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Art For Sale
Style: Modern
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Extraordinary BMW/ Photography/ Print / Limited / Signed
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
This extraordinary BMW is my memory to my father. Photography/ fine art print, limited edition of 5, signed by the author.
Category

1930s Modern Art

Materials

Digital, Black and White, Photographic Paper

San Francisco Photography on Alluminium
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
Photography of San Francisco, on aluminium panel, signed on the back.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Art

Materials

Metal

'White Leaf' Oversize Archival Pigment Print - Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
'White Leaf' Oversize Archival Pigment Print - Signed Limited Edition Fine Art photograph of a banana leaf. by Stuart Möller. Beautiful mint condition Limited Edition Archival ...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

'White Leaf' Oversize Archival Pigment Print - Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
'White Leaf' Oversize Archival Pigment Print - Signed Limited Edition Fine Art photograph of a banana leaf. by Stuart Möller. Beautiful mint condition Limited Edition Archival ...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons - Joan Collins Relaxes - Estate Stamped
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons - Joan Collins Relaxes - Estate Stamped Film star Joan Collins relaxes with her pink poodle on her pink bed. (Photo by Slim Aarons) ...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

C Print

Black Bird on Colorful Subway Light - Fine Art Photography
Located in Miami, FL
This unexpected bird portrait was a grab shot as street photographer Mitchell Funk was entering the New York City subway. The real charm of the image is that it's more of an abstrac...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Acrylic, Archival Pigment

Canto Decimosecondo, 2013
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Nicola Domenici was born in 1969 in Viareggio (Lucca). After the University and several experiences in the fields of jewellery and goldsmithery, he dec...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Resin

Bellhop
Located in New York, NY
Many places, many times intermingle in the work of Roberto Juarez. His life is so much a part of his work, that each new body of work introduces subjects, styles and motifs that seem...
Category

Late 20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Stencil

Untitled (Sunset with Hands)
Located in New York, NY
Signed (at lower right): Louisa Chase
Category

Late 20th Century American Modern Art

Materials

Ink, Watercolor

Live Bait New York, New York at Night Street Scene
Located in Miami, FL
This noir is a photograph of a New York at Night street scene. In "Live Bait New York Neon" we see an illuminated bus stop juxtaposed against neon l...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Live Bait New York
Located in Miami, FL
Neon illuminated bus stop juxtaposed against trendy bar. Signed, dated, numbered 4/15 other size available, unframed
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Miami Demolition
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100. New building rises as old building falls and a new Miami is created. Shot on Brickell Avenue. Signed, dated and numbered 3/15 lower left recto , unf...
Category

1990s American Modern Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Study for Sculpture of Nude Woman Balancing Baby
Located in New York, NY
Study for Sculpture of Nude Woman Balancing Baby, 1949, by Chaim Gross (1902-1991) Ink on paper 10 ½ x 7 ½ inches unframed (26.67 x 19.05 cm) 1...
Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Ink, Pen

Ponies and Puppies Trotty And Trix Coloring Book, Cover Art
Located in Miami, FL
Children's illustration of Ponies and Puppies Signed lower left Children’s Books Published by The Merrill Company
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Gouache

Under Greylock, Etching by Peter Milton
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Peter Milton, American (1930 - ) Title: Under Greylock Year: 1993 Medium: Intaglio Etching, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 175 Image Size: 18.25 x 15 inches Size: 25 ...
Category

1990s American Modern Art

Materials

Etching

Original "Bly by BOAC to Japan" vintage travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original JAPAN, Fly by BOAC to the Caribbean. Small format. Archival linen-backed original vintage European travel poster in mint condition; ready to frame. This antique original poster...
Category

