas by Michael Albrechtsen. Signed lower left. Framed Dimensions: 12 X 15
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art

Materials

Oil

French Impressionist Portrait of Curled Up Kittens Pencil Sketch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Kittens by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back pencil drawing on artist paper, unframed measures: 10 high by 8.25 inches wide condition: ov...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Color Pencil

Hyperreal Green, Pink & Purple Glass Balloon Sculpture Set
Located in East Quogue, NY
Set of 3 hyperreal glass water balloon sculptures by Dylan Martinez. Made of 100% hot-sculpted glass. Dylan Martinez’s hyperrealistic water balloons are made of solid sculpted glas...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Glass, Blown Glass

Family Time, Abstract Gestures Brushstrokes on Papyrus, Red, Yellow Scribbles
Located in Barcelona, ES
The paintings of Aleix Font (Sabadell, Spain, 1984) function as a narrative between the collective and the individual world, exploring space and its interactions with concepts such a...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Spray Paint, Acrylic, Handmade Paper

Tulip Fields 14 by Bernhard Lang - Aerial abstract photography, Netherlands
Located in Paris, FR
Aerial Views, Tulip Fields 14 is a limited-edition photograph by German contemporary artist Bernhard Lang. This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 4 di...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

C Print

Barn in Winter
Located in Clinton Township, MI
"Barn in Winter" is an original photograph taken near the cemetary where the photographer's mother is buried near Monroe, Michigan. Image size: 5 x 7 8 x 10 with frame made of mat ma...
Category

2010s Naturalistic Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Moments by the Water - Gold Leaf Contemporary abstract family painting
Located in DE
Katharina Hormel creates minimalistic landscape paintings featuring everyday scenes of life. Her art often portrays people engaged in their daily activities, such as taking a leisure...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Art

Materials

Gold Leaf

A Ways Away, Contemporary Abstract Landscape Painting
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This painting uses cool earth colors and a combination of oil and wax to create a landscape focusing on brushwork, color and form. Like many of the artists paintings the landscape co...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Wax, Oil

Peter Robert Keil Gold Framed Painting on Canvas Signed and Dated with COA
Located in Hudson, NY
Peter Keil's textured painting on canvas. Signed and dated 1997. This one is stunning in person. Background paint is textured on the canvas. Amazing gilt frame with a textured fabric...
Category

Mid-20th Century Cubist Art

Materials

Gold Leaf

White Lipped Tree Viper #3 - Animal portrait photography, green snake
Located in Paris, FR
'White Lipped Tree Viper #3, Albuquerque, NM, 2016' is a limited-edition photograph by contemporary artist Brad Wilson from the ‘Affinity’ series which features studio portraits of w...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Ripples of Colour, Art print, Abstract, Water, Line art, Blue green, red, white
Located in Deddington, GB
This is a Five colour screen print Including a metallic Silver layer. This print is then finished off by drawing over the print with multi-coloured paint including Gold, Yellow and G...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Paper, Screen

Pocke Yellowy Orange Clementine, Original painting, Still life, Clementine
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Yellowy Orange Clementine is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket Painting series featuring small scale realistic oil paintings, with a nod to ba...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Pocket Mauve Anemone, Original Painting, Flower, Black
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Anemone is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket Painting series featuring small scale realistic oil paintings, with a nod to baroque still life p...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Going Retro #3 - 7.5" x 14.5", Art Print, Vintage Dress, Black And White Fashion
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
This art print on recycled paper captures the chic aesthetic of times past. Vintage style has an enduring appeal in the fashion world. Personalize your space with this fashionable st...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Paper

Contemporary French Impressionist Oil Boat In Stone Beach Bay Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Beach Bay by Georges Bordonave (French contemporary) signed oil painting on board, unframed dated 1989 unframed: 20 x 24 inches condition: very good...
Category

Late 20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Going Retro #2 - 7.5" x 14.5", Art Print, Red Vintage Dress, Style, Fashion
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
This art print on recycled paper captures the chic aesthetic of times past. Vintage style has an enduring appeal in the fashion world. Personalize your space with this fashionable st...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic, Pencil, Color Pencil

Going Retro #1 - 7.5" x 14.5", Art Print, Vintage Dress, Black & White Fashion
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
This art print on recycled paper captures the chic aesthetic of times past. Vintage style has an enduring appeal in the fashion world. Personalize your space with this fashionable st...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Paper

