Impressionist Figurative Paintings
IMPRESSIONIST STYLE
Emerging in 19th-century France, Impressionist art embraced loose brushwork and plein-air painting to respond to the movement of daily life. Although the pioneers of the Impressionist movement — Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir — are now household names, their work was a radical break with an art scene led and shaped by academic traditions for around two centuries. These academies had oversight of a curriculum that emphasized formal drawing, painting and sculpting techniques and historical themes.
The French Impressionists were influenced by a group of artists known as the Barbizon School, who painted what they witnessed in nature. The rejection of pieces by these artists and the later Impressionists from the salons culminated in a watershed 1874 exhibition in Paris that was staged outside of the juried systems. After a work of Monet’s was derided by a critic as an unfinished “impression,” the term was taken as a celebration of their shared interest in capturing fleeting moments as subject matter, whether the shifting weather on rural landscapes or the frenzy of an urban crowd. Rather than the exacting realism of the academic tradition, Impressionist paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings represented how an artist saw a world in motion.
Many Impressionist painters were inspired by the perspectives in imported Japanese prints alongside these shifts in European painting — Édouard Manet drew on ukiyo-e woodblock prints and depicted Japanese design in his Portrait of Émile Zola, for example. American artists such as Mary Cassatt and William Merritt Chase, who studied abroad, were impacted by the work of the French artists, and by the late 19th century American Impressionism had its own distinct aesthetics with painters responding to the rapid modernization of cities through quickly created works that were vivid with color and light.
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Style: Impressionist
Soviet Allegory, Contemporary Art, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Ara Harutyunyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Metal
Year: 2024
Style: Contemporary Art,
Title: Soviet Allegory...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Metal
1950s French Post Impressionist Oil Painting Windswept Beach & Seascape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Windswept Beach
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Looking outside
Located in PUIFLIJK, NL
Francien Krieg, a contemporary Dutch artist, gives a new dimension to figurative painting with her penetrating and unfiltered portraits. Krieg, who received her art education at the ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Gentleman in Tailcoat
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Strong impressionist work by young St. Petersburg-based painter, Ilya Zlobin. Having graduated from the prestigious Repin Academy several years ago, Zlobin is a well-known up-and-co...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Camouflage VI
Located in Singapore, SG
Camouflage VI has been inspired by Klimt's living, breathing woman with a brooding air—rather than a serene, mythical being. As a female subject, she is a strong, expressive woman ca...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Lavandaie, ca 1905
Located in BLARICUM, NL
OTTO VAN REES
Freiburg im Breisgau 1884-1957 Utrecht
WASSENDE VROUWEN I LAVANDAIE
1905
Oil on canvas
43 x 52 cm.
Signed: lower left ‘OvR’
Particularities: ID 35.
Provenance: Pri...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"An Afternoon Along the Seine, Paris" Impressionist Oil Painting on Canvas Scene
Located in New York, NY
An exceptional impressionistic depiction of an afternoon along the Seine in Paris by Mario Passoni, on a spring day with the busy activities of people wa...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Young Woman
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Sergei Besedin was born in the village of Ruska near the Ukrainian city of Lozovaya. He was born into a working class family who were staunch communists. Besedin, shortly after the R...
Category
1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Time Flies but Memory Stays
Located in Singapore, SG
Time flies but memories stay in the mind along with feelings. Some of the memories we may let dry and wither like leaves that fall from the tree and some we...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"l'Auberge de la Place au Manège", Gerard Valtier, Oil on Canvas, French, Hotel
Located in Dallas, TX
"l'Auberge de la Place au Manege" by Gerard Valtier is an original oil on canvas that measures 29x36 inches. Valtier uses many different bright and vivid c...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
Ginevra de Benci
By Brett Osborn
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Brett Eric Osborn was born in Lima, Ohio in 1963. Both his father and his cousin are artists and influenced the young Osborn during his formative years. Brett recalls being a child d...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sur le Bosphone, On the Bosphorus, Orientalist Beautiful Girl in Boat
Located in Miami, FL
The key to this painting's charm is that the subject is a beautiful young woman who is showing her face. She lounges comfortably in a carpeted boat with a lute by her side, running...
