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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Artist: Evelyne Ballestra
Artist: Michael William Eggleston
Spirale Nout
Located in Miami, FL
Her work with signs, symbols and esoteric spirituality reflects her passion for the ancient past and represents a symbolic return to the ground from which we emerged. Her work creates a commentary about “beginnings” and the transmission of signs and emotions through visual elements evoking a spiritual essence to our scientific notion of etymology. After studying 0under Rolf Dürig...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Iris Mosaic
Located in Miami, FL
Her work with signs, symbols and esoteric spirituality reflects her passion for the ancient past and represents a symbolic return to the ground from which we emerged. Her work create...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The oysters
Located in Miami, FL
Her work with signs, symbols and esoteric spirituality reflects her passion for the ancient past and represents a symbolic return to the ground from which we emerged. Her work create...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Musical Figurative Abstract
Located in Soquel, CA
Bold, bright and earthy colors all play a role in this figurative abstract by Michael William Eggleston (American, 20th c.). Signed with monogram and dated "MWE '01" lower right. Unframed. Image, 42"H x 42"W. A musician is serenading a woman in her bath with the San Francisco cityscape...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Lobsters
Located in Miami, FL
Her work with signs, symbols and esoteric spirituality reflects her passion for the ancient past and represents a symbolic return to the ground from which we emerged. Her work create...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cap Roux Théoule
Located in Miami, FL
Her work with signs, symbols and esoteric spirituality reflects her passion for the ancient past and represents a symbolic return to the ground from which we emerged. Her work creates a commentary about “beginnings” and the transmission of signs and emotions through visual elements evoking a spiritual essence to our scientific notion of etymology. After studying under Rolf Dürig...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sunflower fields
Located in Miami, FL
Sunflower fields is a painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist. This piece is a part of a flower series, defined by their disti...
Category
1990s Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"After Party", Large Scale Neo-Expressionist Abstracted Symbolist Figurative
Located in Soquel, CA
"After Party", Large Scale Neo-Expressionist Abstracted Symbolist Figurative
Striking abstracted figurative titled "After Party" by Michael Eggleston (Ame...
Category
1970s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ballets Russes
Located in Miami, FL
Her work with signs, symbols and esoteric spirituality reflects her passion for the ancient past and represents a symbolic return to the ground from which we emerged. Her work create...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Leather Story
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract art with an abstract story by San Francisco artist Michael William Eggleston (American, 20th century). From a collection of his works. Unsigned. Unframed. Image, 47.75"H x 3...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
L'enlèvement d'Europe
Located in Miami, FL
Her work with signs, symbols and esoteric spirituality reflects her passion for the ancient past and represents a symbolic return to the ground from which we emerged. Her work create...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hathor
Located in Miami, FL
Her work with signs, symbols and esoteric spirituality reflects her passion for the ancient past and represents a symbolic return to the ground from which we emerged. Her work creates a commentary about “beginnings” and the transmission of signs and emotions through visual elements evoking a spiritual essence to our scientific notion of etymology. After studying under Rolf Dürig...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Passage
Located in Miami, FL
Her work with signs, symbols and esoteric spirituality reflects her passion for the ancient past and represents a symbolic return to the ground from which we emerged. Her work creates a commentary about “beginnings” and the transmission of signs and emotions through visual elements evoking a spiritual essence to our scientific notion of etymology. After studying under Rolf Dürig...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Seychelles Granite II
Located in Miami, FL
Seychelles Granite II is a colorful painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist, while she was in Seychelles for art residency. The artist uses bright colors in ...
Category
1980s Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Iris
Located in Miami, FL
Her work with signs, symbols and esoteric spirituality reflects her passion for the ancient past and represents a symbolic return to the ground from which we emerged. Her work creates a commentary about “beginnings” and the transmission of signs and emotions through visual elements evoking a spiritual essence to our scientific notion of etymology. After studying under Rolf Dürig...
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Praslin
Located in Miami, FL
Praslin is a colorful painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist, while she was in Seychelles for art residency. The artist uses bright colors in this expressio...
Category
1980s Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Contemporary Large-Scale Cubist Figurative Abstract Lavender Interior Scene
Located in Soquel, CA
Contemporary Large-Scale Cubist Figurative Abstract Lavender Interior Scene
Bursting with bright colors and whimsical energy, this contemporary figurative abstract painting by San ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Contemporary Figurative Abstract, Woman with Red Top
Located in Soquel, CA
Contemporary Figurative Abstract, Woman with Red Top
Modernist painting of red headed woman in a red bikini by Michael William Eggleston (American, 20th c.). ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sunflowers
Located in Miami, FL
Her work with signs, symbols and esoteric spirituality reflects her passion for the ancient past and represents a symbolic return to the ground from which we emerged. Her work create...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Courtney Love and Guitar Abstract Expressionist Figurative
Located in Soquel, CA
Courtney Love playing blues - a dynamic abstract painting by San Francisco artist Michael William Eggleston (American, 20th century). From a collection o...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Contemporary Figurative Abstract, Blonde Woman with Red Bikini
Located in Soquel, CA
Contemporary Figurative Abstract, Blonde Woman with Red Bikini
Modernist painting of blonde woman in a red bikini by San Francisco artist Michael William ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Contemporary Figurative Abstract, Woman in Red Bikini
Located in Soquel, CA
Contemporary Figurative Abstract, Woman in Red Bikini
Modernist painting of a brunette in a red bikini in an urban setting by San Francisco artist Michael...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Blue Scarfed Woman - Figurative Abstract
Located in Soquel, CA
Bold abstract figurative of a figure in a blue scarf by San Francisco artist Michael William Eggleston (American, 20th c.)From a collection of his works. Si...
