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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Period: 1940s
Period: 1910s
The Nuturing
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Jean Dominique Van Caulert, (1897-1979), although most often associated with his celebrity portraits and works for the theater, he was also a true symbolist in the tradition of the Belgian symbolist's.
"The Nurturing", oil on canvas, dated 1947, is Van Caulert's depiction of the nurturing of post war Europe, as the shrouded woman offers an apple to an androgynous figure.
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Cubist Crucifixion Scene with Bright Yellow
Located in Houston, TX
Deep tonal cubist style painting of the Crucifixion of Christ. Like traditional Crucifixion imagery, there are two figures on either side ...
Category
1940s Analytic Cubist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Bert Lahr as Burlesque Clown - The Cowardly Lion in the Wizard of Oz
By Walt Kuhn
Located in Miami, FL
Bert Lahr shined in the role of The Cowardly Lion in the Wizard of OZ. Here he is depicted in his comedian's costume which he wears while staring in Jea...
Category
1940s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Universal Peace, " Cosmopolitan Magazine, August 1911
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Unsigned
Sight Size 24.00" x 16.50;" Framed 31.75" x 24.75"
"Universal Peace" by Hamilton Holt, August 1911. Cosmopolitan Magazine...
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Child Sewing with Dog
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Unsigned
Original illustration for March 1918 Pictorial Review Magazine.
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Modern Priscilla, Magazine Cover, 1916
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pencil and Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
The Modern Priscilla Magazine Cover, June 1916.
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil, Pencil
Family of Ducks, Oil Painting
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Unknown
Title: Family of Ducks
Year: circa 1940
Medium: Oil on Board
Size: 11 x 14 in. (27.94 x 35.56 cm)
Frame Size: 16.5 x 19.5 inches
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Study of John Singleton Copley's painting of John Hancock
By John B. Monaco
Located in Soquel, CA
John B. Monaco 1916 painting and study of the John Singleton Copley portrait of John Hancock. San Francisco artist and San Francisco city documen...
Category
1910s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Colorado Hill Town with Storm Clouds, 1940s Modernist Landscape, Green Blue
Located in Denver, CO
WPA era signed framed modernist oil painting of houses and trees in summer with a stormy cloud in Colorado by Paul K. Smith in shades of green, ...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Environs of Rome
Located in Miami, FL
Klett was an in-demand illustrator in the post-war period of the late 1940's and 1950's. and . His work appeared in many of the newsstand magazines at the time.
This work is a pers...
Category
1940s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Fetishes, 1940s Abstract Figurative Southwestern Mixed Media Painting, Red Gray
Located in Denver, CO
An original gouache and wax painting by New Mexico modernist, Howard Schleeter (1903-1976) signed and dated lower right from November 18, 1949. Presented in a custom frame created b...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wax, Gouache, Archival Paper
"The Fantastic Armada, " Story Illustration, Ladies Home Journal
By Rico Tomaso
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Sight Size 26.00" x 19.50;" Framed 61.60" x 26.00"
"The Fantastic Armada" by Dorothy Black and illustrated by Rico Tomaso for Ladies Home Journal...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fadeaway Girl, Good Housekeeping Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Sight Size 28.00" x 19.00", Framed 37.00"x 28.00"
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Board
Sainted Sister
By Peter Helck
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Cosmopolitan Magazine, 1940
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Portrait of a Black Woman, Maxine - Mid-Century WPA
Located in Miami, FL
A charming portrait of a Black woman with stylized hairstyle of the period -
Midtown Galleries label on verso, Unframed Signed and date...
Category
1940s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Mountain Landscape - Oil on Canvas by G. Giani - 1911
By Giovanni Giani
Located in Roma, IT
Original Oil on Canvas by Giovanni Giani, realized by the artist in 1911.
Signed and date lower left "G. Giani 1911".
Very good conditions.
Category
1910s Naturalistic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Laurel & Hardy
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Wood Panel
Signature: Unsigned
This Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy illustration was used as a traveling show sign.
