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Animal Paintings For Sale
Color:  Black
Split
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt Title: Split Series: Bunnies Date: 2022 Medium: Oil on wood Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8" Framed Dimensions: 14" x 12" Signature: Signed by Artist on Ver...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Oil

American Eagle Fortune Magazine Cover Illustration ( alternate )
Located in Miami, FL
Alternate cover for Fortune Magazine February, 1940. Gouache on board. 350x285 mm; 13 3/4x11 1/4. Signed "A. Petrucelli" in lower left image. Tipped t...
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1940s Art Deco Animal Paintings

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Gouache

Realism Portrait with Butterflies, "In Deep Thought"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind realistic oil portrait by San Diego artist, Charlene Mosley. Its dimensions are 24" x 12' x 1.5". It comes in a thin black frame. A certificate of authenticit...
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2010s Realist Animal Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Madi
Located in Cleveland, OH
Black Outline Bunny, PINK
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Oil

Crow's Feet Study - Original Oil Painting on Panel, Framed
Located in Chicago, IL
Tina Figarelli is a classically trained artist whose favorite subject matter in her artwork is ideas with a strong narrative. Tina leaves the viewer hin...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Panel, Oil

Fine Dog Portrait of a Setter standing in a Landscape, French School work
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, contemporary Title: Setter (?) Dog in a Landscape Medium: oil painting on canvas, unframed, signed canvas: 20 x 24 inch...
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21st Century and Contemporary Victorian Animal Paintings

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Oil

Autumn. 1967. Oil on cardboard, 68x57 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Autumn. 1967. Oil on cardboard, 68x57 cm Edgars Vinters (1919-2014) Edgars Vinters is working in oil, watercolor and monotype techniques. He paints landscapes in different seasons a...
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1960s Impressionist Animal Paintings

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Cardboard, Oil

Vibrant oil of Tibetan landscape "Yaks near Phasho" celebrates Tibetan animals
Located in Charleston, US
The grandmother of modern American animal portraiture, Constance Depler Coleman's vibrant, stunning oil landscape and animal painting in Tibetan Himalayas, "Yaks Near Phasho" celebrates the bright colors of Tibet and the close relationship between Yaks and the Asian people in Tibet. Not just an ordinary buffalo, beloved Himalayan Yaks are decorated with colorful flags and beads. Yaks are one of the spiritual soulmates of the gentle Asian people who live at the top of the world. For Constance Coleman...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Animal Paintings

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Oil

Champ
Located in Denver, CO
This is a gallery wrap, oil on canvas piece. It could be framed if someone wished to do so.
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2010s American Realist Animal Paintings

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Oil

Winter Hare
Located in Deddington, GB
Winter Hare by Jennifer Jokhoo [2021] limited_edition Linocut Edition number 14 Image size: H:11.5 cm x W:12 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:15.5 cm x W:16 cm x D:.5cm Sold Unf...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Paper, Linocut

Belle- 21st Century Contemporary Dutch Portraitpainting of a Cat
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Adriana van Zoest Belle 21 x 30 cm Framed in a black wooden frame: 32 x 42 cm Oil paint on wood panel Dutch artist, painter, Adriana van Zoest, lives and works in Warmenhuizen, in t...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Wood Panel, Oil

