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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Period: 1980s
Period: 1930s
Abstracted Figurative and Stone in Acrylic on Textured Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstracted Figurative and Stone in Acrylic on Textured Paper Abstracted cityscape by California-based artist Ricardo de Silva (Brazilian, 20th Century)...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

Cadets Football New Yorker Mag Cover Proposal American Scene Modern Illustration
Located in New York, NY
Cadets Football New Yorker Mag Cover Proposal American Scene Modern Illustration Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994) Cadets Football Game New Yorker cover proposal, c. 1939 14 1/4 X 1...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Gouache, Board

Pacific Coastal Seascape in Oil on Canvas Monterey Big Sur
Located in Soquel, CA
Pacific Coastal Seascape in Oil on Canvas Dynamic seascape by Evelyn Webb Meck (American, 1915-2011). Waves are crashing in around large rocks that a...
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1980s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Mademoiselle Jeanne, Modern Painting by Benjamin Benno 1933
Located in Long Island City, NY
An original oil painting by Benjamin Benno, American (1901 - 1980). By the early 1930s he had established a reputation as a member of the international avant-garde and exhibited wit...
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1930s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

A Crock of Gold
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Sign by Artist in Lower Right The present work was published as an illustration for Elizabeth Goudge's short story "A Crock of Gold" in the August 1938 issue of Woman's Home Companion. The story follows a family of five children on their summer vacation in Scotland. The kids set...
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1930s Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Original Painting. Colliers Cover Published. American Scene Christmas Modern
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting. Colliers Cover Published American Scene Christmas Modern Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994) Man with Ribbon Colliers published,...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Gouache, Board

Large-Scale Apple Painting by Isaac Monteiro, Signed
Located in Larchmont, NY
Isaac Monteiro (1938-2008) Apple, 1985 Oil on canvas 36 x 48 in. Framed: 37 1/2 x 49 x 1 1/4 in. Signed lower left: I Monteiro Inscribed verso: Apple I Monteir...
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1980s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Stepping In
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: De Es Schwertberger (Dieter), Austrian (1942 - ) Title Stepping In Year: circa 1980 Medium: Oil on Masonite Size: 55 x 76 inches
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1980s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

"Bird on a Wire" The Crow - Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
"Bird on a Wire" The Crow - Acrylic on Canvas Playful depiction of a crow by California-based artist, Ricardo de Silva (American/Brazil, 20th C). The crow is shown with green and ye...
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1980s Abstract Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

1930 Oil Painting Sea Side Sailboats American Modernist WPA Artist Morris Kantor
Located in Surfside, FL
Morris Kantor, American, 1896-1974 Seaside View, 1930 Hand signed M. Kantor and dated 1930 lower right Oil on canvas 22 1/4 x 19 1/4 inches 24 1/2 x 21 (frame) Morris Kantor (Belarusian: Морыс Кантор) (1896-1974) was a Russian Empire-born American painter based in the New York City area. This is a beautiful boat scene with a river or lake probably on Long Island. Born in Minsk on April 15, 1896, Kantor was brought to the United States in 1906 at age 10, in order to join his father who had previously relocated to the states. He made his home in West Nyack, New York for much of his life, and died there in 1974. He produced a prolific and diverse body of work, much of it in the form of paintings, which is distinguished by its stylistic variety over his long career. Perhaps his most widely recognized work is the iconic painting "Baseball At Night", which depicts an early night baseball game played under artificial electric light. Although he is best known for his paintings executed in a realistic manner, over the course of his life he also spent time working in styles such as Cubism and Futurism, (influenced by the Art Deco movement) and produced a number of abstract or non-figural works. A famous cubist, Futurist, painting of his "Orchestra" brought over 500,000$ at Christie's auction house in 2018. Kantor found employment in the Garment District upon his arrival in New York City, and was not able to begin formal art studies until 1916, when he began courses at the now-defunct Independent School of Art. He studied landscape painting with Homer Boss (1882-1956). In 1928, after returning to New York City from a year in Paris, Kantor developed a style in which he combined Realism with Fantasy, often taking the streets of New York as his subject matter. He did some moody Surrealist Nude paintings and fantasy scenes. In the 1940's he turned towards figural studies. Later in his career, Kantor himself was an instructor at the Cooper Union and also at the Art Students League of New York in the 1940s, and taught many pupils who later became famous artists in their own right, such as Knox Martin, Robert Rauschenberg, Sigmund Abeles and Susan Weil...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Un pittore che dipinge un pittore... - Oil Paint by Salvatore Travascio - 1989
Located in Roma, IT
Un pittore che dipinge un pittore (A Painter who's painting a Painter) is an oil painting on canvas mounted on a wooden panel, without frame. Good conditions
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Hilly landscape over the Rhône river in France, oil painting by Françoise Juvin
Located in Montfort l’Amaury, FR
Françoise Juvin - Hilly landscape over the Rhône river near Lyon, France Reference number FJ170 Framed with a natural oak floated frame. 24 x 32 cm frame included (19 x 27 cm without...
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1980s French School Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Mal Muchacho (Bad Boy)
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Armando Villagran, Mexican (1945 -1995) Title: Mal Muchacho (Bad Boy) Year: 1987 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.l. Size: 47 x 39 inches [119.38 x 99.06 cm] Frame: 49 x 41 in...
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1980s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Sombrero in the Iron Mask - Geometric Abstract Expressionist in Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Sombrero in the Iron Mask - Geometric Abstract Expressionist in Acrylic on Paper A bold abstract painting in red, yellow and metallic gold, depicting a black mask figure in a hat, b...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

