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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Style: Expressionist
Style: Post-War
Child Resting in Chair, Expressionist Portrait by Philadelphia Artist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Child Resting in Chair" is a painting by Philadelphia born Expressionist painter Bernard Harmon. The 41" x 35.75" oil on board portrait is painted in a vibrant color palette. The painting is framed in a new, black wood frame and signed "Harmon" on verso. Figurative expressionism in the style of Alice Neel.
Bernard Harmon was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1935. Harmon was primarily a portrait painter and a well loved teacher in the Philadelphia area. A graduate of the Philadelphia Museum School and Temples Tyler School of Art, Harmon traveled extensively in Europe and South America. Beloved by many, Harmon taught in the Philadelphia School District for 32 of his 54 years of life. Beginning his career as an art teacher at West Philadelphia High School, in the early 1960s he became one of the district's artists in residence, traveling from school to school to demonstrate for students how an artist works. Returning to the classroom, Harmon joined the art department at Central High School where he taught for 14 years and became an innovator in art curriculum, developing a program offering advanced placement art classes to gifted students. In his final years Harmon became a supervisor, mentoring teachers and overseeing programs in the Philadelphia school systems District #1. During his short life Harmon taught collage preparatory art classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, summer classes at the University of the Arts, and a Saturday program for gifted children at Drexel University. Among Harmon's portraits were commissioned by Philadelphia Jazz organist Jimmy Smith and Mayor Richardson Dilworth. Bernard Harmon was active in promoting African American Artist throughout his life time. He organized many early shows such as the "Afro American Artists...
Category
1970s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
When Summer Nights Fall by Lucy Moore, Contemporary art, Floral and Botanical
By Lucy Moore
Located in Deddington, GB
When Summer Nights Fall – By Lucy Moore [2022]
original and hand signed by the artist
Acrylic on canvas
Image size: H:76 cm x W:76 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:76 cm x W:76 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Modernist Family Outing with Dog (Picnic in the Park) Ben Benn Oil Painting WPA
By Ben Benn
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Modern
Subject: People
Medium: Acrylic
Surface: Canvas
Country: United States
Dimensions: 20" x 24"
Scene of a family leisurely gathering together in a park to picnic and enjoying their day by the artist Ben Benn.
Ben Benn, Russian/American (1884-1983)
Ben Benn, a Russian-born American still-life and Post Impressionist landscape painter who was part of the first generation of artists in America to try to digest the lessons of Cubism Benn Benn was a pioneer American modernist whose independent style defied stylistic classification. Despite excursions into Cubism and Abstract Expressionist style, Benn “seems always to have been a ‘subject’ painter. Considering this, it is remarkable that he remained visible at all during the 50’s and early 60’s, when prejudice against the representational amounted nearly to a proscription of it.” Benn’s prominence in the art world over 6 decades was reaffirmed at a 90th birthday show at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington , D.C. in 1974.
Benn was born Benjamin Rosenberg in the town of Kamenets Podolsk in the Russian empire in 1884. This town was the regional capital of an area in what is today, SW Ukraine, and was historically known as Podolia. the Rosenberg family chose, along with thousands of others, to immigrate from Podolia to the United States in 1894 or 1899. “Between 1904 and 1908 Benn attended the National Academy of Design and he studied at the Arts Students League In New York City. He spent most of his career in New York City including memberships with the American Society of Painters and Sculptors, American Artists Congress and the Woodstock Artist Association. Academy curriculum stressed portraiture built up with broad, painterly brushstrokes, a technique that remained the foundation of Benn’s style. In his first group show, in 1913, he exhibited with Max Weber and Man Ray. By the mid teens his canvases were bolder in color and more decorative in style. In 1916, Benn participated in the important "Forum Exhibition of Modern American Painters...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
‘Father Series No. 8' Portrait Oil Painting Contemporary Textured Art by Duan
By Duan Zhaonan
Located in Carmel, CA
'Father Series No. 8' by Duan is a compelling addition to the 'Father Series,' skillfully capturing the essence of a man with a profound portrayal. In this piece, the subject, seemin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bouquet of Roses
Located in New York, NY
A very rare composition by the artist Jean-Pierre Cassigneul, the woman holds a beautiful Bouquet of Roses by the artist, she is wearing a chapeau
in front of a painting showing th...
