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Figurative Paintings For Sale
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LV, From the series Lous and The Yakuza. Mixed media fashion color photography
Located in Miami Beach, FL
LV, 2022 by Hunter & Gatti From the series Lous and The Yakuza Acrylic and oil wax on fine art paper 255 grs. Image size: 20.6 in H x 15.7 in W Unframed This is a project together w...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Wax, Acrylic, Archival Paper

Dreaming - Contemporary Ink Ecoline Painting, New Expression
Located in Salzburg, AT
Grażyna Rigall is a painter, illustrator, author of stage designs and music videos. - The artist is interested in the merging of the world of fauna and flora with the world of man, p...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

"The Back Fence" - Figurative Composition
Located in Soquel, CA
Lovely figurative composition of two neighbors talking over a fence by Marilyn Spencer (American, 1939-2017). A figure dressed in blue is leaning over a fence, towards a neighbor dressed in yellow. Presumably the two people are engaged in conversation, based on their body language. This piece has a loose, sketchy style that adds an innocent quality to the composition. Signed in the lower right corner. Tag on verso from Mullaly-Matisse Galleries Presented in a gold-colored aluminum frame with an off-white mat. Paper size: 7.5"H x 7.5"W (approx - paper is not square) Marilyn Spencer (American, 1939-2017) was a lifelong resident of New Orleans and a popular regional artist. She worked mainly in acrylic (on canvas and paper) and lithograph, with most of her work depicting landscapes and scenes of women engaged in daily life. Spencer produced a lithograph for the New Orleans Saints...
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1980s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic, Paper

Fruit Seller, Figurative, Acrylic on Canvas by Contemporary Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Feroz Khan - Fruit Seller Acrylic on Canvas, 24 x 36 inches About Artist : Mohammad Feroz Khan was born in 1978 and brought up in Delhi. He have not under...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

Green
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

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Enamel

Green Dario Agrimi Hyperrealism Children Walking
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

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Enamel

Pinnacle, Surrealist Ovoid acrylic painting, Blue & Red Figural Abstract Collage
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Pinnacle, c. 1960s Acrylic and collage on scintilla 22 x 8 inches 23.25 x 9 inches, framed A surrealist mid-century figural abstract p...
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1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

Gayak, Figurative, Acrylic on Canvas, Green by Contemporary Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Feroz Khan - Untitled Acrylic on Canvas, 36 x 48 inches About Artist : Mohammad Feroz Khan was born in 1978 and brought up in Delhi. He have not undergone...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Smokestack at the Refinery - Realistic Industrial Illustration in Gouache
Located in Soquel, CA
Industrial illustration of a smokestack by Charles Ross Kinghan (American, 1895-1984). A large tower and holding tanks are rendered in exquisite detail, especially considering the size of the illustration. The smokestack towers above the landscape, with stairs running up the outside. Two large green holding tanks sit next to the tower. At ground level, there are a few small figures, indicating the enormous scale of the refinery. possibly a sketch for Colliers or The Saturday Evening Post Magazine. Unsigned, but was acquired with other signed estate works by the artist. Presented...
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1930s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Gouache, Watercolor, Cardboard

Ornament & Misfit - Acrylic Paint and Ink by EMPHI - 2019
Located in Roma, IT
This original artwork Ornament & Misfit was realized by the Italian artist EMPHI in 2019. Acrylic paint and ink on cardboard from the series Tuttifrutti. Hand-signed on the lower c...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic, Cardboard, Ink

Entangled *framed*
Located in Bonn, NW
original painting; acrylic on high quality canvas stretcher, finished off with a glossy varnish. Comes in a white wooden frame and ready to hang. Measurements with frame: 73 x 90 x 3...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

The Green Garden - Modern Landscape Oil Painting, Nature, English Garden
Located in Salzburg, AT
Jerzy Mazur was born in Kołobrzeg in 1964. He graduated from the State College of Fine Arts in Gdańsk at the sculpture department under the supervision of prof. Franciszek Duszeńko. Jerzy Mazur is an artist in whose work man has made a permanent home. His sculptures, bas-reliefs, paintings and drawings are linked by a recurring motif of a female figure presented on a neutral background, standing or sitting, full of concentration, experiencing internal dilemmas. The artist always shows this figure as a naked figure...
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1990s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Cotton Canvas, Oil

Black Tulip - Contemporary Oil Painting, Expressive Nature, Flowers Painting
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

