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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Artist: Peter Max
Artist: Bruce Adams
ASIA VER. III #6
By Peter Max
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting on canvas. Hand signed on front by the artist. Studio stamp on verso. Artwork is in excellent condition. Peter Max Studio Certificate of Authenticity included. A...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
LAND OF THE FREE
By Peter Max
Located in Aventura, FL
Mixed media with acrylic painting and color lithography on paper. Hand-signed in acrylic by the artist. A unique variation. Artwork sheet size 24 x 18 in. Custom framed as pictured. ...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Lithograph
LIVING ROOM (WOMAN)
By Peter Max
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting on canvas. Hand signed and dated on front by the artist. Custom framed with hand painted fillet. Canvas size 14 x 18 in. Framed size approx 22.25 x 26.25 in. Ar...
Category
1990s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
BLUE THINKER
By Peter Max
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting on canvas. Hand signed on front by the artist. Studio stamp on verso. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. All reasonable off...
Category
1990s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
ANGEL
By Peter Max
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting on canvas. Hand signed on front by the artist. Studio stamp on verso. Custom framed with hand painted fillet. Canvas size 40 x 30 inches.
Framed size approx 49 ...
Category
1970s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
PINK SKY
By Peter Max
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting on canvas. Hand signed and dated on front by the artist. Stretched. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. All reasonable offer...
Category
1980s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
SAGE (ABSTRACT)
By Peter Max
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting on canvas. Hand signed on front by the artist. Stretched. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. All reasonable offers will be...
Category
1980s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
SAGE
By Peter Max
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting on canvas. Hand signed and dated on front by the artist. Custom framed with hand painted fillet. Canvas size 10 x 14 in. Framed size approx 19.25 x 23.5 in. Art...
Category
1980s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Research & Development Figural 3 & 4
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
A pair of paintings in one singular frame presentation by American contemporary artist Bruce Adams
Art is the R&D for culture. Artists Conduct the R&D for society. In the late tw...
Category
1990s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled 37 (Gun Sequence)
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original oil on wood painting by contemporary American artist Bruce Adams. This work is currently being featured in the exhibition "The Dreamer Who Dreams" and is designed to rai...
Category
2010s Photorealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Untitled 030 (Hammer and Iron)
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original diptych painting by American contemporary conceptual painter Bruce Adams from the artist's Untitled series.
Each work measure 24" x 24' and comes framed in a silver meta...
Category
2010s Photorealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Colossus Version 1 No. 1
By Peter Max
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Peter Max, German/American (1937 - )
Title: Colossus Version 1 No. 1
Year: 1971
Medium: Acrylic and Silkscreen on Canvas, signed and dated l.r.
Size: 36 in. x 26 in. (91.44 c...
Category
1970s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Untitled 38 (Desert Sequence)
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original oil on wood painting by contemporary American artist Bruce Adams.
This work was part of a recent pop up exhibition The Dreamer Who Dreams, which was curated to raise mon...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Research & Development Figural 1 & 2
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
A pair of paintings by American contemporary artist Bruce Adams.
Art is the R&D for culture. Artists Conduct the R&D for society. In the late twentieth century painting was rejec...
Category
1990s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled 22 (Lipstick Diptych)
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original diptych painting by American contemporary conceptual painter Bruce Adams from the artist's Untitled series.
The “Untitled,” series draws from a variety of visual and his...
Category
2010s Photorealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Untitled 21 (Cocktail Diptych)
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original diptych painting by American contemporary conceptual painter Bruce Adams from the artist's Untitled series.
The “Untitled,” series draws from a variety of visual and his...
Category
2010s Photorealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Barbara
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Diana and the Stag
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Sampson and Dahlia
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the layers of meaning inherent in making and viewing art.
Artist Statement:
Though we don’t generally think about it, thirteenth-century religious art actually reflects medieval European perceptions of events that occurred in the ancient Middle East. In the Divine Beauty project I filter sacred iconography through the secular lens of today’s societal perceptions by placing found commercial fashion imagery (from magazines and other sources) in the context of painted religious narratives, producing a clash of ideas that throw both sources into question.
