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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Period: 18th Century
Period: 1920s
18th century Portrait of a young girl, Miss Cator in a landscape, white dress
By John Russell
Located in Woodbury, CT
Portrait of a young British Girl, in her white dress with Pink Sash.
Choosing to acquire an 18th-century portrait of a young girl by English artist John Russell is an opportunity to...
Category
1780s Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rococò Venetian painter - 18th century figure painting - Virgin child - Italy
Located in Varmo, IT
Venetian painter (18th century) - Madonna with Child.
37.5 x 45.5 cm without frame, 55 x 63 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on canvas, in a carved wooden frame.
Condition repo...
Category
Early 18th Century Rococo Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Devil - Battle of Good and Evil - Nude woman Like Hieronymus Bosch
Located in Miami, FL
Will good ultimately triumph over evil?
Or is it a perpetual tug of war?
WPA Artist Leonard Lopez paints a complex figural work addressing the theme of "the fight between good and e...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
18th century Old Master oil painting - Travellers at rest in a sunset landscape
Located in Antwerp, BE
18th century old master painting depicting a peaceful countryside scenery at sunset with a fortified town visible in the distance attributed to Franz Paula de Ferg
In the present je...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Copper
French Neo-Romantic Surrealist Painting "Circus" by Kristians Tonny
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Kristians Tonny
(French, born Holland; 1907-1977)
Circus
Oil on prepared board, 16 1/2 x 13 inches
Framed: 22 x 19 inches (approx.)
Inscribed on reverse: (in pencil) "cadre noir/ave...
Category
1920s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Fine 18th Century English Portrait of Aristocratic Gentleman Huge Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of an Aristocratic English Gentleman
circle of Thomas Hudson (British (1701-1779)
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 53.5 x 45 inches
painting: 45 x 40 inches
provenance: private...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
English satirical painter - 18th century painting - Connoisseur and Tired Boy
Located in Varmo, IT
English painter (late 18th century) - The Connoisseur and Tired Boy.
39.5 x 32 cm without frame, 46 x 38 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on canvas, in a carved wooden frame.
-...
Category
Late 18th Century Rococo Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Baroque Italian painter - 18th century landscape painter - Shepards
Located in Varmo, IT
Italian painter (18th century) - Arcadian landscape with flock and shepherds.
56 x 70 cm without frame, 63.5 x 79 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on canvas, in a wooden frame.
...
Category
Early 18th Century Rococo Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fine 18th Century Italian Old Master Oil Painting Berghers with Animals Sunset
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Close of Day
Italian School, early 18th century
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 17 x 22.5 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: very good and sound condition
Category
18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Venetian Rococò painter - 18th century mask figure painting - Colombina Carnival
Located in Varmo, IT
Venetian master (18th century) - Mask of Colombina.
161 x 68 cm without frame, 169.5 x 76.5 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on canvas, in a white lacquered wooden frame.
Condi...
Category
Late 18th Century Rococo Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Very Large 1700's Dutch Old Master Oil Painting The Nativity Scene
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Nativity
Dutch Old Master, early 1700's period
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 36 x 27.5 inches
provenance: private collection
condition: very good and sound condition, some scuf...
Category
Early 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Venetian Rococò painter - 18th century mask figure painting - Pantalone Carnival
Located in Varmo, IT
Venetian master (18th century) - Mask of Pantalone.
161 x 68 cm without frame, 169.5 x 76.5 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on canvas, in a white lacquered wooden frame.
Condi...
Category
Late 18th Century Rococo Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cute Children's Book Illustration British Female Illustrator - Teddy Bears
Located in Miami, FL
A British Female Illustrator paints a warm and fuzzy scene from a child's imagination, with ducks and teddy bears gazing at a "Mr Willoughby's eyeglass" standing on it's edge as it l...