Fine Large 19th Century Rural Traditional Landscape Signed Oil Painting Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Country lane by Frans Hopfner (1840-1893) German signed oil on canvas, framed framed: 23.5 x 41.5 inches canvas: 18 x 36 inches provenance: private collection, UK condition: very...
Category

19th Century Victorian Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Tree Tops, Original Painting, Landscape, Woods, Trees
Located in Deddington, GB
Looking up through the tree tops brings a sense of freedom. I love the way the light shines through the branches creating patterns and textures. I've worked in acrylics for the first...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Spring Collection: Pocket Blackbird's Egg (c), Original Painting, Egg, Realism
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Crimson Strawberry (c) 2024 is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket Painting series featuring small scale realistic oil paintings, with a nod to ...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Going Retro #4 - 7.5" x 14.5", Art Print, Vintage Dress, Black & White, Fashion
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
This art print on recycled paper captures the chic aesthetic of times past. Vintage style has an enduring appeal in the fashion world. Personalize your space with this fashionable st...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Paper

Pocket Ripe Red Pomegranate, Baroque Still Life, fruit
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Ripe Red Pomegranate is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket Painting series featuring small scale realistic oil paintings, with a nod to baroque...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Vantage Point with Screen Print by Chris Keegan
Located in Deddington, GB
Vantage point by Chris Keegan. This Five colour handmade screen print depicts a multi-layered dynamic set of landscapes all floating above and below each other. Created is an image o...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Screen

Balloon Dog (After) - Silver
By After Jeff Koons
Located in Pampilhosa da Serra, PT
A one time exclusive re-edition of 500 pcs from the highly popular 999 pcs edition of the famous "Balloon Dog". Cold cast resin, comes with its original box and certificate of authe...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Art

Materials

Metal

1930's French Impressionist Oil Purple Mountains Green Coastal Path
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Vintage French Painting by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back oil painting on board, unframed measures: 5 high by 8.5 inches wide conditi...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Harry Bunce, Matty Groves, Limited Edition Print, Fox Art, Affordable art
Located in Deddington, GB
'Matty Groves' by Harry Bunce is a limited edition print. This print features a fox dressed in a suit and shirt with a bright pink tie, he is holding a knife and is looking off into ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Paper, Archival Pigment

No one but the bees
Located in Zofingen, AG
Bright flowers, juicy fruits and of course the helpers of our garden: hardworking bees. They also love the juice of ripe pears. Being behind a canvas woven from my thoughts and emoti...
Category

2010s American Realist Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

1960’s French Oil Painting Exotic Summers Day Cagnes Sur Mer Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Cagnes Ser mer dated 1961 Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Young Hearts, Portland Gallery London offset lithograph
By Jack Vettriano
Located in Hillsborough, NC
Jack Vettriano (1951-) is renowned for his film noir oil paintings and 1930s glam style. Uniquely Vettriano, ‘Young Hearts’ is set by the seaside inviting narratives about the figures in his work: relationships, anticipation, power and suggestion. Vettriano grew up by the Fife Scottish coast. He began painting beach scenes as a young adult, later developing his particular recognizable style and thematic imagery. His work was embraced by celebrities such as Madonna and Jack Nicholson and he has become hugely successful. His most famous painting, ‘The Singing Butler...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