Original Painting New Yorker Cover Proposal American Scene Modern Santa's Feet
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting New Yorker Cover Proposal American Scene Modern Santa's Feet Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994) Santas Feet At Midnight New Yorker c...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Gouache, Board

Large Archie Rand Abstract Expressionist Cartoon Oil Painting Dusseldorf
Located in Surfside, FL
"Dusseldorf, Germany" 1993, oil on canvas, hand signed and dated lower left, Canvas (unframed):18 X 48. framed: 19.5 X 49.5 Provenance: directly from the artist. Exhibited at Phyllis Kind Gallery in NYC in 1987. Archie Rand (American, born 1949) is an artist from Brooklyn, New York. Rand's work as a painter and muralist is held in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris, and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. His graphic works and books are held by the Metropolitan Museum Of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Art Institute Of Chicago, The Brooklyn Museum, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, and The New York Public Library; and are owned by Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Brown, and Johns Hopkins universities. Born in Brooklyn, Rand received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in cinegraphics from the Pratt Institute, having studied previously at the Art Students League of New York. His first exhibition was in 1966, at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York. He has since had over 100 solo exhibitions, and his work has been included in over 200 group exhibitions. He is currently Presidential Professor of Art at Brooklyn College which granted him the Award for Excellence in Creative Achievement in 2016. Before joining Brooklyn College, Rand was the chair of the Department of Visual Arts at Columbia University. The Italian Academy For Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University presented him with The Siena Prize in 1995. He was awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Foundation Fellowship in 1999 and was made a Laureate of the National Foundation for Jewish Culture, which awarded him the Achievement Medal for Contributions in the Visual Arts. In 2002 he received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching from Columbia University. In 2002 he became the artistic advisor to film director Ang Lee for his production of The Hulk, and was asked by Milestone Films to provide a commentary track for the DVD release of Henri-Georges Clouzot’s classic 1955 film The Mystery of Picasso. Archie Rand’s earliest major works are “The Letter Paintings” (or “The Jazz Paintings”) (1968–71), a radically positioned series of technically inventive, mural-sized canvases. The Letter Paintings, by incorporating the names of mainly male and female African-American musicians, undermined prevailing aesthetic categories by conflating many contemporary movements including Conceptual Art, Color Field, Pattern and Decoration, diary entry and social commentary. In 1974 Rand received a commission from Congregation B’nai Yosef in Brooklyn. Rand was asked to paint thematic murals on the complete 16,000-square-foot (1,500 m2) interior surfaces of the synagogue. The work took three years, and completing this commission made Rand the author of the only narratively painted synagogue in the world and the only one we know of since the 2nd Century Dura-Europos. The religious legal controversy raised by placing wall paintings in a traditionally iconoclastic space was resolved by the verdict of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, then considered to be the world’s leading Talmudic scholar, who declared the paintings to be in conformity with the law. His subsequent turn to figuration may have been influenced by his friendship with Philip Guston, whose own work was transformed in the late 1960s. Like Guston, Rand "chafed at the