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Resting at Evening, Israeli Modernist Painting
By Abraham Cohen
Located in Surfside, FL
Mid-century Israeli Modernist painting by Israeli artist Abraham Cohen
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled (Rope Dancer series)
By Jack Roth
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Untitled (Rope Dancer series)" is an acrylic on canvas made by Jack Roth in 1980. The artwork is 18 x 30 1/8 inches. It weighs less thn 50 lbs. The work is signed and dated in penci...
Category
Late 20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Coffee Peloton Series XVIII, Eliza Southwood, Original Coffee Painting, Cycling
Located in Deddington, GB
Coffee Peloton Series XVIII by Eliza Southwood [2021]
original
Coffee on paper
Image size: H:41.5 cm x W:59 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:41.5 cm x W:59 cm x D:0.1cm
Sold ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Coffee
'Torn' by Via Li - Strong Vivid Female Figurative - Expressionist Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
'Torn' by Via Li is a poignant 30" x 24" figurative acrylic painting that captures a deep and introspective emotion. The canvas is dominated by a striking image of a woman, her head ...
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Rabbi in Old Jerusalem Painting
By Isaac Frenel
Located in Surfside, FL
Yitzchak Frenel Frenkel, Israeli Master
In 1920, he established the artists' cooperative in Jaffa and an artists' studio in Herzliya. Later that year, he traveled to Paris where he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière at the studios of the sculptor Antoine Bourdelle and painter Henri Matisse. He was one of the leading Jewish artists of École de Paris. Frenkel returned to Palestine in 1925 and opened the Histadrut Art School in Tel Aviv. His students included Shimshon Holzman...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
cold snap, strange character dressed for winter, red coat
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on wood
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
"Reunion" Expressionist Figurative Man and Woman
Located in Austin, TX
By Pep Suari
32" x 39.5" Acrylic on Linen
This figurative expressionist painting by Pep Suari depicts a man and a woman looking at each other with flowers between them. The colors o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
Goyesque scene original oil on canvas painting
By Manuel Monedero
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Unframed
Manuel Monedero (n. Seville in 1925 - m. Carboneras (Aracena, Huelva) in 2002) is a Spanish painter.
His first exhibition dates from 1961 a...
Category
1950s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Portrait of Actress Paula Laurence - Wife of Joseph Hirshhorn
By Lily Harmon
Located in Miami, FL
Quick and loose expressionist portrait of stage and screen actress Paula Laurence
Portrait of Paula Laurence (1916-2005). Oil and graphite on linen. Signed top right. Exhibited: "Lil...
Category
1950s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Graphite
Bradley Chance Hays "Connected" Colorful Abstract Equine Horse Race Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
"Connected" is a 36x48 original oil painting by Bradley Chance Hays. This is a modern expressive bright and colorful painting of the side view of a #7 racehorse and jockey in full s...
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Acrobats bright tropical colors man and toucan birds humorous narrative
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on canvas signed and dated on reverse. Part ot a human and animal series by the artist
ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic...
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antonio Menegazzo (Italian) - 20th century landscape painting - The carousel
By Antonio Menegazzo
Located in Varmo, IT
Antonio Menegazzo, known as AMEN (Padua 1892 - Padua 1974) - The Carousel.
56 x 60 cm without frame, 81 x 84 cm with frame.
Oil on board, within passe-partout in wooden frame.
- W...
Category
Late 20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Duska Markotić (Croatian artist) - 20th century winter landscape painting
Located in Varmo, IT
Duska Markotić (Croatia, 20th century) - Winter landscape.
50 x 50 cm without frame, 69.5 x 69.5 cm with frame.
Oil on canvas, within passe-partout in wooden frame.
- Work signed ...
Category
Late 20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Boo Radley
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original acrylic on paper by emerging contemporary artist Anthony Leone which was featured in the artist's solo exhibition Grape Farm.
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Sand Pit Hungarian American Painting Workers Horses European Modernism 1928 WPA
Located in New York, NY
Sand Pit Hungarian American Oil Painting Workers Horses European Modernism 1928 WPA
The board measure 10 3/4 x 15 1/2 inches. The work was painted in Hunga...