Eva
Located in PARIS, FR
Fernando Botero (Colombian, b.1932) is celebrated for his painted and sculpted scenes featuring animals and figures with inflated proportions, reflecting the artist’s predilection for satire, caricature, and political commentary. Born in Medellin, Colombia, Botero began exhibiting his paintings there in 1948, and later worked as a set designer in Bogotá. In the 1950s, he traveled to several different European countries, including Spain, Italy, and France, to study the work of Renaissance and Baroque masters. He also traveled to Mexico to familiarize himself with the current Mexican avant-­‐garde. Botero became renowned for the varied source material he drew upon, from Colombian folk imagery to canonical works by Diego Velázquez, Pablo Picasso, and Francisco de Goya. In his depictions of contemporary Latin American life, he portrays the poverty and violence prevalent in Colombia in somber images, as well as in his iconic inflated figures, satiric images of Latin American presidents, first ladies, and government officials. A meeting with Dorothy Miller from The Museum of Modern Art in the early 1960s proved to be a turning point in his career; she acquired his work at a time when abstraction was the celebrated idiom, and he later exhibited his work in a major exhibition at the museum, solidifying his international reputation. In the 1970s, Botero moved to Paris, where he created large figural sculptures with his signature inflated forms. He remains engaged with images of his Latin American home city, and with overtly political imagery; his recent works include large paintings of prisoners at Abu Ghraib in a direct commentary on the war in Iraq. Botero has exhibited his work at the Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen, the Maillol Museum in Paris, the Palazzo Benezia in Rome, the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, and the National Museum in Bogotá. He currently lives and works in Paris, Montecarlo, and New York. 2012–2013 Museo Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain 2012 Una celebración, Palacio Bellas Artes de México, Mexico 2012 Hommage zum 80. Geburtstag, Botero -­‐ Gemälde, Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld, Germany 2010 Art is deformation, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY (solo) Inaurgural Exhibition: Fernando Botero, David Benrimon Gallery, New York, NY (solo) Latinas!, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY 2009 Gary Nader Fine Art, Coral Gables, FL Fernando Botero: The Circus. James Goodman Gallery, New York, NY El Dolor de Colombia, Pinacoteca Diego Rivero, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico 2008 The Baroque World of Fernando Botero, Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE 2007–2008 Botero: Oeuvres récentes, Marlborough Monaco, Monte Carlo, Monaco (solo) 2007 Fernando Botero: Abu Ghraib, University of California, Berkeley, CA (solo) The Baroque World of Fernando Botero, Musée National des Beaux-­‐Arts du Québec, Canada (solo) Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE (solo) New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA (solo) Summer Exhibition, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY Latin Masters...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Art

Materials

Lithograph

Adolph Kronengold (1900-1986) - Alaska Landscape Oil on Board, ca 1940’s
Located in Baltimore, MD
Adolph Kronengold was born in New Orleans in 1900. He studied locally at Tulane, before moving on to New York and Philadelphia. There he studied at the Art Students League and the P...
Category

1940s Post-Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Contemporary French Impressionist Oil Windswept Coastal Scene Fluffy Clouds
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Little Fluffy Clouds by Georges Bordonave (French contemporary) dated 1997 signed oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 13 x 16 inches condition: very good provenance: from a lar...
Category

Late 20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Antique Historical Painting - First Thanksgiving, Plymouth - Jennie Brownscombe
Located in Baltimore, MD
Jennie Augusta Brownscombe was born in a log cabin in Honesdale, Pa in 1850. She went past her modest roots to attend Cooper Union and the National Academy in New York. By 1890, ...
Category

1910s American Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

St Ives Shadows, Cornwall, Original painting, Oil on canvas, Coastal art, Beach
Located in Deddington, GB
St Ives Shadows is an Original Painting by Eleanor Woolley. Painted in the Artist's Gloucestershire Studio, St Ives Shadows is inspired by a trip to Cornwall last Summer. Photographs...
Category

2010s Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Vintage 1930's French Impressionist Still Life Pink and Red Roses Bunch In Vase
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Roses by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back oil painting on artist paper, unframed measures: 14.5 high by 12 inches wide condition: overal...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Pocket Autumn Collection Autumn leaf #2 [2024], Baroque Still Life, Small art
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Autumn Leaf Collection #2 (Naples Yellow) is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket Painting series featuring small scale realistic oil paintings, ...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Pocket Autumn Collection Autumn leaf #3 [2024], Baroque Still Life, Small art
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Autumn Leaf Collection (Pinky Ochre) is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket Painting series featuring small scale realistic oil paintings, with ...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Sunset Coming, Abstract Seascape, Original Landscape Painting, Framed Artwork
Located in Deddington, GB
Stormy Skies is an original landscape painting by Stephen Kinder. The painting has a strong gestural composition and loose brushwork, which heightens the changing light, and tide. A...
Category

2010s Abstract Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Vintage 1930's French Impressionist Still Life Roses in Glass in Garden
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Roses by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back gouache painting on artist paper, unframed measures: 13 high by 16.5 inches wide condition: ov...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Gouache

Antique Flemish 18th Century Oil Painting Swans Frightened by Dog in Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Swans Startled by Dog Flemish Old Master, 18th century oil on bevelled wood panel, framed framed: 14.5 x 17 inches panel: 10 x 13 inches provenance: private collection, UK condition:...
Category

18th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Oil

pocket dark blue sloes, Baroque Still Life Painting, Small Art, Fruit Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Dark Blue Sloes is an original still-life painting by artist Dani Humberstone. This painting is a small scale renaissance inspired still life in a photorealistic style and sol...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

