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Amazing World of Ghosts
Anand Manchiraju
Painting - 66 x 111.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 26 x 44 x 0.1 inch
$3,500
Me, the painter
William Mountgoaten
Painting - 200 x 170 x 4.5 cm Painting - 78.7 x 66.9 x 1.8 inch
$11,051
Himalayan resort
Anand Manchiraju
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.1 inch
$6,000
The son of Mary and Joseph
Iván Castellón Quiroga
Painting - 60 x 50 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 inch
$781
Eros und Thanatos
William Mountgoaten
Painting - 150 x 120 x 5 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 2 inch
$7,256
L'état actuel de la souffrance
Noah Borger
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
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Un jour parmi d'autres II
Cécile Duchêne-Malissin
Painting - 73 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
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Abbot Wat Phra phutthabat saraburi. Life between praying, transience and desire
The opium smoking white elephant
Painting - 70 x 50 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 inch
$1,228
Funeral at Wat Saket, Bangkok
The opium smoking white elephant
Painting - 50 x 70 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 inch
$1,228
Fleur de toussaint
Cécile Duchêne-Malissin
Painting - 20 x 20 x 5 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 2 inch
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The massacre
Anthony Ferrero (Wear One)
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
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Abyss. Série Champs Élysées
Christophe Faso
Painting - 114 x 146 x 2 cm Painting - 44.9 x 57.5 x 0.8 inch
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Le trophée II
Cécile Duchêne-Malissin
Painting - 92 x 73 x 5 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 2 inch
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Entre les Mailles du Filet Pélagique
Samuel Favarica
Painting - 41 x 31 x 1 cm Painting - 16.1 x 12.2 x 0.4 inch
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Poussière
Cécile Duchêne-Malissin
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
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Nocturne. Série Champs Élysées
Christophe Faso
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
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Vanité rouge aux papillons gris
Philippe Pasqua
Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
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The Godfather
Jessica Renault jrbrush
Painting - 20.3 x 30.5 x 0.3 cm Painting - 8 x 12 x 0.1 inch
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Their Curses Shall Raise The Leviathan
Stan Maksun
Painting - 20.3 x 30.5 x 0.3 cm Painting - 8 x 12 x 0.1 inch
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The great paradoxical journey to the absolute
Thomas Mainardi
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
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Sublime stratégie. Série Champs Élysées
Christophe Faso
Painting - 114 x 146 x 2 cm Painting - 44.9 x 57.5 x 0.8 inch
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Watering Can Girl
Deirdre Sullivan-Beeman
Painting - 71.1 x 35.6 x 2.5 cm Painting - 28 x 14 x 1 inch
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Retour à l'Expéditeur (Mais va te faire enculer la mort)
Quitter Odessa
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
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Chechnya/No surrender
Tara (von Neudorf)
Painting - 182 x 130 x 0.2 cm Painting - 71.7 x 51.2 x 0.1 inch
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Chiaruscoro of still life
Lisbeth Buonanno
Painting - 40 x 50 x 1.8 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.7 inch
$1,340
We Are All The Same / SAMOURAÏ
Insane 51
Painting - 135 x 135 x 3 cm Painting - 53.1 x 53.1 x 1.2 inch
$16,186
Grande vanité aux papillons
Philippe Pasqua
Fine Art Drawings - 160 x 160 x 4 cm Fine Art Drawings - 63 x 63 x 1.6 inch
$31,256
Memento Mori Skull (Black)
Cryptik
Sculpture - 18 x 15.5 x 14 cm Sculpture - 7.1 x 6.1 x 5.5 inch
$1,619
Vanitas Painting for Sale
Vanity paintings are allegories of death, often still lifes made up of symbolic elements such as the skull and butterflies which we found associated in Philippe Pasqua's and Ludo's works of art. They can be very colourful in Laurence Chiche's works or more sober in Bryan Ley's, simplified in Tarek's, Skepa's and Ykstreetart's works, or more detailed in Alain Rodier's. Generally accompanied by objects associated with death (traditionally or for the artist himself), vanities can be multiplied as in Stan's case. Some artists also diverts the motif of vanity as Eric Liot or Takeru Amano.
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