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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Period: 1980s
Period: 1930s
Chess Players WPA Depression Era Mid-20th Century American Scene Realism Modern
By Mervin Jules
Located in New York, NY
Chess Players WPA Depression Era Mid-20th Century American Scene Realism Modern. Signed upper right and verso 8 x 10 inches oil on board.
BIO
The son of a men's haberdasher, Mervin ...
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Female Bather (Nude Women)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Ann Brockman (1895–1943) was an American artist who achieved success as a figurative painter following a successful career as an illustrator. Born in California, she spent her childh...
Category
1930s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Candido Ballester.41 Personale original surrealist mixed media painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Personale original contemporary mixed media painting.
Cándido Ballester is a contemporary Mallorcan painter who was born in 1926. As a child he had to emigrate to Argentina. In the ...
Category
1980s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Cardboard
Two Women With Fans
By Walasse Ting
Located in Austin, TX
Chinese ink and acrylic on rice paper, stretched on canvas. Artist's stamp upper left.
71 x 38.25 in.
72.25 x 40.5 in. (framed)
Custom framed in a solid maple, float-mounted Gatorf...
Category
1980s Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic, Rice Paper
French Art Deco Cubist Monkey by Gabriel Beauvais 1930s Ceramic
Located in Oakland, CA
French modernist glazed ceramic monkey sculpture by Gabriel Beauvais,1930. This sculpture was made in a turquoise blue glaze ceramic, a stunning color most likely by Kaza Edition in ...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ceramic
Mary Had a Little Lamb
Located in Columbia, MO
One of the most prolific and acclaimed illustrators of the 20th century, Mark English produced work for such publications as McCalls, Time, Sports Illustrated, and Redbook before co-...
Category
1980s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Gouache
Sarah Burkhard
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Framed size 38 x 52 x 3 inches.
Philippe Henri Noyer
1917-1985
Philippe Henri Noyer was born on June 28, 1917 in Lyons, France. After a traditional education at the elite Ecole ...
Category
1980s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Reflections, large abstract expressionist painting by Cleveland School artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres
American, 1927-2013
Reflections, 1985
acrylic and ink on paper mounted on canvas
signed lower right, signed, dated and titled verso
52.5 x 72.5 inches
53 x 73 inches, ...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic
Amsterdam oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Rafael Duran Benet (1931-2015) - Amsterdam - Oil on canvas
Oil measurements 73x92 cm.
Frameless.
Rafael Duran Benet (Terrassa, 1931 - Barcelona, 2015) is a Catalan painter, nephew o...
Category
1980s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Portrait of a woman in hunting in front of a vineyard
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Jean-Marcel POUSSARD
(1891-1972)
Portrait of a woman in hunting attire in front of a vine
H. 80 cm; L. 53 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right - 1932
Painter of portraits a...
Category
1930s French School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Summer Idyl, abstract expressionist painting by Cleveland School artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres
American, 1927-2013
Summer Idyl, c. 1985
acrylic and ink on paper mounted on canvas
signed lower right, signed and titled verso
44.75 x 62.75 inches
Richard Andres wa...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic
Untitled abstract expressionist oil painting by Cleveland School artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres
American, 1927-2013
Untitled, c. 1984
acrylic and ink on paper mounted on canvas
signed lower right
19 x 16 inches
Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 192...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic
Mirror, abstract expressionist painting by Cleveland School artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres
American, 1927-2013
Mirror, 1984
acrylic and ink on paper mounted on canvas
signed lower right, dated and titled verso
12 x 12 inches
Richard Andres was born in Buff...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic
"Just Married", 1930s Original Painted Figurative Illustration
Located in Soquel, CA
Figurative 1930's illustration of a just married couple in a classic car by Charles Kinghan (American, 1895-1984). Signed "Kinghan" in the lower left c...
Category
1930s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Acrylic
Surrealist Hound
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Amazing surrealist painting by Italian artist Nuccio Fontanella (1936-2005). Ink and watercolor on cold pressed illustration board. Image measures 13 x 18 inches; 20 x 25 inches fram...
Category
1980s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Watercolor
Garry Dorsainvil Haitian Artist Street Scene of Cap-Haïtien
Located in Larchmont, NY
Garry Dorsainvil (Haitian)
Cap-Haïtien, c. 1980s
Acrylic on canvas
Framed: 24 1/4 x 35 1/4 x 1 1/2 in.
Signed and titled lower right
This painting shows the port city of Cap-Haïtien...
Category
1980s Folk Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Natural Chilean Nitrate of Soda
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1938
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Dimensions: 27.00" x 25.00"
Calendar Illustration
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'The Blue Scarf', 1960's African American Oil, Study of a Black Woman, Phoenix
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
An elegant and psychologically penetrating, American School portrait of a woman, shown in three-quarter profile wearing a blue headscarf and contrasted against a terracotta backgroun...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Country yard in spring. Oil on canvas, 74x96 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Country yard in spring. Oil on canvas, 74x96 cm
Oto Pladers (1897.8.III – 1970.2.V)
Oto Pladers learned in Riga city school of art (1913 – 15).