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Canvas, Oil

"Fisherman on the Seine" - Oil painting, Impressionist in France, Fishing, green
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Orsolic Dalessio composes a picturesque scene of a fisherman patiently waiting for his catch among the vast greenery of the French countryside. A plein air painting in France by Orso...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Panel, Oil

Dog Years - Brightly Colored Self Portrait of Artist as a Lime Green Colored Dog
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 acrylic on canvas 17h x 17w in 43.18h x 43.18w cm MSR055 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...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

Nature morte au torchon blanc/Still life with white cloth
Located in Montfort l’Amaury, FR
Reference number F371 This work is painted with oil on a paper that is mounted on a canvas and placed in a made to measure wood strectcher. It is signed in the bottom left. The paint...
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1980s French School Figurative Paintings

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Oil

French Impressionist Mother and Child Figurative Landscape Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
#5-2858 A mother and child,figurative impressionistic style palette oil on canvas applied on board.Displayed in a wood frame.Artist unknown.Image size 10.5 H x 13.5 W
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1950s Figurative Paintings

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Oil

TIGER WOODS - VICTORY!
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed by the artist on verso. Hand Painted Unique Silkscreen on Canvas. Artwork is in excellent condition. Canvas is not stretched. Certificate of authenticity included. All...
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Early 2000s Pop Art Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Golden Cycle Mill, Colorado, 1940s WPA Mining Watercolor Landscape, Black White
Located in Denver, CO
Original 1940s watercolor on paper painting by Charles Ragland Bunnell portraying a semi abstracted view of Golden Cycle Mill in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Painted in shades of black and gray. Presented in a custom black frame, outer dimensions measure 18 x 19 ½ x 1 ⅜ inches. Image sight size is 8 ⅛ x 9 ⅝ inches. Golden Cycle Mining and Reduction Company was a mining company in Colorado City (now Old Colorado City) in El Paso County, Colorado. Piece is clean and in excellent condition - please contact us for a detailed condition report. Expedited and international shipping is available - please contact us for a quote. About the artist: Artist and teacher, Charles (“Charlie”) Bunnell worked in a variety of styles throughout his career because as an artist he believed, “I’ve got to paint a thousand different ways. I don’t paint any one way.” At different times he did representational landscapes while concurrently involved with semi- or completely abstract imagery. He was one of a relatively small number of artists in Colorado successfully incorporating into their work the new trends emanating from New York and Europe after World War II. During his lifetime he generally did not attract a great deal of critical attention from museums, critics and academia. However, he personally experienced a highpoint in his career when Katherine Kuh, curator at the Art Institute of Chicago, personally chose one of his paintings – Why? - for its large exhibition of several hundred examples of abstract and surrealist art held in 1947-48, subsequently including it among the fifty pieces selected for a traveling show to ten other American museums. An only child, Bunnell developed his love of art at a young age through frequent drawing and political cartooning. In high school he was interested in baseball and golf and also was the tennis champion for Westport High School in Kansas City. Following graduation, his father moved the family to Denver, Colorado, in 1916 for a better-paying bookkeeping job, before relocating the following year to Colorado Springs to work for local businessman, Edmond C. van Diest, President of the Western Public Service Company and the Colorado Concrete Company. Bunnell would spend almost all of his adult life in Colorado Springs. In 1918 he enlisted in the United States Army, serving in the 62nd Infantry Regiment through the end of World War I. Returning home with a 10% disability, he joined the Zebulon Pike Post No. 1 of the Disabled American Veterans Association and in 1921 used the benefits from his disability to attend a class in commercial art design conducted under a government program in Colorado Springs. The following year he transferred to the Broadmoor Art Academy (founded in 1919) where he studied with William Potter and in 1923 with Birger Sandzén. Sandzén’s influence is reflected in Bunnell’s untitled Colorado landscape (1925) with a bright blue-rose palette. For several years thereafter Bunnell worked independently until returning to the Broadmoor Art Academy to study in 1927-28 with Ernest Lawson, who previously taught at the Kansas City Art Institute where Bunnell himself later taught in the summers of 1929-1930 and in 1940-41. Lawson, a landscapist and colorist, was known for his early twentieth-century connection with “The Eight” in New York, a group of forward-looking painters including Robert Henri and John Sloan whose subject matter combined a modernist style with urban-based realism. Bunnell, who won first-place awards in Lawson’s landscapes classes at the Academy, was promoted to his assistant instructor for the figure classes in the 1928-29 winter term. Lawson, who painted in what New York critic James Huneker termed a “crushed jewel” technique, enjoyed additional recognition as a member of the Committee on Foreign Exhibits that helped organize the landmark New York Armory Exhibition in 1913 in which Lawson showed and which introduced European avant-garde art to the American public. As noted in his 1964 interview for the Archives of American Art in Washington, DC, Bunnell learned the most about his teacher’s use of color by talking with him about it over Scotch as his assistant instructor. “Believe me,” Bunnell later said, “[Ernie] knew color, one of the few Americans that did.” His association with Lawson resulted in local scenes of Pikes Peak, Eleven Mile Canyon, the Gold Cycle Mine near Colorado City and other similar sites, employing built up pigments that allowed the surfaces of his canvases to shimmer with color and light. (Eleven Mile Canyon was shown in the annual juried show at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh in 1928, an early recognition of his talent outside of Colorado.) At the same time, he animated his scenes of Colorado Springs locales by defining the image shapes with color and line as demonstrated in Contrasts (1929). Included in the Midwestern Artists’ Exhibition in Kansas City in 1929, it earned him the gold medal of the Kansas City Art Institute, auguring his career as a professional artist. In the 1930s Bunnell used the oil, watercolor and lithography media to create a mini-genre of Colorado’s old mining towns and mills, subject matter spurned by many local artists at the time in favor of grand mountain scenery. In contrast to his earlier images, these newer ones – both daytime and nocturnal -- such as Blue Bird Mine essentially are form studies. The conical, square and rectangular shapes of the buildings and other structures are placed in the stark, undulating terrain of the mountains and valleys devoid of any vegetation or human presence. In the mid-1930s he also used the same approach in his monochromatic lithographs titled Evolution, Late Evening, K.C. (Kansas City) and The Mill, continuing it into the next decade with his oil painting, Pikes Peak (1942). During the early 1930s he studied for a time with Boardman Robinson, director of the Broadmoor Art Academy and its successor institution, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center from 1930 to 1947. In 1934 Robinson gave him the mural commission under the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP) for West Junior High School in Colorado Springs, his first involvement in one of several New Deal art...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Golfer Swinging, Vintage 7 Up Ad "Get Real Action" in Green and Yellow - Golf
Located in Miami, FL
This strobe-like dynamic composition with bright and bold colors reflects the energetic taste of the 7 Up brand. It lies somewhere between abstraction and figuration. Peaks' use of b...
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1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic, Illustration Board

