Figurative Paintings
Figurative Paintings For Sale
Color: Gray
Female Flutist
Located in New Rochelle, NY
Gildasio Jardim is from a very beautiful and poor region of Brazil, the Jequitinhonha Valley. He began in the visual arts in a self-taught way. When h...
Category
2010s Folk Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Acrylic
Early Morning Dartmoor by Georgie Dowling, Contemporary landscape painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Early morning, Dartmoor by Georgie Dowling [2022]
original and hand signed by the artist
oil paint on board
Image size: H:30 cm x W:30 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:30 cm x W...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
We Live Everyday Like
Located in London, GB
In this large painting, pop art meets contemporary realism. With nods to urbanism, graffiti, and youth subculture the artwork adds a powerful emotional layer to any space it inhabits...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Ink, Acrylic
I Get My Light Right From The Source
Located in London, GB
In this large painting, pop art meets contemporary realism. With a lively, bright palette of red and sky blue, the artist interweaves vibrant acrylics and inks to capture an evocativ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Ink, Acrylic
Shadows & Light Paris IV
Located in AMSTERDAM, NH
Oil painting on Belgian linen canvas. Very layered with subtle colours showing the sunlight. It depicts the cast shadow of the Eiffel Tower on a sunny day and the people walking in t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil
Just as you are
Located in Long Island City, NY
There is no definitive answer to the message my work seeks to communicate.
I begin my work with mixed feelings between ‘feeling-self’ and ‘conscious-self’.
We cannot logically explai...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Furious Embrace
Located in London, GB
Acrylic on panel, 82cm x 62cm (118cm x 98cm framed).
Born in Newport, south Wales, in 1951, the early part of his career was as a choreographer and stage director. Turning away from...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Dog Years - Brightly Colored Self Portrait of Artist as a Aqua Colored Dog
By Marcos Raya
Located in Chicago, IL
Raya, like every productive artist, is a collection of actions, utopias and talents. He is an acrylic painter and a muralist; an installation artist and a practitioner of the theory of the fragment as a synthesis of the whole; he is Chicano but his work has no passport; he is an obsessive self-portraitist (I, as the multiplicity locked within the I) and his an advocate of his community (in the fullest sense of the world); his is from Chicago and - being a nation onto himself - is a native of his art education; his yearns for the Tijuana of tomorrow while being a full-fledged inhabitant of the Tijuana of half a century back; he admires high-tech while being a fan of Frida Kahlo. --Carlos Monsivais
Marcos Raya
Dog Years
oil on canvas
17h x 17w in
43.18h x 43.18w cm
MSR054
Marcos Raya brings together old and new works in a variety of media that mostly explores the sociological impact of technological change. His paintings, collages and installations present an idiosyncratic hybrid of Mexican folklore...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Sweet Shelter
Located in Seoul, SO
Korean artist, Ji Hee Lee has been talking about the subject of 'a shelter' expressing it in a surrealistic way through everyday objects such as cats, aquariums, and fruits. Lee draw...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sweet Shelter
Located in Seoul, SO
Korean artist, Ji Hee Lee has been talking about the subject of 'a shelter' expressing it in a surrealistic way through everyday objects such as cats, aquariums, and fruits. Lee draw...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cake Boy
Located in BARCELONA, ES
MARC GONZ
THE HIDDEN GAZE
When confronted with the universe of Marc Gonz, we discover creations that seem to be the result of a working session of a hyperactive action painter ...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sweet Shelter
Located in Seoul, SO
Original work by Ji Hee Lee
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated on reverse
Korean artist, Ji Hee Lee has been talking about the subject of 'a shelter' expressing it in a surrealistic wa...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Wink Foam
Located in BARCELONA, ES
MARC GONZ
THE HIDDEN GAZE
When confronted with the universe of Marc Gonz, we discover creations that seem to be the result of a working session of a hyperactive action painter ...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cake Sugar
Located in BARCELONA, ES
MARC GONZ
THE HIDDEN GAZE
When confronted with the universe of Marc Gonz, we discover creations that seem to be the result of a working session of a hyperactive action painter ...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Hidden eye
Located in BARCELONA, ES
MARC GONZ
THE HIDDEN GAZE
When confronted with the universe of Marc Gonz, we discover creations that seem to be the result of a working session of a hyperactive action painter ...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Night Foam Boy
Located in BARCELONA, ES
MARC GONZ
THE HIDDEN GAZE
When confronted with the universe of Marc Gonz, we discover creations that seem to be the result of a working session of a hyperactive action painter ...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Foam Thai
Located in BARCELONA, ES
MARC GONZ
THE HIDDEN GAZE
When confronted with the universe of Marc Gonz, we discover creations that seem to be the result of a working session of a hyperactive action painter ...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Together
Located in Long Island City, NY
There is no definitive answer to the message my work seeks to communicate.
