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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Queen's Grace
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Center
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Two Horses
Located in New York, NY
Acrylics, inks, archival spray on custom stretched canvas. Triptych of Two Horses at play. Subdued palate.
About the Artist:
My process often moves m...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Boy Reading
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Unsigned
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Redoshi
Located in Santa Monica, CA
With Halo, Greenfield brings the stories of Black folk-saints, martyrs, freedom-fighters, survivors, magicians, and visionaries back into view.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
AUTUMN BALANCE, Oil on Canvas
Located in Montreux, CH
Karen Shahverdyan „Autumn balance“ 90 X 110cm, oil on canvas
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Celia
Located in Santa Monica, CA
With Halo, Greenfield brings the stories of Black folk-saints, martyrs, freedom-fighters, survivors, magicians, and visionaries back into view.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Night Pilgrim
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Yari Ostovany is an American abstract artist of Iranian origins. He has lived in Tehran, Cologne, Los Angeles, San Francisco and in Reno. He is currently based in New York City. His ...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Ritratto di Camillo Mastrocinque
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Robert Carroll was born in 1934 and was predominantly inspired by the 1950s growing up. Abstract Expressionism prevailed in the 1950s as a primary method of painting, and explored id...
Category
20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Red & White Food Stores Calendar Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Initialed Lower Left
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Acecho
By Gonzalo Morales
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Oil on Canvas, Signed
Dated 2013
14 x 18 Inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Untitled" - Agave, pink and green, organic, nature, Mexican, figurative paint
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
Daniel Berman's production is not only torrential and overflowing but also mutating as if it were a chameleon, it changes to support and scale to explore the possibilities of each te...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Candy Girl
Located in New York, NY
Innocence of childhood. Portrait.
About the Artist:
My art is a visual recording of the powerful imagines that occur regularly in life, distilling them down and preserving the ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Wu Jue - Contemporary art, Portrait, Figurative
Located in Coquitlam, BC
Artist: Liang Li
Born in 1985 Henan China, and currently living in Beijing
In 2003, he joined the Basic Department of CAFA Modeling
In 2004, he joined the Second Studio of Oil Painti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
No. 83 - Make A Wish
Located in Wien, 9
No. 83 - Make a Wish (2021), Öl und Acryl auf Leinwand, 100 x 100 cm
Elena Steiner was born in Susice (Czech Republic) in 1975 and lives and works in Vienna. She completed her painting studies at the Institute for Fine and Media Art at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna in Johanna Kandl’s class.
In her series of works, Elena Steiner examines a different type of person, sensitizes the viewer, confronts him with the uncompromising demasking of his own world and that of the portrayed by violating the illusion-bearing canvas surface. She creates realistic acrylic paintings as metaphors for being and appearance. The injuries in the form of seams, stitches and stitches are the epitome of traditional female role fulfillment. Elena Steiner deals with the questions of the value of fulfilling external wishes, social recognition and self-determination. Her works experiment with the border areas between painting, object, real exhibition space and imaginative spatiality and thus offer a captivating game be-tween closeness and distance, between impenetrable closeness and revealing familiarity. Her artistic work shows a zoomed in, sharply focused, snappy, humorous portrait...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
FLAMINGO Acryl Oil on Canvas
Located in Montreux, CH
Karen Shahverdyan „Flamingo“ 120 X 80, acryl, oil on canvas
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Chelleneshin 37
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Yari Ostovany is an American abstract artist of Iranian origins. He has lived in Tehran, Cologne, Los Angeles, San Francisco and in Reno. He is currently based in New York City. His ...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Its A Wander-Full Life
Located in Detroit, MI
It's A Wander-Full Life
acrylic on canvas
60x60 in
Part of the Lunacy series
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Sir Henry
Located in Wien, 9
Ludwig Schwarzer formulates a highly independent work, bizarre in content and marked by perfection in craftsmanship. After realistic and later expressionist attempts, he found his ow...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
5TH DIMENSIONAL LOVE MACHINE
Located in Marrakech, MA
Acrylic painting on canvas
Black exterior frame
Signed on the front
Framed dimensions: 163x269(x5)cm
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Two Women"
By James Lechay
Located in Lambertville, NJ
James Lechay was a painter of figures, landscapes, cityscapes and still lifes who played a notable role in the tradition of avant-garde painting in New York and in the Midwest. An ar...
Category
20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Contemporary Oil Portrait of Party People Smoking, Laughing, and Drinking
By Nancy Lamb
Located in Fort Worth, TX
The Menthol Mood, 2009, Nancy Lamb, Oil on canvas, 48 x 85"
Nancy Lamb (American, born 1956), sculptor and painter. Formally trained at Texas Christian Un...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Oil
Figures in Rowboat Alongside of Barg
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed & Dated Lower Right
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
United Together
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"United Together" is part of a series called "Spoken" by artist Kelvin Agyepong Ansong which depicts the fierce fight women around the world continue t...