Curious Calf- 21st Century Dutch Contemporary Portrait Painting of a Calf
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
A painting by Paul Jansen Curious Calf 42 x 61 cm with frame (included) 56 x 77 cm Oil on wood panel The Dutch artist Paul Jansen prefers to paint cow portraits. Jansen looks for co...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Cat Skeleton, Original Signed Black and Pink Contemporary Painting on Canvas
Located in Boston, MA
Cat Skeleton, Original Signed Contemporary Black and Pink Painting 12" x 9" x 0.75" (HxWxD) Acrylic on Canvas Hand-signed and dated by the artist. Finished with a gloss varnish. A black background allows the subject matter of this acrylic painting by artist Lindsay Hall, a cat skeleton, to stand out in stark contrast. An item in a cabinet of curiosities, this memento mori work serves as a pausing point to sit and reflect on the fleeting nature of life, both our own and the creatures around us. Pinks, purples, and oranges peek through the white of the articulated skeleton. These colors are usually associated with warmth and more cheery emotions, so their inclusion in this piece, which many would interpret as somber, is interesting. Ultimately, this work can be seen as a celebration of life and the enduring beauty of nature an appreciation for the anatomy that shapes our world. Artist Commentary: I painted this when I lived in Richmond, VA above an oddities shop. Being in such close proximity to various curiosities like taxidermied animals, preserved animal organs, coffins, and the like definitely kept my mind in the spooky mood all year round. The building itself was black and had a giant grim reaper...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Sunrise Over Hedgehoge`s House - Contemporary Nature Animal Oil Painting
Located in Salzburg, AT
Born 1979 in Warsaw. Works in painting and photography. Between 2001and 2006 she studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in the studio of Professors Jaroslaw Modzelewski and Grzeg...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Sueno del Caballo or Expressive Cranium, Southwestern Horse Skull Oil Painting
By José García Narezo
Located in Denver, CO
"Untitled (Sueno del Caballo/Cranium or Expressive Cranium)", is a oil on board by Jose Garcia Narezo (1922-1994) of a horse skull and cloth in a wi...
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1930s American Modern Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

John Ivor Stewart PPPS (1936-2018) - Large 20th Century Oil, Premonition
Located in Corsham, GB
A striking and surreal study by the listed British artist John Ivor Stewart. Inscribed on the reverse with the title. Signed on the reverse.On canvas on stretchers.
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21st Century and Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Oil

Red-Winged Blackbird, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Kira Yustak blends impressionist and primitive approaches in her portrait of a blackbird amongst tall cattails. She draws inspiration from observing them in waterways and marshy areas nearby. Kira paints it larger than life to highlight the feathers and make a bold statement. Her style bears influence from natural history illustrations...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Animal Paintings

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Acrylic

Bachman's Warbler (2019) oil on panel, nature, wildlife birds, flowers, tree
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Bachman's Warbler, nature, birds, branches, floral, oil on panel, black, yellow "Bachman's Warbler" by Alexis Kandra is an original oil painting with black metal foil on wood panel ...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Foil

Fallow deer at the edge of a lake
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas Golden wooden frame 55 x 66 x 5 cm
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Early 20th Century Modern Animal Paintings

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Oil

Lazy Bones
Located in Austin, TX
Gaylon Dingler 22" x 28" Acrylic on Canvas
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

Fine Victorian Signed Oil Huntsman & Hounds taking Refreshments Village Tavern
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Singleton Jowett (British, 1878–1927) signed lower right corner The Warrington Museum in England has a comparable painting to this in...
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19th Century Victorian Animal Paintings

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Oil

Time Has Come Today
Located in Denver, CO
This is an original unframed, oil painting on canvas. Rocky Hawkins was born in 1950 in Seattle, Washington and grew up in small towns near the Cascades Mountains. His interest in th...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Calf Portrait" Contemporary Dutch Oil Painting of a Black and White Cow
Located in Utrecht, NL
The oil paintings of the contemporary Dutch artist Paul Jansen induce the viewer to look beyond the standard picture within the frame. It feels as if the c...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Love - Painting Yellow Pink Lila Blue White Brown Beige
Located in Sofia, BG
"Love" is a painting, oil on canvas by the Ukrainian artist Maestro Ksenia Logvinenko. About the artwork: TECHNIQUE: oil painting STYLE: Impressi...
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2010s Impressionist Animal Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

Landscape with Shepherd and Flock
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas Plaster and gilded wood frame 90 x 127.5 x 5.5 cm
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Late 18th Century Italian School Animal Paintings

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Oil

"The media world" abstract on linen canvas acrylic 72x97cm 2006
Located in Roscoff, FR
"The media world" abstract on linen canvas acrylic 72x97cm 2006 The harshness of this competitive world where to be the first is the priority goal.
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2010s Abstract Animal Paintings

