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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Period: 19th Century
Period: 1970s
Alpine Landscape with Fishing in Rapids and Watermill 19th Century Oil Painting
Located in Stockholm, SE
Depicts a sunny summer day in the Alps with figures of fishermen and working lumberjacks processing logs with a water-powered sawmill located on the bank of a turbulent mountain rive...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Oil
19th Century Italian genre painting of a girl feeding a rabbit
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
Antonio Ermolao Paoletti
Italian, (1834-1912)
Feeding the Rabbit
Oil on canvas, signed
Image size: 13.25 inches x 11 inches
Size including frame: 20.75 inches x 18.5 inches
A wonde...
Category
19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
French impressionist landscape, Barbizon forest, with river and cows at Sunset
Located in Woodbury, CT
French impressionist landscape, Barbizon forest, with river and cows at Sunset
George Boyle was a pioneering 19th-century British artist inspired by European Impressionist painters.
...
Category
1890s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Circle of David Wilkie (1785-1841) - Oil, Conversation By The Fire
By Sir David Wilkie
Located in Corsham, GB
This intimate genre painting depicts a domestic interior scene with two figures engaged in conversation near a fireplace. The ornate gilt frame enhances the artwork's warm tones and ...
Category
Early 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fine 19th Century Victorian Oil Painting Angler in Scottish Highlands Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Scottish School, 19th century, indistinctly signed lower corner
Title: The Angler in the Scottish Highlands, beautiful landscape scene.
Medium: oil painting on canv...
Category
19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Mountain Dwelling: 19th Century landscape bearing Corot signature on verso
Located in Norwich, GB
Our 19th Century painting of a mountain dwelling, bathed in soft light light is a fresh and relevant as if it had been created yesterday. Painted certainly in plein air on the motif,...
Category
Mid-19th Century Barbizon School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Pair of Romantic Bavarian Paintings by Karl Adolf Wilhelm Chelius - 1889
Located in Roma, IT
Pair of romantic Bavarian paintings is an old master artwork realized in 1889 by the master Karl Adolf Wilhelm Chelius (1856-1923).
Mixed colored oil panting on...
Category
1880s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
19th century English oil of still life of fruit, German Stein with silver lid
Located in Woodbury, CT
Outstanding English 19th century still life of fruit, a German Stein with silver top in an interior.
Charles Thomas Bale was born in Soho, London in 1849, the son of Thomas Bale, a basket maker. His older brother Thomas Charles Bale (1831-1899) was an artist and picture restorer. He lived with his family in St James, Westminster and although little is known about his education, he would have undoubtedly received encouragement and drawing tuition from his brother. Bale started exhibiting in 1866 at the Institute of British Artists, Suffolk Street. He also exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1872, the same year he married Caroline Leathem. Together, they spent their married life in St Pancras. He specialized in still life paintings predominantly of fruit, but he frequently incorporated baskets, a homage to his family’s profession, as well as pottery, glass, and game. Bale’s work was influenced by the English still-life artists George Lance and William Duffield...
Category
1890s Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
English landscape 19th century Mother and child by a cottage, looking at Ducks
Located in Woodbury, CT
This is a wonderful outstanding quality scene of an English cottage garden scene with a mother and Child looking at the Ducks swimming before them.
The piece's quality is amazing with a real understanding of how to make a desirable painting. Charles James Lewis, was baptized at St Giles, Camberwell, London on 6 October 1830, son of Charles Thomas Lewis, a clerk at the Bankank of England, and his wife Sarah Hyde née Bennett (1805-1872), who married at Tottenham, London on 11 June 1825. In 1851, a 20-year-old student in painting, living at 17 Nelson Square, Camberwell with his 52-year-old married father Charles and a 64-year-old 'unmarried' Sarah Lewis. Charles married at Camberwell in 1854, Mary Ann Matilda Hammond Shetton, and in 1871, a 50-year-old landscape...