He was called into the army in 1916 a...
Category
1930s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Modernist Hillside Painting by Marion Maas
Located in Larchmont, NY
Marion Maas (American, b. 1930)
Untitled, c. 1980s
Oil on canvas
21 7/8 x 27 1/2 in.
Framed: 23 1/2 x 29 1/4 x 1 in.
Signed lower right
Landscape, figurat...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1987 Adrianne Wortzel Acrylic on Paper
Located in Larchmont, NY
Adrianne Wortzel (b. 1941)
Gold Columns, 1987
Acrylic on paper
Sight: 22 x 30 in.
Framed: 27 x 34 1/2 x 1 1/2 in.
Signed and titled verso on stretcher bar
ADRIANNE WORTZEL'S early ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
1983 American Impressionist Riverscape by Geraldine Sanger
Located in Larchmont, NY
Geraldine Sanger
Untitled, 1983
Oil on canvas
22 x 27 3/4 in.
Framed: 24 1/2 x 30 1/2 x 1 1/2 in.
Signed and dated lower right
Category
1980s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Original American Pop Art Multi Media "Pancake Eater" Plexiglass Artist's Proof
By Red Grooms
Located in Portland, OR
The Pancake Eater, 1981 by Red Grooms (b. 1937), an Artist's Proof, 2 of 9 (apart from the edition of 31).
Multi-layer lithograph and silkscreen in 31 colors with gold radiance powde...
Category
1980s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Plexiglass, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Color, Etching, Lithograph
Le quai de Martigues - Impressionist Landscape Oil by Georges Lapchine
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on board landscape circa 1930 by Russian impressionist painter Georges Lapchin. The work depicts a view of the quai at Martigues in the South of France. To the left of the...
Category
1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Hans Baluschek Sommer an der Havel ( Summer On The River Havel ), 1934
Located in Berlin, DE
Hans Baluschek ( 1870-1935 ), Germany. "New Objectivity" Style. Mixed media on paper, 1934. Signed and dated lower right: HBaluschek.34. Framed. Height: 26.18 in ( 66,5 cm ), Width:...
Category
1930s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Ivory and Ebony: two girls friends in a landscape. Art Deco
Located in Firenze, IT
Ivory and Ebony: two girls friends in a landscape. Art Deco
Circa 1930 - 1940.
Medium-large format painting from the Art Deco period.
The two girl friends.
Painting signed lower ...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paint, Canvas
Ballerinas on Stage
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Jean Louis Marcel Cosson (1878-1956)
Marcel Cosson was born in Bordeaux, France in 1878.
Cosson exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français where he won an honorable mention in 19...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Coll Bardolet 44 Bolero Baile Mallorquin original expressionist watercolor
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Bolero Mallorquin original expressionist watercolor painting.
Spanish painter maximum representative of the art of Mallorca at the end of the 20th century. Costumbrista work. With d...
Category
1980s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
1939 Surrealist Cityscape by Mystery Artist
Located in Larchmont, NY
Mystery Artist
Untitled, 1993
Watercolor on paper
Sight: 13 x 19 1/4 in.
Framed: 25 1/2 x 29 1/2 x 1 1/4 in.
Signed and dated lower right
Category
1930s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"History of US Postal Service" American Scene Social Realism WPA Modern Chicago
Located in New York, NY
"History of US Postal Service" American Scene Social Realism WPA Modern Chicago
Harold Haydon
"History of the U.S. Postal Service"
21 x 25 1/2 inches
Oil on canvas, c. 1938
Estate s...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Kiss
Located in Washington, DC
One of a kind shaped painting by Noche Crist (1909 - 2004). Titled "The Kiss" and signed on reverse.
Painting is casein paint and plaster on board.
Catalogue of an exhibition in...
Category
1980s Outsider Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Plaster, Casein, Wood Panel
Coll Bardolet 78 Bolero Baile Mallorquin original expressionist watercolor
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Bolero Mallorquin original expressionist watercolor painting.
Spanish painter maximum representative of the art of Mallorca at the end of the 20th century. Costumbrista work. With d...
Category
1980s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Music Duo
Located in Oakland, CA
Jozef Popczyk, a Polish artist known for his vibrant palette and affinity for Cubism, demonstrates his skill in blending Cubist and Art Deco styles in this oil painting on paper. Lik...
Category
1930s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint
Dance, Large Art Deco Painting by Giancarlo Impiglia
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Giancarlo Impiglia, Italian/American (1940-)
Title: Dance
Year: 1987
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated
Size: 84 in. x 84 in. (213.36 cm x 213.36 cm)
Category
1980s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Maurice Asselin (1882-1947) A bouquet of roses and nasturtiums, Signed oil
Located in Paris, FR
Maurice Asselin (1882-1947)
A Bouquet of roses and nasturtiums
Signed lower right
Oil on cardboard canvas
In good condition
39.5 x 31.5 cm
Framed : 58.5 x 51.5 cm
Maurice Asselin w...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Cotswold Stonebreaker - Charles March Gere - Early 20th Century British Oil
By Charles March Gere, RA, RWS
Located in London, GB
CHARLES MARCH GERE, RA, RWS
(1884-1963)
A Cotswold Stonebreaker
Signed l.l.: CHARLES GERE; signed and inscribed with title and the artist’s address on the stretcher
Oil on canvas
...
