Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 8

David Austin
Who's There (Figurative Painting on Panel of Woman in Green Dress & Red Hair)

2018

More From This SellerView All
  • The Boxer (Blue Toned Portrait Painting of Young Man on Copper and Wood)
    By Richard Britell
    Located in Hudson, NY
    figurative portrait painting, acrylic on copper, mounted on panel 24 x 24 inches This contemporary, monochromatic blue portrait painting on a young man was painted by Hudson Valley ...
    Category

    21st Century and Contemporary Modern Portrait Paintings

    Materials

    Copper

  • Portrait of a Woman II (Colorful Figurative Painting)
    By Abel Ramirez
    Located in Hudson, NY
    37" X 32" acrylic on cotton This colorful portrait of a young woman with auburn hair has vivid and bold black outlines that drip and define the sitter's face. She sits in front of a...
    Category

    2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

    Materials

    Cotton, Acrylic

  • Portrait of a Woman (Colorful Figurative Painting)
    By Abel Ramirez
    Located in Hudson, NY
    27" X 23 1/2" acrylic on cotton This colorful portrait of a young woman with red hair, wearing a necklace, has vivid and bold black outlines that drip and define the sitter's face....
    Category

    2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

    Materials

    Cotton, Acrylic

  • Technicolor Portrait (Colorful Figurative Painting)
    By Abel Ramirez
    Located in Hudson, NY
    38" X 36 1/2" acrylic on cotton This colorful portrait of a young male has vivid and bold black and multicolored outlines that define the sitter's face. The black border drips into...
    Category

    2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

    Materials

    Cotton, Acrylic

  • Portrait of Dave Winfield, American Major League Baseball Right Fielder
    By Edward Avedisian
    Located in Hudson, NY
    Portrait of Dave Winfield Edward Avedisian 20 x 14 inches, acrylic on stretched canvas Armenian-American artist, Avedisian was best known for his work made in New York City during the 1960s: brilliantly colored, boldly composed canvases that combined Minimalism’s rigor, Pop’s exuberance and the saturated tones of Color Field painting. He was largely recognized for a series of Beach Ball paintings that emerged in the early 1960's and into the later 1960's the artist began painting larger horizontal paintings, featuring vertically intersecting beacon-like stripes that highlighted characteristics from both the Post-Painterly and Color Field movements. In this portrait, Avedisian using his signature use of color, combining bright rusty reds and oranges against a metallic green gold backdrop. A major work from Avedesian's color-stripe series was featured on the cover of Artforum's January 1969 issue (pictured here). Also pictured are photographs of the artist c. 1970 in his studio in New York City and catalog pages from Avedisian's inclusion in the American Painting Now Expo at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, MA in Dec 1967 - Jan 1968. The exhibition, organized by art critic Alan Solomon, featured one of Avedisian's signature Beach Ball paintings alongside large works by Robert Motherwell and Jim Rosenquist. About the subject: Dave Winifield is American former Major League Baseball right fielder born in 1951 and who played for six teams (San Diego Padres, New York Yankees, California Angels, Toronto Blue Jays, Minnesota Twins, and Cleveland Indians) during his 22 year long career. He had the winning hit in the 1992 World Series with the Blue Jays over the Atlanta Braves. Winfield retired in 1996 and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2001, in his first year of eligibility. About the Artist: In the 1960’s, Edward Avedisian was one of the youngest of those luminaries producing a grand new abstract painting. Shown first at Ivan Karp and Dick Bellamy’s Hansa Gallery and then at Robert Elkon, Avedisian’s insouciant mix of pop playfulness, color field cool and high formalist style put his art in a unique, and at the time generously rewarded, position. Paintings made it onto the cover of Artforum, were purchased by all the major museums, were among the few abstract works shown as representative of America’s post-war achievement at Expo 67 in Montreal and comprised a cornerstone in histories of the period written by Barbara Rose, among others. The artist was largely influenced by his Color-Field predecessors, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman. Throughout the 1960's and into the mid 1970's the artist was celebrated in the Manhattan art scene, contributing to the Post-Painterly Abstraction movements with contemporaries Helen Frankenthaler, Andy Warhol, Jules Olitski, and Larry Poons. Museum Collections: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York Brooklyn Museum, New York Chrysler Art Museum, Norfolk, Virginia Denver Art Museum, Colorado Flint Institute of Arts, Michigan Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas The Larry Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Minneapolis Institute of Arts Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York, Purchase Los Angeles County Museum, California Neuberger Museum, SUNY, Purchase, New York Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum *above description text is supported by Alexandra C. Anderson's article on Edward Avedesian in Artforum's January 1969 issue. NY Times Obituary, published Aug 23, 2007 by Roberta Smith: Mr. Avedisian was best known for his work in the 1960s: brilliantly colored, boldly composed canvases that combined Minimalism’s rigor, Pop’s exuberance and the saturated tones of Color Field painting. A frequent motif was a cluster of bright seedlike orbs corralled at the center of a vibrant monochrome field by larger rings of color, creating an image that could resemble a buoyant cross-section of some unknown fruit. Mr. Avedisian was born in Lowell, Mass., in 1936 and studied art at the Boston Museum School. By the late 1950s he was living in New York, part of a generation of promising young painters that included Frank Stella, Larry Poons and Darby Bannard. From 1958 to 1963 Mr. Avedisian had six solo shows in New York galleries, including two at the Robert Elkon Gallery, where he continued to show almost every year until 1975. By the early 1960s Mr. Avedisian was a rising star. During that decade, his work appeared on the cover of Artforum, in “The Responsive Eye” exhibition of Op Art at the Museum of Modern Art and in four annuals at the Whitney Museum of American Art. His paintings were widely sought by collectors and acquired by major museums in New York and elsewhere. In the mid-1970s Mr. Avedisian moved to Hudson and became less visible. His paintings soon began shifting toward representation; he took to calling his abstract paintings “a period style.” But he continued to be well served by his feeling for color, scale and surface. His landscapes described his surroundings in blunt, flat shapes and singing hues reminiscent of those of Marsden Hartley and Paula Modersohn...
    Category

