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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Period: 1960s
Period: 1940s
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Fruits - Oil Paint by Gianpaolo Berto - 1967
Located in Roma, IT
Fruits is a modern artwork realized by the artist Gian Paolo Berto in 1967.
Mixed colored oil painting.
Hand signed on the lower margin.
Signature, title and date on the back
Inc...
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lady in creation
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage French Redhead Female Portrait oil Painting 1960's
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
#5-3401 Red Hair Portrait, a vintage oil on board displayed in a wood gilt frame signed by Longo.Image size 8.75 H x 5.75 W
Category
1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled (Abstract Celebrating Figures)
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Untitled (Abstract Celebrating Figures)
Year: 1963
Medium: Watercolor on heavy archival paper
Size: 29.5 x 21 inches
Condition: Good
Provenance:...
Category
1960s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Mid Century Country Lane Figurative Landscape with Autumn Trees
Located in Soquel, CA
Quaint pastoral landscape of a figure and dog walking down a country lane amongst tall autumn trees with beautiful fall foliage by Cal Donna Zell (American, 20th Century). Signed "Ca...
Category
1960s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
1969 American Modern "The Concert"
Located in San Francisco, CA
Powerful mid century American modern painting of 3 musicians. Really well painted mystery piece. It is oil on canvas dated on back with a name of either a...
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pouring Down in the Streets - Rainy Cityscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Dramatic cityscape of a crowded street in the rain by an unknown artist (20th Century). A crowd of people navigate the streets in the rain, some holding umbrellas. The rain is depict...
Category
1960s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
“Fleet Week”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on masonite painting of Fleet Week with sailors flirting with young women on the dock by the American artist, Sarah Pace Carothers Rhode. ...
Category
1940s Ashcan School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Julius Cesar - Drawing by Albert Decaris - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Julius Cesar is an original China ink drawing on paper applied realized by Albert Decaris in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Hand-signed.
The artwork is depicted through soft stokes i...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink
The Show is On
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Show is On, 1940, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right, 24 x 20 inches, exhibited: 30th Annual Exhibition of the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Pitt...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Surroundings in countryside. 1963, cardboard, oil, 45 x 58 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Surroundings in countryside. 1963, cardboard, oil, 45 x 58 cm
Landscape painting of Latvia countryside.
Gentle and careful brushstrokes in the foreground accents sunny day.
Color use demonstrates Paulovics as fine master of tonal painting.
Artist used impasto painting technique that uses thick, rich layers of paint. Applying the paint thickly, author produced an truly incredibly beautiful effect.
Teodors Paulovics captured the impressionistic aspects of nature - afternoon light of the sun in late fall- more then details of natural forms.
Teodors Paulovics studied art in Vilhelms Purvitis...
Category
1960s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Les Soeurs (The Sisters), Oil Painting by Charles Levier
Located in Long Island City, NY
Les Soeurs (The Sisters)
Charles Levier, French (1920–2003)
Date: circa 1965
Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Size: 24 x 30 in. (60.96 x 76.2 cm)
Frame Size: 29.5 x...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
WWII Aircraft Factory Workers Industrial 20th Century American Scene WPA Modern
Located in New York, NY
WWII Aircraft Factory Workers Industrial 20th Century American Scene WPA Modern
Frederick Buchholz (1901-1983)
WW2 Aircraft Factory
18 x 24 inches
Oil ...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Contemporary art, the family, figures, Paul Guiragossian.
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
Here is one of Paul Guiragossian's 1960s oil paintings on canvas. The artwork's size, without the frame, is 31 x 23 inches. The overall composition represents a family, with the figu...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
American Impressionist Portrait of a Fish swimming, possibly a carp or Bass
By Harry Sutton
Located in Woodbury, CT
Harry P Jr Sutton (1897 - 1984) was active/lived in Massachusetts. Harry Sutton is known for figures, interiors, and still life painting.
This is a uniq...
Category
1960s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Naughty Children" on Canvas by Harold Stephenson, Aka Abruzzi
By Harold Stephenson
Located in Pasadena, CA
This painting features two children with big brown eyes peeking behind red-slatted shutters. The innocence on their faces contrasts with some sense of embarrassment, like if they had...
