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Figurative Paintings For Sale
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Whitesands III by Suzanna Winn, Contemporary landscape art, original painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Whitesands III by Suzanne Winn Original and hand signed by the artist Oil Paint on Canvas Image size: H 50cm x W 50cm x D 3.5cm Sold Unframed Ready to Hang Please note that in situ images are purely an indication of how a piece may look.Whitesands III is a contemporary seascape painting by Suzanne Winn. I find the Pembrokeshire landscape very inspiring. It is wild, rugged and timeless. The light is fantastic and there is an immense energy which flows through the landscape. Whitesands III was inspired by visits to Whitesands Bay – a stretch of coastline where the Atlantic Ocean meets the Pembrokeshire cliffs, beneath the wild moorland of St David’s Head...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"MIC-CHECK" Pop Art Cartoon Character inspired by Mr. Mike and Toy Story
Located in Los Angeles, CA
US Navy veteran Randy Morales fuses nostalgia and graphic expressionism within his street-pop artworks. The choice of subjects within his artworks is str...
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2010s Street Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Glitter, Acrylic

The river bed #1 Hélène Duclos 21st Century painting landscape blue art diptych
Located in Paris, FR
Unique diptych composed of two oil on canvas paintings This work is part of the current exhibition entitled "The fantastic story of the liquid mountain" at Claire Corcia Gallery in ...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The place of the unsaid #1 Hélène Duclos Contemporary painting art garden eden
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint on canvas Hand-signed lower right This work is part of the current exhibition entitled "The fantastic story of the liquid mountain" at Claire Corcia Gallery in Paris. The...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Stage 1
Located in Southampton, NY
Black figures; independent figures... Singularity, power and elegance within one single being. Surrounded by Red- symbolizing the power of love in all its wonder.
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"Forest Iris" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Scott Conary's "Forest Iris" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a white and purple iris flower with a wooded background. About the Artis...
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2010s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Arms of an Angel, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A mother embraces her child in artist Diana Elena Chelaru's tender expressionist portrait. "We all know as children and later on, as parents how much we love be...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Boardwalk Blue Racecar
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Kathleen Keifer is a California-based internationally collected artist. She is a leading force of the New California Realism. Kathleen brings a fresh, clean perspective to Contempora...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Yoko - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Oil Painting, Portrait, Pop
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Françoise Nielly has explored the different facets of image all her life, through painting, photography, roughs, illustrations and virtual computer ge...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Red - Original Sally K Figurative Artwork
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gazing at Lebanese American artist Sally K's floral portrait is consuming and empowering. Inspired by strong, feminine women, she creates pop-realistic paintin...
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21st Century and Contemporary Art Nouveau Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Canvas, Acrylic, Board

Woman on the Rocks II
Located in New York, NY
Isca Greenfield-Sanders Woman on the Rocks II, 2016 Mixed media oil on canvas 35 x 35 inches 88.9 x 88.9 cm Signed, titled and dated (verso) -- Greenfield-Sanders’ landscape paintings invite the viewer into nostalgia, to forge a connection to their own experience. Using found vintage photography as a starting point, she creates several iterations of each image, which she alters with pencil and watercolor, and finally paints over with oil. They emerge simultaneously familiar yet enigmatic. She elaborates, stating, “All of my paintings are based on amateur slides from seventy years ago. I am interested in the ‘comfortably familiar’ nature of the images and how the elapsed time allows them to ‘prickle with new meaning’ to connect that which was worth capturing with that which is worth painting, at present.” The paintings require a great deal of forethought and groundwork, but still appear unlabored and fresh. Her style of painting, which prizes color, representation and evocation, is activated by both individual experience and collective memory. Isca Greenfield-Sanders (b. in 1978 in New York City) received her dual BFA and BA degree from Brown University. The artist lives and works in New York, NY. Recent solo exhibitions include “The Things I Can’t Forget,” Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; “Ocean Eyes of Blue,” Michael Reid...
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2010s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Los Machos Si Lloran (Machos Do Cry)
Located in Detroit, MI
Male portrait with prominent tear.
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2010s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

"Quarry Fisherman" Oil painting 39" x 55" inch by Omar Abdel Zaher
Located in Culver City, CA
"Quarry Fisherman" Oil painting 39" x 55" inch by Omar Abdel Zaher Abdel Zaher is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Helwan and has been paint...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

4-9-22 (Diptych) - 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
“I paint the human figure and explore further till I reach the Beauty of Being, the Soul.. the part of Human Being where everything is in total Serenity, Goodness and Harmony, where ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

