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Figurative Paintings For Sale
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Artist Self Portrait in an Orange Sweater - Fauvist Portrait
Located in Soquel, CA
Boldly colored portrait of a the artist sketching by California artist Richard "Don" Klopfer (1920-2009). The seated figure is juxtaposed to a fun and vibrant two-toned background of...
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Late 20th Century Fauvist Figurative Paintings

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Masonite, Acrylic

Clavier, Olive Trees - Jos Leurs, 21st Century Contemporary by Dutch Artist
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Jos Leurs Clavier, Olive Trees 40 x 50 cm with frame ( included in price) 45 x 55 cm acrylic on canvas Jos Leurs is a Dutch Impressionistic Plein Air Painte...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Oil

In a new place, Contemporary Still-life with Axe Oil Painting by Igor Sventitski
Located in Sempach, LU
Original oil painting on canvas, still life painting made under natural light. This artwork is painted using high-quality fine linen canvas and sold unframed, stretched, and ready to...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Our Easy, Mixed Media OIl on Canvas by Beth Park-Field
Located in Pasadena, CA
Mixed media on canvas, framed. EXcondition Exploring the common properties of shaping, firing, and glazing clay along with creating collage works with encaustic medium and acrylic has inspired Beth Field to create a wide range of creative pieces. She draws on her love for color, pattern, and old things of all kinds to craft individual pieces that carry an echo of another time and place. Beth Fields has followed a wandering path before finding her heart home in McKinney, TX. After growing up in the North Dallas suburbs, Beth received a BA from Eugene Lang College in NYC, NY and a MEd from Boston College...
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Photographic Paper

English painting of a woman with her lover returning from the war
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Signed bottom-left.
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Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

"Wanderer, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Morgan Cameron’s (US based) “Wanderer” is an oil painting on panel that depicts a Bison in the wild. This painting is unframed, but ready to hang. Ab...
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2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

G Negri called Il Boccia Baroque Figurative Painting 17th century oil canvas
By Girolamo Negri called Il Boccia
Located in Florence, IT
Oil on canvas, 62 x 51 cm (without the frame) Even if on the background there is an attribution to “Francesco Gessi pupil of Guido Reni” by the bolognese art historian Guido Zucchini (dated 1945), recent studies are tending to add it to the corpus of Girolamo Negri called Il Boccia (Bologna 1648-1718) due to lots of similarities with his style (the pale and warm palette chosen, the profile) The painting represents a lady on profile wearing a brown turban, a yellow clock...
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Late 17th Century Baroque Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Mid Century Bay Area Figurative Landscape, Woman on the Shore
Located in Soquel, CA
A beautiful mid century figurative landscape study of a nude woman reclining on the shore beside a tree by California artist Genevieve Rogers (America...
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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Laid Paper

Dipinto Crocifissione con i Santi Paolo, Maddalena e Bartolomeo XVII-XVIII sec
Located in Milan, IT
Olio su tela. Tradizionale raffigurazione del Crocifisso, attorniato dai Santi legati al culto del committente. In questo caso si hanno la Maddalena, abbracciata al palo della Croc...
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17th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Freight Dock
By John Rockwell
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Freight Dock" is an original oil on canvas by noted American artist John Rockwell, 1902-1960 It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist, and also signe...
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1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

"September sentiment", Wood, Original Figurative Portrait Painting, Affordable
Located in Deddington, GB
Jorunn Mulen was inspired by love. A chance encounter in an Italian cafe or an antique photograph at a London flea market can each become a part of her visual capture. Her poetic por...
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21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Figurative Paintings