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Reclining Figure, Contemporary Female Figural Abstract
Located in Soquel, CA
Reclining Figure, Contemporary Female Figural Abstract
Modernist nude figural abstract painting by Michael William Eggleston (American, 20th c.). From a collection of his works. Si...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Blooming
Located in Miami, FL
Her work with signs, symbols and esoteric spirituality reflects her passion for the ancient past. Her earlier works done in shallow relief, break down “form” into the most basic elem...
Category
2010s Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Les homards
Located in Miami, FL
Her work with signs, symbols and esoteric spirituality reflects her passion for the ancient past and represents a symbolic return to the ground from which we emerged. Her work create...
Category
2010s Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Geraniums
Located in Miami, FL
Geraniums is a painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist. This piece is a part of a flower series, defined by their distinct bright colors, satiny, silky, vibr...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Diane's Garden
Located in Miami, FL
Diane's Garden is a painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist. This piece is a part of a flower series, defined by their distinct bright colors, satiny, silky,...
Category
1970s Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Iris conversation
Located in Miami, FL
Iris conversation is a painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist. This piece is a part of a flower series, defined by their distinct bright colors, satiny, sil...
Category
1990s Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Governador
Located in Miami, FL
Governador is a painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist. This red tons expressionist painting is inspired from an island near Panama, with its palm trees, vi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Orchestra
Located in Miami, FL
Orchestra is a colorful painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist. The artist uses bright colors in this expressionist painting to show how she feels the music...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
May Valley
Located in Miami, FL
May Valley is a colorful painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist, while she was in Seychelles for art residency. The artist uses bright green tons colors in ...
Category
1980s Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Carroussel
Located in Miami, FL
Carroussel is a painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist. This piece is a part of a flower series, defined by their distinct bright colors, satiny, silky, vib...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lotus
Located in Miami, FL
Lotus is a painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist. This piece is a part of a flower series, defined by their distinct bright colors, satiny, silky, vibratin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Provence
Located in Miami, FL
Provence is a painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist. This painting of fruits and vegetables is a declination from a flower series, defined by their distinc...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Daydream (Diptych)
Located in Miami, FL
Daydream is a painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist. This expressionist painting representing a naked woman is inspired from Eve in the Garden of Eden, wit...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Exotic Sunshine
Located in Miami, FL
Exotic Sunshine is a painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist. This piece is a part of a flower series, defined by their distinct bright colors, satiny, silky...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Downtown
Located in Miami, FL
Downtown is a painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist. This orange and blue tons expressionist painting is inspired from Lower Manhattan and its Twin Towers ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tulips
Located in Miami, FL
Tulips is a painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist. This piece is a part of a flower series, defined by their distinct bright colors, satiny, silky, vibrati...
Category
1990s Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Brocéliande
Located in Miami, FL
Born 1949, Fréjus, France
French artist Evelyne Ballestra studied painting in the South of France before moving to Switzerland where she met her mentor, Rolf Dürig, a master of the ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Vortex
Located in Miami, FL
Evelyne Ballestra's work with signs, symbols and esoteric spirituality reflects her passion for the ancient past and represents a symbolic return to the ground from which we emerged....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Iris Garden
Located in Miami, FL
Iris Garden is a painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist. This piece is a part of a flower series, defined by their distinct brigh...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Figurative Paintings for Sale
Figurative art, as opposed to abstract art, retains features from the observable world in its representational depictions of subject matter. Most commonly, figurative paintings reference and explore the human body, but they can also include landscapes, architecture, plants and animals — all portrayed with realism.
While the oldest figurative art dates back tens of thousands of years to cave wall paintings, figurative works made from observation became especially prominent in the early Renaissance. Artists like Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and other Renaissance masters created naturalistic representations of their subjects.
Pablo Picasso is lauded for laying the foundation for modern figurative art in the 1920s. Although abstracted, this work held a strong connection to representing people and other subjects. Other famous figurative artists include Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud. Figurative art in the 20th century would span such diverse genres as Expressionism, Pop art and Surrealism.
Today, a number of figural artists — such as Sedrick Huckaby, Daisy Patton and Eileen Cooper — are making art that uses the human body as its subject.
Because figurative art represents subjects from the real world, natural colors are common in these paintings. A piece of figurative art can be an exciting starting point for setting a tone and creating a color palette in a room.
Browse an extensive collection of figurative paintings on 1stDibs.