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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Period: 1950s
Period: 1760s
Boy Blowing his Trumpet at a Birthday Dinner
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Tempera on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Submitted as a Saturday Evening Post Cover
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Board
Redhead Girl in Window with Flower Pots - Woman Illustrator
By Lorraine Fox
Located in Miami, FL
Redhead Girl in Window with Flower Pots by Lorraine Fox can be a joyful addition to your home. A beautiful redheaded young girl looks back at us from ...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
In The Bride's Shop, Lord & Taylor - Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Signed lower right
Printer's and designer's marks in margins
"Tool pearls in bodice, train & headband & ribbon under bosom."
Ex-collection photographer Frank Paulin...
Category
1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Year of the Tempest
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original pulp paperback cover for The Year of the Tempest by Peter Matthiessen, published by Bantam, New York, 1957 (Bantam #A1578). This was the first paperback edition of the novel...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Reality & Reverie: 1951
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1951
Medium: Acrylic on Board
Dimensions: 24.00" x 36.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
The King's Mistress
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
This illustration was published as the cover of The King's Mistress by Jean Plaidy, 1952.
Framed under glass to an overall size of 24.2...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Backwoods Hussy, Paperback Cover
By Rudy Nappi
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1952
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 22.25" x 16.25"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
This classic Nappi painting was first published as the cover for Backwoods Hussy by Hallam Whitney (PBO, Original books...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
At the Airport
Located in Miami, FL
Before there was Photorealism, there was Austin Briggs.
Done in 1951, this work has all the hallmarks of the 1970's fine art movement and more.
Briggs is using photographs as a refer...
Category
1950s Photorealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Modeling Dress, Cereal Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Cover of Newsweek, Kruschev, Russia March 16th 1959
By Robert Engle
Located in Miami, FL
Cover of Newsweek, Kruschev, March 16th 1959
Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.),
Gouache on board
12 x 12 in. (30.5 x 30.5 cm.)
Signed Lower left
Powerful study of Russian ...
Category
1950s Photorealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Midsummer Moon, 1950s
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"The Embrace", Story Illustration for Cosmopolitan Magazine, August 1951
By Alex Ross
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1951
Medium: Gouache, Pen and Ink on Board
Dimensions: 12.75" x 18.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
The Embrace. Story illustration for "How About Tonight?" by John D. Hess, published in Cosmopolitan magazine...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Board, Pen
Dark Streets of Paris (Lucifer's Dream) Paperback Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
This illustration was the paperback cover of Dark Streets of Paris (Lucifer's Dream) by Jean Louis Curt...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
The Lion and the Throne, The Atlantic Magazine Cover
By James Avati
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Contact for exact dimensions.
The Atlantic Magazine Cover Illustration.
November 1956, Volume 198
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Wine of Violence
By Jerome Rozen
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
This appeared as the cover for the 1952 Popular Library paperback Wine of Violence by Ralph Ingersoll
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Burro Alley, Paperback Cover, 1953
By James Meese
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Unsigned
Dimensions: Sight Size 35.5" x 25.5;" Framed 39.50" x 28.75"
This illustration was published as the paperback cover of Burro Alley by Edwin...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Fred C. Dobbs Paddle Steamer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
This illustration dates circa 1950.
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Golden Egg, Paperback Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Approximate Date: 1953
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Dimensions: 24.00" x 16.50"
This illustration was published as the paperback cover of The Golden Egg...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Gina Lollobrigida
By T. J. Kuck
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: circa 1950
Medium: Gouache on Board
Dimensions: 27.75" x 19.75"
Signature: Signed "T. Kuck" Lower Right
"Gina Lollobrigida." Portrait of the I...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Country Gentleman Magazine Cover
By Robert Addison
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1953
Medium: Gouache on Board
Dimensions: 32.00" x 27.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Cover of Nov. 1953 issue of Country Gentleman magazine...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Gouache
Departing
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1955
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 28.25" x 38.5"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Long John Silver
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil Painting
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Man on Floor Illustration
By Edwin Georgi
Located in Miami, FL
Man on Floor Illustration
ca. 1950–1959
Paintings, gouache on board
8 x 26.25 in. (20.3 x 66.7 cm.)
Modern
Magazine Story Illustration
Heritage, Morris Weiss CollectionSunning work w...
Category
1950s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Beer Advertisement, 1950
By Verne Tossey
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1950
Medium: Gouache on Paper
Dimensions: 17.20" x 14.20"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
1950 Beer Advertisement; Two men relaxing.
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
No title
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity.
Category
1950s Minimalist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
"End of Track, " Paperback Cover, 1951
By Jerome Rozen
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
End of Track - Paperback Cover, written by Ward Weaver, Popular Library, 1951.