Category
1860s Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Antique French Rococo Oil Painting Elegant Figures Dancing outdoors
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Dancing Figures in the Park
French, 19th century
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 22 x 26.5 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: with some former restoration and m...
Category
19th Century Rococo Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
19th century English landscape setting with cottage by a pond
Located in Woodbury, CT
19th Century English Landscape, with a cottage, pond and trees.
This exquisite English Victorian 19th-century landscape by Charles Morris, circa 1890, beautifully captures the idyll...
Category
1890s Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Thickly Painted Impasto Oil French Post-Impressionist Oil Figure by Watermill
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Fisherman by French Watermill
by J. Bredeche
oil on canvas, unframed
Canvas : 20 x 24 inches
Provenance: private collection, Paris
Condition: very good condition
Description:
This b...
Category
1970s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Le Berger et la Mer (The Shepherd and the Sea), 19th Century French Landscape
Located in Beachwood, OH
Constant Troyon (French, 1810-1865)
Le Berger et la Mer (The Shepherd and the Sea), c. 1840
Oil on canvas
32.75 x 50.75 inches
40 x 57 inches, framed
This work depicts a shepherd an...
Category
19th Century French School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Clay Bluffs on No Man’s Land" Sanford Gifford, 19th Century Luminist Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Sanford Robinson Gifford
A Sketch of Clay Bluffs on No Man’s Land, South of Martha's Vineyard, 1877
Stamp on verso of canvas: S. R. Gifford [estate] Sale
Typed label on upper stretch...
Category
1870s Hudson River School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vale of the Conwy, Snowdonia - 19th Century Oil Painting Large Landscape N Wales
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Vale of the Conwy’ by Samuel Lines (1778-1863). The painting – which depicts a single female figure in Welsh dress walking with a goat in an extensive mountain landscape – is signed...
Category
Early 19th Century English School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
19thC. Figures Hunting Classical Ruins Mountainous Sunset Landscape North Africa
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Continental, 19th Century
oil on canvas, framed
Monogrammed 'WM' and dated '1868' lower right
framed: 34 x 48.5 inches
canvas : 29.5 x 44 inches
Provenance: private collection, UK
Co...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Interior with Five Children - Oil Painting on Canvas - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Interior with Five Children is an original oil painting on canvas applied on panel.
This painting has been realized between the end of the 19th century ...
Category
19th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Greek Island Two lovers Figural Landscape
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-3613a Acrylic on artist board
Set in an ornate vintage frame
Image size 14.5x12.5"
Category
1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic Polymer
Victorian Oil Charming London Park Scene with Dapper Gentleman Smoking & Horses
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Dapper Gentleman in the London Park
by Philip Henry Rideout (British, late 19th century)
signed & dated 1895
oil on canvas, framed
Framed: 17.5 x 14.5 inches
Canvas : 12 x 10 inches
...
Category
Late 19th Century English School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Woman nestled in an armchair
Located in Paris, IDF
Joseph-Désiré COURT
(Rouen, 1797 – Paris, 1865)
Woman nestled in an armchair
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower left
81 x 65 cm
1834
Exhibition: in all likelihood, number 50 of ...
Category
Mid-19th Century French School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pair of Detailed European Landscapes in Watercolor and Gouache on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Pair of Detailed European Landscapes in Watercolor and Gouache on Paper
These two watercolor and gouache paintings depict idyllic European rural scenes with soft colors and detailed...
Category
Mid-19th Century French School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Laid Paper
Moonlit Reflections, Heyst-sur-Mer. Painted 1884
Located in Stockholm, SE
Elias Erdtman (Sweden, 1863–1945)
Moonlit Reflections, Heyst-sur-Mer
oil on canvas laid on board
signed E. Erdman och daterad -84
unframed: 29 x 18.5 cm (11.4 x 7.3 inches)
framed:...
Category
1880s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Harlequin oil on canvas painting
By Francesc Tornero
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Frame size 53x40 cm.
FRANCERSC TORNERÓ (1934)
He studied at the Barcelona School of Arts and Crafts and later at the Sant Jordi School of Fine Arts. In 1956 he won the “El Paular” ...