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Wood, Acrylic

Coucher au Soleil
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed lower right. Henri Duhem was descended from an old Flemish family and originally practiced as a lawyer. In 1887, his passion for drawing and watercolors finally led him to go...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique Italian painter - 18th-19th century figure painting - Oil on canvas
Located in Varmo, IT
Bolognese painter (18th-19th century) - Maddalena. 70 x 50 cm without frame, 89 x 69 cm with frame. Antique oil painting on canvas, in a carved and gilded wooden frame. Condition ...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Frances and Ruth Jennings in a Field of Flowers
Located in Concord, MA
MABEL E. DICKINSON POND (1869-1960) Frances and Ruth Jennings in a Field of Flowers, 1909 Oil on canvas on paperboard 7 x 5 inches Signed at lower right: M. E. Dickinson Inscribed v...
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Early 1900s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Park Walk, Impressionist City Scene, Signed Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Park Walk, Impressionist City Scene, Signed Oil Painting By British artist, Anthony Hedges, 20th Century Signed by the artist on the lower right hand corner ...
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20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Spray Paint on Canvas/Graffiti/Street Art_Melancholy Drama_John "CRASH" Matos
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
John CRASH Matos "Melancholy Drama" Spray Paint on Canvas 30.25 x 69.25 inches Born John Matos in 1961, CRASH was raised in the Bronx, New York. At the age of 13, he began followin...
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2010s Street Art Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Spray Paint

Time - Realistic oil painting, Nude, Young Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
AGNIESZKA STAAK-JANCZARSKA (born in 1994) A graduate of the State Secondary School of Art of Józef Kluza in Krakow. In 2020, she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow in ...
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2010s Naturalistic Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Elegance of trees in winter" landscape painting acrylic linen canvas 92x65cm
Located in Roscoff, FR
"Elegance of trees in winter" landscape painting modeling paste on canvas linen 92x65cm turquoise send in wooden crate at cost happiness, lightness of yellow, a moment of joy the ...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Sandstone

Tony Tony
Located in Denver, CO
Electric Coffin is coded within art history and ideologies from archetypes of mysticism. We explore found truths from modernity and a personal historical perspective. A process-drive...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Wood, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Elegante au Parc - French Impressionist School, Figure in Landscape
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
A simply beautiful French Impressionist School oil on canvas of an elegant woman wearing a white blouse and black skirt and hat seated in a chair reading. Her parasol rests against t...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Modern Indian Art Madras, Painting on canvas, Couple, Abstraction, India
Located in Norfolk, GB
Part of the history of Modern Art in India, this striking painting 'Couple' is by noted seminal artist R B Bhaskaran. The artist’s work plays with the ge...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media, Canvas

Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic Canvas Painting Profile Compartmentalized 415.074
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Compartmentalized 415.074 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic and Paper on Canvas Painting Profile Compartmentalized 415.074 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series...
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1970s Feminist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Paper, Acrylic

Original Post-War Painting of Clew Bay County Galway Ireland by Modern Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Original Post-War Vintage Oil Painting of Clew Bay County Galway Ireland by 20th Century Modern Artist, Denis Thornton (1937-1999) Art measures 36 x 18 inche...
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1980s Post-War Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Cotton, Oil

Chez Maxim's - Post Impressionist Oil Figures in Interior by Pierre de Belay
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and dated figures in interior oil on canvas by French post impressionist painter Pierre De Belay. The work depicts a gentleman in a black morning suit ...
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1930s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Two young women european school XX century oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Oil measures 81x65 cm. Frameless.
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1990s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Original Post-War Painting of Mournes from Duldrum Ireland by Modern Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Original Post-War Oil Painting of Mournes from Dundrum Ireland by 20th Century Modern Artist, Denis Thornton (1937-1999) Art measures 30 x 20 inches Frame measures 36 x 26 inches (...
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1980s Post-War Figurative Paintings

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Cotton, Oil, Canvas

Adam, Portrait Painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Adam, 2016 by Ramonn Vieitez Watercolor and Gouache on canvas Size: 15.7 H x 11.8 W in. Signed on the back by the artist Unframed ___ Ramonn Vieitez is a self-taught Brazilian arti...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Watercolor, Gouache

A dandy in the garden of black roses. Portrait Painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
A dandy in the garden of black roses, 2016 by Ramonn Vieitez Watercolor and Gouache on canvas Size: 19.7 H x 15.7 W in. Signed on the back by the artist Unframed ___ Ramonn Vieitez...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Watercolor, Gouache

