Figurative Paintings
Figurative Paintings For Sale
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"WHEN YOU FOCUS ON THE GOOD" Painting 47" x 59" inch by Masha Iv
Located in Culver City, CA
"WHEN YOU FOCUS ON THE GOOD" Painting 47" x 59" inch by Masha Iv
ABOUT:
Masha Iv is a Russian artist, performer and fashion designer who works in various ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ceramic, Canvas, Paper, Acrylic
Child Sewing with Dog
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Unsigned
Original illustration for March 1918 Pictorial Review Magazine.
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Girl with a Flower
Located in Lawrence, NY
Gouache on Paper
From the Estate of Samuel Esses and by descent
Never afraid of trying new styles, curious and opinionated, constantly engaged with the world around him, Rolph Scarl...
Category
1940s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache
Ireland Seascape Landscape with Boats & Figures by Contemporary Irish Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Ireland Lake Seascape Landscape with Boats & Figures by Contemporary Irish Artist, Frank Fitzsimons
Art measures 36 x 16 inches
Frame measure 41 x 21...
Category
1980s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Marigold, Watercolour on Paper, Orange, Green Colour by Indian Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Dileep Sharma - Marigold
Watercolour on Paper
36 x 48 inches ( Unframed Size )
About thwe Artist & his works :
Born in 1974 in Mandawar, Rajasthan, Dileep Sharma completed his MFA...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Surreal Collage: 'Six Feet Apart, Six Feet Under'
Located in New York, NY
Barnett, a surrealist artist incorporates discarded mechanical objects and gadgets into his artwork. His work is characterized by its unique and eclectic mix of materials, which rang...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Valkyrie, Classic Art, figurative, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Alexander Litvinov
Work: Original oil painting, handmade artwork, one of a kind
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Style: Classic Figurative
Year: 2000
Title: Valkyrie
Size: 32" x 9" x 0...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rare Israeli Judaica Watercolor Painting Over Print Bezem
Located in Surfside, FL
Naftali Bezem (Hebrew: נפתלי בזם; born November 27, 1924) is an Israeli painter, muralist, and sculptor.
Bezem was born in Essen, Germany, in 1924. His early adolescence was spent under Nazi oppression, in constant fear for the safety of his parents, who perished in the Holocaust in the Polish Auschwitz concentration camp. Naftali emigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1939, at the age of fourteen with a Youth Aliyah group.
From 1943 to 1946, he studied art at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem with Israeli painter Mordecai Ardon...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Chuckles, oversize panel of abstract paint, collage images, earth tones, animals
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Acrylic, ink, collage, charcoal, wood stain, resin on panel. Figurative, landscape, abstract, animals.
Chaotic, random images w figures, nudes, snake, animal skull, bird, music scor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Wood Panel
'Playing with Socks', San Francisco Women's College, San Francisco Art Institute
By Inez Storer
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Storer' for Inez May Storer (American, born 1933) and dated 1978.
Inez Storer first studied at the San Francisco College for Women, the San Francisco Art Institute and the University of California at Berkeley. She later earned a bachelor's degree at Dominican College in San Rafael and, in 1971, a graduate degree in at California State University in San Francisco.
From Inverness, California, north of San Francisco and working from a studio in Point Reyes, Inez Storer creates mixed-media narrative paintings, collages and assemblages in naive-sophisticated style, which she describes as Magic Realism: "I am a visual raconteur. I use paint to tell stories." Most of these stories are explorations of the human condition with characters who seem allegorically to be walking tightropes. She gets many ideas from her studio collection of old postcards, toys, photos and other random items that she often incorporates into her work. Inez Storer is also known for her prints and drawings.
Storer was born in Los Angeles to German parents who left that country in 1933 to avoid Hitler. Her father got a job in Hollywood with Billy Wilder as an art director, and her mother was an actress and dancer. Inez spent much time as a child on movie sets. She was raised a Catholic as her parents wanted no one to know her mother was Jewish and uses Catholic imagery in her work.
