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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Period: 1970s
Period: 1920s
'The Green Shoes', SF Women's College, SF Art Institute, California, Romanoff
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Storer' for Inez May Storer (American, born 1933) and dated 1979. Inez Storer first studied at the San Francisco College for Women, the San Francisco Art Institute and the University of California at Berkeley. She later earned a bachelor's degree at Dominican College in San Rafael and, in 1971, a graduate degree in at California State University in San Francisco. From Inverness...
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Gouache, Color Pencil

"Workers" Russian Constructivist 1920s Modern Social Realism Cubism Figurative
Located in New York, NY
"Workers" Russian Constructivist 1920s Modern Social Realism Cubism Figurative VLADIMIR VASIL’EVICH LEBEDEV (1891-1967) "Workers" Gouache on paper Monogramed lower right 15 1/8 x 10...
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1920s Constructivist Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Spanish castle landscape oil on board painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
José Martinez Lozano - Landscape - Oil on board Oil measurements 37x41 cm. Frame measurements 46x50 cm. Josep Martínez Lozano was born in the Born district of Barcelona on March 2...
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1970s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Board, Oil

Alfred Broge, Courtyard With Thatched Cottage & Seated Woman, Oil Painting
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This early 20th-century oil painting by Danish artist Alfred Broge (1870-1955) depicts a rustic courtyard with thatched cottage and seated woman. Amidst the gritty and grimy changes...
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1920s Naturalistic Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

'The Green Hat', California, SF Women's College, SF Art Institute, Romanoff
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Storer' for Inez May Storer (American, born 1933) and dated 1979. Inez Storer first studied at the San Francisco College for Women, the San Francisco Art Institute and the University of California at Berkeley. She later earned a bachelor's degree at Dominican College in San Rafael and, in 1971, a graduate degree in at California State University in San Francisco. From Inverness...
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Gouache, Color Pencil, Paper

Devil Emerges from Surrealist Voodoo Drum - Sans titre (Diable)
Located in Miami, FL
An image of a horned devil with pointy claws and bat-like wings emerges from a Voodoo drum. He has with arms stretched out like a Christ figure. The drum grows out of a yellow plant-...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Amedee de La PATELLIERE, Eclipse with 4 Characters, 1928
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas by Amedee de La PATELLIERE, France, 1928. Eclipse with four characters. With frame: 63x54 cm - 24.8x21.25 inches ; without frame: 41x33 cm - 16.15x13 inches. Format 6F....
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1920s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

bullfighter and bull oil on cardboard painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Frame size 49x59 cm.
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1970s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

Pruna Women Sketch for Bocaccio original watercolor painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Pere Pruna Ocerans (Barcelona, ​​1904-1977) was a Catalan painter and illustrator of figurative style. In 1920, with only 17 years and hardly any academic training, he traveled to ...
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1970s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Nude Dancer with Ornate Floral Headdress and Japanese Lantern - Carnival
Located in Miami, FL
A stunning, beautiful nude dancer exhibiting ideal proportions and crowned with an ornate floral headdress holds a luminescent Japanese Lantern. The lantern glows, and the dancer glows back in this light-infused painting. The background shows a Japanese screen with cranes...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Art Deco Spanish Woman Fashion Illustration
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Elegant and glamorous fashion illustration from the 1920's, Original signed gouache painting on paper. Monogrammed V.S. lower right. Site: 10"x 7.75" Frame: 19.25"x 17"
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1920s Art Deco Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Spanish market oil on canvas painting fauvism
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2007) - Market - Oil on canvas. Work measurements 46x55 cm. Frame size 51x60 cm. Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Spanish painter. H...
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1970s Fauvist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

1970's Surrealist Figurative -- "Two Nudes in Interior"
Located in Soquel, CA
Stark, surrealist study of two nude figures in a color saturated room by Clayton Anderson (American, 20th Century), 1970. Signed and dated by the artist, left margin. Presented in a ...
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1970s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Canyelles Sitges Spain landscape original oil on board painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Josep María Vila Cañellas (1914-2001) - Canyelles Sitges Spain - Oil on board. Oil measures 14x18 cm. Frame 30x34 cm. Josep María Vilá Cañellas (Vic, Osona, 1914 - Barcelona, 2001)....
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1970s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

