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Figurative Paintings For Sale
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Figurative Ink Painting N.2 'Vessels II' by Dmitry Samygin
Located in Paris, FR
Figurative Ink on Cotton paper
Painting N.1 'Vessels II' by Dmitry Samygin
H.27 x 19.5 cm
About Dmitry Samygin
Furniture and Product Designer. His approach relies on simple forms and clarity in ideas with carefully chosen materials to expose the essence of an object. His products exemplify humanistic design, comfort in everyday use and ergonomic function.
He is a prize-winner in international competitions. He has taken part in exhibitions in Paris, Milan and Moscow, collaborates with European and Russian production, architectural and design companies. Since 2021 Dmitriy's design has been presented in a permanent exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Moscow. Dmitry's graphics and designs are in private collections all over the world.
Samygin's Awards
2023 I+D / Design Now / winner (product design & decor)
2021 Red dot / Modul
2021 I+D magazine award / Shelter (covers for the sculptures of Moscow State Architectural Museum)
2020 Best 2020 AD Russia
2019 Andrew World...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cotton, Paper, Ink
Gentleman in Tailcoat
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Strong impressionist work by young St. Petersburg-based painter, Ilya Zlobin. Having graduated from the prestigious Repin Academy several years ago, Zlobin is a well-known up-and-co...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Te ves?
Located in MADRID, ES
Las emociones negativas retienen toda la atención, impidiendo atender otra cosa.
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Pen
In need of new glasses
Located in Oslo, 03
Unique artwork.
Acrylic on canvas.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Camouflage VI
Located in Singapore, SG
Camouflage VI has been inspired by Klimt's living, breathing woman with a brooding air—rather than a serene, mythical being. As a female subject, she is a strong, expressive woman ca...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Tropisme n°23
Located in Paris, IDF
Born in Nantes into a family of artists, Stéphanie Billarant joined the city’s music conservatory from an early age, while completing her dance training. These disciplines will make ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic
Golden Lotus #1
Located in Singapore, SG
"It's a mythological based painting. I try to do a dramatic composition in this painting. A illustration of ""vagbat gita "" Helps to build the unic composition. That time when Lord Krishna...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Folk Night
Located in London, GB
This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Anthony Tucker on behalf of the artist’s estate.
signed ‘ETUCKER’ (lower left)
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sad Woman/Distant Man
Located in Santa Fe, NM
"Sad Woman/Distant Man" illustrates Holly Roberts' shift from over-painting photographs to constructing photo-based images on top of abstract paintings. By combining the precision of photography with the expression of painting, Roberts marries objectivity with subjectivity, thus paralleling the dichotomy of human experience.
Like much of Roberts' contemporary work, "Sad Woman/Distant Man" is a psychoanalytic interpretation of human experience, particularly unrequited love—A woman stares longingly at a disinterested man. The couple is composed of photographs of appendages both modern and medieval in execution, alluding to the immutability of unrequited love as a motif in art and literature. The work's underlying abstract painting figuratively functions as the uninterpretable gulf between the two lovers...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Cape of the Goat
Located in Paris, IDF
Didier LAPÈNE
(Born in 1964)
Cape of the Goat
Oil on canvas
33 x 41 cm
2017
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Most Wanted
Located in New York, NY
Pop Art. Americana. Bullseye. Ephemera, Oil, Acrylic, Resin on Panel.
About the Artist:
John Joseph Hanright is a contemporary painter and assemblage artist who brings togethe...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Resin, Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Veduta
Located in Paris, IDF
Nikolai MAKAROV
(Born in 1952)
Veduta
Acrylic on canvas mounted on panel
Signed lower right
70 x 50 cm
2015
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Victim, 2022, oil on paper, figurative painting
Located in Izmir, TR
In several mystical traditions, there are common elements that are needed for spiritual metamorphosis and transitions to another, transcendent dimension. In Sufism, there is also an inner dimension to the law that has to do with repentance, the abasement of desire, and discipline of the self, or the elimination of the ego. Transparent figures emphasize the inner world of pure innocence which is the prototype human being, pure consciousness, one's true identity, to be contrasted with the material human who is bound by one's senses and materialism. Materialism is shown by also patterns in the paintings. The two different layers are against each other in a contradictory way. Feeling the need to go deeper into this inner, imaginative world, I began to set artworks from the past in less familiar contexts such as seas or patterns and combine the figure with them where they seemed to become like elements in some greater dream. With her small paper works, Ece Gauer...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Doom Hey Blue
Located in Santa Monica, CA
In this series of portraits, Birch materializes enigmatic, ectoplasmic figures in his psychologically charged canvases linking sympathies between external forces and interior emotion...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Man with Pony on Wasteland
Located in London, GB
This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Anthony Tucker on behalf of the artist’s estate.
signed ‘ETUCKER.’ (lower right)
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
The Fantasy of Castle No.2 - Contemporary art, Geometric, Abstract
Located in Coquitlam, BC
Artist: Da Hong
Born in 1984 Henan China, and currently living in Beijing
He graduated from Jingdezhen Ceramic University in 2007
The artist enjoyed piling up the blocks on the c...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Seated Nude
By George Grosz
Located in New York, NY
Seated Nude by George Grosz (1893-1959)
Oil on canvas
9 ½ x 5 ½ inches unframed (24.13 x 13.97 cm)
15 x 12 inches framed (38.1 x 30.48 cm)
Signed on bottom...