In 1974, she met Andrew Romanoff, a Russian artist who became her second husband. In this marriage, she became a part of Russian royalty because Andrew was the grand nephew of the Czar Nicholas II, Russia's last emperor...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Gouache, Color Pencil, Acrylic
La Mer
Located in Denver, CO
Kaitlyn Tucek's "La Mer" captures an intimate moment between two male subjects. As the pair gaze at one another, one holds a starfish, seeming to caress ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Things U Do, 2023, Fresh Prince & DJ Jazzy Jeff, rap, Philly hip hop, street
By Sean 9 Lugo
Located in Jersey City, NJ
The Things U Do (2023) by east coast wheatpaste and street artist Sean 9 Lugo
Ink, acrylic and marker on paper and mixed media on reclaimed metal diamond shaped street sign depictin...
Category
2010s Street Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Metal
MINIMAL FACE
By Angel Rivas
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
+ 5cm / 2inches of white edge
Acrylic on canvas
Shipped rolled in a tube
I can do commissioned works
Category
2010s Minimalist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Permanent Marker
Blue Toned Impressionist Pastoral Winter Field Landscape with Skiing Figure
Located in Houston, TX
Blue toned impressionist pastoral landscape by Texas artist Chester Dixon Snowden. The work features a small figure dressed in red ski...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Desire for Heaven. Oil figurative painting, Landscape, Colorful, Vibrant
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary oil on canvas figurative painting by Iszchan Nazarian. Painting depicts figure standing in front of sea and mountain with cross in the sky. The style of artwork is faux naive. Colors used are vibrant blue, yellow, red green and orange.
ISZCHAN NAZARIAN ( born in 1946) Artist of Iranian origin. In 1947 he moved with his family to Yerevan in Armenia. After high school he entered the Academy of Fine Arts of the Artistic-Theatrical Institute of Yerevan, where he studied for three years. In 1971, he moved to Poland and began his studies at the Faculty of Painting at Academy of Fine Art in Warsaw. He graduated in 1975 and 8 years later he moved to Chicago. Currently, he resides in Warm Mineral Springs (Florida) where he continues to paint in his private studio. His works were presented in the prestigious Lloyd Shin Gallery...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Contemporary Chinese Art by Liu Xiaodong - Gentleman
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Liu Xiaodong is a Chinese artist born in Inner Mongolia in 1968 who lives and works in Beijing, China. He graduated from the Oil Painting ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Searching Roots-6, Pen & Ink on Paper by Contemporary Indian Artist “In Stock”
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Pratap Chandra Chakraborty - Searching Roots-6
23 x 31 inches (unframed size)
Pen & Ink on Paper 2018
( Rolled & Delivered )
Contemporary Artist with 20 years of related professional work experience, as well as portfolio of varied accomplishments, including referenced articles, exhibitions, and participations in various residences. Possess a strong sense of artistry and forward-thinking that is consistently displayed across all art pieces.
• Experiments about contemporary drawing, painting and sculpture.
• Create abstract art to be displayed in local establishments.
• Collaborate with local museum to develop and fit art installations across outside area .
Awards :
1. The Best Artist Award 2012 from annual exhibition of Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata, India
2. CIMA AWARD 2017 from CIMA ( Center of International Modern Art ) gallery Kolkata...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
The Discussion - Oil on Board - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Discussion is an original oil on canvas realized in the 19th Century by an italian artist.
Original oil tempera on board.
Gilded wood Frame is included. 30.5 x 34.5 x 34.5 cm
...
Category
19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
anwuli ⏐ Joy
By REWA
Located in New Orleans, LA
REWA says of her work…
Viewers largely label me under “Contemporary African Art”. I label my work as Igbo Vernacular Art. The reason for this is that I believe that I have created a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
"Popeye" Painting (FRAMED) 20" x 20" inch by Antonio Pelayo
Located in Culver City, CA
"Popeye" Painting 20" x 20" inch by Antonio Pelayo
Medium: Acrylic Ink & Paint on Animation Acetate
Image size: 13" x 13" inch
Size framed: 20" x 20" inch
Artist Antonio Pelayo, born in Glendale, California, and yet raised for most of his childhood in the Mexican countryside, has never had his own country. Moving from an American suburb to a tiny village has kept his world unstable, yet that very instability has made him an artist.
Antonio was born in 1973 in a comfortable, quintessentially American suburb: close neighbors, picket fences, movie theatres, malls, and English all around. At nine, his family sent him back to his father’s village in Mexico, where the environment radically changed: old broken down adobe churches replaced galleries and the trappings of suburbia. Some adjustments were difficult, like dealing with outdoor plumbing and the transition to a Spanish-speaking environment. Teased and ostracized by other kids, and unable to communicate with the adults, Antonio looked elsewhere for, if not companionship, at least solace. He found it with a pencil and in the pews. He snuck into the village church and stared up at the murals of martyrdom. He hid in the dark corners and sketched the artwork that covered the walls and altars.
