With a blue cat. At the pink table
Sasha Katinauskiene
Painting - 70 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,192 $1,013
Figurative Paintings
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Vase with yellow roses - Italian painting
Romano Mussolini
Painting - 60 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$656
La temptació
Salvador de Batlle
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,384
In the evening- Venice painting
Antonio Sgarbossa
Painting - 30 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$626
Les risques du métier
Pascal Chôve
Painting - 195 x 114 x 3 cm Painting - 76.8 x 44.9 x 1.2 inch
$15,498
Vue du bar des artistes, Honfleur
Fabienne Tuffigo
Painting - 33 x 24 x 0.3 cm Painting - 13 x 9.4 x 0.1 inch
$274
Bisous, marguerites, supercheris
Marion Charlet
Painting - 162 x 130 x 4 cm Painting - 63.8 x 51.2 x 1.6 inch
$12,517
Three-quarter-length woman
Milena Sgambato
Painting - 45 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 17.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,431
Cuisine campagnarde
Françoise Bircher
Painting - 46 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
$417
Est-ce que l’art a le pouvoir de changer les sentiments ?
Audrey Faivre
Painting - 38 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 15 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,122
Le marché de Cotignac
Anne Ricard
Painting - 40 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,609
Femme au regard au-dessus de son épaule
Sandra Paris
Painting - 51 x 29 x 0.2 cm Painting - 20.1 x 11.4 x 0.1 inch
$429
Abstract figuration of an interior with a figure
Susana Mata
Painting - 55 x 46 x 1 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.4 inch
$1,431
Woman with Poppy
Susanne Butcher
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,934
A Farewell to My Problem Days II
Sophia Oshodin
Painting - 80 x 80 x 5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 2 inch
$3,338
Desolate Civilization
Chloe Jenkins
Painting - 35.6 x 45.7 x 5.1 cm Painting - 14 x 18 x 2 inch
$1,300
The decision II
Ricardo Fabián Bertona
Painting - 70 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,550
The gulf in bloom - Sorrento painting
Alfredo Grimaldi
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$387
Lights on the coast - Italy painting
Vittorio Colucci
Painting - 40 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$447
Large jar with Japanese traditional patterns
Hikaru O
Painting - 149 x 90 x 0.1 cm Painting - 58.7 x 35.4 x 0 inch
$2,623
Sans titre
Jean-Charles Blais
Painting - 38.5 x 29.5 x 2 cm Painting - 15.2 x 11.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,742
It_helped_me_diamond
Axel Jenny
Painting - 125 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 49.2 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$2,384
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient
Ruby Bat Arnon
Painting - 140 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 55.1 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$11,921
Le Prestige Du Philtre
Loran Meldrid
Painting - 130 x 195 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 76.8 x 1.2 inch
$2,146
Don't be afraid
Christian Dugardeyn
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$596
Le printemps est Là
Tristan Saint Michel
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 0.8 inch
$5,365
De l'un à l'autre 1&2 (diptyque)
Jean-Freddy
Painting - 81 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$1,311
Penché sur le Doubs
Eleanor Quellien
Painting - 89 x 116 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35 x 45.7 x 1 inch
$775
Festival des amoureux 2
Chantal Bonnevay
Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$95
Quiet country farmhouse - Tuscany landscape painting
Claudio Pallini
Painting - 20 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$179
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Love and Flowers - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa, Women
Taiwo Odejinmi
Painting - 91.4 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 24 x 1 inch
$2,450
Impossible behaviour - 9
Galya Popova
Fine Art Drawings - 90 x 70 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
$1,907
lueur rouge, lithographie originale
Christophe Hohler
Print - 76 x 56 x 0.05 cm Print - 29.9 x 22 x 0 inch
$787