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood, Panel, Wood Panel
Surrealist Nocturnal Hawaiian Figurative Landscape w. Blue Skirted Woman & Moon
Located in Soquel, CA
Surrealist Nocturnal Hawaiian Figurative Landscape w. Blue Skirted Woman & Moon by Marguerite Louis Blasingame
Striking mid century modern Hawaiian noct...
Category
1940s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
'Racehorses Turning For Home' circa 1940s Oil on Canvas
Located in Bristol, CT
Classic o/c 'pastel colours' horse-racing c1930s scene
depicting four jockeys turning for home!
Art Sz: 11 1/4"H x 8 1/2"W
Frame Sz: 16"H x 12"W
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Oil
Fuel Oil Delivery
By Victor Olson
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Parade Mexicaine by JEAN DUFY - Modern, Animals, Colourful, Fauve, Gouache
By Jean Dufy
Located in London, GB
Parade Mexicaine by Jean Dufy (1888-1964)
Gouache on Ingres paper
45.1 x 55.6 cm (17³/₄ x 21⁷/₈ inches)
Signed Jean Dufy lower centre
Executed circa 1948-1950
Provenance
Galerie Käte Perls, Paris/New York (titled Cirques)
Christie’s New York, 26th February 1990 (titled Le Cirque)
Private collection, Germany
Literature
Jacques Bailly, Jean Dufy Catalogue Raisonné de l’OEuvre, vol.1, Paris 2002, no J.473, p. 261 (illustrated)
Born into a large family in the busy port-city of La Havre in northern France, Jean Dufy was the younger brother of the Fauvist painter Raoul Dufy. In order to please his accountant father, Jean was...
Category
1940s Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Christmas Manger Set - A Product Illustration
By George Hinke
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Illustration Board
Signature: Unsigned
This piece was produced as the cover art for the box containing a die-cut color lithograph manger set...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Illustration Board, Oil
Grandmom
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Grandmom with grandson and dog
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Mid Century Surrealist Nocturnal Tide Hawaiian Islands God Symbolism Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Surrealist Nocturnal Tide Hawaiian Islands God Symbolism Landscape
Symbolic nocturnal landscape with tide God in foam of wave, in a dream-like surreal landscape, by Margu...
Category
1940s Symbolist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
French Landscape
Located in Pasadena, CA
Impressionist Painting representing a lively scene of a character in a rural landscape in France
The painting is framed
Category
1940s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Nuns Gathering Flowers', Munich School, Figural Oil, Karlsruhe Convent, Lilies
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Friedrich Fehr' (German, 1862-1927), inscribed 'Karlsruhe' and dated '1918'.
Friedrich Fehr first attended the Munich Academy of Fine Arts (1878-84) where he st...
Category
1910s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
How Sure Can You Be? McCall's Magazine Illustration of Loving Couple
By Alex Ross
Located in Miami, FL
Alexander Sharpe Ross - or Alex Ross. This work is a perfect artistic statement with every formal element in perfect harmony. It's a masterf...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Torre Annunziata, Italy - Mid Century Marine Seascape with Portrait
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous watercolor depiction of the Liberty Class Dry Cargo Ship "Charles Scribner" docked in Torre Annunziata, Italy, with a portrait of a man in pencil in the upper left corner, by Giovanni Gallo...
Category
1940s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Defense on the Sea Begins on the Shore
By Ralph Iligan
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Unsigned
"Defense on the sea begins on the shore." Study for a World War II propaganda poster for the "Industr...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Famille au village - French Impressionist Oil, Figures in Landscape by H Duhem
By Henri Duhem
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
A lovely oil on panel by French Impressionist painter Henri Duhem, depicting a family outside cottages in a village on a summer's day. Signed lower left and dated 1913 verso. This pa...
Category
1910s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
"Le Roi de Rome, d'apres Laurance", Impressionist Portrait, Signed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Le Roi de Rome, d'apres Laurance", Impressionist Portrait, Signed
By French artist Claude Benard, (1926 - 2016)
Signed and dated '1942' by the artist on the lower right hand corner
Titled verso
Oil painting on board, unframed
Board size: 8.5 x 6.5 inches
Wonderful portrait of a little boy, who we believe was called 'Laurance'. Also, 'Le Roi de Rome' translates to 'The King of Rome' which is a mystery.