Antonio sought out the work of other Mexican artists, making them his mentors; his friends. Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and Orozco, all revealed to Antonio the depth of Mexican art and its movement from the shadows of the Catholic Church into the modern world. He learned Spanish. He strove to master it, hoping to communicate with the folks of the village. Still, there was a gap; the language barrier between poor farmers and the middle class kept him from meeting people on an intimate level. Nevertheless, he now had three languages: English, Spanish, and his drawings.
Years later his family brought him back to Glendale, which he now saw through the lens of Mexico. It looked unreal; it did not look like home. Nothing looked like home anymore; not Mexico, not Southern California. The one home he had was his art. Though his mastery of pencil and paper began in the nave of an old country church in Mexico...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic
"Dreaming on the Beach" Expressionist Figurative Woman
By Linda Dumont
Located in Austin, TX
By Linda Dumont
6" x 6" - Oil on Panel
About the Artist:
Linda Dumont draws upon her childhood experiences in a vibrant and experimental art world to create extraordinary works. Wit...
Category
Late 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Puppy Love
By Kevin Frank
Located in Fairfield, CT
Kevin Frank is represented by George Billis Gallery. Kevin Frank statement: For me, combining the techniques of the ancient Greco-Roman painters with those of the old and new master...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Wood Panel
Blooming - Contemporary Abstract Painting Acrylics, Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
acrylic and collage (painted canvas) on canvas
ANNA MASIUL-GOZDECKA
Graduated from Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in 2000. She studied painting at prof. Krzysztof Wachowiak`s atelier, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Do You Mind If I Hum While You Talk, abstracted woman in bar w brushwork
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Fin de Siecle, Nabis-styled woman in cafe. Abstract Expressionism looms behind her. Tribute to the fearless and incandescent painting of Édouard Vuillard.
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
I Come Bearing Gifts 2
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Presenting my offering: 'I Come Bearing Gifts' – a visual tale of generosity and connection."
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 (Issued by the Gallery)
About Artist
Adigbo Tolulope...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Recuerdos tumultuosos
Located in BARCELONA, ES
Franco Fasoli, born in Buenos Aires in 1981 and who also goes by the name "Jaz", currently lives in Barcelona. A stage designer and muralist, Fasoli's art is influenced both by his s...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Circle of Jacob Ruisdael, Landscape with Riders and a Well, Flemish Art
Located in Greven, DE
Circle of Ruisdael, Riders in a Landscape passing by a well
Category
17th Century Baroque Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Impressionist Antique American Oil Painting Philadelphia Female Artist 1918
Located in Buffalo, NY
A stunning impressionist oil painting by listed female artist Clara Elizabeth Sackett.
Category
1910s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
The scam
Located in BARCELONA, ES
Evolution is a premise that is intrinsically linked to human nature, and as such, Cesc Abad’s artistic evolution is an inevitable premise.
His essence as an artist has been characte...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled, Ink on Board by Modern Indian Artist Lalu Prasad Shaw "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Lalu Prasad Shaw - Untitled - 10 x 10 inches
Ink on Board, 2017
( Unframed & Delivered )
Style : Known widely for his highly stylized portraits of Bengali women and couples, Lalu Pr...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Ink
The Miraculous Life, Pen & Ink on Paper by Contemporary Indian Artist “In Stock”
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Pratap Chandra Chakraborty - The Miraculous Life
35 x 23 inches (unframed size)
Pen & Ink on Paper , 2020
Contemporary Artist with 20 years of related professional work experience, as well as portfolio of varied accomplishments, including referenced articles, exhibitions, and participations in various residences. Possess a strong sense of artistry and forward-thinking that is consistently displayed across all art pieces.
• Experiments about contemporary drawing, painting and sculpture.
• Create abstract art to be displayed in local establishments.
• Collaborate with local museum to develop and fit art installations across outside area .