Category
1920s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Bicycles, Springtime, Happy Holiday, Expressionist, Modernist Movement
Located in Sungai Petani, Kedah
It was a beautiful day. I was happy to see many people cycling. My friends and I, we were riding our bikes on the bicycle lane. Men, women, young and old were so happy cycling, picni...
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic, Canvas
"Uomo alla finestra (sbarre)" by Enzio Wenk, 2018-Acrylic, Oil, Expressionism
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Man at the window (barriers)".
Acrylic paint and oil paint on canvas.
The artist sells the handmade, original and one-of-a-kind piece, but he reserves the right...
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Oil
"Harvest" Working Women Hungarian European Modernism Expressionism 1926 WPA Era
Located in New York, NY
"Harvest" Working Women Hungarian European Modernism Expressionism 1926 WPA Era. 10 x 11 inches oil on board. Painted in Hungary.
Stephen (Istvan) Csoka was born in Gárdony, Hungary on January 2, 1897 and died in New York in 1989. He is best remembered as a painter and etcher of portraits, nudes, landscapes, genre, and horses. Csoka studied at the Budapest Royal Academy of Art and his memberships include Associate of the National Academy of Design in New York City; the Society of American Etchers in Brooklyn, NY; the Society of Brooklyn Artists; and the Hungarian Etchers Association. Csoka's exhibitions and awards include a medal at the Barcelona International Exhibition in 1929; a prize at the City of Budapest Exhibit in 1930; prizes at the Society of American Etchers in 1942 and 1945; prizes at the Library of Congress in 1944 and 1946; a prize at the Society of Brooklyn Artists in 1944; a prize at the Philadelphia Watercolor Club in 1945; the Corcoran Gallery of Art in 1945; the Carnegie Institute in 1943, 1944, and 1945; the Art Institute of Chicago in 1944; the Los Angeles Museum of Art in 1945; the National Academy of Design from 1940 through 1945; one-artist shows at the Contemporary Artists in 1940, 1943, and 1945; and the Minneapolis State Fair in 1943. *Stephen continued to recieve awards and exhibit his work throughout his life. In 1997, Hofstra Museum sponsored a Retrospective/Centennial exhibition in honor of his birth. Collections representing Csoka's work are the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; the British Museum, London, England; the Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio; Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell, MA; the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; the Sheldon Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN; the Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL; the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN; the Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM; the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary; Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, the Museum of the City of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary; the Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA; Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA; Hofstra Museum, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY; Holocaust Museum, Glen Cove, NY; National Academy of Art, New York, NY; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; New York Historical Society, New York, NY;New York Public Library, New York, NY; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Peabody Museum, Cambridge, MA; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA; Livingston Arts Center, Mount Morris, NY; Ball State Teachers College, Muncie, IN; City College, New York, NY; Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY; Hungarian Consulate, New York, NY; Hungarian Heritage, New Brunswick, NJ; Hunter College, New York, NY; IBM Collections; Princeton Print Club...
Category
1920s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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
Charles V (after van Dyke) classical contemporary bold horse colorful brushwork
By Tom Bennett
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A richly painted, expressionist homage to Van Dyke. Active, movement in an equestrian portrait based on a baroque painting. Oil on board.
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Copons original acrylic
By Joan Copons
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Original work of the Spanish artist Joan COPONS.
-Barcelona-jardin. original acrylic painting
Category
1990s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Priest dark muted color somber religious subject figure human condition theme
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Although painted 10 years ago the artist feels it is an appropriate image for these troubled times.
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Don't Fence Me In
Located in Denver, CO
"Don't Fence Me In" is an original oil painting by Lynn Rowan Myers (1933 - 2008). A colorful southwestern landscape is depicted with Myers signature red showing through.
Lynn Rowa...
Category
1990s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Woman Seated" - Vertical expressionist female semi-nude in cool colors.
By E.C. Bell
Located in Miami, FL
Romantic and expressionist nude artwork on canvas.
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
3 in 1 Beauty - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, African Women
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, this is not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Figure in a Lanscape
Located in London, GB
Oil on board, 62cm x 42cm, (70cm x 50cm framed). The picture is in good condition.