I begin my work with mixed feelings between ‘feeling-self’ and ‘conscious-self’.
We cannot logically explai...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Drop by
Located in Long Island City, NY
There is no definitive answer to the message my work seeks to communicate.
I begin my work with mixed feelings between ‘feeling-self’ and ‘conscious-self’.
We cannot logically explai...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Emo Boy
Located in BARCELONA, ES
MARC GONZ
THE HIDDEN GAZE
When confronted with the universe of Marc Gonz, we discover creations that seem to be the result of a working session of a hyperactive action painter ...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Barbershop Designs', Kumasi, Accra, Ghana, Jah Bless, African Hair Styles, Folk
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A whimsical and unique, Ghanaian barbershop haircut board signed, upper left, 'Joe Addai' (Ghanaian, 20th century), inscribed 'City Boy Artworks, Kumasi' and ...
Category
1990s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Original Acrylic Abstract Figurative Painting on Paper
By Peter Keil
Located in Columbus, OH
Simplified drawing that expertly captures the expression of the person.
Inscribed 'Berlin' below signature
Artist bio:
Influenced by German Expressionism and graffiti elements, Keil...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Abstract Portrait acrylic painting on paper
By Peter Keil
Located in Columbus, OH
Simplified drawing that expertly captures the expression of the person.
Inscribed 'Berlin' below signature
Artist bio:
Influenced by German Expressionism and graffiti elements, Keil...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Figurative portrait interior oil painting Women and child portrait painting
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Antique post impressionist Art Deco figurative oil painting by French artist Bernard Py. This large size animated interior painting of two wom...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
A the Window, Original Oil Painting, Landscape, Contemporary Architecture
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
Work : Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, Unique Work, ready to hang.
Medium : Oil on coated Wood panel.
Artist : Gabriel Riesnert
Subject : à sa fenêtre (Series, Title), (EN ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Full length portrait of a child with his dog
Located in PARIS, FR
Benjamin Théophile CHARON-LÉMERILLON
(Paris, 1807 – Bouzareah (Algiers), 1873)
Full length portrait of a child with his dog
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right
36 x 28 cm
18...
Category
Mid-19th Century French School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Enthusiasm
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Painting
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Signed on the front side and accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Awakenings
Located in PUIFLIJK, NL
Francien Krieg, a contemporary Dutch artist, gives a new dimension to figurative painting with her penetrating and unfiltered portraits. Krieg, who received her art education at the ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Still life with aquarium
Located in Bayonne, NJ
This oil on canvas painting was executed by Lev Meshberg with his authentic technique where he used wax over canvas to create a texture first and then the paint.
Category
20th Century Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Reflections
Located in PUIFLIJK, NL
Francien Krieg, a contemporary Dutch artist, gives a new dimension to figurative painting with her penetrating and unfiltered portraits. Krieg, who received her art education at the...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Colorful oil on canvas painting Nude in the studio
Located in Jerusalem, IL
Colorful oil on canvas painting Nude in the studio by the famous French artist Jean Jules Louis Cavailles. very nice colors.
Category
1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Meeting
Located in Bayonne, NJ
This is another beautiful oil on canvas painting that was created by Zhuravel during his stay in New York in his studio in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Meeting represents friendship, gentle...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Acrylic on Canvas Signed P.J. Crook 'The swimming Pool' 1989
Located in Uppingham, GB
Acrylic on Canvas by P.J.Crook titled 'The Swimming Pool' with the frame painted as part of the picture as well.