Category
1980s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
In The Bride's Shop, Lord & Taylor
Located in Miami, FL
Signed lower right
Printer's and designer's marks in margins
"Tool pearls in bodice, train & headband & ribbon under bosom."
Ex-collection photographer Frank Paulin...
Category
1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Summer Fun - Sand Wagon
Located in Washington, DC
Contemporary impressionist. New
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
French School - Summer in La Baule VI Oil painting Iconic Post Impressionist
Located in Sempach, LU
Summer in La Baule VI Sun Bathing
Summer Scene: Women enjoying sunbathing in La Baule VI
Technique: oil, acrylic, and ink on old book pages on wooden frame 30x30cm ■■ 11,8x11,8 inc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Oil, Acrylic
Semi-Nude Lady in the Courtyard of the Harem
Located in West Sussex, GB
Konstantin Razumov
(Born 1974) Russian
Semi-Nude Lady Standing in the Courtyard of the Harem
Oil on canvas: 16 x 11 inches. Frame: 23 x 18 inches.
Konstantin Razumov's work has ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mediterranean Cottages with Red Roof Tiles in Rural European Countryside
Located in Preston, GB
Mediterranean Cottages with Red Roof Tiles in Rural European Countryside by Irish Artist
Art measures 7 x 4 inches
Frame measures 13.5 x 10.5 inches
Impressionistic painting usi...
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Sophia by Geri Eubanks, Petite Impressionist Figure Oil Painting with Black
By Geri Eubanks
Located in Atlanta, GA
In Geri's own words: "My love for art began in my early teens when I signed up for art class in high school and soon discovered that I had a passion for drawing and oil. Growing up i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Barges Near the Louvre, original French Impressionist marine landscape
Located in Spring Lake, NJ
The Seine River winds through Paris as though commissioned to secure the centuries of secrets that it has beheld these many years. Barges near the internationally famed Louvre Museum...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Nude woman
Located in Sempach, LU
“The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.” Lucian Freud.
"Nudes are interesting to paint; I've had people say my Ladies are ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Jeune Fille en Blanc - 19th Century Oil Painting Portrait of Young Paris Beauty
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Jeune Fille en Blanc’ by Jacques-Émile Blanche (1861-1942).
The painting – which depicts one of the artist’s favourite models Wanda Zielinska – is signed and dated 1896. It is lis...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Beautiful Harem in a Mediterranean Lily Garden
Located in West Sussex, GB
Konstantin Razumov
(Born 1974) Russian
Lady in Harem Costume in a Mediterranean Garden
Oil on canvas: 18 x 15 inches. Frame: 26 x 23 inches. Signed.
Konstantin Razumov's work has...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ella by Geri Eubanks, Petite Impressionist Figure Oil Painting with Black
By Geri Eubanks
Located in Atlanta, GA
In Geri's own words: "My love for art began in my early teens when I signed up for art class in high school and soon discovered that I had a passion for drawing and oil. Growing up i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Gordon Hunt, Shady Lane, Affordable Art, Woodland Landscape Painting
By Gordon Hunt
Located in Deddington, GB
Shady Lane [2021]
Original
Landscape
Acrylic on deep edge canvas
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:30 cm x W:30 cm x D:4cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that insitu images are purely an ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Friday Market" Oil painting 39" x 79" inch by Omar Abdel Zaher
Located in Culver City, CA
"Friday Market" Oil painting 39" x 79" inch by Omar Abdel Zaher
Abdel Zaher is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Helwan and has been painting for three decades and has nota...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Maternité by Henri Lebasque
Located in New Orleans, LA
Henri Lebasque
1865-1937 French
Maternité
(Maternity)
Oil on canvas
Signed “Lebasque” (lower left)
In this effusive oil on canvas, Henri Lebasque captures a contemplative scene o...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Dancers reading III", Impressionist Indoor scene with tow girls. Oil on panel .