" Mother " Child, Mother, Mother's Day oil cm 67 x 100
Located in Torino, IT
Child,Baby,Maternity,child,Mother,Green,Window,spring,russian art GLEB SAVINOV (Charkev, 1915 – St. Petersburg, 2000) Works by Gleb Savinov can be found in various private collect...
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1970s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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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...
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1920s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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...
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1920s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Susan Northey Winch Folk Art Winter Scene
Located in San Francisco, CA
Charming winter scene by folk artist Susan Northey Winch. I believe she comes from a family of folk artists from the northeast. Oil on board measures 14 by 11. Frame is 18 by 15.
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1970s Folk Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Landscape oil on cardboard painting impressionism spanish
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Joaquin Terruella Matilla (1891-1957) - Landscape - Oil cardboard Oil measures 33x41 cm. Frame measures 47x55 cm. Joaquim Terruella Matilla (1891 - 1957) Joaquim Terruella Matilla,...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Cardboard, Oil

Original Vintage Abstract Expressionist Figurative - "Lovers’ Embrace"
Located in Soquel, CA
Original Abstract Expressionist Painting - "Lovers’ Embrace" Wonderful example of a vibrant abstract expressionist figurative of couple embracing by Ka...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Oil

Red Coral Seascape
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
4087 Red coral seascape. Acrylic on artist board Set in a hand painted vintage wood frame Signed Rodat
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1970s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

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 ...
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1920s 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...
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1920s Byzantine Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Encaustic

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...
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1920s Victorian Figurative Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Gouache

Two British Spitfires flying over the English landscape, 20th century
Located in Woodbury, CT
This is an exceptional rendition of the most famous fighter plane in the world. Made famous for helping to save Britain during the second world war. Ronald's name needs little intro...
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1970s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Spanish pyrenean town oil on canvas painting landscape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Frameless.
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1970s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

1970's French Impressionist Oil Etretat Cliffs Coastline with Fisherfolk Beach
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Etretat signed by Georges Bordonave (French contemporary) dated 1970 oil painting on canvas, unframed unframed: 20 x 24 inches condition: very good p...
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1970s Impressionist 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...
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1920s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Ink, Paper, Watercolor

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...
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1920s Art Deco Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Performer Modern Expressionist Painting by Nicola Simbari
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Performer Artist signed lower right, canvas 28"x31"75 Nicola Simbari was born in Italy and grow up in Rome. He studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, and in the 1940s he beg...
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1970s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil

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...
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1920s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Fiddler and Dancers
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Shay Rieger (1923-1975). Fiddler and Dancers, 1975. Oil on canvas, 38 x 50 inches. Some ares of paint loss and flaking as documented in detail photos. No tears or punctures in canvas...
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1970s Abstract Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