limitations of purely abstract forms." A near-cult figure who started out as a child prodigy and whose admirers range from John Ashbery to Julian Schnabel. Rand’s paintings display a vast and savvy menu of inventive and finely executed approaches. He has completed many series after the works of Paul Celan, Moyshe-Leyb Halpern, Eugenio Montale, Yehuda Amichai, Rainer Maria Rilke, Samuel Beckett/Paul Eluard and Jack Spicer. Working often with poets, he has produced books and continues to engage in publishing collaborative projects. He maintained a correspondence with the American British Jewish painter R.B. Kitaj. In 2008, on a warehouse wall, Rand mounted the painting, “The 613”, which at 1700 square feet (17’ x 100’) is nearly twice the size of James Rosenquist’s F-111. It is one of the largest freestanding paintings ever made. Reminiscent of “The Segments” paintings it is intimidatingly enormous. Paradoxically, despite the raucous cartoony bytes that shoot colorful flashes from the manic surface, “The 613” glows warmly. Its overall effect is strangely calming and majestic. In an article on a 2011 exhibition of Rand's "Had Gadya" series, David Kaufmann wrote: Rand displayed his work in 15 solo exhibitions between 2008 and 2017, many of them showcasing paintings done after Scripture, or his workings with poets: Including “Had Gadya, 2005”, Borowsky Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (2011); “Gods Change, Prayers Are Here To Stay (after Yehuda Amichai), 2000", Katz Gallery, Atlanta, GA (2014); “Psalm 68, 1994”, Derfner Museum, Riverdale, NY (2014); “The Chapter Paintings”, Tribeca Gallery, NY (2015); “Men Who Turn Back (after Eugenio Montale), 1995", SRO Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2016); “Sixty Paintings From the Bible” & “The Book of Judith, 2012”, Cleveland State University Galleries, Cleveland, OH (2016) & The American Jewish Museum, Pittsburgh, PA (2017); “Archie Rand: Early Works With Poetry: Jack Spicer, 1991 and Samuel Beckett/Paul Eluard, 1993”, St. Francis College, Brooklyn, NY (2017). "The 613" In 2015 Blue Rider/Penguin/Random House published The 613, allotting one color plate per page for each of the 614 units in the painting. The Wall Street Journal labeled The 613 as “dynamic…remarkable…thrilling” The New York Times selected the book as “Editors' Choice” and praised it in two separate reviews calling it “wonderfully garish” and declaring that “nothing prepared the art world for 'The 613.' Recent Activity In 2016 Rand showed two bodies of work that were done in Italy, “La Certosa Di Pontignano, 1995” and “Mount Etna, 2005,” at The Interchurch Center Galleries, New York. From 2016 to 2017 he served as the Curator and Juror for the Governor of Wyoming’s Capitol Arts Exhibition at The Wyoming State Museum, Cheyenne, WY. A 2017 exhibition, “Archie Rand: Early Works With Poetry”, featured two series of work from 1991 and 1993 after poems by Jack Spicer and Samuel Beckett/Paul Eluard. This painting was exhibited in the Phyllis Kind Gallery in NY in 1987. (Phyllis Kind was an American art dealer active in Chicago and New York. She promoted the work of the Chicago Imagists, The Monster Roster and The Hairy Who and outsider artists. Kind opened a gallery in Chicago in 1967. Called Pro Grafica Arte, the gallery dealt in master prints and drawings. In 1975, she opened a gallery on Spring Street in New York's SoHo district. She gave some of the artists in the movement their first solo shows: Jim Nutt and Gladys Nilsson...
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1980s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

COMPOSITION (UNIQUE 1/1)
Located in Aventura, FL
Unique monotype in colors. Hand signed, dated and numbered '1/1' lower left by Paul Jenkins. Frame size approx 27 x 34.5 inches. Additional images are available upon request. Cer...
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1980s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Monotype