Category
1920s Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Silent Night (Stilla natt), 1921, Large Moonlight Oil Painting
Located in Stockholm, SE
"Silent Night, 1921" by Gottfrid Kallstenius is a wonderful painting that captures the beauty of the Swedish archipelago in moonlight. In our opinion, we think that this painting is ...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
English River landscape, with Swans on the Thames at Temple Lock near London UK
Located in Woodbury, CT
English River landscape, with Church and River at Sunset, Abingdon on the Thames. England
Wonderful scene of Abingdon on the Thames by one of Englands best known landscape painters....
Category
1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Centaur and a woman
By Alexis Gritchenko
Located in Bayonne, NJ
This is a very rare to find painting that was exhibited by Alexis Gritchenko at the Athens Museum of Byzantine Art in 1923. Originally, 36 encaustic on cardboard pieces from the Gree...
Category
1920s Byzantine Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Encaustic
Portrait Painting Oil on Canvas by Joseph Badger
Located in Rome, IT
Joseph Badger (c. 1707–1765) was a portrait artist in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 18th century.
This amazing painting depicting a young boy with a bird.
oil on canvas cm 93 x73...
Category
18th Century Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Shipping in Calm Waters, 18th Century Dutch Oil on Wood Panel, Man o War
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Shipping in Calm Waters
Dutch School, 18th century
oil painting on wood panel
panel: 10 x 12.75 inches
framed: 14 x 17 inches
condition: very good, minor evidenc...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Large 18th Century English Sporting Painting Country Squire Hunting Horse & Dogs
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Country Squire
English School, 18th century
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 36 x 27.5 inches
provenance: private collection, England
condition: large areas of overpainting and re...
Category
18th Century English School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Rococò painter - 18th century figure painting - Breakfast interior
Located in Varmo, IT
French painter (18th century) - Breakfast.
48.5 x 37 cm.
Antique oil painting on canvas, in a carved and gilded wooden frame.
Condition report: Original canvas. Good state of cons...
Category
Mid-18th Century Rococo Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Painting The Finding of Moses 18th century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas. Spanish school of the late 18th century.
It recounts the biblical episode told in the book of Exodus in which baby Moses, in order to escape the slaughter of the child...
Category
18th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Painting with Scene of Battle 18th century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas. Northern Italian school of the 17th-18th century. The scene features a clash of knights outside the walls of a besieged city, with smoke from firearms invading the sky...
Category
18th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pêcheur sur la Cure by Paulémile Pissarro - Landscape watercolour
Located in London, GB
Pêcheur sur la Cure by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972)
Watercolour and ink on paper
23 x 30 cm (9 x 11 ³/₄ inches)
Signed lower right, Paulémile-
Executed circa 1920
This work is ac...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Paper, Watercolor
French School (18th Century) Dancing Putti.
Located in Sydney, NSW
French School (18th Century), Dancing Putti.
This gouache on vellum scene of the dancing putti is derived from a drawing by Giovanni Antonio de' Sacchis (Italian 1484 -1539) known a...
Category
Late 18th Century Rococo Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Vellum
Lumier et neige fondante - Impressionist Landscape Oil by William Samuel Horton
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on canvas landscape by American impressionist painter William Samuel Horton. The piece depicts a nighttime view of Pontarlier, a commune in eastern France near the Swiss b...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scévola (1871-1950) Portrait of Lady, oil sketch signed
Located in Paris, FR
Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scévola ( 1871 – 1950)
Portrait of a lady, a sketch
signed lower right
Oil on canvas transfered on cardboard
25 x 18 cm oval
Framed : 31 x 24.5 cm
This port...
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Winter Snow - Gstaad - Impressionist Landscape Oil by William Samuel Horton
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on canvas landscape by American impressionist painter William Samuel Horton. The piece depicts a view of the town of Gstaad in Southwestern Switzerland. The buildings and ...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Figurative portrait interior oil painting Women and child portrait painting
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Antique post impressionist Art Deco figurative oil painting by French artist Bernard Py. This large size animated interior painting of two wom...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lorenzo Gramiccia (Venetian Master) - Pair of 18th century figure paintings
Located in Varmo, IT
Lorenzo Gramiccia (Cave 1702/1704 - Venice 1795) - Two Venetian interiors.