"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 ...
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1970s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Masonite, 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 ...
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1920s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Year 1975. Still life. Between Pop Art and Radical Avant-gardes in Florence.
Located in Firenze, IT
Year 1975. Still life. Between Pop Art and radical avant-gardes in Florence. Oil painting on canvas. Size: cm 71x 71 Signed and dated lower right Andrea Chiarantini.`75 The paintin...
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1970s Pop Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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
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1920s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Madonna. Oil on canvas, 53x48 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Madonna. Oil on canvas, 53x48 cm Laimdots Murnieks has said: "I am a sunny artist. The sun and a woman are the center of the world. It is not for nothing that the sun always comes w...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Antique Mother and Child Old World Figurative Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-3757 Mother and Child oil painting Signed Bea Wynn
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1970s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Portrait. Oil on canvas, 64x50 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Portrait. Oil on canvas, 64x50 cm Laimdots Murnieks has said: "I am a sunny artist. The sun and a woman are the center of the world. It is not for nothing that the sun always comes ...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Robots, or "Strange Self-Sufficient Machine" by Giuliano Ghelli
Located in Firenze, IT
Robots, or "Strange Self-Sufficient Machine" by Giuliano Ghelli ( Florence, 1944- 2014, Chianti). Painting in a wooden frame with glass. Oil on canv...
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1970s Pop Art Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Glass, Wood, 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...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Adriana Pincherle (1905- 1996). A lady with a turban and green shadows.
Located in Firenze, IT
Adriana Pincherle, (1905, Rome - 1996, Florence). A lady with a turban and green shadows in a landscape. Italian female painter, active in Rome and from 1943 in Florence. Painting signed and dated lower right: Adriana Pincherle. 1973. Oil painting on canvas. The simple composition, which represents a woman from behind, bears the influence of Matisse's avant-garde style, with bold and refined color combinations. The shape is created with color, creating an almost surreal and highly expressive effect. The painter once said: "My painting has always been figurative, not realistic. In this sense I felt very similar to the Informal movement, which, fundamentally, pushed my passion for color to the extreme." FREE SHIPPING in Italy and Europe Artist Biography: Pincherle Adriana Rome 25 December 1905 - Florence 8 January 1996 Adriana was born in Rome on 25 December 1905, into a family in which two cultures were intertwined: the Jewish one of her father, the engineer Carlo Pincherle, of Venetian origins and in love with painting, and the Catholic one of her mother, Isa di she. De Marsanich, a noble but decayed Hungarian. Adriana is the eldest child and two years older than her brother Alberto, known to the literary world under the pseudonym Alberto Moravia As Pincherle herself says about her, as a child she spent hours admiring her father who painted watercolours, and it was perhaps then that her interest in drawing and above all her particular sensitivity towards color was born. Thus, having completed her classical studies, she began to attend the "ladies" atelier of the engraver Alfredo Petrucci and the free nude courses at the Academy, where she met Mimmo Spadini and Scipione, and came into contact with Roman art. In 1931 she made her debut at the collective "First Roman exhibition of female art" at the "Galleria di Roma", while the following year, at the same gallery, she exhibited a solo show together with Corrado Cagli, already attracting the attention of critics, famous comment by Longhi, cited several times by Pincherle herself, who prefers the "sissy" between the two artists. As evidence of the results achieved by Adriana since her first works, we remember that among her works presented in 1932 there was also the famous "Standing Self-Portrait", now in the Uffizi Pincherle's growth passes through places and periods common to both the Roman School and the school of painters of the via Cavour group (Mafai, Raphaël, Scipione), with tangents and deviations, but his pictorial research arrives at original solutions independent of any label . Fundamental to the maturation of her art was her stay in Paris in 1933, in which Pincherle admired and studied closely the Fauves, Renoir and in particular Matisse. In the same year she exhibited for the first time in Florence at the Sala d'arte delle Nazioni with Milena Barilli...
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1970s Fauvist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

“Place du Tertre, Montmartre, Paris”
Located in Southampton, NY
Exquisite orginal oil painting of the Place du Tertre in Montmartre, Paris by the well known artist, Jose Luis Leiva. Beautiful vibrant colors and use of light and shadows. The lan...
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1970s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Mission San Juan Bautista, 1971 - Original Oil Painting
Located in Soquel, CA
Mission San Juan Bautista, 1971 - Original Oil Painting Oil painting of Mission San Juan Bautista by Gorman Woody (American, 1907-2000). The viewer l...
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1970s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

Modern British, Interior with an old record player, port decanter and glass
Located in Woodbury, CT
Colin Ruffell is an English painter of interiors, cityscapes, and many other unique subjects. His styles have varied and include iconic cityscapes of London, New York, Venice, Hong ...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Board, Oil

Surreal Modern Female Acrylic Faces of Women Figurative Painting 1970
By Ernestine Madaleine
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-2744 Figurative acrylic on artist board Displayed in a black wood frame Image size 13.5x16" Signed Ernestine Madaleine
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1970s Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

