Papillon 5 - Série insectes réalistes
Michèle Duretête-Brodel
Painting - 29 x 29 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.4 x 11.4 x 0 inch
$326
Figurative Paintings
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Paysage Près d'Aesch à Bâle-Campagne
René Bollmer
Painting - 36 x 28 x 2 cm Painting - 14.2 x 11 x 0.8 inch
$1,270
Intérieur du XIXe
Herman Moller
Painting - 44 x 60 x 0.3 cm Painting - 17.3 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
$1,143
Vue sur un paysage de Toscane
René Grossen
Painting - 22 x 27 x 2 cm Painting - 8.7 x 10.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,498
Café de la Bourse, Genève
Emile Helfer
Painting - 24 x 33 x 0.5 cm Painting - 9.4 x 13 x 0.2 inch
$2,361
Nature morte aux bouquins, à la pipe et aux allumettes
S. Pagani
Painting - 38 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 15 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,523
Paysage Piémontais
Giuseppe Buscaglione
Painting - 31 x 44 x 0.5 cm Painting - 12.2 x 17.3 x 0.2 inch
$1,168
Montagne enneigée, et sapin
Joseph Gautschi
Painting - 72.5 x 45.5 x 2 cm Painting - 28.5 x 17.9 x 0.8 inch
$2,349
Le Sacré coeur - Paris et son architecture
Lucien Dufour
Painting - 65 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,224
Où va-t-on ?
Catherine Jonville
Painting - 100 x 70 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.6 inch
$1,780
They shall hunger no more
Ida Gudmundsson
Painting - 40 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$2,373
Procès d’une prostitution ordinaire
Tilt
Painting - 43 x 43 x 1 cm Painting - 16.9 x 16.9 x 0.4 inch
$2,135
San Fruttuoso di Camogli - Bagnanti nel porticciolo dei pescatori
Leonida BELTRAME
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,420
Simple Village House
Slava Brodinsky
Painting - 50 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,200
“Before Nightfall“
Ivan Schwebel
Painting - 101 x 117 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.8 x 46.1 x 1 inch
$5,499
Citrus Rebellion 1
Pedro Point Verges
Painting - 35 x 27 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 10.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,768
Ocean calling under crystal
Benoit Barbagli
Painting - 25 x 35 x 1 cm Painting - 9.8 x 13.8 x 0.4 inch
$2,135
Almond glossom Majorca
Onofre Prohens
Painting - 22 x 27 x 1 cm Painting - 8.7 x 10.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,008
Tea Time - Museum Ludwig Cologne
Linda Moufadil
Painting - 31 x 61 x 1.5 cm Painting - 12.2 x 24 x 0.6 inch
$1,898
Botox Forbidden Fruit
Ben Frost
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 4.5 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 1.8 inch
$3,381
Qui se ressemble s'assemble
Jean-François Rousselot
Painting - 60 x 73 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 28.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,610
Varech et autres formes de vie I
Ben Brotherton
Painting - 122 x 78 x 3 cm Painting - 48 x 30.7 x 1.2 inch
$4,983
Verdure printanière - Paysage valloné semi figuratif
Suzanne Vaucelles
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$178
Still Life with Ribbons
Gianni Cacciarini
Painting - 40 x 60 x 0.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
$1,780
Lavandière bretonne
Marguerita Pillini
Painting - 40 x 24.5 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 9.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,955
Brilliant accompany
Won Chin Tong
Painting - 60 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,803
December 20th
Anna Waleron
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$4,627 $3,933
Nature morte gourmande n°1
Michel Petiot (Micha)
Painting - 146 x 114 x 2 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 0.8 inch
$2,313
Paysage de campagne
Christian Zwahlen
Painting - 35.5 x 27.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 14 x 10.8 x 0.2 inch
$1,143
Femmes au foin
Clemente Pugliese-Levi
Painting - 55 x 82 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 32.3 x 0.8 inch
$1,752
Cultivos Manchegos
Ulpiano Carrasco
Painting - 97 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
$11,745
Broken But Beating
Stella Zachariassen
Painting - 80 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$2,907
Ils nous regardent - série représentation félins
Brigitte Haler
Painting - 20.5 x 25 x 0.2 cm Painting - 8.1 x 9.8 x 0.1 inch
$237
Halo of Blooms
Clement Mmaduako Nwafor
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 inch
$4,800
La lecture du journal du matin
Lino Umberto Salini
Painting - 71 x 50.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 28 x 19.9 x 0.2 inch
$2,336
Paysage de campagne avec arbre fruitier en fleurs
Furlani
Painting - 34 x 40 x 0.5 cm Painting - 13.4 x 15.7 x 0.2 inch
$1,092
Conker the Squirrel
Remco Schakelaar
Painting - 80 x 60 x 5.1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.63 x 2 inch
$1,780
Nature morte au modèle de Voilier
A. Séchaud
Painting - 28 x 38 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11 x 15 x 0.1 inch
$1,016
Dame au parapet
Giuseppe De Santis
Painting - 80 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,017
Femme cubiste au chapeau
Jean-Luc Beaufils
Painting - 65 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$4,152
Suite en négatif, bégaiement en noir et rouge
Daniel Nadaud
Painting - 76 x 56.5 x 0.1 cm Painting - 29.9 x 22.2 x 0 inch
$415
Between Light and Darkness
Penuel Heber Madeira Heber Madeira
Painting - 84.1 x 60.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 33.1 x 23.8 x 1 inch
$3,999
La abuela y sus bolillos
M. J. Carmezim
Painting - 73 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$2,434
What doesn't kill you is dead
Paulina Halasova
Painting - 110 x 85 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 33.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,999
Vue sur le lac dans les hauteurs de Vully
William Victor Aubert
Painting - 75 x 100.5 x 2 cm Painting - 29.5 x 39.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,879
Through the Fog
Stephanie Blaess
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.4 inch
$4,034
Cristo
Josep Serra I Santa Serranta
Painting - 140 x 105 x 4 cm Painting - 55.1 x 41.3 x 1.6 inch
$142,360
Promenade d'automne
Edouard BAUD
Painting - 38.5 x 30.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 15.2 x 12 x 0.2 inch
$1,270
La guerrière aux fleurs de l'Eden
Jean-Jacques François
Painting - 103 x 103 x 2 cm Painting - 40.6 x 40.6 x 0.8 inch
$5,339
Community II
Felix Treadwell
Painting - 182.2 x 121.5 x 2.54 cm Painting - 71.7 x 47.8 x 1 inch
$35,000
Venise, le Rialto
Marko Stupar
Painting - 50 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$4,152 $3,322
Paysage lacustre automnal
Arthur Amez-Droz
Painting - 65.2 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 25.7 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,447
Enfants jouant en bord de rivière
Baldo Gulberti
Painting - 46 x 54 x 0.5 cm Painting - 18.1 x 21.3 x 0.2 inch
$2,222
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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
$1,898
lueur rouge, lithographie originale
Christophe Hohler
Print - 76 x 56 x 0.05 cm Print - 29.9 x 22 x 0 inch
$783