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Acrylic

Fine Equestrian Horse Portrait British Oil Painting - Horse standing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Horse British School, 20th century oil painting on panel, unframed paintings size: 8 x 10 inches condition: excellent provenance: from a private collection here in England A very fine equestrian portrait of this horse. Painted with tremendous detail and finesse, the horse is accentuated against its clear background - a technique enjoyed many George Stubbs in the 18th century and Francis...
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20th Century Victorian Animal Paintings

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Panel, Oil

Antique Portrait of 6 Dogs on Porcelain by Maison Pichenot-Loebnitz ca. 1870s
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique and exceptionally rare and fine Portrait of 6 Dogs on Enameled Ceramic Maison Pichenot-Loebnitz France, ca. 1870. 25 x 8 (31 x 13 framed) inches This rectangular panel made of enameled ceramic was made by Jules Loebnitz in the second half of the 19th century depicts a suite of 6 very fine canines in a landscape setting. The Pichenot-Loebnitz factory was founded by Mr Pichenot, grandfather of Jules Loebnitz, in 1833. From 1841, Mr Pichenot created a new, innovative method of uncrackable earthenware panels for architectural mantels, winning a medal at the Exhibition of 1844. In 1857, Jules Loebnitz, an artist as much as an industrialist, became director of the factory. For his first major job, Loebnitz passionately collaborated with architect Félix Duban on the restoration of the Blois Castle, recreating the antique tiles of the mantelpieces. He then went to work with the most prominent architects of his times; Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Laval, Charles Garnier, Just Lisch and Paul Sédille. A friendship was born in 1867 between Paul Sédille, the architect of the Printemps department stores and the Basilica of Bois-Chenu in Domrémy-la-Pucelle, and Jules Loebnitz that would lead to a tight, long-lasting professional, artistic, and intellectual collaboration. This was an important meeting between the theorist of polychrome architecture and the man who had pushed French ceramic art considerably forward, allowing for large, enameled earthenware plates decorated with very bright and long-lasting glass-like colors. Many architectural projects were born from the collaboration of Sédille and Loebnitz: World’s fair pavilions, apartment buildings, villas, hotels, and monuments. During the Great Exhibition of 1878, Paul Sédille created the door of the Palais des Beaux-arts, while Jules Loebnitz was in charge of the ceramic decoration of the facade. A reporter covering the 1878 World’s fair described the monumental door...
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1870s French School Animal Paintings

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Enamel

Fun - Painting Yellow Pink Lila Blue White Brown Beige
Located in Sofia, BG
"Fun" is a painting, oil on canvas by the Ukrainian artist Maestro Ksenia Logvinenko. About the artwork: TECHNIQUE: oil painting STYLE: Impressio...
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2010s Impressionist Animal Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

"L+M Talk it Over" - Acrylic on Canvas
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Melinda has studied life and its movements, developing a remarkably keen artistic technique with her flowing expressionistic style. Growing up in the Midwest she was enamored with n...
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2010s Pop Art Animal Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

Pink panther
Located in Spetses, GR
The pop version of the famous pink panther created with separated, round, colored dots. Original artwork by Dimitri Likissas that comes with black fra...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Animal Paintings

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Enamel

Mid Century Abstract Bird in Yellow, Orange, Green Blue and Black, Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Untitled abstract oil on canvas painting by Henriette "Yetti" Stolz. Portraying an abstracted bird in earth tone colors of brown, green, and orange. Presented in a vintage frame meas...
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20th Century Abstract Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Hunting Hunter 2 (Sleeping Wolf) - Animals Oil Painting, Magical Realism, Nature
Located in Salzburg, AT
From the series "Sleeping Wolf" Born 1979 in Warsaw. Works in painting and photography. Between 2001and 2006 she studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in the studio of Professo...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Deer on Dark Red
Located in Denver, CO
Lisa Bostwick has had pieces exhibited at the Legion of Honor, Napa Valley Museum, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art and the de Young Museum. Her North Am...
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2010s Expressionist Animal Paintings