Bouquet of flowers
Located in Genève, GE
Work on cardboard Golden wooden frame 53 x 48.5 x 3.5 cm
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1930s Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Africa - Collage Painting in Orange - African American Artist
Located in Miami, FL
African American artist Alvin Hollingsworth created an inventive and intriguing close-up portrait with figures in the distance. Found objects such as swatches of burlap, plastic spoons, press type and wood shapes are adhered to the surface make this work an object as much as an image. The overall image is bathed in a super hot orange-yellow. This is Hollingsworth interpretation of the soul of Africa. Indistinctly signed lower right in red. The work makes a powerful statement in person. Provenance: The Artist to a personal friend. Private collection Framed dimensions 19 1/4 x 25 1/4 in. Alvin Carl...
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1980s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Fabric, Burlap, Wood, Oil

"Ricardo" - Abstract Expressionist Self Portrait in Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Ricardo" - Abstract Expressionist Self Portrait in Acrylic on Paper Expressive self-portrait by Ricardo de Silva (American/Brazil, 20th C). This piece is fluid and free, using dyna...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

Boy with Dog
Located in Columbia, MO
LARRY KANTNER Boy with Dog 1980 Acrylic on canvas 52.5 x 40.5 inches
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1980s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

Figures at work or Play Abstraction Watercolor and Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Figures at work or Play Abstraction Watercolor and Acrylic on Paper My favorite of the Collection. A bold figurative painting by California-based artist, Ricardo de Silva (Brazilian...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor

The Sophisticate
Located in West Hollywood, CA
We are proud to have recently discovered, “The Sophisticate”, by American artist Alexander Rosenfeld. Rosenfeld was classically trained in fine ...
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1930s Art Deco Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Grays and Tans, from digital group.
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
The artwork size is 22x29.5 inches, acrylic on paper.
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

Portrait of a Woman with Rosy Cheeks after Picasso in Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of a Woman with Rosy Cheeks in Acrylic on Paper A stylized portrait by California-based artist, Ricardo de Silva (American/Brazil, 20th C). In this stylized portrait, the s...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

The Lake - Oil Paint attr. to Tom Sander - 1989
Located in Roma, IT
The Lake is an oil painting realized in 1989 and attributed to Tom Sander. Mixed colored oil painting on canvas. Includes frame: 66 x 5 x 90 cm
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Plywood

Characters at the edge of the wood, oil painting by Pierre Coquet
Located in Montfort l’Amaury, FR
Pierre Coquet - Characters at the edge of the wood Reference number F382 Framed with a natural oak floated frame. 53 x 50 cm frame included (48 x 45 cm without frame) This work is pa...
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1980s French School Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Two Face Abstract on Wrapper of Interview Magazine in Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Two Face Abstract on Wrapper of Interview Magazine in Acrylic on Paper Lively abstracted portrait by Ricardo de Silva (Brazilian, 20th Century). A face is divided in two parts, righ...
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1980s Abstract Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Pastel, Acrylic

Edouard Léon Cortès, Oil on Wood Panel, "Notre-Dame View from The Quays, 1936"
Located in Madrid, ES
EDOUARD LÉON CORTÈS French, 1882 - 1969 NOTRE-DAME VIEW FROM THE QUAYS signed "EDOUARD CORTÈS." (lower right); inscribed "6728" au crayon bleu et cachet "...
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1930s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

In the Sculpture Garden, unique signed oil on canvas painting, Charles Cowles
Located in New York, NY
Donald McLaughlin In the Sculpture Garden (ex-collection Charles Cowles Gallery), 1985 Oil on Canvas. Framed with labels from Wolff Gallery and Charles Cowles Gallery Sticker label, ...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Portrait of a Seated Woman
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Portrait of a Seated Woman oIl on canvas, c. 1930 Signed on the reverse in oil paint: "Paul W" Created while the artist was a student at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts Provenance: Estate of the artist Condition: Cleaned and stretched by Monica Radecki, South Bend, Indiana. The painting is unframed Canvas size: 30 x 24 inches This work created while the artist was in art school. Winchell studied art at the Minneapolis and Chicago Art Institutes in the 1930’s. He went on to teach at both institutions. Winchell studied under the noted artists Daniel Garber and Leon Kroll. Winchell exhibited at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Art Institute of Chicago and the Kansas City Art Institute. He retired to a quiet life in Painsville, Ohio. Paul H. Winchell (1903 – 1971) was a printmaker, illustrator, teacher, and gilder according to Crump, 2009 (Minnesota Prints and Printmakers, 1900- 1945, Minnesota Historical Society Press). He was the son of Mrs. Looman Winchell of Shepherd Rd as noted in a 1937 newspaper article (Painsville, O. Telegraph). Winchell grew up in North Perry, Ohio and then studied and worked as an instructor at the Art Institute of Chicago. He studied with Leon Kroll (1884 – 1974), Boris Anisfeld (1878-1973), Daniel Garber (1880 – 1958), Charles Woodbury (1864 – 1940), George Oberteuffer...
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1930s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Malcah Zeldis Folk Art Gouache Painting Outsider Circus Trapeze Horse Acrobats
Located in Surfside, FL
MALCAH ZELDIS Circus, Trapeze Artists, Horse rider and Acrobats gouache on paper Hand signed and dated bottom right. titled in pencil on paper verso. Fr...
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1980s Folk Art Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Woman in Red Hat, Mixed Media on Paper by Erik Freyman
Located in Long Island City, NY
In this collage by Erik Freyman a beautiful woman is seen with a black backdrop and a striking red hat. Woman in Red Hat Erik Freyman, Russian (1932–...
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1980s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Graphite, Permanent Marker, Pastel, Paper, Mixed Media