1950s American Modern Art

Materials

Offset

Simka Simkhovitch WPA W/C Painting Gouache American Modernist Bouquet of Flowers
Located in Surfside, FL
Simka Simkhovitch (Russian/American 1893 - 1949) This came with a small grouping from the artist's family, some were hand signed some were not. These were studies for larger paintings. This is a miniature watercolor and gouache vibrant, colorful bouquet of flowers in a vase. Simka Simkhovitch (Симха Файбусович Симхович) (aka Simka Faibusovich Simkhovich) (Novozybkov, Russia May 21, 1885 O.S./June 2, 1885 N.S.—Greenwich, Connecticut February 25, 1949) was a Ukrainian-Russian Jewish artist and immigrant to the United States. He painted theater scenery in his early career and then had several showings in galleries in New York City. Winning Works Progress Administration (WPA) commissions in the 1930s, he completed murals for the post offices in Jackson, Mississippi and Beaufort, North Carolina. His works are in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Born outside Kyiv (Petrograd Ukraine) into a Jewish family who owned a small department store. During a severe case of measles when he was seven, Simcha Simchovitch sketched the views outside his window and decided to become an artist, over his father's objections. Beginning in 1905, he studied at the Grekov Odessa Art School and upon completion of his studies in 1911 received a recommendation to be admitted to the Imperial Academy of Arts. Though he enrolled to begin classes in architecture, painting, and sculpture at the Imperial Academy, he was dropped from the school roster in December because of the quota on the number of Jewish students and drafted into the army. Simchovitch served as a private in the 175th Infantry Regiment Baturyn [ru] until his demobilization in 1912. Re-enrolling in the Imperial Academy, he audited classes. Simka Simkhovitch exhibited paintings and sculptures in 1918 as part of an exhibition of Jewish artists and in 1919 placed 1st in the competition "The Great Russian Revolution" with a painting called "Russian Revolution" which was hung in the State Museum of Revolution. In 1922, Simkha Simkhovitch exhibited at the International Book Fair in Florence (Italian: Fiera Internazionale del Libro di Firenze). In 1924, Simkhovitch came to the United States to make illustrations for Soviet textbooks and decided to immigrate instead. Initially he supported himself by doing commercial art and a few portrait commissions. In 1927, he was hired to paint a screen for a scene in the play "The Command to Love" by Fritz Gottwald and Rudolph Lothar which was playing at the Longacre Theatre on Broadway. Art dealers began clamoring for the screen and Simkhovitch began a career as a screen painter for the theater. Catching the attention of the screenwriter, Ernest Pascal, he worked as an illustrator for Pascal, who then introduced him to gallery owner, Marie Sterner. Simkhovitch's works appeared at the Marie Sterner Gallery beginning with a 1927 exhibit and were repeated the following year. Simkhovitch had an exhibit in 1929 at Sterner's on circus paintings. In 1931, he held a showing of works at the Helen Hackett Gallery, in New York City and later that same year he was one of the featured artists of a special exhibit in San Francisco at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park. The exhibit was coordinated by Marie Sterner and included four watercolors, including one titled "Nudes". He is of the generation of Russian Soviet artists such as Isaac Pailes, Serge Charchoune, Marc Chagall, Chana Orloff, Isaac Ilyich Levitan, and Ossip Zadkine. In 1936, Simkhovitch was selected to complete the mural for the WPA Post office project in Jackson, Mississippi. The mural was hung in the post office and courthouse in 1938 depicted a plantation theme. Painted on the wall behind the judge’s bench, “Pursuits of Life in Mississippi”, a depiction of black workers engaged in manual labor amid scenes of white professionals and socialites, was eventually covered over in later years during renovations due to its stereotypical African American imagery. Simka painted what he thought was typical of Jackson. His impression of pre-civil rights Mississippi was evidently Greek Revival column houses, weeping willow trees, working class families, and the oppression of African Americans. He painted African American men picking cotton, while a white man took account of the harvest and a white judge advised a white family, calling it Pursuits of Life in Mississippi. Though clearly endorsed by the government and initially generally well-received, the mural soon raised concerns with locals as the climate toward racial segregation began to change. The main concern was whether depictions that show African Americans in subjugated societal roles should be featured in a courtroom. The following year, his painting "Holiday" won praise at an exhibition in Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1940, Simkhovitch's second WPA post office project was completed when four murals, "The Cape Lookout Lighthouse and the Orville W. Mail Boat", "The Wreck of the Crissie Wright", "Sand Ponies" and "Canada Geese" were installed in Beaufort, North Carolina. The works were commissioned in 1938 and did not generate the controversy that the Jackson mural had. The main mural is "The Wreck of the Crissie Wright" and depicts a shipwreck which had occurred in Beaufort in 1866. "The Cape Lookout Lighthouse and the Orville W. Mail Boat" depicted the lighthouse built in 1859 and the mail boat that was running mail during the time which Simkhovitch was there. The boat ran mail for the area until 1957. "Sand Ponies" shows the wild horses common to the North Carolina barrier islands and "Canada Geese" showed the importance of hunting and fishing in the area. All four murals were restored in the 1990s by Elisabeth Speight, daughter of two other WPA muralists, Francis Speight...
Category

