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Figurative Paintings For Sale
"Salvador Dalí"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
I was inspired to paint this picture by girls. on a nudist beach, they froze on the mat. Like a city in the steppe. As a result, I met them, they became my muses, I repeatedly painte...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Contemporary impressionist art brut oil painting of sea and birds on canvas
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This contemporary impressionist piece, with a touch of Art Brut and Naïve art, "Bird Sitting on the Beach Umbrella," created by French artist Natalya Mougenot, celebrates her deep lo...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"You are my force " (figurative acrylic portrait women on canvas)
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 t...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

French Impressionist River landscape, Rolleboise on the Seine, Paris
Located in Woodbury, CT
Impressionist French River landscape, with boats, a boat house. Rolleboise on the Seine Choosing to acquire a French 1950s Impressionist river landscape by Frederic Luce is an oppo...
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1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

BIRD'S -EYE VIEW
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Mixed media on watercolour paper. by artist Daria Kusto The magic flow reality... Shipped well protected, unframed Curated by Art Reserve & Angel Rivas We can do commissioned work...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Permanent Marker

Portraits of Francis Wood, and John Wood of Hollin Hall, Yorkshire (Pair))
Located in West Sussex, GB
A Superb pair of oval portraits with full provenance. Portrait of John Wood Esq of Hollin Hall, Yorkshire; Portrait of Francis Wood. Circa 1710. Oils on canvas:29 x 24 in. Frame: 37...
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Early 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Oil

"Cafe Cluny" Impressionistic West Village Restaurant Oil Painting on Wood Panel
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...
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2010s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Pekingese Family of Dogs - Oil on Canvas by F.V. Rossi - 1939
By Filiberto Vitaliano Rossi
Located in Roma, IT
Pekingese Family of Dogs is an original artwork realized in 1939 by Filiberto Vitaliano Rossi. Original oil on canvas. Hand-signed and dated on the lower right corner. Good conditions, except for some micro-holes on the canvas, very thin. Beautiful artwork representing several Pekingese dogs...
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1930s Figurative Paintings

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Oil

On the French Coast - 20th Century English Impressionist Figurative Oil Painting
By Walter John Beauvais
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful 20th century oil on panel by the very popular English impressionist artist Walter John Beauvais. This work depicts fashionable ladies walking on a promenade by the French coast. This superbly executed impressionist study is signed with monogram lower left and presented in a painted wood frame. Artist: Walter John Beauvais (British, 1942-1988) Title: On the French Coast Medium: Oil on panel Size: 23 x 19 inches (58 x 48 cm) including the frame Walter John Beauvais was born in 1942 near Windsor, Berkshire, England. He was a grandson of French artist and lithographer Charles Henri Beauvais (1862-1909) and son of Arnold Beauvais (1886-1984), artist and one time President of the London Sketch...
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1970s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Chroma sky (Blue key) 10 - Contemporary, Blue, Minimalist, Figurative, Landscape
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Chroma sky (Blue key) 10, 2007 Acrylic and oil on canvas (Signed on reverse) 23.62 H x 31.49 W in 60 H x 80 W cm The artist wrote about how he conceives this work: "The transformat...
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Early 2000s Photorealist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

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

Pierrot the Musician Singing Little Girl Clown Paris
Located in Soquel, CA
Pierrot the Musician Singing Little Girl Clown Paris Pretty street musician "Pierrot by French artist Santini Poncini (unknown) (French/Italian, B-20th...
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1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Stretcher Bars, Linen

Edmund Pick Morino Still Life With Chicken
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Still Life With Chicken, Oil on canvas singed and dated 1923, from the Collection of Bass Museum Of Art. Canvas size 14 1/5x17 1/4 framed 21 3/8 x 23 7/8 Edmund Pick-Morino was the ...
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1920s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Jedidiah - 21sr Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Mixed Media, Women, Oval Art
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Hero - African American Baseball Player, Boxer, Soldier, and Businessman
Located in New York, NY
Francks Deceus's "Hero" is a 24 x 48 inches mixed media work on canvas with collage. The work is partitioned in two distinct images. On the left side the artist depicted a baseball player...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media

Dancers 7 - Red and Black Figures Embracing the Love of Movement and Life
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bettina Mauel, an internationally collected artist, effortlessly channels vitality and sensuality through her awe-inspiring collection of abstract and figurative paintings. With an u...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Ink, Paper