French Impressionist Artist Studio Figurative Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
#5-3049 French Artist Studio,a 1970's figurative painting , oil on canvas displayed in a wood frame, signed by C.smith lower left.Image size 18.5 H x 23.25 W
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1970s Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

'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...
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1920s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

“Mother and Child” Early Figurative Portrait Painting of a Black Woman and Child
Located in Houston, TX
Early figurative portrait painting by Houston-based artist Buford Evans. The work features a black woman dressed in a green dress gingerly caressing her young child. Signed by the ar...
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1970s Naturalistic Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Panel

“God Save the Children” Early Figurative Portrait of an Anguished Black Man
Located in Houston, TX
Early figurative portrait painting by Houston-based artist Buford Evans. The work features a black man looking to the sky with an anguished expression on his face as a young child cl...
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1970s Naturalistic Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Panel

Vintage American Figurative Surreal Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3057 Figurative Surreal oil painting Set in a vintage gilt wood frame
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1970s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Study of Blue Boy
By Mary Welch
Located in Soquel, CA
Oil painting of a study of "Blue Boy" standing with his hat in his left hand by Mary Welch (American, 1875-1967). Circa 1918. Signed "M. Welch" lower left and gifted circa "1955" on verso. Image: 6"L x 9"H. Mary Welch, born 10 years after the end of the Civil War, was a woman ahead of her time. She signed her paintings M. Welch, hoping that potential buyers wouldn't discover she was a woman. More often than not, when they learned her sex, art dealers lost interest. The Hutchinson artist never married, never had children. But when she died in 1967, she left an impressive body of paintings, many of them familiar Kansas landscapes...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Board, Oil

Surrealist cubism acrylic on board painting picassian
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Gustavo Úbeda (1930-1994) - Picasso Cubism - Acrylic panel Acrylic measurements 81x100 cm. Frameless. The painting by Gustavo Úbeda Romero (Herencia, 1930 – Sao Paulo, 1994) comes f...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic, Board

Portrait of a lady
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas Burgundy wooden frame 75.5 x 65 x 4 cm
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1920s Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Teacher's Strike, Oil Painting by William Waithe
Located in Long Island City, NY
This painting by William Waithe depicts a teachers strike, possibly the infamous teachers' strike in 1970 by Newark teachers which at the time was the longest teachers' strike in the...
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1970s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Native American Mixed Media Portrait
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
#5-3064 Native American Portraits gouache/watercolor on board, male portrait, displayed in a black/wood frame, signed lower left by A.Jarret. Image size 14 H x 21.75 W
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1970s Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor

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
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1920s Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Surrealist orixa Brazil acrylic on board painting surrealism Ubeda
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Gustavo Úbeda (1930-1994) - Orixa - Acrylic on panel Acrylic measurements 61x91 cm. Frameless. The painting by Gustavo Úbeda Romero (Herencia, 1930 – Sao Paulo, 1994) comes from a f...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Board, Acrylic

Figurative Paintings for Sale

Figurative art, as opposed to abstract art, retains features from the observable world in its representational depictions of subject matter. Most commonly, figurative paintings reference and explore the human body, but they can also include landscapes, architecture, plants and animals — all portrayed with realism.

While the oldest figurative art dates back tens of thousands of years to cave wall paintings, figurative works made from observation became especially prominent in the early Renaissance. Artists like Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and other Renaissance masters created naturalistic representations of their subjects.

Pablo Picasso is lauded for laying the foundation for modern figurative art in the 1920s. Although abstracted, this work held a strong connection to representing people and other subjects. Other famous figurative artists include Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud. Figurative art in the 20th century would span such diverse genres as Expressionism, Pop art and Surrealism.

Today, a number of figural artists — such as Sedrick Huckaby, Daisy Patton and Eileen Cooper — are making art that uses the human body as its subject.

Because figurative art represents subjects from the real world, natural colors are common in these paintings. A piece of figurative art can be an exciting starting point for setting a tone and creating a color palette in a room.

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