Awards :
1. The Best Artist Award 2012 from annual exhibition of Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata, India
2. CIMA AWARD 2017 from CIMA ( Center of International Modern Art ) gallery Kolkata...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
Occasionally There Would Be One - Intimate Painting of a Couple, Original Oil
By Rick Sindt
Located in Chicago, IL
Using pornography as a vehicle for understanding, Rick Sindt's work explores the discovery and development of queer attraction. Sindt transforms pornographi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Beach Series, Mixed Media on Paper by Modern Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Prakash Karmakar – Beach Series, 36 x 30 inches (unframed size)
Mixed Media on Paper, 2009
( Unframed & Delivered )
Karmakar is best known for his landscapes and nudes, whi...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Outsider Artist Surrealist Figurative Eye
Located in Buffalo, NY
Figurative eye by outsider artist Phillip Q.
Category
1990s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Photobomb
By Wencke Uhl
Located in New Orleans, LA
Wencke Uhl is a contemporary figurative paintress living and working in Germany.
She draws inspiration from human beauty and the female form. As a teenager Uhl wanted to become a f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Paper, Acrylic
Circle of David Teniers, Landscape with Peasants by an Inn and a River, Dutch
Located in Greven, DE
Circle of Teniers, Peasants in a Landscape passing by a river and an Inn.
Category
17th Century Baroque Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Place de la Bastille - Impressionist Snowy Cityscape by Eugene Galien-Laloue
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed impressionist gouache on board circa 1890 by sought after French painter Eugene Galien-Laloue. The piece depicts a depicting a bustling city scene at the Place de Bastille in ...
Category
1890s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Gouache
Mid Century Hungarian Gilt Oil Painting on Board Modern Judaica
Located in Surfside, FL
From a collection by a long time Miami Beach art dealer on the old Lincoln Rd. This is a piece he brought back from hungary. from a collection of good Hungarian artists and Illustrat...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Lord and Lady Eliot, unique Acrylic painting on a gesso panel
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Lord and Lady Eliot, by Manuel Santelices
Acrylic on gesso panel
Image size: 12 in. H x 9 in. W
Unframed
2023
The worlds of fashion, society, and pop culture are explored through t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic, Gesso
Partial Coverage By Gil Elvgren
By Gil Elvgren
Located in New Orleans, LA
Gil Elvgren
1914-1980 American
Partial Coverage
Signed “Elvgren” (lower right)
Oil on canvas
The iconic illustrations of Gil Elvgren have become an irreplaceable facet of the American artistic landscape. Flirtatious beauties in light-hearted situations were the dominant subject matter for this intuitive artist, whose eloquent brush strokes dutifully captured the innocent sensuality of the mischievous girl next door. Partial Coverage, originally published in the 1956 Brown & Bigelow calendar, epitomizes the coquettish spirit of his beauties, whose nostalgic glamor give us a glimpse into a simpler time in American history.
Elvgren is considered to be the greatest American pin-up and glamor artist. The majority of his work was done for the famed Brown & Bigelow, though at various points in his career he also worked for magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post and Good Housekeeping, as well as large corporations including Sealy Mattresses, General Electric and Coca-Cola.
Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, Elvgren began his artistic education at the Minneapolis Art Institute, and later the American Academy of Art. His first job upon graduation was at the Chicago advertising firm of Stevens and Gross, working directly under Haddon Sundblom, famous for his Coca-Cola Santas. Elvgren would soon become his star pupil, contributing much to the Coca-Cola campaigns and eagerly learning techniques that he would carry into his famed pin-ups.
After completing several special commissions with rave reviews, Elvgreen began doing pin-up work in 1937 for the Louis F. Dow Calendar Company, the biggest retailer of calendars of its day. Almost overnight, the artist became one of the most respected and successful commercial artists of his generation. More commissions followed, and, along with his work for Dow, Elvgren found himself booked solid at least one year ahead of his output. It was in 1944 that Brown & Bigelow approached him with an offer for a staff position. From that point on, for the next 30 years, Elvgren enjoyed tremendous commercial success unlike any other American artist of his day.
Circa 1956
Canvas: 30 1/8“ high x 24 1/8” wide
Frame: 33 3/4“ high x 27 7/8” wide x 1 1/2“ deep
Literature:
Charles G. Martignette and Louis K...