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hollywood & Headlines: 1954
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1954
Medium: Acrylic on Board
Dimensions: 20.00" x 30.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
The events of 1954.
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
House of Deceit, Paperback Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1955
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Dimensions: 20.75" x 14.25"
Signature: Unsigned
This illustration was published as the cover for House of Deceit by Rae Loomis, Ace S-124, 1955.
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Coricidin Cold Tablet Advertisement
By James Meese
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: Late 1950s
Medium: Gouache on Board
Dimensions: 16.25" x 17.50"
Signature: Unsigned
Coricidin Cold Tablet Advertisement, Schering Corporation Advertisement
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Still Life
Located in London, GB
Signed and dated lower left 'Hassan Soliman 1957'
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Le Marche a Grimaud
By Yvonne Canu
Located in New York, NY
Yvonne Canu (born 1930) is a French artist renowned for her abstract and geometric painting, often focusing on the interaction between color, form, and light. She emerged in the mid-...
Category
1950s Pointillist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mexican Girl Returning from the Market
By Diego Rivera
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed & dated: lower right 1954
Diego Rivera (Mexican, (1886 - 1957)
Mexican Girl Returning from the Market
Watercolor on paper, behind glass
11 x 16”
Signed and dated lower right,...
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Sand Lot Baseball
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right and dated 1954.
Bio:
FASANELLA, RALPH (1914-97) was a self-taught painter who created large, colorful and intricate paintings of working-class culture and American politics from 1945 until his death in 1997.
Fasanella had an artistic vision born of a working life. A child of Italian immigrants, he spent his youth delivering ice with his father and enduring the harsh regimen of a Catholic reform school. During the Great Depression, Fasanella worked in garment factories and as a truck driver.
From his mother—a literate, sensitive, and progressive woman, Fasanella acquired a social conscience. Through her influence he became active in antifascist and trade union causes. Fasanella's political beliefs were radicalized by the Depression. His antifascist zeal led him to volunteer for duty in the International Brigades fighting fascism in Spain, where he served in 1937-1938.
Upon his return to New York City Fasanella became an organizer for various unions, particularly the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America, with whom he achieved some major organizing successes.
In 1945, disillusioned by the labor movement and plagued by a painful sensation in his fingers, Fasanella started to draw. He left organizing and began to paint full time. He painted obsessively, capturing the vibrant moods of the city and the tumult of American politics. For a brief time he received some critical notice for his work, and had shows of his work in galleries as well as union halls. Fasanella included in his paintings a profusion of brightly colored details, showed interiors and exteriors simultaneously, and combined past and future. He populated his paintings with likenesses of family and friends.
In 1950 Fasanella married Eva Lazorek, a schoolteacher who supported the couple through over two decades of artistic obscurity and blacklisting by the FBI. In the 1950s Fasanella retreated from political content in his works out of fear of reprisals. With the emergence of the New Left in the 1960s, however, his works became large, sharply focused political essays using images from the popular media. In 1972 Fasanella was featured in "New York" magazine and in an illustrated coffee-table book, "Fasanella's City". His large-scale, intricate paintings of urban life and American politics were then introduced to art critics and the public.
In the late 1970s Fasanella spent two years in Lawrence, researching the 1912 Bread and...
Category
1950s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"The Clown", 20th Century Gouache on Cardboard by Spanish Artist Celso Lagar
By Celso Lagar
Located in Madrid, ES
CELSO LAGAR
Spanish, 1891 - 1966
THE CLOWN
signed and dated "Lagar 52" (lower right)
gouache on cardboard
10-5/8 x 8 inches (27 x 20.5 cm.)
PROVENANCE
Private French Collector
Cel...
Category
1950s Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Cardboard
Still Life - Original Oil on Canvas by F. Carena - 1952
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is an original Oil on Canvas realized by Felice Carena in 1952.
Hand signed and dated. Very good condition.
Felice Carena
Turin 1879 - Venice 1966
He studies with Giaco...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lucca Landscape - Oil Paint by Antonio Donghi- 1952
Located in Roma, IT
Lucca Landscape is an original oil on canvas applied on plywood, realized by Antonio Donghi in 1952.
Hand signed lower right "Antonio Donghi 52".
Provenance: Don Chisciotte...
Category
1950s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Schools Out, Saturday Evening Post Cover, June 1958
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Dimensions: 23 7/8" x 20.00"
Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, June 21, 1958
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Gathering of Friends
By Jan Stussy
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting an original oil on canvas by American artist Jan Stussy(1921-1990)
Jan Stussy was a prolific artist and educator heading the art department at UCAL for more than thirty y...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
En Repose
By Sam Amato
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Born in New York in 1924, Sam Amato became a key painter in the Southern California (Los Angeles) figurative school of painting of the 1960's and '70's, best known for his diverse su...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Men at the Cafè - Oil Paint on Plywood by Ottone Rosai - 1956
By Ottone Rosai
Located in Roma, IT
Man at the Cafe is an original Oil on Plywood realized by Ottone Rosai in 1956.