Category
2010s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Hobo & Three Clowns at Poker
By Hal Crecy
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 24.00" x 30.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Hobo & 3 clowns at poker
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Savior, Paperback Cover
By James Meese
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1952
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 23.00" x 16.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
This is the paperback cover for A Bullet For My Love by Octav...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Uprise" Figurative Painting, Oil on Canvas, Frame, Vivid Colors
Located in New York, NY
Rebecca Leveille (who is also known for her illustration work under the name Rebecca Guay) received a BFA from Pratt Institute in 1992. Leveille’s art has garnered words of praise from Jerry Saltz, Walter Robinson, and Peter Frank. She has been a guest artist/speaker at Rhode Island School of Design, University of Massachusetts, Savannah College of Art and Design, and Fordham University, a guest instructor at Pratt Institute, and a guest artist by invitation to shows and events in Melbourne Australia, Paris, Nagoya and Osaka (Japan), Valencia, San Fernando, and Torrelavega (Spain). Her work has been featured in Juxtapoz Magazine, American Art Collector, and Hi Fructose among many other publications and is collected internationally. In 2018 she was featured in a solo show at The Untitled Space. Her work has additionally been featured in The Untitled Space group shows “UPRISE / ANGRY WOMEN”, “SHE INSPIRES” as well as "EDEN" (2019) and “(HOTEL) XX" (2018) presented at SPRING/BREAK Art Show. She has been featured at Sotheby’s New York for the annual “Take Home A Nude” exhibit and auction presented by The New York Academy of Art (2017-2019), The Allentown Museum of Art, PA, Delaware Art...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oil
Bridge
By Behzad Tabar
Located in ATLANTA, GA
About Behzad Tabar
My background is in fine and graphic arts, working in a wide range of styles and mediums. My painting has evolved from realism, to surrealism, to abstract. I am mo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Untitled
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed "A.O.F 19" Lower Left
"Man & Woman in Disagreement"
Long affiliated with The Saturday Evening Post (nearly 50 years), he did dozens of covers and much story art, most notably the long-running Tug-Boat Annie and with maritime painting, Fischer was more versatile than depicting the sail and dreadnaughts when given a chance. Still, he's best known for painting the sea, her beauty and her dangers (whether hurricanes or U-Boats). It's no surprise that his oils graced such titles as The Cruise of the Cachalot: Round the World After Sperm Whales, Treasure Island, The Mutineers, 20000 Leagues Under the Sea...
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Ballentine Beer Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Left
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Redhead in Profile
By Leon Kroll
Located in Miami, FL
Beautifully rendered in Krolls signature academic style. Unframed - Signed lower right, unframed
Category
1930s Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
The Story of a Forest - IV
Located in Stamford, CT
"The story of a Forest" presents a biographical account of a forest in a series of six charcoal drawings.
The story moves from the lush green forest in the first drawing to the dark ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Things in My House” Little Golden Book, Children's Book CoverIllustration Art
Located in Miami, FL
Joe Kaufman, writer, illustrator. Recipient Art Directors Club medal, 1948, New York Academy of Sciences Children's Science Book award, 1973, Gold award, Silver award Art Directors C...
Category
1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Civil Rights, Racial Justice Little Rock
Located in Miami, FL
"Civil Rights." Evergood's early commentary on racial issues in the 1950s depicts four black men gagged, roped and hanging from a tree. In the background, imprisoned blacks look on through a barbed-wire fence. Whites watch in horror but do nothing to help. Meanwhile, a two-legged and three-headed serpent who symbolizes evil - wraps himself around the tree that physically and symbolically separates the races. This is an important work in the history of American art. It may be one of the very earliest examples of a major American painter doing a major work that challenges racial segregation and injustice at a time when no one else would. The title of the work is inspired by a Historic Supreme Court decision on racial segregation. The Little Rock...
Category
1950s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Yellow Car with Woman and Puppet
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Born in Moscow, Idaho,and raised in Seattle, Robert Jessup received his BFA from the University of Washington in 1975 and his MFA from the University of Iowa in 1979. His work has be...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Western Scene
By Victor Olson
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 20.00" x 29.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
Late 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woodstock
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Painting for a Woodstock film's poster.
Category
1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Acrylic
Study for Collier's Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
1890s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hiver XII
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Born in 1951, Eishin Yoza was largely inspired by the 1970s growing up. The art sphere of the 1970s was epitomized by a desire to evolve and strengthen its...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Oil
New Years Baby, Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1932
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 18.00" x 20.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
A New Year's themed cover painting by Leslie Thrasher for the January 9, 1932 edition of L...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Dawn, Dawn, Dawn, Ticonderoga pencil advertisement
By Harvey Dunn
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Twice and Dated Lower Left: Harvey / Dunn 1932
Harvey Dunn's Dawn, Dawn, Dawn is a truly exceptional illustration that captures a key moment of American History. In the present work, Dunn skillfully depicts colonial soldiers...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Desire 5, 2011
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Marshall Jones is a realist painter born in Atlanta Georgia, and presently working and living in New York City. From 2008 to 2015 Marshall was the recip...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Catching My Daydreams - 21st Century, Contemporary Painting, Modern Portrait
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
"The paintings are built up in layer upon layer of paint which give the pieces great depth of field. They are created with an arsenal of tools that doesn't settle with convention. As...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Mixed Media
Noonday Sail
Located in Greenwich, CT
Painting of a young boy with a toy sailboat in the water.