19th century British portrait of Sir Charles Dickens seated in an interior
Located in Woodbury, CT
Well painted 19th-century portrait of Sir Charles Dickens. The original painting is in the National Gallery in London and I'm sure this piece would have been painted by a fan of the author who was also a very good artist as this piece is a very good copy of the original painting. There was a great fashion to paint copies of famous paintings during the 19th century and most of the world's most famous paintings have been copied many times. Often the artist who does the copy is very talented but usually anonymous With this piece, it's the only way to own an antique copy...
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1870s Victorian Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Grandpa and Naughty Boy Danish Master Genre Scene 19th century Signed Framed
By Erik Ludwig Henningsen
Located in Stockholm, SE
Signed lower right “Henningsen” and dated 1881 at reverse. Attributed by Erik Ludvig Henningsen (1855 - 1930) was a Danish painter and illustrator. Masterly painted genre scene “testing grandfather’s pipe” depicting lively domestic moment. The little prankster wants to be like his grandfather, but how can he not try his grandfather’s pipe, which he loves so much and does not let go of even in his sleep. The curious and brave sly man, despite the consequences, took off his shoes to approach quietly... One can imagine his disappointment and emotions after he accomplished what he had planned... The boy's faithful friend, a small dog, looks at all this with interest and curiosity. Loved and admired for his talent to realistically portray life and tell a story at the same time, Henningsen took great pride to never include any personal feelings or philosophy, but to stay neutral to the subject matter for whichever painting he was doing. Antique oil painting on canvas, signed, framed. Size: 43 cm x 35 cm (roughly 16.9 x 13.8 in), frame 52 x 43.5 cm (roughly 20.5 x 17.1 in). Very Good pristine condition with minimal wear. Please study good resolution images for cosmetic condition. In person actual painting may appear darker or brighter than in our pictures, strictly depending on sufficient light in your environment. Weight of app. 1 kg is going to measure some 2 kg packed for shipment. Erik Henningsen was educated at the Copenhagen Royal Academy of Art. He Traveled and studied in Germany, Italy, France and Holland, and received numerous awards and medals throughout Europe. He later became a member of the Royal Academy of Art. Exhibited in Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Vienna, Paris, Berlin, Munich, Lubeck, and many more. Erik Henningsen is always mentioned in the same breath as his older brother, painter Frants Henningsen. Both with their traditionally classic approach to realism, anecdotal undertones and bold use of dark colors, they were the most loved and celebrated illustrators of life and times; often depicting the hardships and trials of that day and age. One of Erik Henningsen’s large...
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Late 19th Century Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Wood, Oil

Impressionist Nude, Atmospheric Colour, Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Impressionist Nude, Atmospheric Colour, Oil Painting By French artist Garnvault, 20th Century Signed by the artist verso Oil painting on canvas, unframed Canvas size: 15 x 21.5 inche...
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20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Original Painting of Forest Landscape in Northern Ireland by 20th Century Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Original Post-War Oil Painting of Tollymore Forest in Northern Ireland by 20th Century Modern Artist, Denis Thornton (1937-1999) Art measures 30 x 20...
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1980s Post-War Figurative Paintings

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Cotton, Oil, Canvas

Spanish fishermen on the beach Spain oil on board painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Gabriel Casarrubios Martín (1953) - Fishermen on the beach - Oil on panel Oil size 19x33 cm. Frameless. Gabriel Casarrubios Martín (1953) The Toledo artist trained in Fine Arts in ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Board, Oil