Hummingbird XVI
Located in Atlanta, GA
Gwen Wong's work is both painterly and allegorical, caught somewhere in the middle between the representational painter and the narrator. "I am inspired by the idea of a childhood re...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Hummingbird XV
Located in Atlanta, GA
Gwen Wong's work is both painterly and allegorical, caught somewhere in the middle between the representational painter and the narrator. "I am inspired by the idea of a childhood re...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Glorious Autumn at Elnup Wood by Jan Rogers, Woodland painting [2022]
Located in Deddington, GB
Glorious Autumn at Elnup Wood by Jan Rogers [2022] original and hand signed by the artist Acrylic on canvas Image size: H:50 cm x W:50 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:50 cm x W:...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Terrace in Marqueyssac in Dordogne or “Shadow of their desire”
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Aude AZAÏS "The Shadow of Their Desire" - Terrace in Marqueyssac Pastel on paper (framed under glass) H. 65 cm; W. 50 cm Signed lower left - 2023 It was after seeing a small reprodu...
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21st Century and Contemporary French School Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Oil Pastel, Pastel

Oranges. Montilla Oil on canvas. Orange, Yelow, Fuchsia Expressionist Still-Life
Located in Segovia, ES
"Oranges" oil on canvas. Expressionist colorful still life. Measurements: (H) 61 x (W) 46 x (D) 2 cm. Framed: (H) 81 x (W) 66 x (D) 4 cm Expressionist still life with ...
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Linen