45 x 60 cm without frame, 55 x 70 cm with frame.
Pair of antique oil paintings on canvas, in carved and g...
Category
Mid-18th Century Rococo Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Portrait of Young English aristocrat with Straw Hat. English School circa 1720
Located in Firenze, IT
Portrait of a young aristocratic girl - 18th century English style
Oil on canvas.
Silvered wood frame.
Size with frame cm 85 x 72.5
Size without frame cm 74.5 x 62.5
At the hear...
Category
1720s English School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Wood
FINE EARLY 1700'S ITALIAN BAROQUE OLD MASTER - MARY MAGDALENE WITH CHERUBS
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Italian School, early 18th century
Title: Mary Magdalene attended by Cherubim
Medium: oil painting on canvas laid on board, framed
Size: painting: 34cm x 49cm
...
Category
Early 18th Century Baroque Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Painting The Deposition of Christ 18th century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas. Neapolitan school of the seventeenth-eighteenth century.
It is a traditional scene of Christ's deposition from the Cross, with his inert, pale body lowered into the ar...
Category
18th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Large 18th Century British Old Master Oil Painting Figures at Dusk in Woodland
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Close of Day
English artist, second half 18th century
circle of Thomas Gainsborough (British 1727-1788)
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 24.5 x 29 inches
provenance: private colle...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Antique European Young Italian Boys With Dog Figurative Oil Painting 1920's
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-3756 Oil painting on canvas of Italian boys having a feast
unframed
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
18th Century English Sporting Art Oil Painting Hunting Scene Riders & Horses
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
English Fox Hunting Scene
English School, 18th century
oil painting on metal, framed
painting size: 15.75 x 19.75 inches
framed: 22 x 26 inches
condition: very good and presentable
p...
Category
Late 18th Century English School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
British Animal painter - 18th century horses painting - Oil on panel figure
Located in Varmo, IT
English painter (18th century) - Horses at the river.
53 x 70 cm without frame, 67 x 86 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on wood, in a carved and gilded wooden frame.
Condition...
Category
1770s Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Important 18th Century Royal Academy Old Master Oil Painting of Georgian London
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘St. James’ Day’ by Richard Morton Paye (1750-1820). This very large and important 18th century oil on canvas depicts a diverse crowd of Londoners at an oyster stand on a summer’s ev...
Category
1780s Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Military Encampment Soldiers on Horseback Dusk Landscape 1700's Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Military Encampment
Circle of Carel van Falens (1683-1733, Flemish)
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 8 x 10.5 inches
provenance: private collection, UK
condition: very good and so...
Category
Early 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Jean-Marc Nattier (1685 - 1766) - Portrait of Charlotte de Hesse-Rheinfels
Located in PARIS, FR
Jean-Marc Nattier (Paris, 1685 - 1766) and his workshop
Portrait of Charlotte de Hesse-Rheinfels
Oil on canvas : h. 44.09 in, w. 38.19 in
18th century carved giltwood framed
Fra...
Category
1730s Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Oranges and Apples', Oil on Canvas Still Life Painting
Located in London, GB
'Oranges and Apples', oil on canvas, still life by Guillaume Dulac (circa 1920s). A magnificent study of fruit and light painted with a deft touch and a delicate brushstroke. The evi...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Huge 18th Century English Oil Aristocratic Portrait of a Gentleman Standing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of an Aristocratic Gentleman
British artist, first half 18th century
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 50 x 40 inches
provenance: private collection, Dorset, England
condition...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique painting depicting the mystical marriage of Saint Catherine. Naples 19sec
Located in Torre Del Greco, IT
Antique oil on canvas painting depicting the mystical marriage of St. Catherine.