Located in Segovia, ES
"Dancers reading III", Impressionist Indoor scene with tow girls. Oil on panel.
Measurements in centimeters: 61 x 61 cm / In inches 24.02 x 24.02 “
Framed: 78 x 78 x 4 cm. / In inches 30.71 x 30.71 x 1.57 "
This artwork, signed IF by Scottish artist Iain Faulkner...
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
1930's French Portrait of Lady Impressionist Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Impressionist artist, circa 1930
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 22 x 18 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: very good and sound condition
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
At the Bend - Abstracted Russian Landscape Yuri Gusev
By Yuri Gusev
Located in Soquel, CA
Impressionist landscape of a river at the edge of the woods by Yuri Gusev (Russian, b. 1928). There is a kneeling figure between the trees in the foreground. Presented in a pink-hued...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Woman by The Lake - Late 19th Century Figurative Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous 19th Century figurative landscape of a woman by a lake looking wistfully at boaters by J. Glover (American, 19th Century), c.1870's. Signed lower left "J. Glover." Unframed....
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
River Seine Banks by René THOMSEN
By René Thomsen
Located in Pasadena, CA
THOMSEN René
Born in Paris in 1897 and died in 1976 in Paris.
20th century. French.
Painter of figures, nudes, portraits, landscape, still life, flowers.
Pupil of Louis ...
Category
1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Egg girl in green
Located in Sempach, LU
02 / 10 / 2023 I signed a book contract for Egg Island; it will now go through the publishing process and will be in print next year.
I was overwhelmed by the editorial board's fee...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Snow on Fifth Ave " NYC Impressionist Oil Painting Style of Guy Wiggins
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
A charming depiction of Snow in New York City on Fifth Avenue with figures walking a dog. A cozy impressionistic street scene with colors of cobalts, light pink, whites, and burnt si...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1890's French Impressionist Oil Painting Studio Portrait of a Nude Lady Model
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Studio Model
French Impressionist artist, circa 1890's
oil on canvas: 27.5 x 16.5 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: very good and sound condition
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Reclining Nude Figure
By David Hunt
Located in Soquel, CA
This original painting is a beautifully depicted nude figure study in a cozy interior space with southwest elements by San Jose, California artist David D....
Category
1990s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Plateau de Vaucluse, Mt Ventoux - 21st Century Plein air Landscape Painting
By Jos Leurs
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Jos Leurs
Plateau e Vaucluse Mont Ventoux
60 x 70 cm
acrylic on canvas
not framed, frame is possible.
Jos Leurs is a Dutch Impressionistic Plein Air Painter who lived in France for ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Clown with Birthday Bouquet - Oil and Ink on Cardstock
Located in Soquel, CA
Clown with Bouquet - Acrylic and Ink on Cardstock
Colorful portrait of a clown holding a bouquet of flowers by Jassen Marek (20th Century). A sad clown in a suit with a straw hat ho...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Illustration Board, Oil, Pen
French Impressionist School - PS 239 Sed Non Satiata - Oil
Located in Sempach, LU
PS 239 Sed non Satiata
Portrait of a naked woman with blue hair.
Structural analysis:
Such as Impressionist painting, the subject is firstly a study of light on human body, creat...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Oil, Acrylic
"The Kiss - In Paris" Figures Kissing in Paris with Poodle Oil Painting on Paper
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
Exploring the purity of the feminine form and the excitement of High-End Fashion, artist Cindy Shaoul creates a dialogue between the figurative and the abstract. Her spirited composi...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Archival Paper
French school Provence Village - Rare Oil painting Signed
Located in Sempach, LU
Landscape "Provencal Village"
Provencal landscape from Henri Farré. According to Wikipedia, Henri Farré was a painter and aviator during WWI. Born in the South of France (Foix), ...