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Like Water Flows Around Rocks -21st Cent, Contemporary Painting, Modern Portrait
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
"The paintings are built up in layer upon layer of paint which give the pieces great depth of field. They are created with an arsenal of tools that doesn't settle with convention. As...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Mixed Media
"Blue Jay, " Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Susan McDonnell's (U.S. based) "Blue Jay" is an original, handmade oil painting of a bird (Blue Jay) perched on top of a rock in a body of water.
The paintin...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Visage Irina Gros Plan
Located in Porto, 13
Visage Irina Gros Plan,2013
Oil on Canvas
A lot delicacy is felt in the traits of the drawings from Philippe Pasqua, which in no way diminishes the strength of each work. Thus, a fl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
L'incubo, 2010
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Gigino Falconi was born in Giulianova (Teramo) in 1933. He began painting at the age of sixteen, and in 1954 he obtained a Liceo Artistico of Pescara. During the early years of his c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
La lecture au jardin (Lesson in the Garden)
Located in New Orleans, LA
French Post-Impressionist painter Georges d’Espagnat captures a charming moment between a mother and her child in this vibrant oil on canvas. Rendered with a studied use of complementary colors and bold brushstrokes, the painting showcases the artist's unique Post-Impressionist style. Remembered as one of the most individualistic artists of the 20th century, his distinctive canvases bring together the loose brushwork of the Impressionists and the bold color palette favored by the Fauves. Together, they achieve a vibrant spontaneity that lends itself well to the carefree subjects of the present work.
Masterfully composed, La lecture au jardin moves beyond the Impressionist instinct to capture a fleeting moment on canvas. Rather, d'Espagnat succeeds in creating a deep feeling of harmony in the work. Warm colors are perfectly balanced with cool tones, while vertical and horizontal lines are softened by the curves of the foliage and his subjects' figures. Through his simplification of forms and intentional use of color and line, he creates a scene that is carefully designed and thoroughly modern. A similar view of a mother and her child by d'Espagnat is currently in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York).
The Post-Impressionist painter was an individualist since his youth, choosing to forgo traditional schooling in order to independently study the Old Masters in the Louvre. He soon became involved with the most prominent Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters of the age, including Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Paul Signac, who themselves existed outside the traditional norms of French Academic training. In 1891, he exhibited at the Salon des Refusés, and again the following year at the Salon des Indépendants.
By 1895, he held his first one-man show in Paris, and just three years later his success earned him a solo show at the prestigious Durand-Ruel Gallery. Between 1905 and 1910 he made several trips to visit Renoir on the Côte d’Azur. Their close friendship resulted in a group exhibition at Marcel Bernheim...
Category
Late 19th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Signal distortion #2 Hélène Duclos 21st Century painting landscape cream art
Located in Paris, FR
This painting is part of the current exhibition entitled "The fantastic story of the liquid mountain" at Claire Corcia Gallery in Paris.
The liquid mountain is populated by living b...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Figurative Landscape painting -Este Castle
Located in Beijing, CN
Feng Shi, born in Shanghai in 1990, professional painter. In 2009, he studied in the painting department of the school of fine arts of Shanghai Normal University. After graduating from the University in 2013, in September of the same year, he entered the studio of Giovanni Chiapello in the painting department of l'accademia Di Belle arti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Company K - Book Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Book cover for "Company K" by William March.
Subject matter features three army soldiers in monochrome ...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Pacifica #4
Located in Quogue, NY
Colorful oil on canvas abstract expressionistic figurative painting.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nestings #1 Hélène Duclos 21st Century painting landscape contemporary art blue
Located in Paris, FR
This painting is part of the current exhibition entitled "The fantastic story of the liquid mountain" at Claire Corcia Gallery in Paris.