Adam Shaw - "Street Market" - Contemporary Urban Scene Oil Painting 2021
Located in Denver, CO
Adam Shaw's "Street Market" is an original, handmade oil painting on canvas created in 2021. This vibrant contemporary artwork measures 20 x 16 inches (50.80 x 40.64 cm) with a depth...
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2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Simka Simkhovitch WPA W/C Painting Gouache American Modernist Bouquet of Flowers
Located in Surfside, FL
Simka Simkhovitch (Russian/American 1893 - 1949) This came with a small grouping from the artist's family, some were hand signed some were not. These were studies for larger paintings. This is a miniature watercolor and gouache vibrant, colorful bouquet of flowers in a vase. Simka Simkhovitch (Симха Файбусович Симхович) (aka Simka Faibusovich Simkhovich) (Novozybkov, Russia May 21, 1885 O.S./June 2, 1885 N.S.—Greenwich, Connecticut February 25, 1949) was a Ukrainian-Russian Jewish artist and immigrant to the United States. He painted theater scenery in his early career and then had several showings in galleries in New York City. Winning Works Progress Administration (WPA) commissions in the 1930s, he completed murals for the post offices in Jackson, Mississippi and Beaufort, North Carolina. His works are in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Born outside Kyiv (Petrograd Ukraine) into a Jewish family who owned a small department store. During a severe case of measles when he was seven, Simcha Simchovitch sketched the views outside his window and decided to become an artist, over his father's objections. Beginning in 1905, he studied at the Grekov Odessa Art School and upon completion of his studies in 1911 received a recommendation to be admitted to the Imperial Academy of Arts. Though he enrolled to begin classes in architecture, painting, and sculpture at the Imperial Academy, he was dropped from the school roster in December because of the quota on the number of Jewish students and drafted into the army. Simchovitch served as a private in the 175th Infantry Regiment Baturyn [ru] until his demobilization in 1912. Re-enrolling in the Imperial Academy, he audited classes. Simka Simkhovitch exhibited paintings and sculptures in 1918 as part of an exhibition of Jewish artists and in 1919 placed 1st in the competition "The Great Russian Revolution" with a painting called "Russian Revolution" which was hung in the State Museum of Revolution. In 1922, Simkha Simkhovitch exhibited at the International Book Fair in Florence (Italian: Fiera Internazionale del Libro di Firenze). In 1924, Simkhovitch came to the United States to make illustrations for Soviet textbooks and decided to immigrate instead. Initially he supported himself by doing commercial art and a few portrait commissions. In 1927, he was hired to paint a screen for a scene in the play "The Command to Love" by Fritz Gottwald and Rudolph Lothar which was playing at the Longacre Theatre on Broadway. Art dealers began clamoring for the screen and Simkhovitch began a career as a screen painter for the theater. Catching the attention of the screenwriter, Ernest Pascal, he worked as an illustrator for Pascal, who then introduced him to gallery owner, Marie Sterner. Simkhovitch's works appeared at the Marie Sterner Gallery beginning with a 1927 exhibit and were repeated the following year. Simkhovitch had an exhibit in 1929 at Sterner's on circus paintings. In 1931, he held a showing of works at the Helen Hackett Gallery, in New York City and later that same year he was one of the featured artists of a special exhibit in San Francisco at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park. The exhibit was coordinated by Marie Sterner and included four watercolors, including one titled "Nudes". He is of the generation of Russian Soviet artists such as Isaac Pailes, Serge Charchoune, Marc Chagall, Chana Orloff, Isaac Ilyich Levitan, and Ossip Zadkine. In 1936, Simkhovitch was selected to complete the mural for the WPA Post office project in Jackson, Mississippi. The mural was hung in the post office and courthouse in 1938 depicted a plantation theme. Painted on the wall behind the judge’s bench, “Pursuits of Life in Mississippi”, a depiction of black workers engaged in manual labor amid scenes of white professionals and socialites, was eventually covered over in later years during renovations due to its stereotypical African American imagery. Simka painted what he thought was typical of Jackson. His impression of pre-civil rights Mississippi was evidently Greek Revival column houses, weeping willow trees, working class families, and the oppression of African Americans. He painted African American men picking cotton, while a white man took account of the harvest and a white judge advised a white family, calling it Pursuits of Life in Mississippi. Though clearly endorsed by the government and initially generally well-received, the mural soon raised concerns with locals as the climate toward racial segregation began to change. The main concern was whether depictions that show African Americans in subjugated societal roles should be featured in a courtroom. The following year, his painting "Holiday" won praise at an exhibition in Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1940, Simkhovitch's second WPA post office project was completed when four murals, "The Cape Lookout Lighthouse and the Orville W. Mail Boat", "The Wreck of the Crissie Wright", "Sand Ponies" and "Canada Geese" were installed in Beaufort, North Carolina. The works were commissioned in 1938 and did not generate the controversy that the Jackson mural had. The main mural is "The Wreck of the Crissie Wright" and depicts a shipwreck which had occurred in Beaufort in 1866. "The Cape Lookout Lighthouse and the Orville W. Mail Boat" depicted the lighthouse built in 1859 and the mail boat that was running mail during the time which Simkhovitch was there. The boat ran mail for the area until 1957. "Sand Ponies" shows the wild horses common to the North Carolina barrier islands and "Canada Geese" showed the importance of hunting and fishing in the area. All four murals were restored in the 1990s by Elisabeth Speight, daughter of two other WPA muralists, Francis Speight...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Gouache, Watercolor, Board

Surf Dance, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A mom and her three kids walk toward a gentle surf on a fun summer vacation. Artist John Jaster paints a vibrant heartwarming family portrait under the bright s...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

The Queen , 1947, by French Transgender Artist JM Poulain
Located in Paris, FR
By French famous Transgender artist, Michel Marie Poulain (Born Paris December 5, 1906. Died 1991) this rare oil on canvas it represents the Queen and he...
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1940s Feminist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Harvesting Cotton - Original Oil Painting - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Harvesting Cotton is an original contemporary artwork realized in 1981. Mixed colored oil on canvas Hand signed and dated by the artist on the lower margin Included a brown wooden...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Spring Cycling in Yellow, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Warren Keating displays an image of a man riding a bicycle from an aerial view. "This painting was inspired by an early morning cyclist traveling on a de...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Mid Century Modern Mixed Media Painting -- Day at the Beach
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful mid century mixed media coastal/figurative in loose/painterly style by Irmal Gertrude Attridge (American, 1894-1962), circa 1950. Signed lower right. Presented in vintage frame under glass (included as-is). Image size: 9"H x 12"W. Irma Gertrude Attridge was born in Chicago and studied at Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles with Henry McFee and Oscar Van Young. Member of Calif. AC; AEA; Cal. WC. Soc.; Women Painters...
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1950s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Ink, Watercolor, Color Pencil, Laid Paper