    1980s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Acrylic

  • Blue (Sepia Toned Figurative Oil Painting of Boys on Bikes with Blue Ball)
    By Carl Grauer
    Located in Hudson, NY
    Blue (Sepia Toned Figurative Oil Painting of Boys on Bikes with Blue Ball) Contemporary figurative painting based on a 1960's photograph, plays deeply on feelings of nostalgia and identity. oil on wood panel 20 x 20 x 2 inches Carl Grauer’s 'Blue' plays with the tension between memories, the “return to home”, and the actual experienced past through the renderings of the family unit. Inspired by images on found slides or old family photos, Grauer provokes mixed responses of delight and sadness, reminding us that unlike space, time cannot be returned. Grauer paints 'Blue' in black and white, sepia tones, and blue oil paint on wood to capture the nostalgia of a vintage 1950's photograph. Two young children ride bicycles in a charming landscape while one child holds a big blue ball. The blue ball beautifully contrasts with the sepia toned landscape. The brushstrokes are smooth, with little texture built upon the surface. About the work: Recollections, a series that plays with the tension between memories, the “return to home”, and the actual experienced past, is an idea that I explore through the renderings of the family unit. Nostalgia comes from the Greek word nostos, meaning “to return to home” and algos, meaning “pain”. Before the rise of pathological anatomy and bacteriology made it less credible, medically; nostalgia was considered a “disorder of the imagination. Through time, nostalgia’s meaning became a more generalized reaction to the sad fact that, unlike space, time cannot be returned. I initially began with source imagery of found slides and photos of people I find at flea markets, second hand stores or from my own family’s collection. I take the source imagery and change elements to signify specific moments that could be seen as memories that are remembered or forgotten. I aim to represent nostalgic scenes that may relay a tension, sorrow or humor that could be constructed memories or actual experienced events. The exact narrative may be forgotten or unknown, but the complex projection of an idealized story that I find intriguing may serve to reflect a feeling or memory for another person. CV 1975 Born in Wilson, Kansas, USA EDUCATION 1998 Bachelor of Arts – University of Kansas 2000 Mastor of Fine Arts – University of Michigan 2015 Portrait and Figure Painting – London Atelier of Representational Art EXHIBITIONS 2016 "Petit: A Group Exhibition of Smaller Sized Art...
    Category

    2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

    Materials

    Oil, Wood Panel

You May Also Like
  • Awakening at Gordia - Highly Detailed, Surreal and Symbolic Painting
    By Oliver Hazard Benson
    Located in Chicago, IL
    This painting, like each of the paintings in the Purple Dawn series, is based on an earlier work that was lost or destroyed in the course of time. Feeling that I wanted to finish wha...
    Category

    21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

    Materials

    Panel, Acrylic

  • A Cautionary Tale
    By Adam Mysock
    Located in New Orleans, LA
    A portrait of Pinocchio from Pinocchio, Disney, 1940 Are there any more recognizable stories about the difficulties that can accompany lying than that of Pinocchio? For the puppet-...
    Category

    21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

    Materials

    Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel

  • An Exciting Unknown
    By Adam Mysock
    Located in New Orleans, LA
    A portrait of Sasquatch (Harry from Harry and the Hendersons, Universal Pictures, 1987) Developing almost simultaneously with my appreciation of mannequins, I fell in love with what...
    Category

    21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

    Materials

    Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel

  • A Reliable Pardon
    By Adam Mysock
    Located in New Orleans, LA
    From Nicholas Poussin’s The Death of Sapphira, circa 1652 As we invariably test the waters of lying, we quickly learn to recognize the more forgiving members of an audience. Rest as...
    Category

    21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

    Materials

    Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel

  • A Constant, Attractive Artifice
    By Adam Mysock
    Located in New Orleans, LA
    A mannequin For some reason, mannequins seemed to be everywhere when I was growing up. Maybe it was growing up during the heyday of malls in America. Nevertheless, with their clearl...
    Category

    21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

    Materials

    Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel

  • A Counter Example
    By Adam Mysock
    Located in New Orleans, LA
    A portrait of Abraham Lincoln We’ve assigned a great deal of responsibility to our shared cultural figures when it comes to teaching lessons about truth, fiction, and morality. We u...
    Category

    21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

    Materials

    Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Recently Viewed

View All