Plummer trained at the Royal Academy Schools in the early 1950s, championed by Stanley Spencer and Sir Herbert Read, he was the recipient of the coveted Leverhulme Scholarship. In a mixed career which included illustration work for The National Trust, anatomical illustration for Guys Hospital and teaching, painting ran parallel to his commercial work. Plummer specialised in the medium of egg tempera, as well as oil painting, a technique little used since the frescos of the Renaissance, he often worked on a large scale, but in tremendous detail, combining Classical iconography and formal composition with visual exploration evocative of William Blake and...
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1980s Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
salty sue and kandy korn, colorful woman and bird humorous people pets
Located in Brooklyn, NY
one of a series of people and their pets painted on wood panel suitable for framed smooth texture
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Vibrant 'Lyrical Expressionist' Portrait Painting on Canvas by Steve Balkin
Located in Hudson, NY
Steve Balkin (1938-2023)
This painting was purchased from Balkin's estate. It came from his home in upstate NY. It is titled "She's Always on my Mind", da...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Jazz, Expressionist Portrait of Woman with Violin by Philadelphia Artist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Jazz" is a figurative painting by Philadelphia born Expressionist painter Bernard Harmon from 1968. The 34" x 40" oil on board portrait features a young African American woman playi...
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Swimmers" Vibrant Expressionist Figurative Scene
Located in Austin, TX
Pep Suari
14.75" x 40"
Acrylic on Board
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Man with No Eyes, social justice interpretation of civil rights crime victim
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil and oil stick on canvas
Interpretation of beating and blinding of Issac Woodard sparking awareness of civil rights violations in the American south
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Naked woman with white flowers"- Yellow ochre expressionist nude with flowers.
By E.C. Bell
Located in Miami, FL
Romantic and expressionist nude artwork on canvas.
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Gorgeous cactus flowers (colorful painting on paper)
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This modern colorful artwork "Gorgeous cactus flowers" is full of vivid colors which are my tools of expression.
I explore the beauty of these beautiful pink blooming cactus flower...
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
"Fantasy escapes the canvas" - Vertical expressionist painting in cool colors.
By Luis Filcer
Located in Miami, FL
A fantastic scene where the characters leave the canvas empty.
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Masonite
Robert Friedrich Karl Scholtz. Portrait of a young lady. 1928. Oil on canvas.
Located in Berlin, DE
Portrait of a young lady. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated lower right.
Dimensions with frame: 74 cm x 88 cm
Without frame: 57.5 cm x 70.5 cm
The painting has several paint chips an...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dream Fountain, Neo-Expressionist Nude
Located in Austin, TX
This surreal neo-expressionist nude portrait is by Spanish artist Pep Suari and features a woman pouring water from a pitcher into the "Dream Fount...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Nativity Process" Water Colors & Pencils on Paper 19" x 12" inch by Ragheb Ayad
By Ragheb Ayad
Located in Culver City, CA
"Nativity Procession" Water Colors & Pencils on Paper 19" x 12" inch by Ragheb Ayad
signed & dated
Water Colors & Pencils on Paper
Ragheb Ayad was born i...
Category
20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
American Street Scene
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Irving Norman. "American Street Scene" is a macabre social surrealism city scape, oil on canvas in a bold palette of reds, blues, and yellows by artist Irving Norman. T...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
No Photos Please
By Todd White
Located in Toronto, ON
42" x 31" Unframed
Original - Oil on Canvas
Hand Signed by Todd White
Todd white captures restaurant, night and Hollywood scenes with contrasting colors serving the viewer’s eyes a...
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bird in a Blooming Garden
Located in Zofingen, AG
In creating this piece, I was moved by the serene beauty of nature, capturing a moment where a small bird perches amid blooming flowers. The brush strokes and oils allowed me to expl...
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
"Famiglia" by Enzio Wenk, 2019 -Acrylic Paint on Canvas Figurative Expressionism
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Acrylic paint on canvas.
It features a painted wooden frame.