Category
1960s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Women with Flowers', Early Los Altos California Modernist, Floral Still Life
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed verso, on stretcher bar, 'Janice Haefner' (American, 1919-2002) and painted circa 1960.
A substantial mid-century, Expressionist figural abstraction showing two women seated ...
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid-Century Figurative Oil Painting by Fabian Lundqvist - By the Balcony Ledge
Located in Bristol, GB
BY THE BALCONY LEDGE
Size: 48 x 56 cm (including frame)
Oil on Canvas
A soothing and restful mid-century modern painting, executed in oil onto canvas by the established Swedish arti...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bold San Francisco Abstracted Still Life Composition in Oil on Board
By Frank Koci
Located in Soquel, CA
Bold San Francisco Abstracted Still Life Composition in Oil on Board
Bold still life composition by Frank Koci (Czech-American, 1904-1983). A table is set with a jug of wine and a bowl of fruit and a landscape in the background. It is composed of several layers of paint, with bold outlines. In some areas, paint has been scraped away to create additional texture. In broad terms, you can describe Koci’s paintings as a series of “people-scapes,” wherein people are shown having relationships (some fleeting, some enduring) with fellow humans. A better term is probably “preludes” — wherein each painting sets the stage for something momentous that will occur in the very next frame. In the best Kocis, the tension is palpable.
Signed in the lower right corner "Koci".
Presented in a wood frame.
Board size: 13"H x 30"W x .5"D
Born in 1904 in Pilsen Czechoslovakia to a widowed mother. Koci grew up in poverty. Leaving Pilsen at 17 he was already too sophisticated about arts and literature, drama, and polished...
Category
1960s Outsider Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Plywood, Oil
Seeing Egg No. 2, Surrealist Ovoid acrylic painting, Figural Abstract
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Seeing Egg No. 2, 1965
Acrylic and collage on scintilla
Signed and dated upper right
30 x 22 inches
34 x 29 inches, framed
A surrealis...
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Evening in the small town" Snow, winter, white Oil cm.50 x 25 1967
Located in Torino, IT
Snow, winter, white ,Night
LEONID VAICHLIA (St. Petersburg, 1922/2013)
Works by Leonid Vaichlia can be found in various private collections in Europe, Japan, United States and in t...
Category
1960s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Plywood, Oil
Quiet Afternoon in Cotswold Village - Mid Century Figurative Landscape
By David L. Ghilchik
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful mid century figurative landscape of a contemplative woman in Cotswold village, England by David L. Ghilchik (b. 1892 Romania; d. 1972 London), c.1945. Signed lower right "Ghilchik." Presented in rustic wood frame. Image measures: 14.5"H x 17.5"W. With frame, measures: 21"H x 25"W x 2"D.
David Louis Ghilchik was a painter, and cartoonist for Punch Magazine and the Daily Sketch. He was the son of Abraham Josef Ghilchik, who traded in lace and linen, and his wife Sali. The family settled in Salford in 1920, where David enrolled at the Manchester School of Art and studied under Adolphe Valette...
Category
1940s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
'She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not', Girl in a Gingham Dress, 1940's, Folk Art
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A sensitively painted portrait of the artist's daughter, Nancy, aged two and a half, shown wearing a floral-striped, jade green gingham dress.
Signed lower right, 'Martha Tracy Frey' (American, 1915-2010) and painted 1944; additionally inscribed verso 'Picture of Nancy Jane Frey from life-sized photograph when about 2 1/2. Painted by her mother in 1944.' This Kern County...
Category
1940s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Mid Century Pulp Art - Sad Clown Portrait with Green, Yellow, & Red
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid century pulp art portrait of a somber clown with a yellow shirt, red hair and a red nose, holding a scepter in a dramatized space with a candle and green ...