The liquid mountain is populated by living beings with a vegetable heart. They roam freely (it seems to us *) between the earth and the air in search of their roots. They bathe and transform in liquid crystal...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Four Men Conversing, Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1927
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Liberty Magazine Cover, September 24, 1927
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Corréjou, Brittany, France
Located in Paris, IDF
Didier LAPÈNE
(Born in 1964)
Corréjou, Brittany, France
Oil on canvas
58 x 61 cm
2018-2021
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Snap Peas Pickin'
By Dana Coleman
Located in Charelston, SC
Dana Coleman is a contemporary Gullah artist who captures the dynamic, awe-inspiring beauty of the Lowcountry in each of his paintings. His realistic depictions of his Gullah heritage, lowcountry lifestyle, architecture and landscapes draw in the viewer, creating a one-on-one experience that lasts a lifetime. He uses natural and bright colors to execute his contrasting and harmonious work. After earning an associate degree in graphic design at Trident Technical College in Charleston, South Carolina, Dana studied civil engineering at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, where he refined his innate ability to recognize and execute the fine detail that can be found in his paintings. Dana, who has earned several awards for his artistic talent, always has believed that “You can paint anything you set your mind to.” His artwork captures the most vivid and fond memories he has collected since his childhood “in the country,” just outside of Charleston. He shares those experiences with viewers so they can enjoy the diverse and vibrant culture that is unique to Charleston. His architectural background has helped Dana reproduce the history and beauty found in the Charleston area, from its weathered houses and structures to its beautiful beaches and marshland.
With an ever-changing palette, Dana paints with various techniques, depending on the subject matter – and his emotional attachment to the subject matter. Applying paint with purpose and patience, he applies the strengths of each specific medium to achieve smooth, rich surfaces and crystal clear, vibrant hues. Dana’s artwork can be found in numerous private art collections around the world and has been displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. His work is a permanent fixture at the Sierra Leone National Museum and the Fort Sumter...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Figurative Still life painting - Seven pots
Located in Beijing, CN
Feng Shi, born in Shanghai in 1990, professional painter. In 2009, he studied in the painting department of the school of fine arts of Shanghai Normal Univer...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Two Horses
Located in New York, NY
Acrylics, inks, archival spray on custom stretched canvas. Triptych of Two Horses at play. Subdued palate.
About the Artist:
My process often moves m...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Sir Henry
Located in Wien, 9
Ludwig Schwarzer formulates a highly independent work, bizarre in content and marked by perfection in craftsmanship. After realistic and later expressionist attempts, he found his ow...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Quadro teologico in onore di Puccetto, Canarino Morto da Tempo
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Max Pellegrini. "Quadro teologico in onore di Puccetto, Canarino Morto da Tempo" is an oil on canvas painting executed primarily in a palette of blues and yellows with ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Shaman" Mixed Media Figurative Painting Oil onLinen Contemporary Art In-Stock
By Alex Lazard
Located in Queretaro, Queretaro
This 210 cm by 220 cm mixed media large-scale painting is one of Lazard's most iconic paintings. Alex Lazard, one of Mexico's most noted contemporary artist today, plays with the material load that he uses in this piece. Using asphalt, marble powder, and oil paint, "This is my representation of time... of the navigation of time in humans and how it never stops being there.
This magical painting shows a spiritual, dreamy scenery where Lazard portraits what he sees in the world of "Shaman"... fishes swimming downwards, flying in the background, and the owl flying...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Mixed Media, Oil
No. 83 - Make A Wish
Located in Wien, 9
No. 83 - Make a Wish (2021), Öl und Acryl auf Leinwand, 100 x 100 cm
Elena Steiner was born in Susice (Czech Republic) in 1975 and lives and works in Vienna. She completed her painting studies at the Institute for Fine and Media Art at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna in Johanna Kandl’s class.
In her series of works, Elena Steiner examines a different type of person, sensitizes the viewer, confronts him with the uncompromising demasking of his own world and that of the portrayed by violating the illusion-bearing canvas surface. She creates realistic acrylic paintings as metaphors for being and appearance. The injuries in the form of seams, stitches and stitches are the epitome of traditional female role fulfillment. Elena Steiner deals with the questions of the value of fulfilling external wishes, social recognition and self-determination. Her works experiment with the border areas between painting, object, real exhibition space and imaginative spatiality and thus offer a captivating game be-tween closeness and distance, between impenetrable closeness and revealing familiarity. Her artistic work shows a zoomed in, sharply focused, snappy, humorous portrait...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Dialogue
Located in Wien, 9
In his turbulent compositions, lines and colors overlap and condense into figuratively looking scenes. As a figurative informal painter or informal figure painter, he proves in a way...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper
Bridge
By Behzad Tabar
Located in ATLANTA, GA
About Behzad Tabar
My background is in fine and graphic arts, working in a wide range of styles and mediums. My painting has evolved from realism, to surrealism, to abstract. I am mo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"l'Auberge de la Place au Manège", Gerard Valtier, Oil on Canvas, French, Hotel
Located in Dallas, TX
"l'Auberge de la Place au Manege" by Gerard Valtier is an original oil on canvas that measures 29x36 inches. Valtier uses many different bright and vivid c...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed "A.O.F 19" Lower Left
"Man & Woman in Disagreement"
Long affiliated with The Saturday Evening Post (nearly 50 years), he did dozens of covers and much story art, most notably the long-running Tug-Boat Annie and with maritime painting, Fischer was more versatile than depicting the sail and dreadnaughts when given a chance. Still, he's best known for painting the sea, her beauty and her dangers (whether hurricanes or U-Boats). It's no surprise that his oils graced such titles as The Cruise of the Cachalot: Round the World After Sperm Whales, Treasure Island, The Mutineers, 20000 Leagues Under the Sea...