I Can Feel Your Beating II
Located in Mill Valley, CA
oil on panel
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Spots on the beauty Corbis bay - figurative collage
Located in New York, NY
Hand-cut vinyl applied to Perspex panel. The 5th in a new series of artworks focusing on British seaside towns. I have longed to capture my own take on this theme, where even the mos...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Plexiglass, Lacquer, Acrylic Polymer, Vinyl

Nandi-2, Acrylic on Canvas, Red, Blue Color by Contemporary Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Jiban Biswas - Nandi-2 - 24 x 30 inches (unframed size) Acrylic on Canvas, 2022 Style : According to him, “ The Mud colour are changing its shade, The sh...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Fervent Love - Modern Expressive Abstract Flowers Oil Painting - Large Format
Located in Salzburg, AT
Katarzyna Swinarska is a contemporary visual artist working with painting and video which often follows the convention of video performance. She creates also multimedia projects wher...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Miranda
Located in Westport, CT
This beautiful blue painting is by René Romero Schuler. Her expressionistic paintings depict delicate female figures that she paints using a dry-brushed, minimalist hand, leaving her...
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Snow in the Fields by Margaret Crutchley, Original painting, Snow art [2021]
Located in Deddington, GB
Snow in the Fields by Margaret Crutchley [2021] original and hand signed by the artist Acrylic on cradled wood panel Image size: H:25 cm x W:25 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Panel

Verde
Located in Napoli, IT
Eclectic artist, born in Atri in Abruzzo in 1980, he works in the field of contemporary art with conceptual creations from the age of 18 years. He currently lives in Puglia. In his s...
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2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Enamel

My Bull # 2
Located in Singapore, SG
"Bulls epitomize both strength and calmness. The artwork depicts the interconnection of man, nature and animal in a very subtle, meditative and self-reflective way aiming to create a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Brooklyn Bridge
Located in Paris, IDF
Nikolai MAKAROV (Born in 1952) Brooklyn Bridge Acrylic painting on canvas mounted on panel Signed lower right 31 x 46 cm 2017
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Looking Out to Sea
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A blissful summer day, faint breezes moving through her hair, sand slipping between his toes, waves lapping at the shore. Everyone is looking out to sea...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Abstracted Letter Sunset, Vintage Miami Style Colors, Earth Tones Figures
Located in Barcelona, ES
"Abstracted Letter Sunset" is an abstract painting by Spanish artist Natalia Roman. These color field paintings are inspired by both modernist shapes of ...
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2010s Cubist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil Pastel, Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache

"Dusk" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Christy Stallop's (US based) "Dusk" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a grackle bird wearing a bright yellow bandana. ARTIST BIOGRAPHY Christy Stallop is an artist...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Mulher Verde, Oil Painting by Menelaw Sete
Located in Long Island City, NY
A portrait of a woman in green with her arms outstretched towards the sky. In a cubist style the arms and colors create a tropical feel to this composition.
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Early 2000s Cubist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Selfie 1
Located in Singapore, SG
The "Selfie" series is influenced by the obsession with social media in modern day society. Each painting has an abstract portrait of a person with a landscape of buildings and billboards. About Abhijit...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Ink, Acrylic

Korean Contemporary Art by Cho Mun-Hyun - Landscape with a Moon Jar
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic on canvas
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Spring Break Morning #1 - Collage and Acrylic on Canvas. Red, Yellow, and Blue
Located in New York, NY
Spring Break Morning #1 is a 60 x 48-inches acrylic and collage work on canvas. The primary colors are red, yellow, and blue. The image is playful, with a figure in a red suit floating inside a yellow buy. The work is part of the very recent Spring Break series. The artist writes, "Spring break, I was thinking about some of the highlights of my life. Spring break brings me back to my college Years, a time that offered endless possibilities. It was the first time I saw myself as a participant in the American dream and not just an observer". Francks F. Deceus was born in Cap-Haitien, Haiti, moving to NY when he was nine years old, where he has been living and creating ever since. Throughout his career, Francks has developed a unique modernist style where figures distilled to their pure features are layered in an abstract world evocative of our modern society. His work relates to artists like Norman Lewis...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Filter
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
"Filter" by Megan Gibbons, oil on canvas, 48 x 36 inches, $3750. - My work focuses on the meaningfulness in ordinary moments. The beauty of common, tran...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Solace IV
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Solace IV is an intricate 21st-century painting. Here Damilola Ajegbomogun attempts to broaden the discourse on the concept of beauty. It raises the question of what is wrong with bo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Korean Contemporary Art by Cho Mun-Hyun - Landscape with a Moon Jar
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic on canvas
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