Category
1970s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Portrait of the Artist's Mother as a Young Woman, in Oil on Board
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of the Artist's Mother as a Young Woman, in Oil on Board
Elegant portrait by Russell R. Tripp (American, 1942-2025). This portrait, rendered in a warm, classical style, cap...
Category
1970s Photorealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
A Fine Austrian/Russian Oil on Board "Charging Cossack Warriors on Horseback"
Located in LA, CA
Adolf Constantin Baumgartner Stoiloff (Austrian/Russian, 1850-1924) a fine oil on board "Charging Cossack Warriors on Horseback" within an ornate giltwood frame, circa 1890
Born in ...
Category
Late 19th Century Baroque Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Vintage Portofino, Italy Figurative Landscape -- The Day's Catch
By Jackson Craig
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful vintage figurative landscape of fishermen with day's catch in Portofino, Italy by Jackson Craig (American, 20th Century), c. 1970. Signed lower right corner. Unframed. Imag...
Category
1970s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Walter Dendy Sadler RBA, The Introduction
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This charming late 19th-century oil painting by English artist Walter Dendy Sadler RBA (1854-1923) depicts an introduction between a demure young Regency lady and her potential suito...
Category
1890s Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Abstract Expressionist Standing Pensive Figurative Nude - Heavy Impasto
Located in Soquel, CA
Vintage Abstract Expressionist Standing Pensive Figurative Nude - Heavy Impasto
Abstract expressionist figurative composition of a nude woman by California artist Harald "Harry" Dr...
Category
1970s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Victorian English 19th century farm yard scene with Shire Horses and a couple
Located in Woodbury, CT
William Edward Millner was born in 1849 in Lincolnshire, and was a Victorian painter of landscapes and rustic genre.
He worked his entire life ...
Category
1870s Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Persian Illuminated Miniature with Two Figures Hunting in a Landscape
Located in Milwaukee, WI
The present illuminated page was once part of a larger manuscript, as evidenced by the tears along the right edge, illustrating a story from the Islamic world. The scene presents two figures in a landscape, one on horseback and another gesturing to a fallen deer. The stylization of the landscape shows influence from the Byzantine tradition of painting, with jagged rocks jutting into a golden sky. The page contains handwritten text on both sides, and is surrounded by gold illustrations of peacocks and a running deer.
11 x 6.5 inches, artwork
18.63 x 14 inches, frame
accompanied on the back with an image of the verso
framed to conservation standards with a 100% rag silk-lined mat in a gold gilded frame
A Persian miniature is a small Persian painting on paper, whether a book illustration or a separate work of art intended to be kept in an album of such works called a muraqqa. The techniques are broadly comparable to the Western and Byzantine traditions of miniatures in illuminated manuscripts. Although there is an equally well-established Persian tradition of wall-painting, the survival rate and state of preservation of miniatures is better, and miniatures are much the best-known form of Persian painting in the West, and many of the most important examples are in Western, or Turkish, museums. Miniature painting became a significant genre in Persian art in the 13th century, receiving Chinese influence after the Mongol conquests, and the highest point in the tradition was reached in the 15th and 16th centuries. The tradition continued, under some Western influence, after this, and has many modern exponents. The Persian miniature was the dominant influence on other Islamic miniature traditions, principally the Ottoman miniature...
Category
19th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
"Back Road" California Redwoods Santa Cruz County Original Oil Painting
Located in Soquel, CA
"Back Road" California Redwoods Santa Cruz County original Oil Painting
Oil painting of the California Redwoods by Gorman Woody (American, 1907-2000). the scene is a country road ...
Category
1970s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Painting Alexander the Great conquers Jerusalem 19th century
Located in Milan, IT
Mixed media (pencil, pen, brown ink and white chalk) on paper. Italian school of beginning '800.
The scene depicts a meeting between a high priest and a leader: if the latter is fol...