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Wood Panel, Acrylic

Impressionist Portrait Titled, "Safe Places"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind impressionist oil portrait by San Diego artist, Charlene Mosley. Its dimensions are 20" x 20" x 3". It is unframed. A certificate of authenticity will follow...
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2010s Impressionist Animal Paintings

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Oil

"Gallo" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Jill Soukup's "Gallo" is an original, handmade oil painting. About the artist: Jill Soukup was born in Buffalo, New York. Shortly thereafter, her family moved to Colorado, where sh...
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2010s Realist Animal Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Mark Making (2019) oil on panel, nature art, wildlife landscape, cave animals
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Mark Making (2019) oil on panel, nature art, wildlife landscape, cave animals, cave art, prehistoric art, earth tones "Mark Making" by Alexis Kandra is an or...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Foil

"GUADALUPE ROMANCE" WILDLIFE AXIS DEER FAMILY TEXAS RIVER
By Luke Frazier
Located in San Antonio, TX
Luke Frazier (Born 1970) Utah Artist Image Size: 30 x 48 Frame Size: 39 x 57 Medium: Oil "Guadalupe Romance" Biography Luke Frazier (Born 1970) Luke Frazier grew up hunting and fishing in the mountains of northern Utah. These early forays into nature instilled a kinship with the wildlife, and a passion for the outdoors. As a child he spent hours scribbling, sketching and sculpting wildlife. Later, his formal art training occurred at Utah State University, where he earned a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree in painting and a Masters of Fine Arts degree in illustration. Every year, Frazier travels through Alaska, Canada, and the American West painting and photographing animals in their environment. His love of fly fishing and hunting is apparent in his work. Influenced by the art of Winslow Homer, Edgar Payne, Bruno Liljefors...
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2010s Realist Animal Paintings

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Oil

Curious - 21st Century Dutch Contemporary Portrait Painting of a Cow
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
A painting by Paul Jansen Curious 39 x 50 cm with frame (included) 50 x 63 cm Oil on wood panel The Dutch artist Paul Jansen prefers to paint cow portraits. Jansen looks for cows, ...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

The Horse - Enamel on Paper by Esperia Gava - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
The Horse is an original artwork realized by Italian artist Esperia Gava. Enamel on paper Applied on cardboard. Hand-signed on the lower right. Very good conditions. The artwork...
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1950s Modern Animal Paintings

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Enamel

Pastel Pencil
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Daniela Nikolova Medium: Pastel and pencil on canvas Size: 9.6" x 13.7"
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21st Century and Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Archival Paper, Oil Pastel, Carbon Pencil

Interaction, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Andres Lopez perceives the harmonic interaction of koi in a fish pond. He paints gestural impressions of their dance-like movements underwater. Their shi...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Animal Paintings

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Oil

Antique American Animal Oil Painting of Three Horses 1920
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
4031 Oil on canvas in a octagonal wood frame of 3 horses in black and white
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1920s Animal Paintings

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Oil

Horse and Foal with Cattle in a pasture by Moonlight.
Located in ludlow, GB
"Horse and Foal and Cattle in Pastures by Moonlight" Oil on Canvas (18 by 24 inches) Signed and dated 1899 and Framed in a traditional Impressionist Swept Frame. Charles Augustus Henry Lutyens was a portrait, animal and sporting painter. He was fairly eccentric and indeed named one of his sonsSir Edward...
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19th Century Impressionist Animal Paintings

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Oil

Mid-Century "The Polo Player" Pierre Bosco #50 C (Italy/France, 1909-1993)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Mid-Century "The Polo Player" #50 C Pierre Bosco (Italy/France, 1909-1993) Oil on canvas 15 x 12 inches, frame size “The savage art of Bosco bears its rudeness and its mystery. It ...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Dalmatian, large contemporary minimal portrait of a dog in black ink on paper
Located in Charleston, US
This stunning large ink painting of a Dalmatian dog, is a contemporary minimal portrait in black ink on Fabriano 300gsm paper. Ian Mason's portrai...
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21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Animal Paintings

