Fenetre sur cour
Virginie Clement
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$936 $842
Figurative Paintings
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My Wife Sleeping
Monty Hitchcock
Painting - 152.4 x 243.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 60 x 96 x 1 inch
$23,847
Le chanteur de cafetières
Philippe Vercellotti
Painting - 60 x 20 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$2,574
Tranquility
Ogunleke Festus Abiodun
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 inch
$1,750
Portrait d'homme à la moustache
Georges Darel
Painting - 41.5 x 33.5 x 2 cm Painting - 16.3 x 13.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,222
Daddy issue
Rogers Akamike Akachukwubuikem
Painting - 109.2 x 88.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 43 x 35 x 1 inch
$1,810
The goddess
Kolawole Samson Oluwadare
Painting - 119.9 x 89.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 1 inch
$1,950
Urban Elephant
Sax (Henry Blache)
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$3,042
Jean Michel Basquiat Portrait
Cacerolo .
Painting - 49.8 x 45 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19.6 x 17.7 x 0.1 inch
$2,000
Intimate Offerings
Genevieve Cohn
Painting - 60.96 x 45.72 x 2.54 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 1 inch
$2,500
Au pays du soleil levant
Jeannette Guichard-Bunel
Painting - 41 x 33 x 2 cm Painting - 16.1 x 13 x 0.8 inch
$2,574
Sunset Paradise
Jessica Renault jrbrush
Painting - 61 x 45.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 17.9 x 1 inch
$1,755
Les belles couleurs du Vallon des Auffes à Marseille
Jiel
Painting - 81 x 65 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 25.6 x 1.2 inch
$2,339
Igbo Amaka (Igbo is Beautiful)
Omoyemi Ogedengbe
Painting - 106.7 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 42 x 36 x 1 inch
$3,800
Le monde des chamanes ocre
Yves Cass
Painting - 74 x 57 x 1 cm Painting - 29.1 x 22.4 x 0.4 inch
$1,111
We All have the Hunger
Kalina Hristova
Painting - 70 x 65 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 25.6 x 0.4 inch
$2,170
Les Racine de l’Amour
Leticia de Prado
Painting - 150 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$9,360
Leaves - Realistic Botany Modern Botanicals Floral Composition Leafy Symmetry Organic Elegance Contemporary Greenery Wall Decor (Diptych)
Natalya Nesterenko
Painting - 50 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,755
The Theatre Stage
Antonio Feltrinelli
Painting - 100 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$16,965
Skiers XII (December)
Ernesto Dick
Painting - 23 x 44 x 0.2 cm Painting - 9.1 x 17.3 x 0.1 inch
$2,106
Big Love: Majestic Eagle
Ekaterina Khovanskaya
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,500
The Innocence of White Roses
Daria Darcon
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,750
Les Diablerets, le Col du Pillon
Eugène Devaud De Madelin
Painting - 47 x 67 x 2 cm Painting - 18.5 x 26.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,958
Generation Selfie 8 #Megan
Danielle Dumestre dit kakou
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,708
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs
Kate Seaborne
Painting - 95 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 37.4 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$2,691
Fleeing to Egypt
Eugenio Larminiani
Painting - 54 x 72.5 x 0.1 cm Painting - 21.3 x 28.5 x 0 inch
$1,755
Tell me something
Rechel Rodham Oppong
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$3,510
Waiting for my love
Victor Osei
Painting - 101 x 105 x 1 cm Painting - 39.8 x 41.3 x 0.4 inch
$3,627
Another man's wife
Evans Torngmortey
Painting - 183 x 122 x 2 cm Painting - 72 x 48 x 0.8 inch
$4,095
My heart skip a bit
Ebuka Agudiegwu
Painting - 150 x 109 x 1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 42.9 x 0.4 inch
$4,914
Pure Bloom of Honesty
Aleksandra Kazantseva
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,100
Homme et femme, jeux
Armen Gasparian
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$5,382
PINK TUBES : COTTON CANDY AND EPHEMERAL LOLITA SPECTRUM
Saori Nakamishi
Painting - 180 x 130 x 5 cm Painting - 70.9 x 51.2 x 2 inch
$8,190
THINKING ABOUT : VIRTUAL CONTEMPLATION OR NAVIGATING THE MIND’S CODE
Sumomo Kanashiwa
Painting - 140 x 123 x 3 cm Painting - 55.1 x 48.4 x 1.2 inch
$7,020
Femmes et feuilles (Women and leaves)
Gabriel Schmitz
Painting - 166 x 58 x 5 cm Painting - 65.4 x 22.8 x 2 inch
$6,786
Le beau rêveur
Nicolas Fropo de Habart
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,989
Portrait
Nicolas Fropo de Habart
Painting - 100 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,106
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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
$1,872
lueur rouge, lithographie originale
Christophe Hohler
Print - 76 x 56 x 0.05 cm Print - 29.9 x 22 x 0 inch
$772