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
AUTUMN BALANCE, Oil on Canvas
Located in Montreux, CH
Karen Shahverdyan „Autumn balance“ 90 X 110cm, oil on canvas
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The book of poems Mohammad Ariyaei 21st Century art Contemporary Iranian paint
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on paper
Signed lower right
Category
2010s Outsider Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
"Château under the Moon" 1929, 20th Century Oil on Canvas by Joaquín Peinado
Located in Madrid, ES
JOAQUÍN PEINADO
Spanish, 1898 - 1975
CHÂTEAU UNDER THE MOON
signed "Peinado ´29" (lower right)
oil on canvas
13 x 16-1/4 inches (33 x 41 cm.)
framed: 2...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Desire 5, 2011
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Marshall Jones is a realist painter born in Atlanta Georgia, and presently working and living in New York City. From 2008 to 2015 Marshall was the recip...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Catching My Daydreams - 21st Century, Contemporary Painting, Modern Portrait
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
"The paintings are built up in layer upon layer of paint which give the pieces great depth of field. They are created with an arsenal of tools that doesn't settle with convention. As...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Mixed Media
45042 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Painting
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Among the Catalan artists who have remained loyal to figurative techniques, several have successfully fixed their gaze on the architecture, streets and commercial trappings of the mo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Appealing To Be Allowed To Help Fight For The Union
By James Earl Taylor
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache
Signature: Signed Lower Right
a slave with shackles on the ground behind him appealing to Abraham Lincoln with the Civil War battle s...
Category
Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Reminiscence
By Behzad Tabar
Located in ATLANTA, GA
About Behzad Tabar
My background is in fine and graphic arts, working in a wide range of styles and mediums. My painting has evolved from realism, to surrealism, to abstract. I am mo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Unruffled
By Behzad Tabar
Located in ATLANTA, GA
About Behzad Tabar
My background is in fine and graphic arts, working in a wide range of styles and mediums. My painting has evolved from realism, to surrealism, to abstract. I am mo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Tackett and the Indian" Book Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Acrylic on Board
Dimensions: 24.00" x 31.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
"Tackett and the Indian" Book Cover, by Lyn Nofziger
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Dawn, Dawn, Dawn, Ticonderoga pencil advertisement
By Harvey Dunn
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Twice and Dated Lower Left: Harvey / Dunn 1932
Harvey Dunn's Dawn, Dawn, Dawn is a truly exceptional illustration that captures a key moment of American History. In the present work, Dunn skillfully depicts colonial soldiers...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Water Figure, 2012
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Maxwell Doig was born in Huddersfield. He graduated from Manchester School of Art in 1988 with a BA in Fine Art and went on to pursue his postgraduate stu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
The Model
Located in Paris, IDF
Nikolai MAKAROV
(Born in 1952)
The Model
Acrylic on canvas mounted on panel
Signed lower right
130 x 90 cm
2021
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Relax
Located in New York, NY
Figurative piece with a fun, simple narrative. The beauty of the piece lies in its simplicity. On 3/4 canvas.
Category
2010s Conceptual Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Crayon, Acrylic
Noonday Sail
Located in Greenwich, CT
Painting of a young boy with a toy sailboat in the water.
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
International feminism Mohammad Ariyaei 21st Century Iranian outsider art paint
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on paper
Signed by the artist
Category
2010s Outsider Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Prime Colors
By Jim Molloy
Located in New York, NY
Nostalgic painting of vintage toy car that has been worked on by a novice mechanic. Oil on canvas with black frame one inch on front, two inches deep. This piece sold but commissio...
Category
2010s Conceptual Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
(Untitled)
By Tom Lovell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1958
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 23.20" x 33.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Story illustration for Good Housekeeping magazine, December 1958. Image of woman and two sailors leaving house at Christmas time.
Exhibited: The Triumph of Winter, National Arts Club, New York, December 16, 2013- January 5, 2014
A Native American finding a Raggedy Ann doll...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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.