1930s American Modern Art

Materials

Gouache, Board, Watercolor

Dystopian MALE NUDE ATHLETE Surreal
Located in New York, NY
Here we have a partial male nude by admired American artist John Brock Lear, Jr. He was able to contrast the earthy reality of the flesh with vividly c...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Modern Art

Materials

Watercolor

Degas - Vintage Poster - Offset Print - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Degas - Poster is an original poster print. The artwork was realized on the occasion of the artist's exhibition In Paris in 1960. Good conditions except for being aged and some fol...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Offset

Wedding with Violin - Original signed lithograph - 300 ex
Located in Paris, FR
Alain RAYA SORKINE Wedding with Violin Original lithograph Handsigned in pencil Numbered / 300 ex On vellum 38 x 31 cm (c. 15 x 12 inch) Excellent condition
Category

Late 20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Lioness i- Etching by Evert Louis van Muyden - 1900
Located in Roma, IT
Lioness is a modern artwork realized by Evert Louis van Muyden (Albano, Lazio 1853 - 1922 Orsay) in 1900 . Black and white etching. Signature and date on plate. Includes passe-pa...
Category

Early 1900s Modern Art

Materials

Etching

Mid Century Figurative Study of Pair
By Joseph Capozio
Located in Soquel, CA
Compelling figurative study in gouache and pencil by Joesph Capozio (American, 1928-2016). Estate stamp lower right corner with bio on verso. Presented in mahogany wood frame. Framed size: 19"H x 17"W. Capozio was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1927. After serving in World War II, he attended art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He lived and worked in San Francisco, California; New Orleans, Louisiana; Siesta Key...
Category

1960s American Modern Art

Materials

Gouache, Pencil

Untitled Double Page Illustration for DLM
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Double Page Illustration for DLM Color lithograph, 1968 Unsigned as issued in DLM Published in Derriere le Miroir (Behind the Mirror), calle...
Category

1960s American Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

after Pablo Picasso - The Human Comedy - Heliogravure
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
A vintage heliogravure after Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) titled "La Comedie Humaine", 1954. Published by Verve, Paris France 1954. Produced from Picasso's sketches fro...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Rabbits - Original Woodcut Print by Giselle Halff - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Rabbits is an original woodcut print realized by Giselle Halff in the mid-20th Century. Good Conditions. The artwork is depicted through soft strokes in a well-balanced composition...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Woodcut

Uses and Customs - Ischia - Lithograph - 1862
Located in Roma, IT
Uses and Customs - Ischia is a lithograph on paper realized in 1862. The artwork belongs to the Suite Uses and customs of all the peoples of the universe: " History of the governmen...
Category

1860s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Uses and Customs - Dressing Table in Naples - Lithograph - 1862
Located in Roma, IT
Uses and Customs - Dressing Table in Naples is a lithograph on paper realized in 1862. The artwork belongs to the Suite Uses and customs of all the peoples of the universe: " Histor...
Category

1860s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Uses and Customs - Holy Stairs - Lithograph - 1862
Located in Roma, IT
Uses and Customs - Holy Stairs is a lithograph on paper realized in 1862. The artwork belongs to the Suite Uses and customs of all the peoples of the universe: " History of the gove...
Category