PJ Crook lives and works in Gloucestershire ...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Floral painting, abstract floral large scale oil painting
Located in Basalt, CO
This 60" x 48" original floral oil painting called "Charmed" is one of the first in Tania's recent body of large format flower-inspired oil paintings. On a sprawling 60" canvas, hues...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Nude
Located in Bayonne, NJ
Original painting by a Ukrainian artist Volodymyr Radko. His grotesque contemporary figures are depicted in a very artistic style, painted with great precision. Radko had an exhibiti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
La Madeleine, Paris Street Scene
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 20th Century oil on canvas painting of a Paris street scene with the columns of La Madeleine in the distance, signed Deuvray bottom left. The canvas is on its original stretcher ...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Pont du Château
Located in LE HAVRE, FR
Albert LEBOURG (1849-1928)
Pont du Château, 1918
Oil on panel
Size : 33 x 42 cm
Signed and dated 1918 lower left.
Origin :
- Galerie Tuffier, Les Andelys,
- Private collection, Pa...
Category
1910s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Abstract Figures - Contemporary Original Acrylic on Paper 2023
Located in Columbus, OH
Quiet lyrical figures walking on an urban city street.
Artist bio:
Cecil K. was born in Uzbekistan in 1963. His first artistic experience was in sixth grade sketching a horse and fr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Winter Morning Light, Mark Stopforth, Landscape Art, Abstract Painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Mark Stopforth “winter morning light” (60x90cm unframed) Minimalist work based upon a memory and evocation of a moorland seen first thing on a Winter’s ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Mixed Media, Oil
Girl with Cat
Located in Washington, DC
Painting by Noche Crist (1909 - 2004). Work is untitled and signed. Measures 22" x 12".
Painting is casein paint and plaster on board.
Catalogue of an exhibition in 2008 at the...
Category
1960s Outsider Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Spirit
By William Y. Cooper
Located in Buffalo, NY
"Spirit" a bold and thoughtful cubist oil on canvas was painted in December of 2001 by African American artist William (Bill) Cooper.
William Y. Cooper was a writer, painter, muralist, illustrator, and art teacher. He moved to Western New York in 1954 from Birmingham, Alabama, to pursue work, and Buffalo has been his home ever since. In 1975, he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University at Buffalo; he was also a state certified art teacher.
Cooper woked primarily in oils and acrylics, but also creates drawings on paper. He has painted several commissioned murals and has had more than fifteen one-man shows in Western New York and Ghana, West Africa, and has participated in more than twenty-five group exhibitions since he began his professional career in 1969.
His paintings and drawings address both his African heritage and his experience as an American through symbolism and metaphor. He observes, “I am an Afrocentric artist. My worldview is rooted in an African frame of reference and a deep, abiding sense of the creator from whence I draw my inspiration, strength, and a sense of who I am. The use of symbols allows me to explore literal ideas.”
Among Cooper’s published works are two children’s books, 77 Jackson Street, Rear and Nakai and the Red Shoes, and a novel for adults, The Mopane Tree.
Cooper founded the Afrocentric Artists’ Collective and ran the organization from 1979 to 1981. In 2013 he was designated a “Living Legacy” artist by the Burchfield Penney Arts Center, the latest in a series of honors which has also included awards from the Arts Council of Buffalo & Erie County, the New York State Council on the Arts, and Alpha Kappa Alpha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Midnight I
Located in Provincetown, MA
Julian Cardinal is from the tip of Cape Cod in Truro, Massachusetts and has showcased his vast, colorful array of feminine figures, still lifes and landscapes at prominent galleries in Burlington, VT, the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City, Bridgehampton, NY, Richmond, VA, Chatham, MA, and Provincetown, MA, where his parents have owned their own business, Kiley Court Gallery...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Blue Piano, 2024, oil, ink and foil on canvas 40x80 cm
Located in Jerusalem, IL
The Blue Piano, 2024
oil, ink and foil on canvas
40x80 cm
Yonatan Zohar was born in 2000 in Jerusalem, Israel where he lives with his wife. His Talmudic s...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Foil
"Bornholm" Denmark-inspired, female nude, text, iconography, folklore
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Bornholm" is an original artwork made from acrylic on canvas by KC Ortiz. This piece measures 38.5"h x 27.5"w.