Category
1960s Outsider Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Cardboard
Rare Israeli Modernist Oil Painting Exhibited 1951 Tel Aviv Museum
By Anatol Gurevitch
Located in Surfside, FL
Gurevich Anatole Anatol Gurevitch Anatol Gurewitsch (1916-2005)
Per the hebrew label on the back, this was exhibited in 1951. I believe at the Tel Aviv museum of art (as per the Israel Museum (Jerusalem) website)m in a manner reminescent of Bezalel Schatz, Moshe Castel, Jean david and other Israeli artists of the New Horizons prominent in that period ts a nude crouching figure against a colorful abstract background.
Israeli Painter and stage designer. Yakir of Tel Aviv. Born in Russia, Moscow in the mid-teens of the twentieth century. Studied painting in Berlin. Immigrated to Palestine from Germany in 1934. Served in the British Army (1941-1946). Known for his pantings of Jewish rabbis and other Judaica subject matter. He specialized in stage design for dance troupes: the dance troupe led by Gertrude Kraus, Inbal, the Batsheva Dance Company, the international black dancer tali bati. His first wife was the late dancer and choreographer - the girl Kesten, His son is theater director Michael Gurevich. His second wife was the actress - Rivka Gur, who gave birth to his second son, Eyal. He died at the age of 89 after a serious illness. He left behind two sons: Michael (Miki) Gurevitch and Eyal Gurevitch. He was the uncle of the artist and sculptor - Igael Tumarkin.
He was a stage designer in the theaters
The brothel of Hunzo from Kibbutz Givat Haim, the British military band of this type, the British army, Gertrud Kraus, the Inbal Dance Theater, the Israeli Ballet, the Batsheva Dance Company and more.
He designed a stage for plays
The girl and the Negro, the Threepenny Opera, a band on the Thames, the singer of the land (in the military band of 1944), the banknote to Shlomo, the tea department, Nathan the Wise, Herod and Miriam.
Awards
Yakir Tel Aviv Prize, on behalf of the Tel Aviv Municipality.
Anatol Gurewitsch, painter and Stage designer, born 1916, Moscow. After Second World War worked as stage designer. Designed costumes for dancer Gertrud Krausz. Uncle of Igael Tumarkin, and father of the theater Director Miki Gurewitsch.
Education
Academy of Fine Arts, Berlin, art
1936 with Frenel Frankel
1937 with Miron...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Red Chair" Diana Kurz, 1962 Figurative Expressionist Painting New York School
By Diana Kurz
Located in New York, NY
Diana Kurz
Red Chair, 1962
Signed, titled, dated on verso
Oil on canvas
53 x 41 1/2 inches
Diana Kurz (born 1936) is an Austrian-born feminist painter. In 1938, Diana Kurz's family...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Young Man in Striped Shirt
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful 1965 portrait of a young man (possibly the artist Don Bachardy) in a striped shirt looking back over his shoulder by Paul Sorel (American, b- 1920...
Category
1960s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ballet Dancer by Jules Schyl, Pastel on paper, Similarities with Degas
By Jules Schyl
Located in Stockholm, SE
Jules Schyl (Sweden, 1893-1977)
Title: Ballet Dancers
A Ballet Dancer painting is a rare find for an artist mostly known for his oeuvre with Cubism and Expressionist paintings. The current painting has many similarities with Degas sketches...
Category
1940s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Pastel
The Beach Modern Impressionist Oil Painting
By Marguerite Rousseau
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
The Beach Modern Impressionist Oil Painting
Marguerite Rousseau was born in 1888 in Belgium died in 1948.
She is known for her French Impressionist style in her earlier work, she was painting parks...
Category
1940s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bathers
Located in West Hollywood, CA
We are proud to present outstanding original oil on canvas by American artist William Gropper (1897-1977.)
William Gropper was an artist and illustrator, known for his exceptional a...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Landscape - Paint by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Oil and tempera on cardboard realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Hand signed.
Includes a coeval wooden frame realized by the Artist cm. 48.5x58.5.
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Tempera, Cardboard
Boy on Carousel, Watercolor by Lucio Ranucci
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lucio Ranucci, Italian (1925 - )
Title: Boy on Carousel
Year: 1969
Medium: Watercolor on paper, signed and dated u.l.