1860s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

(after) Pablo Picasso - Flying Dove with a Rainbow - Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
(after) Pablo Picasso - Flying Dove with a Rainbow - Lithograph 1952 Dimensions: 28 x 38 cm Signed and dated in the plate Numbered in pencil Edition : /10...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Uses and Customs - Exterior of Santa Maria Maggiore - Lithograph - 1862
Located in Roma, IT
Uses and Customs - Exterior of Santa Maria Maggiore is a lithograph on paper realized in 1862. The artwork belongs to the Suite Uses and customs of all the peoples of the universe: ...
Category

1860s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Uses and Customs - Nepi - Lithograph - 1862
Located in Roma, IT
Uses and Customs - Nepi is a lithograph on paper realized in 1862. The artwork belongs to the Suite Uses and customs of all the peoples of the universe: " History of the government,...
Category

1860s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Uses and Customs - Saint Carlo Theatre in Naples - Lithograph - 1862
Located in Roma, IT
Uses and Customs - Saint Carlo Theatre in Naples is a lithograph on paper realized in 1862. The artwork belongs to the Suite Uses and customs of all the peoples of the universe: " H...
Category

1860s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Plate XII, from Album 19
Located in London, GB
Lithograph in colours, 1961, on BFK Rives wove paper, signed with the artist's monogram in pencil, numbered from the edition of 75 (the total edition included 15 impressions numbered...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Jean Cocteau - Europe and the World - Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Lithograph by Jean Cocteau Title: Europe and the World Signed in the plate Dimensions: 33 x 46 cm Edition: 200 Luxury print edition from the portfolio of Sciaky 1961
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Jean Cocteau - Marine Mountains - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Cocteau - Marine Mountains - Original Lithograph Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm Edition: 200 In Rives From: COCTEAU. — VERDET (André). Montagnes marines. S. l. (Paris), Les Messagers du...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

The Man and the Ideas - Woodcut by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The man and the ideas is an Artwork realized by Mino Maccari  (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century. Colored woodcut on paper. Hand-signed on the lower, numbered 4/89 specimens and ti...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Woodcut

Schwarze Madonna
Located in Wien, 9
Auguste Kronheim was born in Amsterdam in 1937. The artist makes woodcuts and drawings. She received her training in drawing from Hanns Kobinger and graduated from the Linz Federal T...
Category

20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Woodcut

'Pompeii, Unearthed material'. Mixed media , c 2005. Original signed work.
Located in Frome, Somerset
Pompeii , Unearthed Material, ' signed c 2005 glazed oak frame 42.5 x 52cm painting 23cmx 34cm Mixed media, watercolor, ink varnish and inkjet print.
Category

Early 2000s Modern Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Harlem Renaissance Signed Ellis Original Abstract Portrait Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract painting. Oil on board, circa 1940. Signed. Image size 22L x 30H. Housed in a period modern frame.
Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Walking Home, Contemporary Figurative Cityscape Painting, Landscape Park Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Walking Home [2023] original Oil on Canvas Image size: H:8.5 cm x W:10 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:46 cm x W:55 cm x D:1.5cm Frame Size: H:60 cm x W:79 cm x D:5cm Sold Fram...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Jean Cocteau - He ! He! Toro - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Lithograph by Jean Cocteau Title: He ! He! Toro 1961 Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm Lithograph made for the portfolio "Gitans et Corridas" published by Société de Diffusion Artistiq...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Maravillas con Variaciones Acrosticas 6
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Maravillas con Variaciones Acrosticas (one plate) 1975 50 x 36cm On Guarro paper Printed signature From the edition of 1500 Edited and printed by Poligrafa, Barcelona (Spain) Catalog...
Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

A Maiakovski (For Mayakovsky) signed by Alechinsky & Christine Rochefort #10/50
Located in New York, NY
Pierre Alechinsky A Maiakovski, 1958 (For Mayakovsky) Color lithograph and offset lithograph with text Pencil numbered 10/50 and signed by BOTH artist Pierre Alechinsky and writer C...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Offset, Lithograph, Pencil

