New York

At the beginning of the 20th century, New York represented the gateway to the American continent with the passage through Ellis Island. Today, this gathering of people from diverse backgrounds is now one of the most important, and most visited cities in the world . Cinema, literature, and visual arts have tried to capture the unique complexity of the city that never sleeps.

From Lewis Wickes Hine's famous photograph of workers having lunch sitting on a steel beam at a skyscraper construction site to Vivian Maier's street scenes, the city's fascination lives on today. 

And yet, of the immunrable artworks depicting the city, none of them has managed to fully represent the buzzing atmosphere of the big apple, a place full of history, dreams, disillusions and skyscrapers. 

It is hard to depict all these things, but perhaps even harder to choose only one aspect to focus on. Because what would one choose? To successfully capture New York's essence and unique atmosphere, the artist has to consider its colours, avenues, the diversity of its crowds, its decadence. Then they must depict Hudson River and the Statue of Liberty, the Chrysler Tower and the Empire State Building as well as touch upon the scars of terrorism or the asphalt vibrations created by the metro rumbling through the underground tunnels. But New York is also a city filled with joy, music, success, a city of love and with an intoxicating atmosphere, it can be as red as the Brooklyn Bridge or as green as Central Park's leaves. In short, it is a city that goes beyond words and even perhaps beyond images.

Gottfried Salzmann's work highlights these complexities. A multidisciplinary artist, he works on fluidity and transparency, calling himself a painter of water. He produces artworks that hover at the frontier of drawing, prints, and photography, evanescent and surrealist. As for painting, Daniel Castan and Patrice Palacio create urban landscapes of empty streets, where the vapour that surrounds the contours of buildings reveals the city's unstoppable activity. On the other hand, Jerome Liebling, a street photographer, focuses on the individual, like as a child leaning against a 1949 car, taken by surprise by the photographer's gaze. 

These artists take us on a wonderful journey to New York City and their artworks leave us wondering: are we really seeing New York as it is or are these images only showing us the city as it appears through the artists' eyes ?

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Painting, Sans titre, Daniel Castan

Daniel Castan

Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch

$2,945

Painting, Free style, Pierre Barillot

Pierre Barillot

Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch

$2,945

Painting, Skyline #17, Sophie Neury

Sophie Neury

Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch

$675

Photography, New York, Lisa Tomasetti

Lisa Tomasetti

Photography - 58 x 70 x 1 cm Photography - 22.8 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch

$4,295

Photography, Yellow cab, Alain Lumbroso

Alain Lumbroso

Photography - 20 x 20 x 8 cm Photography - 7.9 x 7.9 x 3.1 inch

$969

Painting, Cab 733, Marc Taraskoff

Marc Taraskoff

Painting - 130 x 98 x 1 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.6 x 0.4 inch

$10,430

Painting, New York 7, HM

HM

Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch

$3,068

Painting, Scarlett NY, MNFF

MNFF

Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch

$1,534

Painting, Icone, Dain

Dain

Painting - 90 x 60 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 inch

$3,068

Painting, Central Park, Anmarie Léon

Anmarie Léon

Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch

$2,945

Photography, Dont Walk, Karol Kállay

Karol Kállay

Photography - 30 x 30 cm Photography - 11.8 x 11.8 inch

$1,350

Photography, Brooklyn Arche, Sylvie Benoit

Sylvie Benoit

Photography - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Photography - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch

$3,190

Photography, Tom Jobim, Thiago Barros

Thiago Barros

Photography - 73.3 x 110 x 0.1 cm Photography - 28.9 x 43.3 x 0 inch

$1,779

Painting, New York, Solveiga

Solveiga

Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch

$2,699

Painting, New York City 1980, Seen

Seen

Painting - 75.5 x 69.5 cm Painting - 29.7 x 27.4 inch

$1,472

Painting, Sans titre, Daniel Castan

Daniel Castan

Painting - 120 x 40 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 15.7 x 1.6 inch

$2,270

Painting, Sans titre, Daniel Castan

Daniel Castan

Painting - 90 x 30 x 4 cm Painting - 35.4 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch

$1,472

Painting, POST NO BILLS, Seen

Seen

Painting - 101.5 x 70 cm Painting - 40 x 27.6 inch

$1,595

Painting, Sans titre, Daniel Castan

Daniel Castan

Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch

$4,295

Painting, Sans titre, Daniel Castan

Daniel Castan

Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch

$4,295

Painting, Sans titre, Daniel Castan

Daniel Castan

Painting - 80 x 160 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 63 x 1.6 inch

$5,522

Painting, Sans titre, Daniel Castan

Daniel Castan

Painting - 90 x 30 x 4 cm Painting - 35.4 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch

$1,472

Print, Le Vaste Monde, Hugo Pondz

Hugo Pondz

Print - 120 x 80 x 0.1 cm Print - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0 inch

$1,595

Painting, Sans titre, Daniel Castan

Daniel Castan

Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch

$4,295

Painting, Sans titre, Daniel Castan

Daniel Castan

Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch

$4,295

Painting, Sans titre, Daniel Castan

Daniel Castan

Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch

$4,295

Print, Le Lien, Hugo Pondz

Hugo Pondz

Print - 90 x 90 x 0.1 cm Print - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0 inch

$1,963

Painting, Natural selection, JonOne

JonOne

Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch

$22,086

Painting, Sans titre, Daniel Castan

Daniel Castan

Painting - 40 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 15.7 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch

$2,270

Painting, Sans titre, Daniel Castan

Daniel Castan

Painting - 40 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 15.7 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch

$2,270

Painting, Sans titre, Daniel Castan

Daniel Castan

Painting - 80 x 160 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 63 x 1.6 inch

$5,522

Print, New York (2), Tony Soulié

Tony Soulié

Print - 100 x 76 x 0.1 cm Print - 39.4 x 29.9 x 0 inch

$1,104