Born in Chicago, and currently residing in Copenhag...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
A Universal Song, 2024, oil, ink and foil on canvas 80x120 cm
Located in Jerusalem, IL
A Universal Song, 2024
oil, ink and foil on canvas
80x120 cm
Yonatan Zohar was born in 2000 in Jerusalem, Israel where he lives with his wife. His Talmudic studies occupy most of h...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Foil
Gondolier (Figurative Painting of Man in Venice by Mark Beard, Bruce Sargeant)
By Mark Beard
Located in Hudson, NY
Academic style figurative oil painting of a muscular male gondolier with Venice's St. Mark's Campanile in the background
"Gondolier" painted by Mark Beard as Bruce Sargeant (pseudony...
Category
2010s Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Profile
Located in Provincetown, MA
Julian Cardinal is from the tip of Cape Cod in Truro, Massachusetts and has showcased his vast, colorful array of feminine figures, still lifes and landscapes at prominent galleries in Burlington, VT, the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City, Bridgehampton, NY, Richmond, VA, Chatham, MA, and Provincetown, MA, where his parents have owned their own business, Kiley Court Gallery...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Composition with a jar, oil painting by Pierre Coquet
Located in Montfort l’Amaury, FR
Composition with a jar, oil painting by Pierre Coquet
Reference number F488
Framed with a natural oak floated frame
48 x 70 x 2 cm (53 x 75 x 3,5 cm frame included)
This work is pain...
Category
1980s French School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Reflection
Located in Provincetown, MA
Julian Cardinal is from the tip of Cape Cod in Truro, Massachusetts and has showcased his vast, colorful array of feminine figures, still lifes and landscapes at prominent galleries in Burlington, VT, the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City, Bridgehampton, NY, Richmond, VA, Chatham, MA, and Provincetown, MA, where his parents have owned their own business, Kiley Court Gallery...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The roofs of Paris, oil painting by Pierre Coquet
Located in Montfort l’Amaury, FR
The roofs of Paris, oil painting by Pierre Coquet
Reference number F205
Framed with a natural oak floated frame painted in black
70 x 55 cm frame included (65 x 50 cm without frame)
...
Category
1980s French School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Waiting
Located in Provincetown, MA
Julian Cardinal is from the tip of Cape Cod in Truro, Massachusetts and has showcased his vast, colorful array of feminine figures, still lifes and landscapes at prominent galleries in Burlington, VT, the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City, Bridgehampton, NY, Richmond, VA, Chatham, MA, and Provincetown, MA, where his parents have owned their own business, Kiley Court Gallery...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Face
Located in Provincetown, MA
Julian Cardinal is from the tip of Cape Cod in Truro, Massachusetts and has showcased his vast, colorful array of feminine figures, still lifes and landscapes at prominent galleries ...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Yves Bady AL-Dahdah (Lebanese 1941) Lady of the Moon, 1981, Surrealist Painting
Located in Meinisberg, CH
Yves Bady AL-Dahdah
(Lebanese, 1942)
Lady of the Moon
• Oil or Acrylic on heavy fiber board ca. 46 x 38 cm x 0.5 cm
• Signed and dated lower left (19)81
• ...
Category
1980s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint, Fiberboard
Composition with jugs, oil painting by Pierre Coquet
Located in Montfort l’Amaury, FR
Composition with jugs, oil painting by Pierre Coquet
Reference number F486
Framed with a natural oak floated frame
43 x 72 x 2 cm (48 x 77 x 3,5 cm frame included)
This work is paint...
Category
1980s French School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sounds of the Harp, 2024, oil, ink and foil on canvas 80x120 cm
Located in Jerusalem, IL
Sounds of the Harp, 2024
oil, ink and foil on canvas
80x120 cm
Yonatan Zohar was born in 2000 in Jerusalem, Israel where he lives with his wife. His Talmudic studies occupy most of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Foil
Almazan Realistic Still Life Acrylic Painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Almazan Realistic Still Life Acrylic Painting framed
MIQUEL was an artist focused on the art of realism. His structured works on his great mastery of drawing, are romantic and tran...
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel
"Parisian Days" Abstract Figure in Chanel Gown Haute Couture Oil Painting Canvas
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
Exploring the purity of the feminine form and the drama of French haute couture, artist Cindy Shaoul creates a dialogue between the figurative and the abstract. Her spirited composit...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Mixed Media
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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