Crossing mirrors #2 Hélène Duclos 21st Century painting landscape art green
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...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Hand to Hand
Located in Montreal, Quebec
The themes visited in this show stem from a desire to extend the vocabulary of my painting while forming a metaphor for the chaos of contemporary life. The title, Escalade, has differing and complimentary functions in English and French. Continuing to paint, over a lengthening career, the medium poses more questions than answers. The title is a reference to my attempt to overcome these difficulties through the expansion of my painting language. The title also refers to the escalation of crises in the world at large. It is the larger picture in which I am a small person trying to make my way. In a concrete sense, the title also refers to a strategy I have taken in a number of these paintings. That is, to re-examine very small paintings...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Green Lantern
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Symbolically representing the ordeals of the young man and the necessity for a sharp vision to see through the hurdles. Painting Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This wor...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Linen, Acrylic

Untitled, Acrylic on Canvas, Yellow, Green by Contemporary Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Subuddha Ghosh - Untitled - 48 x 48 inches Acrylic on Canvas Subuddha lives and works in Kolkata, India. His canvas is always large and realistic. Using his photographic memory, Su...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Mother Nature - Painting by Salvatore Petrucino - 2016
Located in Roma, IT
Mother Nature is an original acrylic painting realized by the Italian artist Salvatore Petrucino in 2016. Hand-signed on the lower right. Technique, dimensions, and date are writt...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

Ski Fashion Watercolor
Located in New York, NY
Original watercolor on paper, signed in pencil.
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1940s Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor, Paper

Light Traffic
Located in Montreal, Quebec
For the exhibition Panorama of the Anthropocene, Oli Sorenson presents an array of works created in a hybrid style that evokes the square layout of Instag...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

Sunflower dream- figurative, oil on canvas, yellow background abstract
Located in London, GB
Developed in London in 2019 and 2020, this project focuses on the idea of dreaming and although the emerging compositions are closed and defined they are also very dynamic and vibran...
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21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Linen, Spray Paint