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Gemini" oil painting on panel figurative two women female red hair
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Rachel Bess
Gemini, 2020
oil on panel
17.5" x 12" unframed
21” x 15.5” framed
Rachel Bess is known for her precise and theatrical oil paintings that ble...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
The Battle of the Wilderness
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Board
Dimensions: 27.00" x 12.75"
Signature: Unsigned
Written by Price on the mount below the image: Like endless lines of phantoms, men, horses, guns, wagons, continued to pass through the smoking forest.
A striking and emotional night scene at the Battle of the Wilderness...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Contemporary Oil of Art Deco Home Decor w/ Blue Masculine Statue in Drawing Room
Located in Fort Worth, TX
Blue Statue, 2020
"For Blackburn, the Western’s heroic drama, good-versus-evil narrative, and assertive landscape are challenges to face in her work. These aspects of film can overwhelm a painting, thus distancing the viewer from the art. She wants the art to be dominant; “Painting wins,” she declares. She finds this happens when a painting possesses what she terms “classical balance.” By this the artist means that everything is where it needs to be compositionally—nothing can be changed—and “the whole can be seen at once.”
Linda Blackburn...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
The Insurance Salesman
By Arthur Herschel Lidov
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 15.00" x 15.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
(Untitled)
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1921
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Right
Dimensions: 26.00" x 40.00"
Illustration for American magazine.
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Figures (Head and Torso), figural, painterly, colorful
Located in New York, NY
Oil Painting by Luis Frangella done in 1984. This painting is on a 24x34" canvas, of a figure cut off at the knees and a reclining head. Defined with pa...
Category
1980s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
In The Cathedral
By E.M. Jackson
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Story illustration for "In The Cathedral" by Achmed Abdullah published in Cosmopolitan, May 1938, pages 24-25.
The magazine descri...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Thief, Biblical Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 14.00" x 18.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Biblical illustration
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Lighthouse Keeper, Brant Point
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Left ‘Stevan Dohanos’
Medium: Mixed Media on Paperboard Laid Down on Masonite
The present work was published as the cover illustration of the June 26th, 1954...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Paper, Mixed Media, Board
Richard Potter
Located in Santa Monica, CA
With Halo, Greenfield brings the stories of Black folk-saints, martyrs, freedom-fighters, survivors, magicians, and visionaries back into view.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Do Bee Book of Manners
By Art Seiden
Located in Miami, FL
Grosset & Dunlap, Illustration, Art Seiden was a top children's book illustrator in the 1950' - 1060's Work comes in two parts that are butted together by the artist
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Ink
Man on Ladder in Library
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1944
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 19.00" x 13.00"
Signature: Signed Upper Left
Advertisement for Gulf Oil, 1944.
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
"Dioscuri" oil painting figurative female portrait stockings
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Rachel Bess
Dioscuri, 2019
oil on Dibond
18" x 12" unframed
21.5 x 15.5" framed
Rachel Bess is known for her precise and theatrical oil paintings that b...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
45042 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Painting
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Among the Catalan artists who have remained loyal to figurative techniques, several have successfully fixed their gaze on the architecture, streets and commercial trappings of the mo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Ballet Night Train
Located in Greenwich, CT
Dick “Night Train” Lane and Alex Ramond’s ballerina from Rip Kirby
The intention of this work is to generate conversations about values and identity by as...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Figurative Paintings for Sale
Figurative art, as opposed to abstract art, retains features from the observable world in its representational depictions of subject matter. Most commonly, figurative paintings reference and explore the human body, but they can also include landscapes, architecture, plants and animals — all portrayed with realism.
While the oldest figurative art dates back tens of thousands of years to cave wall paintings, figurative works made from observation became especially prominent in the early Renaissance. Artists like Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and other Renaissance masters created naturalistic representations of their subjects.
Pablo Picasso is lauded for laying the foundation for modern figurative art in the 1920s. Although abstracted, this work held a strong connection to representing people and other subjects. Other famous figurative artists include Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud. Figurative art in the 20th century would span such diverse genres as Expressionism, Pop art and Surrealism.
Today, a number of figural artists — such as Sedrick Huckaby, Daisy Patton and Eileen Cooper — are making art that uses the human body as its subject.
Because figurative art represents subjects from the real world, natural colors are common in these paintings. A piece of figurative art can be an exciting starting point for setting a tone and creating a color palette in a room.
Browse an extensive collection of figurative paintings on 1stDibs.