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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Artist: Sax Berlin
Artist: Joseph Christian Leyendecker
Spike Gold Tooth : Contemporary Neo Expressionist Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Twenty First Century Sharp Edge NYC Style this painting showcases an iconic symbol of popular culture;the gold tooth or teeth. In this piece Berlin has comb...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Untitled
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
So many influences can be seen in this painting, however it is unmistakenly from Sax Berlin's hand. It's a classic work of the renaissance of Neo-Expressionism of which Berlin is at ...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
The Renaissance of Neo Expressionisation of Klee: Contemporary Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
A tour de force of a neo-expressionist painting. This work is symbolic and contemporary, offering a bold, almost tribal visual. Klee was a revolutionary artist who used many techniqu...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Bob Vylan. Spartan Warrior : Footprint Neo Expressionist Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Berlin has his finger firmly on the pulse of modernity. In this piece he acknowledges the London based punk/grime/rap band Bob Vylan. The social commentary of their lyrics are beau...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
"The God of Colour " Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Exhilarating flashes of neon colour swirl around the golden mouthed icon image. A painting of movement and meditation from the unique and unmistakable palette of master artist Sax B...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
"Angel of Manhattan". Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
A large, monochrome painting that maximises Berlin's skill. In this piece, which appears deceptively simple Berlin has channeled his raw energy into a painting that has massive impa...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
"No King: One Route". Contemporary Neo Expressionist Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Sharp edged and sassy from Sax Berlin.
A bang on trend, urban street painting with an undercurrent of the darkness of the city.
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
"Wild is the Wind. ( Kerry O )". Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Part of his Women Who Dance With Wolves inspired series, Berlin offers Wild is the Wind (Kerry O). Every woman has, deep within her psyche, a wild nature. This nature cannot be taugh...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Oil
Triple Halo Lil' Angel of SoHo
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Truly an exceptional, statement piece from Berlin. His Lil’ Angel is perhaps the most eyecatching and iconic of his works depicting the Guardian Angels. The Guardian Angels loomed la...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Blood. Neo Expressionist Figurative Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
"Sharp Edge" style from Sax Berlin
Category
2010s Street Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Preliminary Study for a Saturday Evening Post Cover "Tipping the Porter"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Pencil on Paper
Sight Size 22.00" x 17.50;" Framed 30.00" x 25.50"
Signature: Unsigned
Study for Cover of Saturday Evening Post Magazine, December 18, 1937
Exhibitio...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Pencil
WE THE PEOPLE. Contemporary Neo Expressionist Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
In classic Sharp Edge 21st Century New York Style, Berlin acknowledges and shows solidarity with the world mourning the cruel death of George Floyd in the United States, and starting...
Category
2010s Street Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Street Angel. ( Subway Series ) Contemporary Neo Expressionist Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
1980's NYC; dark and dangerous times. Gangs roamed the streets again, as they did in the 1800's, committing acts of egregious violence upon helpless citizens. But......... there was ...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Canvas
"Wild Side". Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
In the 1980's New York was a very different place to the shiny, cosmopolitan city we know today. Dark forces roamed the streets and subway, violence lurked on street corners. The cit...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Oil
Michelangelo's Apprentice: Contemporary figurative oil painting by Sax Berlin
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
A boys face straight from the Renaissance down the centuries to the studio of Sax Berlin. Created in Medieval style this portrait could quite easily belong in the Uffizi collections ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Aesthetic Movement Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
What Light in Yonder Window Breaks: Contemporary figurative oil painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Shakespeare's fair Juliet in Romeo's soliloquy is here interpreted as a medieval maiden. Berlin has not only cast his Juliet as a medieval beauty but has also used authentic techniqu...
Category
2010s Medieval Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Harlequin On Fire. Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Harlequin On Fire from the studio of Sax Berlin. Vivid colour reflects the face of Harlequin; he gazes back as the fire rages; will he plunge into the inferno...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Silver Leaf
Christ with Sainted Knights
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
J. C. Leyendecker’s illustrations and advertisements fueled a collective visual memory for the early 20th century American public. Over the course of his career, Leyendecker created 322 covers for The Saturday Evening Post, as well as numerous other magazines, including Collier’s and Ladies’ Home Journal. The only illustrator to eclipse his fame was Norman Rockwell and Rockwell was quick to credit Leyendecker as his mentor and inspiration. This previously unknown work was recently discovered at a small country auction in South Carolina. It is likely an early work by Leyendecker, dating to circa 1900. The sinuous reddish orange flames emitted by the slain dragon recall the steam and vapors found in his later work, including an advertisement for Ivory Soap and a Thanksgiving cover for The Saturday Evening Post. The chiseled features and elegant expressions of the two knights and Christ are similar to those of his many successful advertising campaigns and illustrations. The inclusion of columns and the decorative border also are seen in works ranging from the 1901 Thanksgiving edition cover of Success magazine...