The painting itself is quite exceptional. He has strawberry blond coloured hair, piercing big blue eyes and a beautiful mouth, a very handsome little boy. This would make a lovely addition to an interior looking to add some vintage oil painting portraits...
Category
1940s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Soldiers Attacking Woman and Farm Animals
By Robert Douglas
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Approximate Date: 1949
Medium: Mixed Media on Paper
Dimensions: 18.50" x 22.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Story Illustration
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
“The Green Necklace”
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on canvas original painting by The Russian/ American artist, Nahum Tschacbasov. Signed lower left and dated 1943. Condition is very good. Framed in custom contemporary gold le...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Portrait of a Seated Nude Woman" American Impressionist Painting Oil on Panel
Located in New York, NY
A rare and breath taking work, with masterful bursh work and sublime execution of light. We are drawn to the subtle beauty and elegant pose. The tasteful compostion lends an intimate scene into the artists studio where Philip has captured her effortlessly. This piece comes displayed in a wonderful frame and hanging wire on verso.
Art measures 24 x 20 inches
Frame measures 30 x 26 inches
Robert Philipp was born on February 2, 1895 in New York City. He was an American painter influenced by Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, and known for his nudes, still lifes, and portraits of attractive women and Hollywood stars. Moses Solomon Philipp showed early talent and grew up in a family atmosphere that fed and cultivated his creativity. At age of 15, he entered the Art Students League for four years and then continued his training at the National Academy of Design. His teachers at the League included George Bridgeman and Frank DuMond, and at the National Academy he studied with Douglas Volk...
Category
1940s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Hawaiian Symbolism Flowering Tree and Acolytes Symbolism Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Hawaiian Symbolism Flowering Tree and Acolytes Symbolism Landscape
Symbolic landscape with four figures worshiping flowering tree by Marguerite Louis Blasingame (American; 1906-1947)...
Category
1940s Symbolist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
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
Afternoon Swim, Mid Century Figurative Landscape
By H. Milton Snyder
Located in Soquel, CA
Afternoon swim, a lovely mid century figurative landscape, by California artist, Henry Milton Snyder (American, 1915-1966). Presented in a giltwood frame. Signed "H. Milton Snyder" l...
Category
1940s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Maurice Asselin (1882-1947) A bunch of flowers in a vase, 1942, oil on canvas
Located in Paris, FR
Maurice Asselin (1882-1947)
A bunch of flowers in a vase
Signed upper left, numbered and dated 1942 on the back
Oil on canvas
35 x 27 cm
In good c...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Outside a Deli
By Jack Levine
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jack Levine
American, 1915-2010
The Deli
Oil on board
28 ¼ by 34 in. W/frame 36 ¼ by 42 in.
Signed Lower Right
Born and raised in the south end of Boston, Jack Levine created soc...
Category
1940s Ashcan School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Couple at Museum
By Edwin Georgi
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Signature: Unsigned
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
When the Wood Grows Dry "Good House Keeping Magazine", 1948
Located in Miami, FL
When the Wood Grows Dry "Good House Keeping Magazine" illustration
How friendship and love were depicted in post-war America. There was a sense of innoc...
Category
1940s Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Gouache
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
"Nature Morte" Fruit Bowl, Tea Pot and Cup, Oil on Canvas by Spanish Celso Lagar
By Celso Lagar
Located in Madrid, ES
CELSO LAGAR
Spanish, 1891 - 1966
NATURE MORTE
signed "Lagar" lower left
oil on canvas
18-1/4 X 21-3/4 inches (46 X 55 cm.)
framed: 23-3/8 X 27-1/8 (59 X 68.5 cm.)
PROVENANCE
Privat...
Category
1910s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vaso di Anemoni (Red Anemones) - 1910s - Arturo Noci - Oil on Canvas
By Arturo Noci
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed and dated lower right "Arturo Noci 1912". In excellent conditions.