"DEE DEE!" Pop Art Cartoon inspired by Dexter's Laboratory by Randy Morales
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 strongly influenced by his exper...
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2010s Street Art Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Provance 11 - 21st century, Colourful Landscape, Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
Magdalena Nałęcz (b. 1970) She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in 1995. She received numerous scholarships and prizes: in 1997 the scholarship of the city of Cracow...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Pantomime Horse", contemporary, women, yellow, pink, white, acrylic painting
Located in Natick, MA
Sandra Cohen’s “Pantomime Horse” is an unframed 18 x 18 x 1 inch acrylic painting on canvas, loosely painted in tones of yellow, orange, pink, brown, and ...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

The Fox
Located in Long Island City, NY
Oil on Canvas 28 × 22 in 71.1 × 55.9 cm This is a unique work. This work includes a Certificate of Authenticity. Provenance: Owned by artist Free Shipping in US and Europe [Standard...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Jean-Daniel Ribeyrol (1918-2005) Propriano Corsica marine
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Jean-Daniel RIBEYROL (Périgueux 1918 - Razac sur l'Isle 2005) Boats in Propriano (Corsica) Oil on plywood H. 46 cm; L. 55 cm Signed lower left. Signed and located on the back Proven...
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1970s Cubist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Oil Painting on Board of People, Animals and Birds
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Modernist oil painting on board depicting an unexpected gathering of personalities all with a common expression. Signed by the noted artist Ken Nielsen and...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Malcah Zeldis Folk Art Gouache Painting Sports Basketball Arena Coca Cola Sign
Located in Surfside, FL
MALCAH ZELDIS ''Basketball'', 1988, gouache on paper Hand signed and dated bottom right, titled in pencil on paper verso Malcah Zeldis (born Mildred ...
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1980s Folk Art Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Pink Dreams "Drink Me"
Located in London, GB
Pink Dreams "Drink Me" is an original drawing from the "Pink Dreams" Collection (2019). It is one of 15 artworks with a similar theme and dimensions. All unique pieces and currently ...
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2010s Feminist Figurative Paintings

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Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor

Little Lions
Located in London, GB
"Little Lions" (after Bartholomaus Spranger) is an original drawing part of the Beast Collection (2022). It was first exhibited at The Other Art Fair London in 2022 and is currently ...
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2010s Feminist Figurative Paintings

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Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor

French Contemporary Art by Galka - Floraison
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on linen Galina Navodnitchaia-Malfoy alias Galka is a French artist born in 1971 who lives and works in Callians near Cannes in France. At the School of Fine Arts in Brest, Bela...
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2010s Figurative Paintings

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Oil

"Body Abstraction no. 19", contemporary cream & green abstract body painting
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is a piece from my "Body Abstraction" Series. It is a series I created during my MFA where I was interested in zooming in on the female body, my own body specifically, to focus ...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil Crayon, Oil

French Contemporary Art by Galka - Coq
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on linen Galina Navodnitchaia-Malfoy alias Galka is a French artist born in 1971 who lives and works in Callians near Cannes in France. At the School of Fine Arts in Brest, Bela...
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2010s Figurative Paintings

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Oil

'Meme Money 007: Green Goochi, ' by XVALA, Mixed Media Painting
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
In this mixed media 24"x24" painting, 'Meme Money 007: Green Goochi,' by XVALA, the artist colorfully plays with the 'Gucci' brand in tandem with the childhood cartoon series, SpongeBob. SpongeBob, as a green 'Goochi Sponge,' takes center stage with a green letter pattern on the canvas background. The work is a screen print with additional painting and iridescent oil stick by the artist with predominant colors of green and gold. XVALA's art illuminates the hidden fallout spawned from our high tech Internet age. His 'Fear Google' campaign exposed the decay of privacy and No Delete used hacked nude celebrity photos to highlight loss of control over personal information. The artist has worked with trash from the homes of Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, and others, as well as dirt from the graves of George Orwell and Aldous Huxley. The dirt appears in the New World Order collection as part of a pyramidal, 3D printed, living ant farm...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Screen, Oil, Mixed Media

Yucatan #5
Located in Quogue, NY
Colorful oil on canvas abstract expressionistic figurative painting.
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Untitled (The Last Picture Show)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Untitled' (The Last Picture Show) - 2005, Edition 2/10, 20x20cm, Based on a Polaroid, Certificate and signature label, Not mounted, Artist inve...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Photographic Paper, Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