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Wood
Bohemian - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Surrealism, Africa, Women
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"The Bohemian" is part of a new collection titled "Ode to Guardians and the Impuissant". It is a visual discourse on the frail but resilient nature of black women whom I call black h...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Morning Hustle, Original Painting
By Kip Decker
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A vibrant blend of colors captures the energy of a bustling morning scene. Figures in motion stride across the composition, their forms loosely defined yet full...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Contemporary expressionist vivid watercolor painting paper " Beachside serenity"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This contemporary vivid expressive painting, "Beachside Serenity', was created by French artist Natalya Mougenot. Using watercolor paints on heavyweight, professional acid-free paper...
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Le Col Rogue - 21st Century Contemporary, Expressionist Portrait, African Woman
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
Ships in a well-protected tube from Africa
This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gall...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Basket in Red. Oil on panel. Expressionist Still-life with abstract background
Located in Segovia, ES
Basket in Red (Canasto en rojo). Aracely Alarcón oil on panel. Expressionist Still-life on abstract background.
Dimension art : 38 x 46 x 03 cm.
Dimen...
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Expressionist Figurative water color painting- Luckiness
Located in Beijing, CN
Expressionist Figurative water color painting by Zhang Chunyang
Title: Luckiness
Dimension: 29 x 36 cm
Material: Gouache, Watercolor on Paper
D...
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Handmade Paper
Seated Nude in Blue - Original Abstract Expressionist on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Seated Nude - Original Abstract Expressionist on Canvas
Abstract expressionist figurative composition of a woman in Blue by California artist Harald "Harry" Dry Schmidt (American, 1...
Category
1970s Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Contemporary Figurative Original Painting "I need your friendship so much"
Located in Zofingen, AG
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
The painting "I Need Your Friendship So Much" portrays two figures in a tranquil, introspective state, bound together by a silent understanding. The warm, earthy t...
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sisters - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa Women, Modern
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
A captivating modern contemporary painting that beautifully captures the unbreakable bond shared between two sisters, connected not only by blood but also by an enduring love and con...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
French Mid-Century "The Polytechnique Students" Painting by Bernard Cornille
Located in Pasadena, CA
The 14th of July is the National Day in France. That night every high school in Paris have an orchestra playing in the streets.
This painting is depicting musicians students expres...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Girl Thinking, Expressionist Portrait of Young Woman by Philadelphia Artist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Girl Thinking" is a painting by Philadelphia born Expressionist painter Bernard Harmon. The 40" x 30" oil on board portrait of a young woman is painted in a vibrant color palette. The painting is framed in a new, black wood frame and signed "B Harmon" on verso. Figurative expressionism in the style of Alice Neel.
Bernard Harmon was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1935. Harmon was primarily a portrait painter and a well loved teacher in the Philadelphia area. A graduate of the Philadelphia Museum School and Temples Tyler School of Art, Harmon traveled extensively in Europe and South America. Beloved by many, Harmon taught in the Philadelphia School District for 32 of his 54 years of life. Beginning his career as an art teacher at West Philadelphia High School, in the early 1960s he became one of the district's artists in residence, traveling from school to school to demonstrate for students how an artist works. Returning to the classroom, Harmon joined the art department at Central High School where he taught for 14 years and became an innovator in art curriculum, developing a program offering advanced placement art classes to gifted students. In his final years Harmon became a supervisor, mentoring teachers and overseeing programs in the Philadelphia school systems District #1. During his short life Harmon taught collage preparatory art classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, summer classes at the University of the Arts, and a Saturday program for gifted children at Drexel University. Among Harmon's portraits were commissioned by Philadelphia Jazz organist Jimmy Smith and Mayor Richardson Dilworth. Bernard Harmon was active in promoting African American Artist throughout his life time. He organized many early shows such as the "Afro American Artists 1800 - 1969" at the Museum of the Philadelphia Civic Center in 1969. He was considered a Renaissance man by friends and colleagues for his interests not only in art but music and theater as well. He was familiar and friends with many other African American artists such as Doc Thrash, Selma Burke...
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Les Deux Soeurs
Located in Atlanta, GA
Born in 1951, François Legrand was introduced to painting as a teenager by Philippe Lejeune in Etampes.
In 1973, he moved to Loiret. From 1974 to 197...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
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.
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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.
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