Fine French Impressionist Oil Painting Portrait Elegant Lady with Parasol
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of an Elegant Lady by Pio Santini (French 1908-1986) signed oil on canvas, framed framed: 34 x 28 inches canvas: 26 x 20 inches Provenance: Private collection, Lyon, France ...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

19th Century British School Ship at Sea, Seascape Painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
19th Century British School Ship at Sea Oil on canvas laid on panel 11 x 14.5 inches 14.5 x 18 inches, framed
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19th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil

"La Plage" by Grégoire Mathias – Cubist Nude in Diachronic Cubism
Located in PÉRIGUEUX, FR
La Plage Acrylic on Canvas 38 x 46 cm A skilled example of cubist nude painting, 'La Plage' merges geometric abstraction with fluid, expressive movement, capturing the human form...
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21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Fenêtre sur lac, Oil Painting, Cosy Interior With Sofa and Porcelain Vase
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
Work : Original Oil Painting, Handmade artwork, Unique Work. Framed in Solid wood floater frame with light finish. Ready to Hang. Medium : Oil painting on stretched Linen. Artist : ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Linen, Oil

Fishing in the Itaya River
Located in Paris, FR
Fishing in the Itaya River is a painting by contemporary Spanish artist Calo Carratalá from the “Jungle” series. It represents two fishermen on the Itaya river in Peru. In the series...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

18th Century French School Portrait of an Actress with Flowers
Located in Beachwood, OH
18th Century French School Portrait of an Actress Oil on canvas 30 x 23 inches 36 x 30 inches, framed
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18th Century French School Figurative Paintings

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Oil

'Shimmer III' Unique Painting
Located in New York, NY
‘Shimmer III’ is a signature gestural butterfly painting by Hunt Slonem. Butterflies can be found throughout Slonem’s Neo-expressionist body of work. The background of the painting i...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Wood

Cubist Nude Woman by the Window in Oil on Canvas-Wrapped Illustration Panel
Located in Soquel, CA
Cubist Nude Woman by the Window in Oil on Canvas-Wrapped Illustration Panel Lovely modernist depiction of a nude woman, facing away from the viewer, by Kero Antoyan (Armenian, 1912-...
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Mid-20th Century Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Illustration Board

View of the Mauna Loa crater, Hawai
Located in PARIS, FR
Ogura Yonesuke Itoh (1870 - 1940), attributed to View of the crater of Mauna Loa, Hawai Circa 1890-1900 Oil on canvas 30 x 46 cm canvas 36 x 51 cm frame Inscribed “Roa Mowna” lowe...
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1890s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Donegal Dusk, 2023 - Contemporary Landscape Oil Painting on Board, Green + Blue
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Tim Woolcock was born in Lancashire, though his family originates from St Just-in-Penwith in Cornwall, where the artist spent many summers. He now lives part of the year on his farm ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Journée de Fête à Arcachon – Cubist Figurative Composition in Diachronic Cubism
Located in PÉRIGUEUX, FR
Journée de Fête à Arcachon Acrylic on Canvas 46 x 38 cm Journée de Fête à Arcachon by Grégoire Mathias captures a moment of leisure and festivity through the fragmented perspectiv...
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21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Mindful
Located in PARIS, FR
Original and unique artwork by Hunt Slonem. Oil on wood Painting is framed, as seen in the images. Dimensions of the artwork with the frame: 40,64 x 35,56 cm Signed Verso Please not...
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2010s Post-Modern Figurative Paintings

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Wood, Oil

Venise II – Cubist Venetian Cityscape in Diachronic Cubism, by Grégoire Mathias
Located in PÉRIGUEUX, FR
Venise II 65 x 54 cm Acrylic on Canvas Venise II by Grégoire Mathias reinterprets the essence of Venice through a fragmented and dynamic cubist composition. Using Diachronic Cubis...
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21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Space Junk 15 - Original One of a Kind Artwork on Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ricky Hunt’s work is influenced by Egyptian hieroglyphs, graffiti, and his tumultuous past that led to a paradigm shift in his creative life. He covers the canvas with unique imagery...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

'Rosewood III' Unique Painting
Located in New York, NY
‘Rosewood III’ is a signature gestural bunny painting by Hunt Slonem. The gestural bunny can be found throughout Slonem’s Neo-expressionist body of work. The background of the painti...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Wood, Oil