New Year's Day 1937, celebration at the English Garden, Geneva
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas Golden molded wooden frame 76 x 66 x 7 cm
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1930s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Two roses in vase
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper Golden wooden frame with glass pane 49 x 36 x 2 cm
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1930s Figurative Paintings

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Oil

“Return from the Field”
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on canvas backed onto wooden board of a worker with a scythe returning home from a day of labor. In a picturesque Swiss village. The painting is attributed to the hand of Karl Adolph Weber, the Swiss artist. Signed “K. Weber” lower right. Circa 1935. The painting is a contemporary wood frame in a mahogany finish. Overall framed measurements are 19 by 15.25 inches. Provenance: A Sarasota, Florida collector. Karl Adolph Weber was a Swiss artist born in 1899 and died in 1978 known for his rural landscapes and figurative paintings of Switzerland...
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1930s Academic Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Board

Black, Orange, and Blue Abstract Expressionist Composition in Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Black, Orange, and Blue Abstract Expressionist Composition in Acrylic on Paper A colorful abstract painting by California-based artist, Ricardo de Silva (American/Brazil, 20th C). L...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

"A New Idea" in Blue - Figural Abstract Composition in Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"A New Idea" in Blue - Figural Abstract Composition in Acrylic on Paper A bold abstract painting by California-based artist, Ricardo de Silva (American/Brazil, 20th C). Large blue and red brushstrokes form the structure of this composition, with a seated figure in the misty background. What appears to be a cobalt blue vessel...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

Landscape in Italy, oil painting by Françoise Juvin
Located in Montfort l’Amaury, FR
Françoise Juvin - Landscape in Italy Reference number FJ178 Framed with a natural oak floated frame. 25,5 x 31 cm frame included (21 x 26 cm without fr...
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1980s French School Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Modern British View of Roof Tops from an English town, Haworth Chimneys
Located in Woodbury, CT
Anthony Procter was an English landscape painter from the middle to the end of the 20th century. His style and compositions made his work very sought a...
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1980s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Sguardo Discreto - Oil Paint by Salvatore Travascio - 1991
Located in Roma, IT
Oil painting on wood, framed with wooden rod. This painting is part of a series of works in which the human figure is represented in its most stylized form. We find interlocking game...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