Category
1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Landscape oil on cardboard painting impressionism spanish
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Joaquin Terruella Matilla (1891-1957) - Landscape - Oil cardboard
Oil measures 33x41 cm.
Frame measures 47x55 cm.
Joaquim Terruella Matilla (1891 - 1957)
Joaquim Terruella Matilla,...
Category
1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
"Flora - Model adjusting her silk stockings"
Located in ludlow, GB
Oil on Canvas of the model Helen, adjusting the suspender on silk stockings. The gown she is wearing is a period gown from the wardrobe of the famous E...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
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...
Category
1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Gardeuse de Moutons - Impressionist Figure in Landscape Oil by Julien Dupre
By Julien Dupré
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed impressionist oil on canvas figure and animals in landscape by French painter Julien Dupre. The work depicts a shepherdess resting on a log as her sheep graze in the green mea...
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1880s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"My Name is Freddie" - Portrait of Black Woman with Headscarf
By Lucille H. Olpin
Located in Soquel, CA
A beautiful, painterly portrait of a young black woman with colorful headscarf and sarong by Lucille H. Olpin (Ethel Lucille Harman Olpin), (American, 1909-1990). Signed "Olpin" lowe...
Category
1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Snow on Downtown Wall St" NYC Impressionist Oil Painting Style of Guy Wiggins
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
"With shades of Pierre Bonnard’s Parisian street vistas and Edward Hopper’s New York shopfronts, American impressionist Cindy Shaoul’s oil paintings depict the much-loved locales and...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
The Harbor of Trouville After Boudin
Located in Pasadena, CA
Oil on panel attributed to Eugen Boudin representing a Norman navy
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Huge 19th century painting - Musical picnic - Elegant Group in a landscape
By Rudolf Alfred Hoger
Located in Antwerp, BE
Romantic painting depicting a peaceful get-together in a park by Rudolf Alfred Höger
The elegantly dressed people are indulging in a delicious "al fresco" picnic on green hill on a ...
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19th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
I have to save you
Located in Sempach, LU
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
"I Have to Save You" presents a compelling narrative of guardianship and intimacy, conveyed through the tender interplay between a nude figure and a gentle stag. Th...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Boats at Sunset, Original Gouache on Paper, Impressionist style, French Painter
Located in PARIS, FR
*Dimensions include the frame
This French watercolor dating from around 1930 conveys a serene maritime scene that resonates with the aesthetic principles of the Impressionists. The ...
Category
1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Laid Paper
Fishing Boat on Rural River Green Landscape Signed Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Ellie Anatole Pavil (Ukraine 1873-1911)
signed oil painting on board, framed
framed: 8.25 x 10.5
board : 7 x 9 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: overall very ...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
French School Portrait PS242 Sunflower from Van Gogh diving (Large)
Located in Sempach, LU
PS 242 Sunflowers from Van Gogh Diving
Tomorrow, It's the 141 th birthday of Vincent Van Gogh.
Portrait of a woman who is wearing Van Gogh swim dress. A daring dive in the unknown!...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Ink, Acrylic
I rely on you
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
Embracing my roots and my cultural background through having a special spiritual connection to the women I depict on my canvases. The theme of women, womanhood and femininity is at ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
French School Portrait PS 213 Le bain de soleil Mondrian Post Impressionist Rare
Located in Sempach, LU
PS 213 Le Bain de Soleil Mondrian
Poetic scene of a woman sleeping in summer time
Technique: oil, acrylic, and ink on old book pages on wooden frame 55x55cm ■■ 21,6x21,6 inch
》》R E...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Oil, Acrylic
1950s French Oil Sketch of Reclining Nude Lady Atmospheric Work
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
1950s French Oil Painting Sand Dunes Beach with Huts & Boats Atmospheric Work
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
1950s French Post Impressionist Green Landscape Distant View over Fields
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
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