French Contemporary Art by Galka - Mon Ami Guepard
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on linen Galina Navodnitchaia-Malfoy alias Galka is a French artist born in 1971 who lives and works in Callians near Cannes in France. At the School of Fine Arts in Brest, Bela...
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2010s Fauvist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Linen

Pompeii
Located in New Orleans, LA
As an artist I make paintings that exist in the sliver of space between abstraction and representation. My work compresses time into the surface of painting, that old technology. Inc...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

French Contemporary Art by Galka - Holang-i
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on linen Galina Navodnitchaia-Malfoy alias Galka is a French artist born in 1971 who lives and works in Callians near Cannes in France. At the School of Fine Arts in Brest, Bela...
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2010s Fauvist Figurative Paintings

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Linen, Oil

Small Hand to Hand
Located in Montreal, Quebec
The themes visited in this show stem from a desire to extend the vocabulary of my painting while forming a metaphor for the chaos of contemporary life. The title, Escalade, has differing and complimentary functions in English and French. Continuing to paint, over a lengthening career, the medium poses more questions than answers. The title is a reference to my attempt to overcome these difficulties through the expansion of my painting language. The title also refers to the escalation of crises in the world at large. It is the larger picture in which I am a small person trying to make my way. In a concrete sense, the title also refers to a strategy I have taken in a number of these paintings. That is, to re-examine very small paintings...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

"Rachael in Red" oil painting on panel of a woman in red suit in turquoise pool
Located in Edgartown, MA
"I throw myself into the water almost every day- it grounds me, the body floats and the mind drifts. The "Swimmer series" has followed me over the years, resurfacing and evolving. Pr...
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2010s Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

The Green Boat
Located in Burlingame, CA
Mid century modern masterwork, 'The Green Boat', by celebrated American woman artist, Elaine Badgley Arnoux. Painted in 1958 in the artists's unique style, ...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Cotton Canvas, Oil

Male Portrait
Located in Wien, 9
Oswald Oberhuber's art was rich in diversity of expression, as well as in the media he used. This work, coloured pencil and pencil on paper, shows a portrait of a man, reduced to few...
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20th Century Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil

French Contemporary Art by Jean Duquoc - La Cueillette des Roses
Located in Paris, IDF
Signed at the bottom left Jean Duquoc is a French artist born in 1937 who lives & works in Belz, Brittany in France. In his work, we can see the skill with which he uses color, movi...
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2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Doing What I Do
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Danny Brown is a first-generation American urban artist born in Los Angeles. His parents relocated their family from Oaxaca, Mexico in search of opportunity in the United States. Dan...
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21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Oil Pastel, Mixed Media

Tree People Embrace, Contemporary Visionary Figurative Abstract
Located in Soquel, CA
A vivid contemporary street art style painting of an abstracted tree with two embracing figures creating the trunk by Santa Cruz, California artist Elliott Bliss (American, b.20th Century). Bright colors and bold patterns add interest and depth to this visionary piece, which pops with yellow and green against a bright sky blue background. Signed and dated "Elliott Bliss / Dec 2013" lower right. Unframed. Canvas size: 16"H x 20"W. Elliott Bliss is a contemporary Santa Cruz, California based artist. He is known for using bright colors to capture the spirit of living in Santa Cruz in his visionary paintings...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic, Permanent Marker

The Return of Saturn - Contemporary Futuristic Space painting (Green+Black)
Located in Gilroy, CA
"The Return of Saturn" is an original pop art painting by LA-based artist Casey Courey-Pickering aka Hero. Hero’s collection of works focuses on “movement through the spectrum of lig...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Wood Panel, Acrylic

"Callista, three times, with her arm" nude watercolor of three women stretching
Located in Edgartown, MA
Wendy Artin is an American contemporary artist who works primarily in watercolor and charcoal. Her work is figurative and classical and explores the timele...
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2010s Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Calhoun
Located in Denver, CO
David Rathman is known for his sensitively rendered paintings of stereotypically male motifs from American history and contemporary culture. He was the recipient of a Bush Foundatio...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Memories of Love III (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - Polaroid, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Memories of Love III (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and signatur...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Photographic Paper, Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Two
Located in New Orleans, LA
As an artist I make paintings that exist in the sliver of space between abstraction and representation. My work compresses time into the surface of painting, that old technology. Inc...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

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.

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