STILL LIFE WITH PROFILE
Located in Aventura, FL
Original acrylic painting on canvas. Hand-signed in acrylic on front by Peter Max. Canvas is stretched. Peter Max studio catalog number and year on verso. Artwork is in excellent condition. Gallery Art issued Certificate of Authenticity included. All reasonable offers will be considered. About the Artist: Peter Max (American, born 1937) is a German artist known for his unique brand of rainbow-hued prints and paintings, which he has created since the early 1960s. Employing painterly strokes, his illustrations incorporate a wide spectrum of colors and patterns as seen in his Umbrella Man series. “I'm just wowed by the universe. I'm just glad to do something I love...
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1980s Pop Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Original Oil Painting of Tollymore Forest in Ireland by Modern Irish Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Original Vintage Oil Painting of Tollymore Forest in Ireland by Modern Irish Artist Denis Thornton (1937-1999) Art measures 12 x 10 inches Frame meas...
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1980s Land Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Conceptual Pop Art Color Oil Monotype Painting Abstract Figure Robin Winters
Located in Surfside, FL
Robin Winters (American, born 1950), Untitled (Red Face) from "Cherry Block Series" 1986, monotype, pencil signed and dated lower right, plate: 6"h x 8.5"w, overall (with frame): 22.25"h x 18.25"w. Provenance: Property from a Private Collection, San Francisco. Winters was invited to make monotypes at Experimental Workshop in San Francisco, (they printed Richard Bosman, Sam Francis, Claire Falkenstein, Deborah Oropallo and Kenneth Noland and many more greats). Winters chose to paint on wood blocks rather than the more usual metal plates in order to capture the organic quality of the natural material. He exploited a salient characteristic of the monoprint in Ghost Story by adding new painted elements onto the increasingly faint ghost images that result from successive impressions from a single block. In so doing he achieved the effect of transparent layers of color and shadow imagery. Winters's brightly-colored monotypes portray an array of figures and landscapes (and an occasional still-life) that, although can be seen in the context of a general trend away from abstraction that has marked the 1980s, defy strict stylistic categorization. They are neither realistic nor abstract, psychological self-examinations nor narrative fictions, but they contain elements of all of these approaches. Like Jonathan Borofsky, Winters derives much of his subject matter from dreams, believing that through his private fears and obsessions he can touch similar emotions in others. Although at first glance Winters's images look as if they could have been made by a child, closer attention reveals sly art historical references to Jackson Pollock and Pattern Painting (the drip and splatter backgrounds), Mark Rothko (the three-part horizontal compositions) and Minimalism (the gridded Cherry Block Series: Bread Beat). Robin Winters (born 1950 in Benicia, California) is an American conceptual, multi-disciplinary, artist and teacher based in New York. Winters is known for creating solo exhibitions containing an interactive durational performance component to his installations, sometimes lasting up to two months. Winters first emerged in the burgeoning Soho NYC art scene of the 1970s. An early practitioner of the Relational Aesthetics (social interaction as an art medium) Winters also created in works through sculpture, installation, performance, painting, drawing and prints. His art maintains a whimsical spirit, and he often returns to ongoing themes involving faces, boats, cars, bottles, hats and jesters or fools. Winters has incorporated such devices as blind dates, double dates, dinners, fortune telling, and free consultation in his performances. Throughout his career he has engaged in a wide variety of media, such as performance art, film, video, writing prose and poetry, photography, installation art, printmaking, drawing, painting, ceramic sculpture, bronze sculpture, and glassblowing. Winters was born in Benicia, California in 1950 to lawyer parents. As a child his hobby was collecting glass bottles found on the beach and under old buildings, which would later influence him as an artist. In 1968, Winters had his first durational performance, entitled Norman Thomas Travelling Museum. The artist drove a Volkswagen bus decorated in collage, many of the images relating to current events and politics. Inside was what the artist described as a “reliquary” containing many objects, including a bottle collection. Winters took the van to shopping centers and even as far as Mexico. That same year, Winters opted not to register for the military draft. Although he was deemed fit to serve, Winters refused. In 1975 the resulting legal proceedings finally came to a close after it was proven that the artist had been harassed by the local draft board. In his teens and early twenties, Winters became acquainted with several local artists who helped shape his aesthetic, most notably Manuel Neri and Robert Arneson. By the early 1970s, Winters was studying at the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) and had relocated to San Francisco. At this time Winters became friends with the Bay Area conceptual artists Terry Fox and Howard Fried, and participated in several of Fried's performance works. In 1972 Winters was accepted into the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York City. After coming to New York City, Winters helped support himself by working for various artists, among them the performance artist Joan Jonas