Category
19th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Cubic Abstract Colorful Figurative Oil Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
2902B Abstract geometric figurative painting
Set in a vintage gilt wood frame
Category
1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Near Bourron, France" Gilbert Munger, Barbizon School, Countryside Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Gilbert Munger
Near Bourron, France, circa 1886
Signed lower left
Oil on panel
13 x 18 inches
Gilbert Munger was born on April 14, 1837 in Madison, Connecticut. He showed interest ...
Category
1880s Barbizon School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Evening Time New York Hudson River School Scene Oil on Canvas Ornate Frame
Located in Soquel, CA
Evening Time Hudson River School Style Scene Oil on Canvas
European style painting of the Hudson river Valley School by B. Czerniawski (Polish/Ame...
Category
1860s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Very Large Early 19th Century Landscape Oil Painting Figures Far Reaching Views
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Figures before Far Reaching View
attributed to William Alfred Delamotte (English, 1775-1863)
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas : 24 x 36 inches
provenance: private collection, England
c...
Category
Early 19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Christ Crucified
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
"Christ Crucified" is a striking oil on copper painting by an anonymous German School artist. This bold composition presents a powerful portrayal of the crucifixion, a central theme ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Copper
Portrait of Berthe Thorwaldsen with bust of Horace Vernet - 1833
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Berthe Thorwaldsen with Bust of Horace Vernet is an original modern artwork realized by the Circle of Horace Vernet (30 June 1789 – 17 Januar...
Category
1830s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Late 19th Century Reclining Nude California School
Located in Soquel, CA
Late 19th century California School reclining nude female figure by anonymous 19th Century artist. In the style of William-Adolphe Bouguereau. ...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Perdu dans la Poésie - 19th Century French Oil Painting Belle Epoque Portrait
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
'Perdu dans la Poésie’ by Alfred Stevens (1823-1906)
The painting - which depicts a young Parisian society beauty reading beside an open window – is signed by the artist and present...
Category
1870s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Bath. Late 19th Century. Oil on canvas, 61x46 сm
Located in Riga, LV
Vinsent G. Stiepevich (1841 - 1910)
Russian and American artist. Emigrated to New York in 1878, where he lived in Brooklyn, Vincent Stiepevich was noted for his realist painting style of portrait, figure and genre subjects, especially in Harem and Orientalist* settings.
Memberships in New York included the Artists Fund Society* the Brooklyn Art Association*, 1878-82, 1891; National Academy of Design*, 1878-91; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts* annual, 1885, 1888-91; Boston Art...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
In the Garden of His Eminence, 19th Century Work w/ Gilt Frame
By August Vilhelm Nikolaus Hagborg
Located in Beachwood, OH
August Vilhelm Nikolaus Hagborg (Swedish, 1852-1921)
In the Garden of His Eminence
Oil on wood panel
Signed lower left
21 x 25.5 inches
34 x 38.25 inches, framed
August Vilhelm Nikolaus Hagborg was a Swedish painter who spent most of his life in France.
His father was an associate professor. Against the wishes of his parents, he decided on a career in art and, from 1872 to 1874, he studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm with Vicente Palmaroli...
Category
Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait After John Constable, Sotheby's Provenance
By John Constable
Located in New York, NY
After John Constable (British, 1776-1837)
Portrait of A Man, c. 1800
Oil on canvas
23 3/4 x 19 3/4 in.
Framed: 34 x 29 3/4 x 2 3/4 in.
Sotheby'...
Category
19th Century English School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Figurative Nude Study - Watercolor and Charcoal on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Figurative Nude Study - Watercolor and Charcoal on Paper
Watercolor and charcoal painting of a nude reclining woman by acclaimed bluegrass musician and San Francisco artist Katherin...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Watercolor
Portrait of Bishop Gaspard Mermillod - Oil Painting - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Bishop Gaspard Mermillod is an original artwork realized by an artist belonging to the Roman School of 19th Century.
Mixed colored oil on canvas.