Image Size: 20 x 12 inches
Size: 27 x 20 in. (68.58 x 50...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Figure in the shadow - Oil Painting on Canvas by N. Gattamelata -1968
Located in Roma, IT
Figure in the shadow is an original modern artwork realized by N. Gattamelata in 1968.
Mixed colored oil on canvas
Includes frame
Hand signed and dated on the back.
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tipping The Porter, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Sight Size 30.00" x 24.12", Framed 39.00" x 34.00"
Saturday Evening Post Cover, December 18, 1937
Exhibitions:
It's a Man's Worl...
Category
1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Woman in Green', Modernist Fashion Portrait in Green and Yellow, Paris
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, "Auge" (French, born 1935) for Philippe Auge (French, born 1935) and painted circa 1965.
An elegant and substantial, mid-century figurative oil by this member of...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Four Figures, Framed Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting by John Uht
By John Uht
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: John Uht, American (1924 - 2010)
Title: Four Figures
Year: circa 1960
Medium: Oil on canvas, signed l.l.
Size: 40 in. x 30 in. (101.6 cm x 76.2 cm)
Frame Size: 46.5 x 36.5 in...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Readying for First Date, Original Cover for The Saturday Evening Post
Located in Fort Washington, PA
A mother helps her son put on a tie in preparation for a formal party. Original cover for The Saturday Evening Post, October 16, 1948. George Hughes used his neighbors, the Rockwells, as models. The young man is Thomas Rockwell, the son of famed Norman Rockwell, and the mother is modeled after Thomas' actual mother and Norman's then-wife, Mary Rockwell...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Mid Century Paris Street Scene
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming mid century watercolor painting of late 19th Century Paris street scene circa 1950. Signed lower left "Julius" , attributed to Julius Rosenbaum...
Category
1940s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Morning Swim Impressionist
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Morning Swim Impressionist Nude Woman Portrait
Artist signed, titled verso.
Wallace Bassford was an American painter and illustrator, known particularly for his floral still-lifes an...
Category
1960s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Yellow house in the snow" Snow, Forest, Winter, White Oil cm. 39 x 50 1964
Located in Torino, IT
snow ,winter,white landscape,russian art
LEONID VAICHLIA (St. Petersburg, 1922)
Works by Leonid Vaichlia can be found in various private collections in Europe, Japan, United Stat...
Category
1960s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Winged Woman - China Ink Drawing by Albert Decaris - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Winged woman is a fine ink drawing, realized by Albert Decaris (1901-1988) .
Good conditions.
Albert Decaris was a French artist, engraver and painter. ...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
1940s Modernist Oil Painting – Adobe Church Landscape, New Mexico Southwest Art
Located in Denver, CO
This evocative vintage oil painting from the 1930s–1940s captures a classic adobe church in New Mexico, likely inspired by the historic San Francisco de Asís Mission Church in Rancho de Taos. Painted by Denver modernist Paul K...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Still life with peonies. 1969, plywood, oil, 68x59 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Still life with peonies
1969, plywood, oil, 68x59 cm
Category
1960s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Plywood
"Overholser Family, 1890, Sterling, Illinois" Streeter Blair, 1949 Painting
Located in New York, NY
Streeter Blair
Overholser Family, 1890, Sterling, Illinois, 1949
Signed, titled, and dated lower left
Oil on canvas
8 x 10 inches
Primitive painter St...
Category
1940s Outsider Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Figurative Yellow and Blue-Toned Realistic Impressionist Portrait of a Boy
Located in Houston, TX
Yellow and blue-toned abstract impressionist portrait of a boy by Danish artist Hans Christian Bärenholdt. Signed by the artist at the bottom right. Hung in a gold carved frame.
Dim...
Category
1940s Naturalistic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Post Office WPA Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Modern 20th Century
By Carlos Lopez
Located in New York, NY
Post Office WPA Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Modern 20th Century
Carlos Lopez (1910-1953)
"Bounty" WPA Mural Study for Michigan Post Office
19 ½ x 22 ½ inches
Oil on B...