19th Century genre landscape oil painting of two Italian women near a vineyard
Located in Moreton-In-Marsh, Gloucestershire
Karel Frans Philippeau Dutch, (1825-1897) Home from the Vineyard Oil on panel, signed & dated 1867 with old label verso Image size: 11.25 inches x 15.25 inches Size including frame...
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19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Early 20th Century Mission San Juan Capistrano - Figurative Landscape
By Warren E. Rollins
Located in Soquel, CA
Stunning figurative landscape of the Mission San Juan Capistrano by Warren Eliphalet Rollins (American, 1861-1962). Presented in a giltwood frame. "Capistrano" lower right, unsigned. This is a study for a larger painting of the same scene. Image size, 14.5"H x 21"W. For many years Warren Eliphalet Rollins was known as the "Dean of the Santa Fe art colony." He was the first artist to have a formal exhibition there; it was held in 1906 in the old Palace of the Governors. He was a close friend of Carlos Vierra, Gerald Cassidy, Kenneth Chapman, Sheldon Parsons and most of the other famous artists who assembled in the New Mexican capital during the first half of this century. Born in Carson City, Nevada, Rollins was raised in California and attended the San Francisco School of Design where he studied under Virgil Williams. At the completion of his studies, he was awarded the Avery Gold Medal and made Assistant Director of the school. Following his marriage in 1887, he and his wife settled in San Diego, and it was during this period that Rollins became interested in the Indian as subject matter. In search of material, Rollins, his wife, and their two daughters, Ramona and Ruth, traveled through every Western state from the Mexican to the Canadian borders. While in Montana, Rollins painted a portrait of Calamity Jane...
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1910s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

19th Century continental townscape oil painting of a busy harbour
Located in Moreton-In-Marsh, Gloucestershire
Ludwig Hermann German, (1812-1881) A Bustling Harbour Town Oil on canvas, signed & dated 1863 Image size: 26 inches x 36.5 inches Size including frame: 35.25 inches x 45.75 inches A wonderful continental townscape scene of a bustling harbour by Ludwig Hermann. The Medieval architecture is reminiscent of North Germany and the Baltic sea area with its busy trading ports. Figures can be seen chatting to traders as ships sail around the harbour. Ludwig Hermann or Herman was born Elias Ludwig Julius Herrmann at Greifswald, Germany in 1812 to Wilhelm and Sophie Herrmann. Although little is recorded about his early life and education, he is known to have left his home in 1831 at the age of 19, to pursue an artistic career in Berlin. There he entered the Prussian Academy of Arts where he studied under Johann Gottfried Schadow (1764-1850). Hermann started exhibiting at the Berlin Academy exhibitions in 1836. A year later in 1837, he travelled to Paris to study under Eugène Isabey (1803-1886) and Eugène Lepoittevin (1806-1870). By 1841 he had returned to Berlin where he married Caroline Wilhelmine ‘Auguste’ Dupont on 16 October, 1841. From his base in Berlin he travelled around Europe painting views of France...
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19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Untitled (Still Life)
Located in New York, NY
This refined and sophisticated still life painting was realized in Italy, circa 1950, by the esteemed Italian artist Romano Campagnoli. Executed in oil paint on canvas, the still lif...
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1950s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

LARGE OIL PAINTING by SALVATORE COLACICCO (NAVY ADMIRALTY 20th CENTURY PIECE
Located in Ferndown, GB
OIL PAINTING LARGE SALVATORE COLACICCO (NAVY ADMIRALTY 20th CENTURY Very good condition for age , (see pictures) FINE RARE MARTINE PAINTING ORIG...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Romanian Israeli Modernist Oil Painting Expressionist Figures Mothers and Babies
By Risa Propst Kraid
Located in Surfside, FL
Risa Propst Kraid (Romanian - Israeli, 1894-1983) Jewish Israeli Woman artist. enigmatic picture of either women picnicking or refugees huddling together. Painting and Sculpture We...
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1960s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Garstin Cox, Impressionist painting of Cornwall woods in the Fall, Autumn colour
Located in Harkstead, GB
A very dramatically painted view of a woodland scene in the autumn with such vibrant colour and brushwork, typical of this very collectible artist. Garstin Cox (1892-1933) Woodland ...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Board, Oil