"My Dreamy Blue Heart" Colorful Abstract Oil Painting with Floater Frame
Located in New York, NY
Motivated by bold color and fast brushwork, we are moved by the simplicity and thick textured oil paints in these works. Shaoul’s “My Heart Collection” is a vibrant and energetic dis...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Korean Contemporary Art by Cho Mun-Hyun - Landscape with a Moon Jar
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic on canvas
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Devotee, Acrylic on Canvas, Blue Color by Contemporary Indian Artist “In Stock”
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Gouranga Beshai - Devotee - 36 x 60 inches ( unframed size ) Acrylic on Canvas, 2022 ** Shipped in roll form. Style : Drawing inspiration from Hemen Mazumdar, Gouranga too has fashioned many a numerous woman in semi - nude forms bringing to pivotal attention the beauty of a woman .He has achieved a solid and steady reputation as a professional emerging Bengal artist . His meticulous execution on canvases and paper are irresistible visuals, both in terms of its charming figurative content and its very fascinating colors. Gaurango is a master in handling the wash technique of painting. He meticulously works on the paper to create simple but deeply arresting appeal in his works. His works attempts to bring back realism to complete and titillate our visual senses. About the Artist and his work : Born : 1968, West Bengal. Solo Shows : 2000 : Academy of Fine Arts , Kolkata. 2003 : Presented by Tara Glass Syndicate Kolkata, No War...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Charcoal, Canvas, Acrylic

Venice
Located in Paris, IDF
Nikolai MAKAROV (Born in 1952) Venice Acrylic on canvas mounted on panel Signed lower right 40 x 60 cm 2015
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Igniting the Blues, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Robin Okun paints modernist abstract figures in cool shades of blue. The scene lights up with vibrant colors and patterns while maintaining a sense of ca...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Self Portrait (2021) - vibrant, expressive, red, male, figurative, oil on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
In this haunting self-portrait by Canadian realist Dan Hughes, the artist’s face seems to emerge from a rich red background. Hughes is known for his sensitive and engaging figurative...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Before The Storm, Contemporary Powerful Figurative Oil Painting, Large Format
Located in Salzburg, AT
Jakub Malinowski – Born in 1985. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Painting at the University of Arts in Poznań. He is engaged in painting and drawing. Since 2011 he has been workin...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil

"Passage of Time" Painting 59" x 69" inch by Ahmed Gaafary
Located in Culver City, CA
"Passage of Time" Painting 59" x 69" inch by Ahmed Gaafary To begin this description, let me start with this question: Is it the internal side of things that is more important or i...
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21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

A person who used to be an enemy
Located in New Orleans, LA
Akihiko says of his work… My body of work is an experiment in rejecting conventional views of painting, reconsidering the very act of viewing, and reassessing traditional oil painti...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Prelude" Abstract Painting 75" x 75" inch by Ahmed Gaafary
Located in Culver City, CA
"Prelude" Painting 75" x 75" inch by Ahmed Gaafary To begin this description, let me start with this question: Is it the internal side of things that is more important or is it wha...
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21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Mixed Media

Korean Contemporary Art by Shin Seung-Hun - Fantasy Jeju Island, Healing Garden
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylics on canvas
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Hopeful
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Hopeful is an original painting by Ifebunmi Emmanuel Anaiye. Ifebunmi Emmanuel Anaiye created "Hopeful" with Acrylic on a 48W by 48H inches Canvas. The artwork titled "Hopeful" is ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Large 1960's French Modernist Oil Painting Bizarre Figurative Work
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, c. 1960's Title: Figurative Study Medium: oil on canvas, unframed Canvas: 36 x 25.5 inches Provenance: private collection, France Condition: The ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Bullseye
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Bullseye is an oil painting on gessoed paper, measuring 23" x 18" x .01" This painting depicts two figures standing on the beach holding each other in an embrace. The figures faces are obscured but you can see their curly hair falling around their sun visors. They are wearing a brightly color blocked shirt with a large bullseye shape on the back. Emily Royer...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Cloth" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Scott Conary's "Cloth" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts blue and white fabric draped with light hitting every fold. About the Artist: R...
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2010s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Mercedes - Pop Art Acrylic Painting Colors Lilac Blue Orange Red
Located in Sofia, BG
"Mercedes" is a painting by Maestro Pancho Malezanov. About the painting: TECHNIQUE: Acrylic, Oil painting on canvas STYLE: POP ART, Contemporary Edition : Unique, signed Weight:...
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2010s Pop Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