Includes wooden frame: 63x78 cm.
Category
1910s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century St. Mark's Basilica Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful early 20th century impressionist painting of St. Mark's Basilica, by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century), 19...
Category
1910s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Self Portrait with Orchids', National Association of Women Artists, AWS
By Leonebel Jacobs
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
An enigmatic and psychologically penetrating self-portrait in vivid shades of yellow, green and red.
Signed lower right, 'Leonebel Jacobs' (American, 1883-1967) and painted circa 1945.
Writer, sculptor, teacher and portrait painter Leonebel Jacobs first studied under Brush and Charles Hawthorne at the University of Oregon. A well traveled artist, Jacobs lived and painted in China, Hawaii, New York City and Los Angeles. She was a member of the American Watercolor Society, the American Federation of Arts, the Municipal Art Commission of New York, the National Association of Women Artists, the New York Watercolor Club and the Pen & Brush Club.
Jacobs spent her early years in the Foreign Colony in Peking, China as a portrait artist to nobles and visiting foreigners, including Rabindranath Tagore. Notably, Jacobs painted several portraits of the Emperor and Empress after they fled to Tianjin when Christian General Feng Yu-Hsiang came to power. Additionally, Jacobs's paintings include Hawaiian notables, former First Ladies Grace Coolidge...
Category
1940s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Foam Board
"There is No Love, " Saturday Evening Post Magazine Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
The oil on canvas illustration is bearing a Saturday Evening Post label verso, used to illustrate the short story There Is No Love, in the October 18th, 1941 i...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
1940 American Modernist Nocturnal Framed Painting Haunted House
Located in Buffalo, NY
A whimsical modernist painting depicting an old home on a dark and stormy night. Unsigned but with an important look and feel created by a talented hand.
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Pirates with Treasure
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Giving Thanks for Arriving in America
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Right
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Three Angels - Mid Century Hawaiian Symbolist Figurative Painting
Located in Soquel, CA
Symbolic Hawaiian nocturnal figurative of whispy angel figures with mountains and bridge by Marguerite Louis Blasingame (American; 1906-1947), circa 1940-45. Marguerite and her husband Frank Blasingame...
Category
1940s Symbolist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Mid Century Modern Shore Bird and Lake
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful study of a shore bird by a lake by Louise Miller Clark (American, 20th Century). Signed "Louise Miller Clark" with pallet and two brushes, lower right. Unframed.
Image, 24...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Cover illustration for "The Future Mr. Dolan"
By Rudy Nappi
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Unsigned
"The ragged edges of Manhattan. . . the rowdy brothels, the dirty hallways, the seething streets of Yorkville -- this was where Mattie Dolan...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Hawaii "Future Dreams" - Surrealist Mid Century Modern Abstract 1940 Hawaiian
Located in Soquel, CA
Hawaii "Future Dreams" - Surrealist Mid Century Modern Abstract 1940 Hawaiian
Symbolistic and romantic mid century modern abstract with figure coming out of the mist...
Category
1940s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
The Mediator, 1913
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Unsigned
R. Norton, The Mediator, New York, 1913, cover illustration.
Douglas Duer (1887-1964) was a member of New York's Society of Illustrators w...
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Kumulipo, Source of Life - Mid Century Modern Surrealist Hawaiian Visionary Art
Located in Soquel, CA
Symbolic and surreal landscape with figure eminating life force by Marguerite Louis Blasingame (American; 1906-1947), circa 1940-45. Marguerite and her husband Frank Blasingame...
Category
1940s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Original Illustration for Red Cross Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed on Reverse
1 of a 4 part Illustration, Used as Promotional Poster
Exhibited:
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum, Maxfield Pa...
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
The Love - Original woodcut - Signed
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Paris, FR
Raoul DUFY
The Love, c. 1910
Original woodcut
Signed stamp of the artist's studio
Numbered on /220
On vellum 50.5 x 65.4 cm (c. 19.6 x 25.5 inch)
Excellent condition
Category
1910s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Woodcut
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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