Category
Early 1900s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Sisters of Mercy. Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Sisters of Mercy - obviously women of great strength of character as painted by Master Artist Sax Berlin in 2006. These divine women have the unique gift of consecrated life and brin...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
One Pearl Of Great Price. Contemporary Figurative Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
One Pearl Of Great Price is part of the "When We Were Harlekings" collection. A pearl, unlike other gems, emerges as a perfect object and represents the true self. Through diligent s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Pieta: Contemporary figurative oil painting by Sax Berlin
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Inspired by the Shroud of Turin this stunning piece incorporates a singular technique on each section. A masterful and unique amalgamation of materials...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"White Gold Lilies for the Dove of Peace" Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
A masterwork from a master artist,White Gold Lilies for the Dove of Peace is an immaculate piece, pure colours balanced with earthy hues imbue the work with shades of sumptuous richness seldom found outside the great collections. Nuance and symbolism combine within the elements of this painting to create an artistic journey through antiquity; Japanese wood block design, the language of flowers, even the colours themselves combine so masterfully to complete the piece.
In this large ground breaking painting Berlin has used bright vermillion & turquoise powered tones, volcanic glass and rock garnered from the slopes of Mount Vesuvius create texture and the use of the finest hand ground pigments and pure white gold leaf escalate this seminal piece to a higher plane.
This magnificent painting offers the pinnacle of modern fine art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Tanya The Red: Red Rebel Brigade. Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Bristol Invisible Circus created Red Rebel Brigade in April 2019 to support the Extinction Rebellion Spring Uprising although its roots go back to 2003 and protests against the war i...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Acrylic
Heaven's Gate, Jazz Bardo. Mixed Media Contemporary Neo-Classicism
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Bardol Thodol literally means liberation through hearing and comes from The Tibetan Book of the Dead. Bardo is the transitional state between death & rebirth. Lovers of jazz and music in general will be all too aware of how one can be transported to this suspended state when listening to music. This state is expressed beautifully in the Tibetan Book of the Dead, and here we quote directly from it
"remember the clear light, the pure clear white light...............Let go into the clear light, trust it, merge with it. It is your own true nature".
Jazz Bardo, Heavens Gate...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Silver, Copper, Gold Leaf
Pierrot and the Harlequin. Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
A subtle piece from Sax Berlin created in the 1990's; this painting unites 2 iconic figures, Pierrot and Harlequin. Whilst being totally differen...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Soldier's Pride, House of Kuppenheimer Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: n/a
Soldier's Pride was created as a component of Kuppenheimer's six-piece easel-backed World War I advertisement placards for in-store display. These pieces were expertly printed on a coated cardboard substrate so the black background would dramatically display the clothing item. Kuppenheimer & Hart Schaffner Marx...
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Born In the Night. Contemporary Neo Expressionist Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
When Sax Berlin experiences the desire to lay something down he's unstoppable. This piece was created from an initial impulse of red. He laid down the base of reds and retired for so...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"In The Light Of Eternity". Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
In The Light Of Eternity - nobody can portray the strength of woman in the same way as Sax Berlin, his paintings of women from the classical epoch of Ancient Greece are unsurpassed. ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Crack is Wack . Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Sax Berlin's Skull series form part of his Neo-Expressionist works. Berlin works with speed on these pieces, gives them a sense of urgency. In "person" they are electric and magnetic...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Silver
Basting the Turkey, Saturday Evening Post Cover Study
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Laid on Board
Signature: Unsigned
The Saturday Evening Post, November 16, 1912 cover Study (Thanksgiving Edition)
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Board
Beauty And Wisdom. Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Beauty and Wisdom - Berlin has captured the essence of woman in this painting. It is a deeply spirtual piece and evokes the journey through life to eventual harmony with self. The ac...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
New Years Baby, Saturday Evening Post Cover, 1907
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil Painting
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Sight Size 24.00" x 20.00", Framed 31.00" x 27.00"
The Saturday Evening Post cover illustration, December 1907
Category
Early 1900s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mortality. Contemporary Neo Expressionist Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
What better time than now to introduce Sax Berlin's Mortality series. Since people started creating art works there have been representations of human (and animal) bones; skeletons and skulls. This is a departure for Berlin and he brings his masterly talent to the genre. The Mortality series offers pieces that are in the vein of Neo-Expressionism and Art Brut but they are stamped with Berlin's authority. Redolent of Picasso's work Black Skull and Jug (1946) or the work of Belgian Expressionist...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Study for Irish Liberty
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Unsigned
The present work is a study for the cover of the March 18, 1922 cover of The Saturday Evening Post.
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Study for New Year's Baby (Blowing Bubbles)
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Unsigned
This is a study for the cover illustration of the 1 January 1927 issue of The Saturday Evening Post.
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Pierrot Illuminated. Contemporary Figurative Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
A 1991 work from the Pierrot series. 40 x 24 inches hand ground pigment on canvas
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"The Down Crown Crew". Contemporary Neo Expressionist Figurative Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
A small format work on paper from Berlin. This piece is bright and immediate, beautifully reflecting the vibrancy of downtown culture.