Girl & Cat in a Doorway
Located in Milford, NH
A fine early 20th century figurative oil painting of a girl and cat in a doorway by Austrian artist Edmund Adler Rode (aka Edmund Adler) (1876-1965). Edmund was born in Vienna, Austr...
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Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The Boy With Pollen Allergy, Figurative Painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The Boy With Pollen Allergy, 2022 by Ramonn Vieitez Oil on cotton canvas Size: 80cm DM Unique Signed on the back by the artist Mounted on a stretcher Weight: 2,5 kg ___ Ramonn Viei...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Israeli Modernist Watercolor Landscape Signed in Hebrew
Located in Surfside, FL
In this piece the artist choice of colors is muted, and there is a deft blending of them. Israel has had a Vibrant Folk Art, Naive art scene for a long time now, artists like Yisrael Paldi, Nahum Guttman, Reuven Rubin and even Yefim Ladizhinsky had naive periods. The most well know of the strict naive artists are Shalom of Safed, Irene Awret, Gabriel Cohen, Natan Heber, Michael Falk and Kopel Gurwin. Naïve art is any form of visual art that is created by a person who lacks the formal education and training that a professional artist undergoes (in anatomy, art history, technique, perspective, ways of seeing). Unlike folk art, naïve art does not necessarily evince a distinct cultural context or tradition. Naïve art is recognized, and often imitated, for its childlike simplicity and frankness. Paintings of this kind typically have a flat rendering style with a rudimentary expression of perspective. One particularly influential painter of "naïve art" was Henri Rousseau (1844–1910), a French Post-Impressionist who was discovered by Pablo Picasso. Naïve art is often seen as outsider art that is by someone without formal (or little) training or degree. While this was true before the twentieth century, there are now academies for naïve art. Naïve art is now a fully recognized art genre, represented in art galleries worldwide. Museums devoted to naïve art now exist in Kecskemét, Hungary; Riga, Latvia; Jaen, Spain; Rio de Janeiro, Brasil; Vicq France and Paris. "Primitive art" is another term often applied to art by those without formal training, but is historically more often applied to work from certain cultures that have been judged socially or technologically "primitive" by Western academia, such as Native American, sub saharan African or Pacific Island art (see Tribal art). This is distinguished from the self-conscious, "primitive" inspired movement primitivism. Another term related to (but not completely synonymous with) naïve art is folk art. There also exist the terms "naïvism" and "primitivism" which are usually applied to professional painters working in the style of naïve art (like Paul Gauguin, Mikhail Larionov, Paul Klee). At all events, naive art can be regarded as having occupied an "official" position in the annals of twentieth-century art since - at the very latest - the publication of the Der Blaue Reiter, an almanac in 1912. Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, who brought out the almanac, presented 6 reproductions of paintings by le Douanier' Rousseau (Henri Rousseau), comparing them with other pictorial examples. However, most experts agree that the year that naive art was "discovered" was 1885, when the painter Paul Signac became aware of the talents of Henri Rousseau and set about organizing exhibitions of his work in a number of prestigious galleries. The Earth Group (Grupa Zemlja) were Croatian artists, architects and intellectuals active in Zagreb from 1929 to 1935. The group included the painters Krsto Hegedušić, Edo Kovačević, Omer Mujadžić, Kamilo Ružička, Ivan Tabaković, and Oton Postružnik, the sculptors Antun Augustinčić, Frano Kršinić, and the architect Drago Ibler. Art brut, primitive art, primitive, art naïf, naïve art. Outsider art. A term applied to Yugoslav (Croatian) naive painters working in or around the village of Hlebine, near the Hungarian border, from about 1930. Some of the best known naive artists are Dragan Gaži, Ivan Generalić, Josip Generalić, Krsto Hegedušić, Mijo Kovačić, Ivan Lacković-Croata, Franjo Mraz, Ivan Večenaj and Mirko Virius. Camille Bombois (1883–1970) Ferdinand Cheval, known as 'le facteur Cheval' (1836–1924) Henry Darger (1892–1973) L. S. Lowry (1887–1976) Grandma Moses, Anna Mary Robertson (1860–1961) Nikifor (1895–1968) Poland, Horace Pippin (1888–1946) Jon Serl (1894-1993) United States Alfred Wallis (1855–1942) Scottie Wilson (1890–1972) Gesner Abelard (b. 1922) Jan Balet (1913–2009) Michel Delacroix (b. 1933) France Howard Finster (1916–2001) Ivan Rabuzin (1921–2008) Spontaneous Art Museum in Brussels Art en Marge Museum in Brussels MADmusée in Liege International Museum of Naive Art of Brazil in Cosme Velho, Rio de Janeiro Gallery Jacques Ardies in São Paulo Musée international d'art naïf de Magog in Magog Croatian Museum of Naïve Art in Zagreb Gallery of Croatian Naïve Art...
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1980s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor

Poetess Mixed Media Technique on Canvas Poetry White Rose Gold In Stock
Located in Utrecht, NL
Poetess Mixed Media Technique on Canvas Poetry White Rose Gold In Stock 75 Kalvis Zuters, (1969, Jelgava Latvia) graduated from the Department of Painting at the Latvian Acadamy of A...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media

Rare Hungarian Jewish Rabbi Judaica Oil Painting Portrait
By Lajos Polczer
Located in Surfside, FL
Rare Pre World War II (Pre Holocaust) Judaica Art. European Judaic art from this period is exceedingly rare. Polczer was an Hungarian artist, his foundations of painting were taught by a painter Bertalan Karlovszky. His works were exhibited in the National Salon and the Art Hall from 1928. His works are held by the Hungarian National Gallery. In his later years he worked in the United States, he was working in New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 1960s. Known for his Jewish genre scenes, Chess scenes and other early 20th Century salon style nude paintings. In the tradition of Moritz Oppenheim...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

"Chance of Rain"
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Joseph Lorusso was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1966, and received his formal training at the American Academy of Art. He went on to receive his B.F.A. degree from the Kansas City A...
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2010s Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

LARGE OIL PAINTING by SALVATORE COLACICCO (NAVY ADMIRALTY 20th CENTURY PIECE
Located in Ferndown, GB
OIL PAINTING LARGE SALVATORE COLACICCO (NAVY ADMIRALTY 20th CENTURY Very good condition for age , (see pictures) FINE RARE MARTINE PAINTING ORIG...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

It Was a Land of Plenty, Original Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"It Was a Land of Plenty" by Shawn Krueger (United States) is a handmade landscape oil painting that is framed and ready to hang.
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