and sculptor Donald Judd. In 1974, Winters performed The Secret Life of Bob-E or Bob-E Behind the Veil eight hours a day, five days a week for a month in his studio apartment. Behind a one-way mirror the audience could watch Winters play the character of Bob-E, whose goal was to make a monument for everyone in the world in the form of blue and yellow rubber top hats. By the end of the month the artist had constructed 262 hats. The following year, Winters was invited to take part in the Whitney Museum's 1975 Biennial Exhibition. Entitled W.B. Bearman Bags a Job or Diary of a Dreamer. Winters was traveling in 1975 and 1976, spending time in North Africa and in Europe. At a time when most young American artists were unaware of their European counterparts, Winters met and was influenced by such artists as Sigmar Polke and Marcel Broodthaers (with whom Winters worked on an installation) and also had a one-person exhibition, at the Konrad Fischer Gallery in Dusseldorf. Returning to New York in 1976, Winters teamed up with a group of artists to form Collaborative Projects (Colab), a rather anarchistic organization dedicated to artistic collaboration and the creation of art that questioned social values.. Also in 1976, Winters formed the partnership “X&Y” with fellow artist Coleen Fitzgibbon that would last two years. Together they performed a series of shows in the Netherlands, most notably a show entitled Take the Money and Run. Performed at De Appel in Amsterdam, the show involved the artists robbing their audience. The following day the audience was given an apology, as well as the opportunity to retrieve any valuables and participate in a lottery to win the artists’ services. They also made a Super 8 film in NY called Rich-Poor, in which they asked people on the streets their thoughts on the rich and poor. In 1980 Winters participated in The Real Estate Show and in Absurdities at ABC No Rio. That same year he and artists Peter Fend, Coleen Fitzgibbon, Peter Nadin, Jenny Holzer, and Richard Prince also formed The Offices of Fend, Fitzgibbon, Holzer, Nadin, Prince & Winters. This short-lived collective was based out of an office on lower Broadway and offered “Practical Esthetic Services Adaptable to Client Situation”, as stated on their business card. Their goal was to offer their art as “socially helpful work for hire”. In June of that year Winters participated in The Times Square Show, Colab's most well-known exhibition. The month-long show took place in a four floor building on West 41st Street and was densely packed with art. To cap off a busy year, Winters also became one of the first artists to join the Mary Boone Gallery, showing a successful solo exhibition in 1981. His work was shown in the New York/New Wave show in 1981 at MoMA PS1 along with Jean-Michel Basquiat, Roberta Bayley, William S. Burroughs, David Byrne, Sarah Charlesworth, Larry Clark, Crash (John Matos), Ronnie Cutrone, Brian Eno, Peter Fend, Nan Goldin, Keith Haring, Ray Johnson, Joseph Kosuth, Marcus Leatherdale, Christopher Makos, Robert Mapplethorpe, Elaine Mayes, Frank Moore, Kenny Scharf and others. In 1982, Winters had his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles at the Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery. At the Mo David Gallery in 1984, Winters created an installation piece that consisted of a floor of plaster tiles. Underneath each tile, hidden from view, was a drawing. He designed the stage sets for the musician Nico, and assisted French artist Orlan, American artist Stuart Sherman, and American poet Gregory Corso. Two years later Winters was invited to take part in Chambres d’Amis (In Ghent there is Always a Free Room for Albrecht Durer) in Ghent, Belgium. In it, 51 artists created installations in 50 different sites, mostly private homes. Winters chose the home of a local art historian. The artist made 90 drawings based on images found in the large collection of art books in the home's library. He made two copies of each drawing and placed the originals in the books themselves. One set of copies was exhibited in the sponsoring museum, Museum van Hedendaagse, as "The Ghent Drawings". The drawings were also on display at Winters’ solo exhibition at Luhring Augustine & Hodes Gallery in New York City in 1987. In 1986, Winters had a solo exhibition at Maurice Keitelman Gallery in Brussels, Belgium, and the following year a solo exhibition at the Centre Régional d'Art Contemporain Midi-Pyrénées in Toulouse, France. Also in 1986, Winters' Playroom was held at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Boston, Massachusetts. The exhibition was part of Think Tank, a retrospective of Winters' work which traveled to the Stedelijk Museum in the Netherlands, the Centre Regional d’Art Contemporain in France, and the Contemporary Arts Center in Ohio. Winters spent a month in 1989 working with students at the San Francisco Art Institute. Never having worked with ceramics, he spent the month making numerous ceramic pieces, which were then shown in the aptly named One Month in San Francisco. Other components of the piece included Winters’ childhood bottle collection and a video showing each piece in the show filmed briefly next to a ruler.[ Also that year, Robin served as a visiting artist at the Pilchuck Glass School, where he met artist John Drury, who was then working as the school's artist liaison. In the summer of 1990, Winters interviewed fellow artist Kiki Smith for her eponymous book, which was published later that year. That same year (1990), Winters was invited by the Val Saint Lambert glass factory in Belgium to create glassworks in their facility. Winters, artists John Drury and Tracy Glover...
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1980s Pop Art Figurative Paintings