1971 Pat Douthwaite Charcoal drawing of a seated man, Scottish, abstract
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Pat Douthwaite (Scottish, 1939 – 2002) Seated Man Charcoal on paper Indistinctly inscribed, signed and dated ‘Douthwaite 71’ (lower right) 25.1/2 x 18.1...
Category

20th Century Abstract Art

Materials

Paper, Charcoal

Vintage Watercolor “Steel Rocks” Palm Springs, California; Roy H. Collins 1929
Located in Baltimore, MD
Roy Huse Collins was a Midwestern artist associated with Chicago and Minnesota. Born in Saint Paul in 1884, he exhibited often at the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) during the 1920’s and 30’s. He also exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy in 1925 and 1931. Collins was a painter and illustrator until he died in 1949. This watercolor includes (on the back) the original exhibition label from the AIC in 1929. The work is titled “Steel Rocks...
Category

1920s American Modern Art

Materials

Watercolor

David Shrigley, Signs Of The Zodiac, 2024
Located in Manchester, GB
David Shrigley, Signs Of The Zodiac, 2024 61 x 91.5 cm Off-set lithography Printed on 200g Arctic Volume Narayana Press in Denmark
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Lithograph

ABSTRACT Painting Black Color Spanish Artist Alicia Gimeno 2024
Located in BARCELONA, ES
Alicia Gimeno, born in Barcelona (1989), trained in graphic design during her time in Mexico. From the beginning, she was captivated by calligraphy, the gestuality of brush strokes, ...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

Peckham Rock by Banksy
Located in London, GB
Wood Sculpture 4.70 x 7.10 x 0.14 in 11.9 x 18.0 x 0.4 cm This edition is authorised by Pest Control / Banksy and was created for the British Museum as part of the iObject exhibit...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Wood

"The sound of cicadas in Provence"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
Dear art lover, I enjoy working on floral and nature compositions. This one was inspired by my trip to St Remy de Provence ( south of France) , the village where Vincent Van Gogh li...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Love Bats - Red
Located in palma de mallorca, ES
Step into the captivating world of acclaimed artist Nick Walker, where a collection of limited edition silkscreen prints eagerly awaits to ignite your imagination. In a truly exclusi...
Category

2010s Street Art Art

Materials

Paper

Red Bunny
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt Title: Red Bunny Date: 2019 Medium: Lithograph Unframed Dimensions: 16" x 24" Signature: Pencil signed & numbered verso Edition: 5/16 Publisher: Poligrafa...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Lithograph

Colourful Impasto Abstract Wild Flower Painting by Contemporary British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Colourful Impasto Abstract Wild Flower Painting by Contemporary British Artist, Evelina Vine Art measures 8 x 8 inches Frame measures 16 x 16 inches
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil

caged rabbits scene with animals oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Ferrán Martí (1943) Caged rabbits oil Oil measures 19x24 cm. Frame measures 32x37 cm.
Category

1970s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Wooden grating" abstract painting acrylic on wood 102x77cm 2019
Located in Roscoff, FR
In "Wooden grating", Pierre Morquin invites us on a journey to the heart of a rapidly changing urban world. On a recuperated palette, the artist juxtaposes bright colors and abstract...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Spray Paint, Acrylic

Nocturnal Train In The City Abstract Expressionism
Located in Soquel, CA
Bright, small abstract expressionist painting of train and town at night by Tom Hamil (American, b. 1928). Signed upper left corner "Hamil". Condition: Excellent. Presented in rustic wooden shadow box frame. Image size: 8"H x 6"W. Tom Hamil, was born in New York in 1928 and raised primarily in California. After attending the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, he returned to California to begin his formal art training at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco (now known as the San Francisco Art Institute). He completed his education at the University of Washington with a Master’s Degrees and Doctorate in Fine Arts and Education. His first solo exhibition was held in 1956. Since then, he has participated in numerous one man shows, group shows, and has been represented in galleries in the US and Mexico. In addition to his painting, Hamil has authored and illustrated a number of books. While at the Naval Academy, he received recognition for his paintings, drawings, and illustrations. Listed among Hamil’s many awards and honors are a Ford Foundation Fellowship and an Award of Excellence from the American Graphics Society. Currently, he lives in Zirahuen, Michoacan, Mexico and Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. Hamil’s statement: “I am a man...
Category

1960s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Mid Century Windmill Rural Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Stoic watercolor painting of a tall windmill in a rural landscape by H. Kendall . Signed "H. Kendall" lower right. Presented in a yellow mat and wood f...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Art

Materials

Watercolor, Paper

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