The bishop depicted in the painting examined here, as suggested by the coat of arms represented at the top left, is the Swiss Gaspard Mermillod, born in Carouge on 22 September 1824.
Mermillod is known to have been one of the most active representatives of social Catholicism and one of the eminent personalities who formed in Rome that "select committee" set up in 1882 by Pope Leo XIII...
Category
19th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
View of Venice - Original Oil on Canvas Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
View of Venice is an original oil on canvas realized in the late 19th Century by a Master of Italian School.
On the reverse: label with inscribed “E. Mareis”
The painting represent...
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Colombo"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Ludwig Hans Fischer (1848–1915) – "Colombo" (1889)
An exceptional original watercolor by Austrian artist Ludwig Hans Fischer (1848–1915), titled "Colombo" (1889). This vibrant and m...
Category
19th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Victorian Figurative Oil Painting of Young Lady Lacemaker in a Cottage Interior
Located in ludlow, GB
Victorian Figurative Oil Painting of a Young Lady Lacemaker in a Cottage Interior. Oil on Canvas laid on artists board and Framed in its original Gilt Frame.
William H Weatherhead 1...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
19th Century landscape oil painting of a Sussex harvest field at sunset
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
Walter Williams
British, (1834-1906)
Harvest Field at Sunset, Clayton near Brighton Sussex
Oil on canvas, signed
Image size: 15.5 inches x 23.5 inches
Size including frame: 21.5 inc...
Category
19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19thC. French Oil Ladies Praying to Madonna Statue South of France Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French Romantic School, 19th century. There is an artists label verso, "P. Grimaud, Toulon".
Title: Ladies in Southern French landscape praying to a statue of the M...
Category
19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
19th Century coastal townscape oil painting of Cannes, France
By Edward Henry Holder
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
Edward Henry Holder
British, (1847-1922)
The Port of Cannes
Oil on canvas, signed & dated (18)95
Image size: 14 inches x 39.75 inches
Size including frame: 21.5 inches x 47.25 inche...
Category
19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Vincenzo Colleoni (Venetian Master) - 19th century painting - Interior Masks
Located in Varmo, IT
Vincenzo Colleoni (Active in Venice in the second half of the 19th century) - Interior scene with masked characters.
110 x 160 cm without frame, 145 x 194 cm with frame.
Antique oi...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique English Harvest landscape with corn stacks, dog and view of the sea
Located in Woodbury, CT
Outstanding English Victorian 19th century Harvest landscape.
Thomas Simon Dingle was the son of Thomas Dingle (1818-1904), known as a London landscape painter, but who, according t...
Category
1890s Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"Hillside Landscape" Edwin Child, Farmland, Vast Rural Mountainous Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Edwin Child
Hillside Landscape, 1896
Signed and dated lower right
Oil on canvas
18 x 28 inches
Edwin Burrage Child was a prominent New England portraitis...
Category
1890s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Warrior and His Horse Original oil and Clay on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Warrior and his Horse Greco-Roman Theme Original oil and Clay on Canvas
Rendition of an ancient warrior and his horse by a unknown but prolific painter (Africa/USA 20th C.).
Possibl...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Clay, Canvas, Oil
John Berney Ladbrooke, 19th Century oil painting of a river landscape
By John Berney Ladbrooke
Located in Harkstead, GB
A most attractive painting with an extensive view towards a church tower, just as a rain shower is approaching. The picture includes a charming little figure group of a mother holdin...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Pyrenean Village Spain oil on canvas painting spanish landscape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Title: Pyrenean Village
Artist: Manuel Zamora Muñoz (1928-2006)
Technique: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 25.6 x 39.4 in
Support: Canvas
Framing: Unframed
Signature: Signed in the lower r...
Category
1970s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Falling Asleep While Spinning Yarn
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
"Falling Asleep While Spinning Yarn" by Louis Edwarmay is a captivating piece that beautifully captures the quietude and exhaustion of daily labor. The painting portrays a woman in t...
Category
Mid-19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
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.
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