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Monoprint, Monotype

The cellist
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
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1930s Figurative Paintings

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Oil

L'Île aux Oiseaux by Paulémile Pissarro - Landscape oil painting
Located in London, GB
*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 20% VAT ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE L'Île aux Oiseaux by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972) Oil on canvas 61 x 47.6 cm (24 x ...
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1930s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

City Street: Fifth Avenue
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting a just discovered oil painting from the earliest period, c.1932, of American artist Ron Blumberg. After completing his fine art studies art at La Grande Academie Chaumier...
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1930s Art Deco Figurative Paintings

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Oil

"Locked Out" - A Face and a Figure in Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Locked Out" - A Face and a Figure in Acrylic on Paper A bold figurative painting by California-based artist, Ricardo de Silva (Brazilian, 20th Century). A face and a figure have be...
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1980s Abstract Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Cotton, Acrylic, Rag Paper

Golden Age of Illustration Beautiful Smiling Woman, Female Illustrator
By Zoë Mozert
Located in Miami, FL
Stunning portrait with a killer smile by Golden Age of Illustration female Illustrator Zoë Mozert. Signed lower right. Framed under glass, silk matted and i...
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1930s Figurative Paintings

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Pastel, Illustration Board

Allegory on Liszt during his stay in Geneva
Located in Genève, GE
Work on cardboard
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1930s Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Portrait of Andy Warhol with Purple Hair in Pastel and Gouache on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of Andy Warhol with Purple Hair in Pastel and Gouache on Paper Whimsical portrait by Ricardo de Silva (Brazilian, 20th Century). Andy Warhol is l...
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1980s Abstract Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Pastel, Gouache, Permanent Marker, Paper

Fifth Ave, Acrylic Painting on Board by Eric Freyman
Located in Long Island City, NY
A woman and her dog strut down Fifth Avenue with the Empire State Building in the background. Fifth Ave Erik Freyman, Russian (1932–2018) Date: circa 1980 Acrylic on board, signed l...
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1980s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Board, Acrylic

Blessing From Above, Judaica Oil Painting, Rabbi with Lulav and Esrog
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Judaica Subject: Religious Medium: Oil Surface: Canvas Country: United States Dimensions: 20.5" x 16" Chaim Goldberg -- born in the Polish shtetl of Kazimierz Dolny Chaim Go...
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1980s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Hilly landscape in the South of France, oil painting by Françoise Juvin
Located in Montfort l’Amaury, FR
Françoise Juvin - Hilly landscape over the Rhône river in France Reference number FJ169 Framed with a natural oak floated frame. 23,5 x 34 cm frame included (18 x 26 cm without frame...
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1980s French School Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Autumn Landscape, oil painting by Françoise Juvin
Located in Montfort l’Amaury, FR
Françoise Juvin - Autumn Landscape Reference number FJ16 Framed with an black color wooden floated frame. 23,5 x 34 cm frame included (18 x 26 cm without frame) This work is painted with oil on a paper that is mounted on a board and placed in a made to measure wood strectcher. It is signed in the bottom right. Françoise Juvin (1927-2010) is a French artist born in Nancy. She entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lyon in 1941 where she met several artists such as Jacques Truphémus...
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1980s French School Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Myopia Polo Match c.1980's Oil on Canvas
Located in Bristol, CT
T S LaFontaine (after) Expansive polo scene in oil on canvas c1980s Art Sz: 23 1/4"H x 35"W Frame Sz: 28 1/2"H x 40 1/2"W
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1980s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Sea landscape around Cannes, oil painting by Françoise Juvin
Located in Montfort l’Amaury, FR
Françoise Juvin - Sea landscape around Cannes Reference number FJ125 Framed with a natural oak floated frame. 22,5 x 32 cm frame included (17 x 26 cm w...
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1980s French School Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Crying Woman / Fertility Figure
Located in New York, NY
Unique work made from handprinting and printed collage on paper.
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1980s Feminist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Printer's Ink, Mixed Media, Handmade Paper, Pencil, Monoprint

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.

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