Journée dans l'Atelier – Interior Scene in Diachronic Cubism, by Greg Mathias
Located in PÉRIGUEUX, FR
Journée dans l'Atelier (A Day in the Studio) Acrylic on Canvas 46 x 38cm Journée dans l'Atelier by Grégoire Mathias captures the essence of an artist’s workspace through the str...
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21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Wiltshire Streams, Pink Moon, 2023 - Green Contemporary Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Tim Woolcock was born in Lancashire, though his family originates from St Just-in-Penwith in Cornwall, where the artist spent many summers. He now lives part of the year on his farm ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Mid Century French Post Impressionist Oil on Canvas Man Working in Fields
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Working in the Fields by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) signed and stamped verso oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 21 x 26 inches very good condition provenance: from the a...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Lac du Bois de Boulogne - Fauvist Landscape Oil Painting by Louis Valtat
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed fauvist oil on canvas laid on panel riverscape circa 1925 by French painter Louis Valtat. The work depicts a boat being rowed on the Bois de Boulogne lake in Paris, France. It...
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1920s Fauvist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Panel

The Baron's Charger - 19th Century Oil Painting of Civil War Soldier & Horses
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘The Baron’s Charger’ by John Frederick Herring Jr. (1815-1907). The painting – which depicts a 17th century Caroline nobleman with his battle horses and attendant hounds – is sign...
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Mid-19th Century English School Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Notre Dame - Impressionist Figures in Landscape Painting by Maximillien Luce
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed figures in cityscape oil on canvas circa 1905 by French impressionist painter Maximilien Luce. The piece depicts a view of Paris in France. In the foreground is a bustling st...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Victorian Pastoral Scene Children with Pet Lamb & Cat 19th-Century Large Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Feeding the Lamb by William Underhill ( 1808-1908) British signed and dated 1847 Inscribed on a label verso ' Granny ( Clementine Cooper) feeding th...
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19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Woman in Kimono
Located in Sheffield, MA
Everett Lloyd Bryant American, 1864-1945 Woman in Kimono Oil on canvas Signed lower right 30 by 25 in. W/frame 35 by 30 in. Everett studied wit...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Repos dans un champs de coquelicots - Pointillist Landscape Oil by Yvonne Canu
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed pointillist oil on panel figures in landscape by French neo-impressionist painter Yvonne Canu. This stunning piece depicts a couple resting under a parasol in a field of wildf...
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1960s Pointillist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

"Brooklyn, New York" Frederick James Boston, Impressionist Brooklyn Landscape
By Frederick James Boston
Located in New York, NY
Frederick James Boston Brooklyn, New York Inscribed verso Oil on board 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches Though understudied today, Frederick James Boston was a well-known and respected teacher...
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Late 19th Century American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Board, Oil

Station
Located in New York, NY
Bo Bartlett Station, 2017 Gouache on paper 15 1/4 x 22 1/2 inches 38.7 x 57.2 cm Signed: Bo (lower right recto) Dated: Aug 31 2017 (lower left recto) -- Bo Bartlett is an American...
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2010s Figurative Paintings

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Gouache

Lavandieres a la Marne d'apres midi - Barbizon Figurative Pastel -Leon Lhermitte
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and dated figures in landscape pastel on canvas by French Barbizon painter Leon Augustin Lhermitte. The piece depicts washerwomen washing linen on the bank of the River Marne,...
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1920s Barbizon School Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Pastel

Mid-Century Breton Harbor Scene with Boats Original French Oil by Fanch Lel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Brittany Boats by Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) signed lower corner oil painting on board, unframed condition: the painting is in very good condition. It has previously been stored in t...
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20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Religious Italian painter - Early 19th figure painting - Virgin Madonna
Located in Varmo, IT
Italian painter (early 19th century) - Mater Dolorosa. 37 x 33 cm without frame, 53 x 48 cm with frame. Ancient oil painting on canvas, in an ancient carved and gilded wooden frame...
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Early 19th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Figures Mountainside Pass Riding a Donkey Signed Antique Italian Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Mountain Pass Italian School, 19th century signed initials oil on canvas, framed framed: 13 x 11 inches canvas: 10 x 7.5 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: ...
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19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings

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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.

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