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Acrylic, Ink

FIGHTING ON HORSEBACK - Italian abstract oil on canvas painting. A. Pragliola
Located in Napoli, IT
Fighting on horseback -Modern - Alfonso Pragliola Italia 2014 - Oil on canvas cm.60x40. Laquered wooden frame.
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2010s Abstract Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Come Together - Love (On Black & White)" Pop Painting with Paper Butterflies
Located in New York, NY
This piece is executed with hundreds of hand cut butterflies, and comes displayed in an acrylic shadow box. These works conjure sensations of nostalgia, created from maps, cutting out words, symbols, and places to create feelings of unity within the piece. Standing in juxtaposition with the contrast to clean, pixelated designs that the butterflies form, Laila creates a Heart that pops off the canvas in three-dimension. Art measures 36 x 36 inches Laila Jalallar...
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2010s Pop Art Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Paper, Acrylic

Menagerie (2022) by Justin Suarez / Aerosol Kingdom, lizard, frog, snake, turtle
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Menagerie (2022) by Justin Suarez (aka Aerosol Kingdom) Acrylic on panel 36 x 24 x 1.5 in Graffiti and Street Art / Animals / Figurative Art / Earth Tones / Bright Colors / Flora /...
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2010s Street Art Animal Paintings

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Acrylic, Wood Panel

Sparkcaster (2019) by Justin Suarez / Aerosol Kingdom, animal, bird, black, blue
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Sparkcaster" (2019) by Justin Suarez (aka Aerosol Kingdom) Acrylic on panel 14 x 11 x .75 in Graffiti and Street Art / Animals / Figurative Art / Earth Tones / Dark Colors / Fauna...
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2010s Street Art Animal Paintings

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Acrylic, Wood Panel

Hector Puts Up a Weak Argument
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Hector Puts Up a Weak Argument" is a painting by Nathan Durfee. The piece is 24 inches tall and 18 inches wide. It is framed. The framed dimensions are ...
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2010s Animal Paintings

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Panel, Oil

The Vincent Black Shadow
Located in Nutfield, Surrey
Leigh Murphy This original work of art by the award-winning watercolour and oil painter Leigh Murphy wonderfully illustrates her super realist technique...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Animal Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Mortal Eternity
Located in New York, NY
Ieri Pnoi Mortal Eternity, 2022 Mixed media on canvas 70 x 50 cm The artwork is currently on view as part of Prosperity Prophecy at the Mykonos Municipal Gallery in Greece. Dimitr...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

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Acrylic

"The Ocean's Lions", Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Lindsey Kustusch’s (US based) "The Ocean's Lions" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a group of striped Lionfish in an underwater setting. Artist Statement: I am a...
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2010s Photorealist Animal Paintings