Acrylic and gold leaf on paper
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Toy Maker Study
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Upper Left
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Toy Peddler Study
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"From The Inner Heart To The Dove Of Peace." Contemporary Figurative Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Berlin's series of remarkable images of mythically, spiritual women is now augmented by this latest work. The Inner Heart to the Dove of Peace is an intense piece, a paean of hope. H...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Marble, Copper, Gold Leaf
Self Portrait with Billion Dollar Hand
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Berlin has always maintained his hand is an independent entity and the paintings he produces with it are unique and not within his control, they unfold onto the canvas. He fondly calls it his "Billion Dollar...
Category
2010s Street Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Blue Eyed Guardian. Contemporary Neo Expressionist Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
This Guardian Angel almost vanishes into his background, but that was the most wonderful attribute of the Angels, they melted in with the environment. Only the piercing blue eyes & r...
Category
2010s Street Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Cracked Buddha. Contemporary Buddha Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
"Everything passes everything changes everything crumbles all is impermanent." A direct quotation from Master Artist Sax Berlin showing his belief in the impermanence and reincarnation of all things even the seemingly eternal Buddha.
Sax Berlin is creating the Great 108 Buddhas series. The number 108 has sacred meaning for followers of the Buddhist faith. For example a Buddhist Mala...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Paxos Madonna. Contemporary Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Created in his studio on the Greek island of Paxos in 2004, this Madonna, painted in the ancient technique of egg tempera, is inspired by the Madonnas found throughout the islands. T...
Category
Early 2000s Young British Artists (YBA) Figurative Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera
Sappho's Cliff. Contemporary Figurative Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Is it possible to paint an abstract Classical picture? If so then this superb piece must surely be it. In the portrait of her head Sappho almost appears as a negative image, much like the Turin Shroud...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Man Dressing in Mirror
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Featured in The Saturday Evening Post
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Everybody On The Same Page" Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
In classic Sharp Edge 21st Century New York Style, Berlin acknowledges and shows solidarity with the world mourning the cruel death of George Floyd in the United States, and starting...
Category
2010s Street Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Marble
Guardian Angels The Rule is to Serve. Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
The concept of service and governance is not new in history; Einstein thought the "high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule" and Seneca the great Roman philosop...
Category
2010s Street Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Reflection of a Fire Bird, Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting by Sax Berlin
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
From the Fire Bird series of 2015. Reflections of a Fire Bird emanates the reflection of orange light from his mirror. Orange is a power colour, signifying creativity but also healin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Anytime Anywhere. Contemporary Neo Expressionist Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Acrylic On Canvas
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The Voice in the Rice
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
In the 1890s and early 1900s, as J.C. Leyendecker was developing his pictorial work for advertisements, magazine covers, and posters, he also illustrated a number of novels to supplement his income. These titles include One Fair Daughter (1895), Ships that Pass in the Night (1898), The Kiss of Glory (1902), Ridolfo (1906), The Crimson Conquest (1907), Get Rich Quick Wallingford (1908), The Voice in the Rice (1910) and The Lonely Guard (1912).
The present work is one of six Leyendecker illustrations from Gouverner Morris' The Voice in the Rice, published in book form in 1911. The novel centers on a dashing young man, Michael Bourne, who, after surviving a shipwreck off the coast of South Carolina, washes ashore near the Santee River and encounters a secret slaveholding community. Lord Nairn, a wheelchair-bound tyrant with hypnotic powers, governs this supposedly utopian society, and he soon feels threatened by Michael when they begin to compete for the affections of Mary Moore. Michael can...
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Fire Birds: Contemporary figurative oil painting by Sax Berlin
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
A powerful image of Harlequins; they sit in security knowing that behind the turbulence of the world surges all around them. This latest form of the Harlequin from Berlin is vibrant ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
BLACK LIVES MATTER
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
In classic Sharp Edge 21st Century New York Style, Berlin acknowledges and shows solidarity with the world mourning the cruel death of George Floyd in the United States, and starting to come together to try to make sense of systemic racism. Black Lives Matter...
Category
2010s Street Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
The Politician, Saturday Evening Post Cover, 1916
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, November 4, 1916
Literature: The Saturday Evening Post, November 4, 1916, illustrated on the ...
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dont Shoot: Take Knee. Neo Expressionist Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
In classic Sharp Edge 21st Century New York Style, Berlin acknowledges and shows solidarity with the world mourning the cruel death of George Floyd in the United States, and starting...
Category
2010s Street Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Stoking the Furnace, Saturday Evening Post Cover, 1938
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Literature: The Saturday Evening Post, October 15, 1938, cover illustration. J. Cohn, Covers of The Saturday Evening Post, New Yo...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Study for Butterfly Couple
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Kuppenheimer Clothing Advertisement
Exhibitions: Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Old Corner House Museum, The Illustrator's Moment, July-October 1...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Real Happy New Year, Amoco Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Monogram Lower Left
Sight Size 20.00" x 45.00", Framed 26.00" x 51.00"
This piece was used for at least two separate Amoco advertisements. "A Real Happy New...
Category
1940s 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.
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