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Keep it Moving
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: house-paint on upcycled drop cloth
Becca Fuhrman (b. 1988, Boise, ID) is an interdisciplinary artist who specializes in multimedia large-scale paintings. Trained in art and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Found Objects, House Paint
So it Goes
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: house-paint on upcycled drop cloth
Becca Fuhrman (b. 1988, Boise, ID) is an interdisciplinary artist who specializes in multimedia large-scale paintings. Trained in art and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Found Objects, House Paint
Portrait of a Young Man
Located in Lawrence, NY
Gouache
Estate of Samuel Esses
Beautifully framed
Never afraid of trying new styles, curious and opinionated, constantly engaged with the world around him, Rolph Scarlett more tha...
Category
1930s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Knocking Knees
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: house-paint on upcycled drop cloth
Becca Fuhrman (b. 1988, Boise, ID) is an interdisciplinary artist who specializes in multimedia large-scale paintings. Trained in art and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Found Objects, House Paint
View on the Governor’s Palace in Paramaribo, Surinam
Located in Amsterdam, NL
GOVERT VAN EMMERIK (1808-1882)
View on the Governor’s Palace in Paramaribo, Surinam
Signed and dated 1856
Oil on canvas, 70 x 90 cm
In large gilt...
Category
19th Century Naturalistic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Two Generals and a Horse
Located in Austin, TX
A naturalistic oil painting depicting two soldiers wearing regalia with a black horse. The scene is set in on a farm in a rural landscape.
The paining measures 6.25 x 6.75 inches. ...
Category
Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Landscape - Drawing in Watercolor - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original drawing in watercolor realized in the Mid-20th Century.
Very good conditions.
The artwork is depicted through soft strokes in a well-balanced composition.
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Georgian Contemporary Art by Maia Kvatchadze - Girl With Pink Hat
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic and oil pastel on canvas
Maia Kvatchadze is a Georgian artist born in 1981 who lives and works in Batumi, Georgia. She is a self-taught artis...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Figure - Oil Painting - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
"Figure" is an original drawing with oil painting on ivory-colorated paper by Anonymous Artist of XX Century.
In excellent conditions: As good as new.
Sheet dimension: 22 x 16 cm.
...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Red figures - Figurative Painting on Paper, Young art, Colorful, Vibrant
Located in Warsaw, PL
Dimensions are of the composition, not papersheet itself
WALERIA MATELSKA (born 1994 in Belarus)
In 2012-2015 she studied at the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in K...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Pastel Constructivist Forms, Soft Tones Geometric Painting, Blue, Pink, Yellow
Located in Barcelona, ES
"Pastel Constructivist Forms" is a hand-painted acrylic painting on high-quality 300g paper by artist Ryan Rivadeneyra. This series focuses on geometric patterns and combinations of...
Category
2010s Constructivist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Ink, Sumi Ink, Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Steamships
Located in Lawrence, NY
We fell in love with this highly atmospheric, nearly abstract image of steamships, c. 1900, by American impressionist painter Frederic Usher Devoll. You c...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
Chinese Mythical Immortal Screen Painting, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
Since the 12th century, people in China have used folding screens and doors to partition and decorate their homes - the vivid scenes backing the screens added life and color to a roo...
Category
Mid-19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Ink, Pigment
Chinese Mythical Immortal Screen Painting, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
Since the 12th century, people in China have used folding screens and doors to partition and decorate their homes - the vivid scenes backing the screens added life and color to a roo...
Category
Mid-19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Ink, Pigment
Chinese Mythical Immortal Screen Painting, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
Since the 12th century, people in China have used folding screens and doors to partition and decorate their homes - the vivid scenes backing the screens added life and color to a roo...
Category
Mid-19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Ink, Pigment
Play it Again
By Wencke Uhl
Located in New Orleans, LA
Wencke Uhl is a contemporary figurative paintress living and working in Germany.
She draws inspiration from human beauty and the female form. As a teenager Uhl wanted to become a f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Chinese Mythical Immortal Screen Painting, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
Since the 12th century, people in China have used folding screens and doors to partition and decorate their homes - the vivid scenes backing the screens added life and color to a roo...
Category
Mid-19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Ink, Pigment
Mythological I (Faun) - Contemporary Art, Blue, Orange, Nude, Flower, Myth
Located in Berlin, DE
Mythological I (Faun), 2016
Acrylic marker on canvas sheet (signed and dated front left corner)
23 5/8 H x 17 3/4 W in.
60 H x 45 W cm
(reproduced at page 23, in the catalogue 'Mythi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
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.