"Morning Rush"
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Joseph Lorusso was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1966, and received his formal training at the American Academy of Art. He went on to receive his B.F.A. degree from the Kansas City A...
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2010s Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Antique Oil Painting. Portrait of an Italian Boy with a Pipe, by Anton Kaulbach.
Located in Berlin, DE
Antique oil painting. Portrait of an Italian boy with a pipe. Painting restored. Frame with minor damage in places. Dimensions without frame: 40.5 cm x 50.5 cm.
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19th Century Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Kiss of sweet wormwood, 100x80cm
Located in Yerevan, AM
Kiss of sweet wormwood, 100x80cm
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Wish To See You Here" Golden Orange Blue Contemporary Figurative By Steffen Bue
Located in Frederiksberg C, DK
"Wish To See You Here" is a captivating large contemporary painting by Danish visual artist Steffen Bue. The painting measures 39,3in (H) x 39,3in (W) / 100cm x 100cm, making it a ce...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Le Martyr de Saint Sebastian (Academic Figurative Oil Painting in Gold Frame)
Located in Hudson, NY
Academic style figurative oil painting on canvas 48 x 24 inches unframed 58 x 32 x 3 inches in gold leaf wood frame This vertical, contemporary figurative painting of Le Martyr de Saint Sebastian was made by Mark Beard under his fictitious artistic persona, Hippolyte-Alexandre Michallon. Painted in a modern Academic style, Beard paints this Christian saint with dramatic detail and emotional gravity. The scene is a common artistic depiction of Sebastian who according to traditional belief, was killed during the Roman emperor Diocletian's persecution of the Christians. Here the artist depicts a nearly nude Saint Sebastian standing stoically while tied to a rustic brown post. A lush green forested terrain decorates the background while a white neo-classical building sits in the distance, which is perhaps the tomb where Saint Sebastian's remains were laid to rest. Saint Sebastian's pale blue-grey, stone-like stone tone is characteristic of Mark Beard's work who often portrays muscular young men similarly to Greek statues. The vertical Academic style figurative oil painting is complimented with a vintage style gold leaf wood frame. The painting is signed 'H. A. Michallon 1872' in red oil paint in the lower right corner. The gold frame is also signed and inscribed with black oil paint in several places (please see images). Mark Beard is a contemporary artist who made this work under the pseudonym Hippolyte A. Michallon who painted during the late 1800's so slight wear (see images) is intentionally staged to align with the factitious artist's purposed history. About the artist: Mark Beard is perhaps the most literal example of an artist pulled in so many different directions that he chose to “invent” six different personae in which to channel his overflowing energy and need for expression. Each painting style is radically different from the next, so it remains entirely believable that the work could stem from six completely different people of different time periods and different schools of thought. With a background in set design, Beard has always been one who could conjure total magic with anything available. Mark Beard has exhibited with Carrie Haddad Gallery for nearly twenty years and there has never been a dull moment. Mark Beard, born in 1956 in Salt Lake city, now lives in New York City. His works are in museum collections worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; the Museum of Modern Art, New York City; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City; the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; and the Harvard, Yale, and Princeton University Art Museums; among many others. We would not be the least bit surprised to see new ‘personas’ emerge in the coming years. About: Hippolyte - Alexandre Michallon, 1849 -1930 The long and peripatetic artistic career of Hippolyte-Alexandre Michallon began in a conventional fashion. The only son of prosperous bourgeois parents in Tours, he first studied drawing with his mother, an accomplished amateur painter of insects. His father, an undertaker who appreciated his son's talent and supported his ambition to become a painter, sent him to Paris at age sixteen to enroll in the studio of Francois-Edouard Picot (1786-1868), an eminent history painter and professor at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, with whom he studied for three years, until Picot's death. Under his aging teacher's guidance and tutelage, Michallon entered the preliminary stages of the Prix de Rome contest at the Ecole three times, winning an Honorable Mention in 1869 for his composition entitled The Solider of the Marathon. For the next twenty years Michallon regualarly exhibited paintings on historical and biblical themes at the Paris Salon, as well as commissioned portraits. By his own account, the most ambitious work of Michallon's career was a thirty-foot canvas depicting Noah's Ark, which he exhibited in the Salon in 1875. Michallon began painting atmospheric but zoologically correct images of exotic animals in the wild. These achieved a certain popularity among French and foreign collectors alike, providing Michallon with financial security for the first time in his career. Michallon moved to England in 1893. His outstanding technical skills easily earned him a position on the faculty of the Slade School of Art in 1900. The craze for animal paintings proved short-lived. He continued to teach at Slade for the next two decades, but his classes gradually dwindled in size as the academic approach and methods he espoused went from outmoded to downright unpopular. Finally in 1922, finding himself reduced to a single pupil, the talented young American Bruce Sargeant, he retired from Slade, persuading Sargeant to leave with him and undergo private instruction at home. Several years later he retired to a cottage at St. Ives, Cornwall, where he lived quietly until his death in 1930, forgotten by all but a few former students, among them Edith Thayer Cromwell...
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Early 2000s Academic Figurative Paintings

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Located in Moreton-In-Marsh, Gloucestershire
Joseph Clark ROI British, (1834-1926) Peeling Apples Oil on canvas, signed & dated 1873 Image size: 20.5 inches x 16.5 inches Size including frame: 30.25 inches x 26.25 inches Provenance: Thomas Agnews & Sons, Manchester A lovely genre painting of a woman peeling apples with her two young daughters by Joseph Clark. The eldest daughter is shown standing next to her mother in the kitchen, whilst the younger child plays on the floor. Joseph Clark was born on 4th of July 1834 at Cerne Abbas, Dorset. He was the son of William Henry Clark, a draper and his wife Susanna (née Shepherd). After the death of his father, his mother encouraged her son to move to London to study at the Leigh’s Academy, (now Heatherley School of Fine Art) which was set up by James Matthews Leigh in 1848. He later continued his artistic education by enrolling at the Royal Academy School and began specialising in genre scenes. He made his debut at the Royal Academy in 1857 with ‘The Sick Child...
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Artist Comments
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