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Panel, Oil

IGUANA - Italian Animalia Oil on Canvas Painting by Ciro Ciardiello
Located in Napoli, IT
Iguana - Ciro Ciardiello Italy 2019 - Oil on canvas cm.60x80
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2010s Modern Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Portrait 410" Contemporary Dutch Oil Painting of a Cow
Located in Utrecht, NL
The oil paintings of the contemporary Dutch artist Paul Jansen invites the viewer to look beyond the standard picture within the frame. It feels as if the curious animal really reach...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Flemish 17th, Orpheus and Animals, Large Decorative Wall Old Master Painting
Located in Greven, DE
Flemish school, 17th century Orpheus and the animals Oil on canvas, 146,5 x 217 cm Provenance: South German private collection. On an impressive, room-filling format, this painting depicts "Orpheus and the Animals." The harp-playing Orpheus sits centrally in front of a tree whose trunk bifurcates above his head. This central tree frames with its crown the scenery towards the horizon and at the same time offers through branches the possibility for many birds to find space. The left half of the picture is characterized by a seascape, at the edge of which the ruins of a castle can be seen deep in the background. This seascape, framed by mountains on the horizon, is the only area where sky can be seen. On this side, waterfowl such as storks, swans and ducks can be seen. In the right half, the viewer looks into a deep European forest. On this right side, more land animals can be found, such as deer, rabbits and lions, among others. Orpheus wears opulent red and gold trimmed clothing, under his blue breastplate we see a white shirt. His feet are adorned by elaborate sandals. His head is surrounded by a radiant laurel wreath ("poeta laureatus"). The young man is clearly identifiable as the singer and poet of Greek mythology, Orpheus, by his harp, the laurel wreath and the animals surrounding him. Orpheus was one of the Argonauts who, under Jason, was searching for the Golden Fleece. He sang so beautifully that he even conquered the angry sea and enemies by the magic of his lyre. During the journey, Orpheus is said to have drowned out even the sirens with his singing. It is said that he was the greatest of all poets and charmed people, animals, stones and trees with his singing. In total, 51 birds and 37 different species are depicted in the painting. The animals are mostly depicted in great detail and, except for a few, can be identified. Mainly European species of animals are shown. Exceptions are the ostrich-like nandu peeking out from behind the deer, as well as the large parrot on the upper left, and the two lions. Similar is the case for the large animal directly behind Orpheus on the right. The shape of the head suggests an arctic fox from the polar regions, even though the body is much too large. The arctic fox was first described in 1555 by Olaus Magnus. However, it could also be a depiction of a brown or black bear. An unusual detail is the animal, which is relatively isolated in the right background and looks to the left. It is not clearly identifiable, but it shows certain similarities with the Australian kangaroo. This was first described by Vespucci in 1500 and further by Francisco Pelsaert in 1629. If it is indeed a kangaroo, this would be one of the earliest surviving pictorial representations. In this painting, Orpheus is accompanied by a small monkey playing a viola da gamba. This is an iconographic peculiarity. In general, this painting has some peculiarities compared to other paintings with "Orpheus and the animals". The central positioning of Orpheus is quite common, but he usually holds a lyre and is dressed in an antique style, but not as opulently. The choice of animals is also remarkable: European animals in particular are seen, hardly any exotic features, such as camels or elephants. The two lions in the right foreground are a quotation from Peter Paul Rubens and his depiction of "Daniel in the Lion's Den", which was realized in an engraving. The present painting can be classified as belonging to the Flemish School of the 17th century on the basis of its painterly and compositional conception. From the circle of Jan Brueghel the Younger are numerous representations of this Orpheus - theme, which take it as an opportunity to show as many exotic animals. There are also echoes of Spanish painters such as Juan de Arellano...
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17th Century Baroque Animal Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Wood Thrush (2019) oil on panel, nature, wildlife birds, tree, nest, branches
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Wood Thrush" by Alexis Kandra is an original oil painting with black metal foil on wood panel measuring 10" x 8" x 1" (2019). The painting features two adult Wood Thrush birds feed...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Foil

Animal Paintings for Sale

Animal paintings depict the beauty and power of nature in an elegant way that can complement any room. Interacting with animals has long captured the imagination and has been interpreted in diverse artistic media.

Some of the oldest works of art have included animals, such as a cave painting found in Indonesia dating back more than 45,500 years that shows a wild pig in red ocher pigment. Animals have continued to appear in every era and style of art, from realism to Pop art and everything in between.

Some paintings portray animals in their natural habitat, highlighting the majesty of wild creatures roaming the plains, forests and jungles. These paintings often feature deer, tigers, wild mustangs and other wildlife. Others focus on domestic animals such as dogs — pay a visit to the Museum of the Dog if you don’t believe us — as well as cats and how they interact with the world and their owners.

Picking the right animal painting for a room — as well as knowing how to arrange your new wall art — can take time. But, in the end, it will tastefully reflect your interests and passions. While an expansive landscape painting helps open up a small space, hanging a horse painting in a den shows a love for equine culture and can invite interesting conversation.

There is animal art to fit every collection on 1stDibs. Explore a wide selection of animal paintings and animal prints in a range of styles and designs to match any home or office.

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