Like many Western New Yorkers, I was raised Catholic. I attended a Catholic elementary school, went to church every day. While the indoctrination didn’t last beyond childhood, it did instill a lifelong affinity for the visual traditions of sacred art. But, as the recent economic meltdown has made apparent, conspicuous global consumption has replaced western religion today as the favored path to personal fulfillment. Fashion models serve as the new icons...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Fish and Bicycles # 12
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original oil on paper by contemporary artist Bruce Adams from his Fish and Bicycles series. This work is currently part of an exhibition at Benjaman Gallery "Over the Fence".
This piece comes framed in an archival natural wood frame presentation.
The Fish and Bicycle series employs a similar strategy as my Men at Work series. This time the subject matter includes both men and women (exhibited in pairs) representing a range of gender identities. The title is derived from Irina Dunn’s witty statement (often erroneously attributed to Gloria Steinem...
Category
1980s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Nemesis
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams often references historical painting themes and styles in order to throw into relief western tropes in figurative art. Here as part of the artist's series Myths and Lies,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
A Pair of paintings Rituals 1 and Rituals 2
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
A pair of original mixed media paintings by American contemporary artist Bruce Adams from the artist's technology series.
"Sometime around 1981 I was at my mother-in-law’s house r...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Paper, Spray Paint
Narcissus with Venus Effect
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Doll Atrocities (Girl Parts and Boy Parts)
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
A pair of mixed media paintings by American artist Bruce Adams. The frames were also painting by the artist and are meant to compliment the works and concept of the piece.
Bruce ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Archival Ink, Oil
Eros and Psyche in L.A.
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Untitled 012 (Snow)
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original contemporary painting by American artist Bruce Adams.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Venus at her Mirror
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Unbridled (Mrs. Clinton)
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
It
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Wood
Woman on Couch with Boy
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
With this series I continue my practice of alluding to historical painting styles and themes as a means of prompting various contextual associations. I began by referencing portrait ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Picture of People Sitting Before Painting - National Gallery, Washington DC
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Matrix #3, How to Draw
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Neo Geology
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Justice
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ampulla Veneration
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the layers of meaning inherent in making and viewing art.
Artist Statement:
Though we don’t generally think about it, thirteenth-century religious art actually reflects medieval European perceptions of events that occurred in the ancient Middle East. In the Divine Beauty project I filter sacred iconography through the secular lens of today’s societal perceptions by placing found commercial fashion imagery (from magazines and other sources) in the context of painted religious narratives, producing a clash of ideas that throw both sources into question.
Like many Western New Yorkers, I was raised Catholic. I attended a Catholic elementary school, went to church every day. While the indoctrination didn’t last beyond childhood, it did instill a lifelong affinity for the visual traditions of sacred art. But, as the recent economic meltdown has made apparent, conspicuous global consumption has replaced western religion today as the favored path to personal fulfillment. Fashion models serve as the new icons...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
The Self is a Construction
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Wood
Simulate Direct Experience with Freeing Marks
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Wood
New Moon Detail
By Peter Max
Located in Missouri, MO
New Moon Detail
Peter Max (German, b. 1937)
Acrylic on Canvas
15 x 30 inches
26 x 41 inches with frame
Signed lower right
"Inspired by the monks and sages the artist saw as a child ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
“Umbrella Man IV Ver. 2” Colorful Contemporary Figurative Abstract Pop Painting
By Peter Max
Located in Houston, TX
Bright, colorful abstract painting by German-American artist Peter Max. The work features a man holding an umbrella with a floating bowler hat. Signed in the front upper right corner...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled Original
By Peter Max
Located in New York, NY
Peter Max original acrylic on canvas from 1970.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Grammy, Pop Art painting by Peter Max 1991
By Peter Max
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Peter Max
Title: Grammy
Year: 1991
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, signed upper right, with Max studio verso
Size: 60 x 48 inches (152.4 x 121.92 cm)
Frame: 63 x 51 inches
Max wa...
Category
1990s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Neo Head, Large Peter Max painting 1994
By Peter Max
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Peter Max
Title: Neo Head
Year: 1994
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, signed l.r.
Size: 72 x 60 inches (frame larger)
Category
1990s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Chaos Theory
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, 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.