Certificate on photograph by Prof. Luigi Cavallo.
Includes a modern wooden frame.
Very good conditions.
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Plywood
Summer by the Sea, Saturday Evening Post Cover, 1956
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Saturday Evening Post Cover, July 21, 1956
This Falter cover was owned by Sarah Johansen, daughter of John Falter. She is the you...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life with Fruits - Oil on Canvas by Ottone Rosai - 1950 ca.
By Ottone Rosai
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life Painting realized by Ottone Rosai in 1950 ca.
Oil on Canvas, very good conditions includes its coeval wooden frame.
On rear: Label "Raccolta Giraldi Livorno-Firenze".
Auth...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Garden
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting an exceptional oil painting by Polish/American artist Alexander Rosenfeld 1905-1995.
The Garden, is an original oil on canvas, signed, dated 1950, with an image dimension of 38 x 29.5 inches, just arrived from an outstanding West Coast collection, the painting is in excellent original condition, beautifully framed.
Please contact our West Hollywood gallery...
Category
1950s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Blind Peanut Vendor
Located in Missouri, MO
Cecil C. Bell
"The Blind Peanut Vendor" 1958
Oil on Panel
Signed; Titled & Dated Verso
Panel Size: approx. 14 x 18 inches
Framed Size: approx 21.25 x 25.25 inches
Cecil Bell was b...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Creatures of Prometheus, Surrealist Oil Painting by Barooshian 1957
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Martin Barooshian, American (1929 - )
Title: Creatures of Prometheus
Year: 1957
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed, titled and dated
Size: 31 x 41 in. (78.74 x 104.14 cm)
Frame Si...
Category
1950s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Frank O'Hara and Stevie Rivers
By John Button
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated, l.r.
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City
Born in California, John Button (1929-1982) was educated at University of California, Berkeley. After moving to New York City in the early 1950s, he became friends with Fairfield Porter and Frank O’Hara...
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Crystal Ball
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Noted German Expressionist artist Fritz Schwaderer(1901-1974), , was classically schooled in fine art in Germany in the early-mid 1920as.
...
Category
1950s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Girl with Cock, Oil Painting by Reginald Wilson
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Reginald Wilson, American (1909 - 1993)
Title: Girl with Cock
Year: circa 1950
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Size: 30 x 24 inches (76.2 x 60.96 cm)
Frame: 33.5 x 28 inch...
Category
1950s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ocean Park Bench
By Ron Blumberg
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting qn exceptional oil on panel by American artist Ron Blumberg(1908-2002)
Ocean Park bench, is an original oil on panel, signed, c.1957, painted ...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Guitar Serenade
By Ron Blumberg
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting a wonderful example from the late `1950's period of American artist Ron Blumberg(1908-2002.)
"Guitar Serenade", is an original oil on panel, signed, c.1959, with an image...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Trumpet
By Ron Blumberg
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting an original oil painting from the, “Post Impressionist” period, c.1957, by American artist Ron Blumberg, “The Trumpet”
After his classical ...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Practice Session
By Ron Blumberg
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting an original oil painting from the, “Post Impressionist” period, c.1957, of American artist Ron Blumberg, “The Practice Session.”
After his classical training in Paris, Bl...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Before the Mirror
By Ron Blumberg
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting original oil on panel by American artist Ron Blumberg (1908-2002.)
"Before the Mirror", is a large original oil on panel, signed, c.1957...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Street Singers
By Ron Blumberg
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting original oil on panel by American artist Ron Blumberg (1908-2002.)
"Street Singers", is an original oil on panel, signed, c.1957, painted when Blumberg was using exclusiv...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Two Models
By Ron Blumberg
Located in West Hollywood, CA
About the Artist
A rare original oil on canvas by American artist Ron Blumberg(1908-2002.)
"Two Models" is an original oil on panel, signed, c.1957. ...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Hypnotist
By Ron Blumberg
Located in West Hollywood, CA
The Hypnotist is a rare painting from the, “Psychological Series”�, of American artist Ron Blumberg which was executed from 1948-1952. The Hypnotist, is original oil on canvas, signe...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Trapeeze Act
By Ron Blumberg
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting an outstanding, theatrical oil painting by American artist Ron Blumberg.
American artist Ron Blumberg was classically trained at ...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Gravity
By Ron Blumberg
Located in West Hollywood, CA
American artist Ron Blumberg was classically trained at La Grande Academie Chaumiere in Paris, 1932, before moving to New York where he became a National Academy artist and a member ...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
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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