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
“On the Balcony”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on canvas of a beautiful girl wearing a summer hat seated at a table overlooking the water. Signed lower right. Condition is excellent. Done in a post impressionist st...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Autumn Wood Interior" John E. Costigan, Early 20th Century Landscape Painting
Located in New York, NY
John Edward Costigan
Autumn Wood Interior, 1946
Signed, lower left "J.E. Costigan N.A."
Oil on canvas
24 x 30 inches
John Costigan was a self-taught painter and trained printer dis...
Category
1940s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Wedding Day - Norman Rockwell Americana - Female Illustrator
By Lorraine Fox
Located in Miami, FL
Recently, women artists have been soaring in price to millions of dollars. In many cases, many of these women were quite obscure. For example, recently acknowledged Gertrude Abercrombie, a naive surrealist artist, has recently seen her paintings rise to the area of $400K. Lorraine Fox, who is a consummate female artist/ illustrator whose work rivals any of the recently anointed female stars is still an unknown quantity. She has exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum and is in the collection of the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, and she is a member of the Famous Artists School in Westport, Connecticut along with Norman Rockwell, Today she is relatively unknown and completely off the radar of the so-called art establishment. Wedding Day is a wonderful example of her mid-century, somewhat naive style. The work is signed lower right and was exhibited at the Brandywine River...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Fauve Portrait of Three Women in Blue Holding Red Abanicos
By Bernie Fuchs
Located in Miami, FL
Bernie Fuchs's painting "Fauve Portrait of Two Women in Blue with Red Abanicos" captures a festive scene of three Spanish women in traditional dress at...
Category
1960s Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Cubist Figural', American Modernist Gouache
By Steve Jakobsen
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Cubist gouache figural of a man wearing a sombrero and boots contrasted against a scumbled and dry-brush background of ochre, deep crimson red and umber.
Signed lower left, "Jakobse...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Board
Beautiful Maidens Nude Women Harem, Playboy Cartoon African American Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
E. Simms Campbel was the first major African American Illustrator. He did covers for Esquire Magazine starting in the 1930s.
He created the famous bulging-eyed Esquire Mascot “Esky.”
He also worked for The Chicagoan, Cosmopolitan, Ebony, The New Yorker, Playboy, Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life, Pictorial Review, and Redbook.
This work, "What do you mean your wife doesn't understand you ---- I'm your wife!" is from Cuties Daily Comic Strip, June 18, 1950
He was inducted into the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame in 2002.
His work demonstrates a deep and masterfully understanding of drawing figures and faces in an academic but stylized style.
"My pleasure, boys. Always glad to see a delegation from the States." From the Playboy Collection...
Category
1960s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
"War Brides, Wash Sq NYC" American Scene WWII Modernism WPA Mid-Century Oil
Located in New York, NY
"War Brides, Wash Sq NYC" American Scene WWII Modernism WPA Mid-Century Oil. 30 x 40 inches. Oil on canvas, c. 1942. Signed lower right. Titled on the stretcher. Housed in a sensational Heydenryk frame.
Our gallery, Helicline Fine Art...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Langostina Abstract Figurative by Harold Black New York 1960
By Harold Black
Located in Soquel, CA
Large scale and dramatic, ""Langostina, an abstract painting by Harold Black (American, 1913–1993). Signed lower right and on verso. Presented in giltwood frame. Image, 40”H x 22”W. ...
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Girl with Mandolin"
By Etienne Ret
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on heavy cardboard painting by the well know Fench artist, Etienne Ret. Signed top right. In excellent condition with original dark wood carved frame and white painted...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Olympic Champion
By John Button
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas
Signed
Born in California, John Button (1929-1982) was educated at University of California, Berkeley. After moving to New York City in the early 1950s, he became frie...
Category
1960s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Untitled (Abstract Landscape with Flowering Tree)
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Untitled (Abstract Landscape with Flowering Tree)
Year: 1963
Medium: Watercolor on heavy archival paper
Size: 29.5 x 21 inches
Condition: Good
P...
Category
1960s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Modernist Portrait" Mid-20th Century Spanish Oil Painting on Canvas Framed
Located in New York, NY
A strong modernist oil painting depicted in the 1940's by Spanish painter Julio Moises. Mostly known for his abstract figures on canvas, this piece is a w...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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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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