Jean Cocteau - Torero's Son - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Lithograph by Jean Cocteau Title: Torero's Son 1961 printed signature in the stone Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm Lithograph made for the portfolio "Gitans et Corridas" p...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Freddy Wittop Ballet Drawing, Mixed Media
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Additional Information: Costume designer Freddy Wittop won a Tony Award for his work on “Hello, Dolly!” and was also the recipient of a TDF Irene Sharaff...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Paint, Mixed Media

Cathedral of Saint Cyr and Saint Julitta, Nevers
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on antique cream laid paper, 12 7/8 x 5 1/2 inches (328 x 140 mm), full margins. Signed in pencil, lower margin. Laid down to non-archival board, general age tone and some ma...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Modern Art

Materials

Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching

Family of Flowers
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Andy Warhol is arguably the most important American artist of the 20th century. In the 1950s, he was an in-demand and celebrated illustrator working for New York's toniest publicatio...
Category

1950s American Modern Art

Materials

Ink

Jean Cocteau - The Voice - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Lithograph by Jean Cocteau Title: The Voice Signed in the plate Dimensions: 32 x 25.5 cm Edition: 200 1959 Publisher: Bibliophiles Du Palais Unnumbered as issued
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Somewhere in France
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on antique cream laid paper with a partial watermark (likely Arches), 12 1/8 x 6 1/8 inches (308 x 156 mm), full margins. Signed and dated in pencil in the lower right margin...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Modern Art

Materials

Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching

La Tour D'Horloge, Dinan
Located in Middletown, NY
tching on green-hued antique laid Japon paper, 9 7/16 x 4 1/16 (240 x 104 mm), full margins. Signed, dated and inscribed "Ed. 100 II." One of a total edition on 124 impressions, prin...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Modern Art

Materials

Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching

Gloria, Saint Riquier; The Church of Saint Riquier; Gloria Ecclesiae Antiquae
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on antique cream laid paper with an "England" watermark; 13 7/8 x 8 5/8 inches (353 x 221 mm), full margins. Signed, dated, titled, numbered "III," and inscribed in pencil. O...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Modern Art

Materials

Handmade Paper, Etching, Laid Paper

Sunlight on Stone; Caudebec-en-Caux
Located in Middletown, NY
An extremely scarce impression from the artist's own collection. Etching on watermarked antique laid J Whatman Japon paper, 14 1/2 x 7 5/8 inches ( 368 x 195 mm), full margins. Signe...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Modern Art

Materials

Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching

Nu
Located in Kansas City, MO
Tono Zancanaro Title: Nu Color lithograph Medium: Color lithograph Signed by hand Size: 28.3 × 19.4 inches COA provided Antonio "Tono" Zancanaro ( Padua , 8 April 1906 - Padua , 3 ...
Category

1980s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Jean Cocteau - Europe's Diversity - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Lithograph by Jean Cocteau Title: Europe's Diversity Signed in the plate Dimensions: 33 x 46 cm Edition: 200 Luxury print edition from the portfolio of Sciaky 1961 Jean Coc...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Ingressi di Milano. via Mario Giuriati 5 Interior Architecture Color Photography
Located in Los Angeles, CA
36 x 50 cm, 14.2 x 19.7 in. (unframed) Inkjet Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Paper Edition of 15 The photographer Delfino Sisto Legnani lives and works in Milan. His photography has ...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Inkjet

Mystic Cafe, Signed Aquatint Etching California Woman Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Susan Hall lives and works in Point Reyes Station, California, a town in the heart of the Point Reyes National Seashore. This pristine wilderness area is dominated by a mosaic of bay...
Category

1970s American Modern Art

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

Danse de Feu from Derriere le Miroir
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Joan Miro, Spanish (1893 - 1983) Title: Danse de Feu from Derriere le Miroir Year: 1963 Medium: Lithograph Unsigned. Unnumbered from an edition of unk...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Green and Yellow Falling Bottles on Pink Background, Patterns and Silhouettes
Located in Barcelona, ES
"Green and Yellow Falling Bottles" is a modern still life painting that captures the essence of contemporary aesthetics with a vibrant interplay of patterns and forms against a beaut...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor

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