The work is rich in iconographic invention and intoned in full-bodied, ringing colors, with effects ...
Category
18th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Herminia and the Shepherds, a painting by Francesco de Mura (Napoli 1696 - 1782)
Located in PARIS, FR
In this masterly painting, Francesco de Mura presents the meeting of Herminia and the shepherds, a famous episode taken from the seventh canto of Torquato Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered...
Category
1760s Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique painting Madonna and Child. Lombardy 18th century.
Located in Torre Del Greco, IT
Antique oil on canvas painting depicting Madonna and Child with gilded and carved wooden frame.
Mary is depicted according to classical iconography, holding Jesus in her arms.
Jesu...
Category
18th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Portrait of a lady
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Burgundy wooden frame
75.5 x 65 x 4 cm
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Gallant party in the park. French School. Mid-18th century
Located in Milan, IT
The scene depicts a feast within a park enclosed by walls with arched gateways opening onto the countryside, and adorned on the right with an amphora on a small column and in the center, behind the figures, with a gushing fountain, with statues of cherubs and shells.
Two couples of richly dressed ladies and gentlemen entertain themselves gallantly, surrounded by servants; one of the men is playing the violin, crouching in front of his lady, who, flanked by the damsel, follows the melody on the score held up by the dark-haired man at her side, while two musicians accompany the playing with flute and a mandolin; the other couple, in an attitude of intimate dialogue, listens on the left, while on the right the hunter returning from the hunt also observes the scene.
Particularly prominent in the scene is the rich dress of the lady in the center, characterized by the wide back folds falling from her shoulders to create a cape. Such a dress corresponds to what was called "robe à la Watteau," named after the French painter Antoine Watteau who first portrayed ladies wearing this pattern.
Antoine Watteau (1684 -1721), a French painter considered one of the most influential French exponents of Rococo painting, was the forerunner of the pictorial genre of gallant scenes, a genre that developed in France from the late 1600s and continued throughout the following century.
The gallant scenes could be considered as the aristocratic version of the genre scene: characterized by music, dances, pleasant conversations between ladies and gentlemen surrounded by servants, they tended to enhance the costumes, fashionable clothes, and environments of the upper class, conveying a kind of detachment from the real times and places, projecting the viewer into an almost theatrical atmosphere of gestures, looks, colors and stage lights.
Moreover, Watteau, along with the Fêtes galantes cycles, also distinguished himself for those inspired by the theater, absorbing his passion for the scenes and characters of that milieu from Claude Gillot...
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Mid-18th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique Italian Cobbler Figurative Oil Painting by L. Colli 1920
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-112 Italian oil on canvas
Displayed in custom wood frame
Image size 10.5x13.5"
Signed A. Colli
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Carataco painting in front of Emperor Claudius 18th century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas. Northern European school of the 18th century.
Carataco was a Celtic king of the Briton tribe Catuvellauni and leader of the anti-Roman resistance and famous as a freed...
Category
18th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Penitent Magdalene, c. 1750.
By Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Lo Spagnuolo
Located in Milan, IT
Painting done in oil on canvas. The figure of Magdalene is depicted here, in keeping with tradition, with long red hair; with a gesture of sorrowful dedication she fixes her gaze on ...
Category
Mid-18th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Huge 18th Century Oil Painting Classical Landscape Ancient Castle with Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Classical Landscape
English School, 18th century
oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas: 34.5 x 36.5 inches
provenance: private collection
condition: very good and sound condi...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
20th Century Spanish Seaside Village (Cadaques Catalonia), Cleveland School
By Rolf Stoll
Located in Beachwood, OH
Rolf Stoll (American, 1892-1978)
Spanish Seaside Village (Cadaques Catalonia)
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right
28 x 38 inches
Exhibited: The 11th Annual May Show, Cleveland Museum of Art, 1929
Rolf Stoll, a painter of figure subjects, landscapes and floral still lifes, was an important member of the Cleveland art scene during the second quarter of the century. He was also an influential teacher, as well as one of Ohio’s foremost portrait painters.