"Bats the Matter" Large 36x24" Acrylic and spray paint on canvas 2022
Located in Southampton, NY
We are please to present the larger works on canvas of Chris RWK. While his street art painted on buildings around New York City and Brooklyn are very large, most of his fine art pa...
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2010s Street Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic

Verde
Located in Napoli, IT
Eclectic artist, born in Atri in Abruzzo in 1980, he works in the field of contemporary art with conceptual creations from the age of 18 years. He currently lives in Puglia. In his s...
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2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Enamel

"Self Portrait w/ Red Drawing 1" Teal & Red Abstract Contemporary Self-Portrait
Located in Houston, TX
Colorful abstract contemporary painting by Houston, TX artist Saralene Tapley. This painting features the artist, Saralene, with face paint and a green...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Silk, Canvas, Pigment

Homenaje a las masas (Tribute to the masses) (athlete)
Located in New Orleans, LA
"As an artist I owe myself to my time, as a man to my history. My work is a reflection of my experience. Each stage offers my learning. Each What tells me the How. My filter? Maybe it ́s there, it has no purpose. We children speak without a filter and everyone sees us as innocent. I make innocence the culprit of all our ills..." José Emilio Fuentes Fonseca (JEFF) is a Cuban artist born in 1974 in the province of Granma, graduated from the Higher Institute of Art. His training and work as plastic artist has been developed in the city of Havana, where he currently resides. Jeff at the age of 13 began to study art and his work has been consolidated as a reflection of his experiences. His production is characterized by creative versatility. They manage to converge within their trajectory sculptural, pictorial, installation pieces, drawings and everything from a variety of formats that range from small to large dimensions. Jeff's works remain impregnated with an expressive language so warm and diaphanous that they seem to refer with apparent innocence to the world of children. However, an evocative look of dissimilar trascendental themes for man prevails in each of his creations. José Emilio Fuentes Fonseca (JEFF) has been a participant in numerous personal and collective exhibitions since 1994. Throughout his short but intense career, Jeff has been recognized and awarded by important cultural centers and organizations in the country such as the Wilfredo Lam Contemporary Art Center, Havana Gallery, A.H.S Antonia...
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21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Landscape - Oil Painting by Kurt Schwitters - 1936
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a modern artwork realized by Kurt Schwitters in 1936. Mixed colored oil on canvas. Signed with monogram and dated on the lower right rec...
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1930s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

"NYC Brooklyn Bridge" Acrylic & Ink on Paper Framed
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Marz Jr. is a focused freelance artist and illustrator, creating original and limited edition works in paint and ink. He also works in animation on various digital media platforms. H...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Ink

KOM Hotel - Contemporary Powerful Figurative Oil Painting
Located in Salzburg, AT
Jakub Malinowski – Born in 1985. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Painting at the University of Arts in Poznań. He is engaged in painting and drawin...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Cotton Canvas

Hopefulness
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another da...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Fabric, Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Untitled (Night's Fall)
Located in Nashville, TN
Inspired by the landscape paintings of David Hockney, Alex Katz, and Lawren Harris, Kahnle transports the viewer to boldly rendered forests and brooks. With thematic intentions, thes...
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2010s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Figurative Paintings for Sale

Figurative art, as opposed to abstract art, retains features from the observable world in its representational depictions of subject matter. Most commonly, figurative paintings reference and explore the human body, but they can also include landscapes, architecture, plants and animals — all portrayed with realism.

While the oldest figurative art dates back tens of thousands of years to cave wall paintings, figurative works made from observation became especially prominent in the early Renaissance. Artists like Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and other Renaissance masters created naturalistic representations of their subjects.

Pablo Picasso is lauded for laying the foundation for modern figurative art in the 1920s. Although abstracted, this work held a strong connection to representing people and other subjects. Other famous figurative artists include Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud. Figurative art in the 20th century would span such diverse genres as Expressionism, Pop art and Surrealism.

Today, a number of figural artists — such as Sedrick Huckaby, Daisy Patton and Eileen Cooper — are making art that uses the human body as its subject.

Because figurative art represents subjects from the real world, natural colors are common in these paintings. A piece of figurative art can be an exciting starting point for setting a tone and creating a color palette in a room.

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