Rolf Stoll was born in Heidelberg, Germany, in 1892. As a boy, he attended a military academy, during which time he developed an interest in art. He received his early formal training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart. He emigrated to the United States in 1912, settling in New York City. A decade later, after studying at the school of the National Academy of Design and supporting himself by working as a commercial artist, Stoll decided to leave New York. Upon the recommendation of Warren Pryor, one of his teachers, he decided to move to Cleveland, Ohio. After arriving in Cleveland, Rolf Stoll continued to work as a commercial artist. However, in 1926, he joined the faculty of the Cleveland School of Art, where he taught drawing. Two years later Stoll was appointed head of the school’s portrait painting department. A talented portraitist, Stoll’s sitters included industrialists, community leaders and many prominent members of Cleveland and Ohio society, as well as over twenty faculty members from Case Western Reserve University. Stoll also gave portrait classes at the John Huntington Polytechnic Institute from 1926 to 1953. In his male portraits especially, he was admired for his ability to convey the dignity of his sitter’s professional position without sacrificing individuality. As noted by one contemporary reviewer, Stoll was a “master of rich color, a searching student of human types, a forceful portrayer of all that the face reveals of the mind and the soul.” In addition to his activity as a portraitist, Rolf Stoll painted figure subjects and floral still lifes. He was also known for his views of the Ohio countryside and Canada. Stoll also painted views of Spain and depictions of Spanish peasants, inspired by an extended trip to that country (1926), during which time he was entertained by the famous Spanish portrait painter, Ignacio Zuloaga. Moving easily between oil and watercolor, Stoll worked in an direct realist style, combining his characteristic firm draftsmanship with the use of simplified forms and decorative color.
Rolph Stoll was a member of the Cleveland Society of Artists, the Cleveland Print Club...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
OLD MASTER OIL PAINTING 18th CENTURY Scottish School FINE DETAIL GOLD GILT FRAME
Located in Ferndown, GB
DESCRIPTION
OLD MASTER OIL PAINTING 18th CENTURY Scottish School
FINE DETAIL
GOLD GILT FRAME
NEW COLLECTION Of RARE PIECES OF Scottish HISTORY
Description
( Late 18th centur...
Category
18th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
On Stage: Art Deco Diva in Red, Paris Theatre, geometric modernist decor
Located in Norwich, GB
There is a great exhibition on in Paris at the Petit Palais at the moment, entitled "Modern Paris/Le Paris de la Modernité 1905-1925" . Here is a painting that would fit into the exh...
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Jute, Oil
Painting Young man lighting a pipe 18th century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas.
The painting offers a half-length portrait of a young man in deshabillé who is lighting his pipe by drawing fire with a stick from the candle placed in front of him o...
Category
18th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fine Impressionist American School Oil on Canvas; Family Picnic or Outing, 1925
Located in Baltimore, MD
This lovely impressionist painting portrays what appears to be a family outing or picnic. There are many beautifully dressed women with their children in a park setting. Oddly, wha...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Rooster and game
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
18th century work
Black wooden frame
55 x 78 x 3 cm
Category
18th Century Dutch School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
OIL PAINTING FRENCH By ? Beautiful lady of Nobility in a Gold Neoclassical Frame
Located in Ferndown, GB
OIL PAINTING By ? Beautiful lady of Nobility in a Neoclassical Frame
FINE Portrait OIL PAINTING Old Master Early 19th Century
French artist
...
Category
18th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pastel Portrait of a Young Woman
Located in Milford, NH
A wonderful 18th century French oval pastel on paper of a young woman, unsigned, and housed under glass in its original giltwood foliate gessoed frame. Some frame gesso repairs and t...
Category
18th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Paper
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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