Category
1930s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
English yacht racing, sailing in the English Channel off the White Cliffs, Dover
Located in Woodbury, CT
A Yacht racing or sailing in the English Channel off the White Cliffs of Dover by Frank H Mason.
Purchasing "Yacht Racing/Sailing off Dover Castle in the English Channel, UK" by Fra...
Category
1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Art Deco Woodcut of Swimmer W/ Sailboats Signed "WB" in Custom Art Deco Frame
Located in New York, NY
This lovely Art Deco Woodcut of Swimmer W/ Sailboats is by an Unknown artist, signed "WB" and originates from the United States, Circa 1930. Features a slender vertical rectangular c...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Woodcut
Bathers, Large Cubist Painting by Jessica Rice
By Jessica Rice
Located in Long Island City, NY
An oil painting by Jessica Rice from 1985. A cubist scene of figures on a tropical beach. Framed in silver wood frame.
Artist: Jessica Rice
Title: Bathers
Year: 1985
Medium: Oil ...
Category
1980s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Buee Matinale - Impressionist Riverscape Oil Painting by Alexandre Jacob
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on canvas landscape circa 1930 by popular French impressionist painter Alexandre Louis Jacob. The piece depicts a fisherman in a small boat by the bank of the River Seine ...
Category
1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Vintage Post-Impressionist Painting of Tree-Lined River in the Irish Countryside
Located in Preston, GB
Vintage Post-Impressionist Painting of a Tree-Lined River in the Irish Countryside by 20th Century Irish Artist, Ray Cochrane.
Art measure...
Category
1980s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
SOUP BOX - ONION (UNIQUE)
By Andy Warhol
Located in Aventura, FL
Unique acrylic painting and silkscreen on canvas. Hand signed and dated by Andy Warhol on verso. Martin Lawrence provenance label on verso. Canvas size 20 x 20 inches.
The artwor...
Category
1980s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Screen, Canvas, Acrylic
YVES DIEY The Nude, Oil on canvas, 1930s
By Yves Diey
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas by Yves DIEY (1892-1984), France. The Nude. With frame : 99x54 cm - 39x21.25 inches ; without frame : 90x45 cm - 35.4x17.7 inches. Signed "Yves Dieÿ" lower right (see p...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The seated man
Located in Genève, GE
Work on wood
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The City at Twilight: Twin Towers II, signed painting, Gruenebaum Gallery label
Located in New York, NY
Sonia Gechtoff
The City at Twilight: Twin Towers II, 1985
Acrylic and pencil on paper (held in original frame with Gruenebaum Gallery, NY label)
Signed and dated on the front; also b...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Pencil, Graphite
Aaron Fink (American 1955-Active) "Red Smoker" Oil Paint on Canvas
By Aaron Fink
Located in San Francisco, CA
Aaron Fink (American 1955-Active) "Red Smoker" Oil Paint on Canvas
1986
Category
1980s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Original Boston Modernist Lithograph Aaron Fink Apples Pop Art Print Americana
By Aaron Fink
Located in Surfside, FL
Aaron Fink (American, b. 1955)
Apples
Signed and dated "Aaron Fink" lower right
on Arches deckle edged paper. it is pencil signed and dedicated in pencil. it is not numbered and mig...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
"Donna con calze Rosse" Olio su cartone cm. 50 x 70 1984
Located in Torino, IT
Figura femminile con calze rosse
Edgardo CORBELLI (Turin, 1918 - 1989)
From the traditional composition of the 1930s, the painting of Corbelli leads to technical and expressive resu...
Category
1980s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Temps Orageux - Divisionist Landscape Oil Painting by Henri Andre Joubert
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and dated oil on canvas divisionist landscape painting by French post impressionist painter Henri Andre Joubert. This distinctive piece depicts a worker tending to crops in a ...
Category
1930s Pointillist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Girl At Her Dressing Table" Modern Acrylic on Canvas by Bob Novak
Located in Pasadena, CA
Through singular facial analysis, the artist dissolves the traditional concept of perspective, presenting the central figure with a multiplication of contours. The main subject, like...
Category
1980s Post-Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Boats at Sunset, Original Gouache on Paper, Impressionist style, French Painter
Located in PARIS, FR
*Dimensions include the frame
This French watercolor dating from around 1930 conveys a serene maritime scene that resonates with the aesthetic principles of the Impressionists. The ...
Category
1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Laid Paper
The Tea Party with the Artist's Daughter Lois
Located in Washington, DC
Following two decades of successful impressionistic landscape painting, Wilson Henry Irvine became known for a new experimental style in the 1930s. In 1930, Irvine began making pris...
Category
1930s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fernande Horovitz-Edwards, Bathers, Large Oil on Canvas, 1930s
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Large oil on canvas by Fernande Horovitz-Edwards, France, 1930s. "Bathers". With frame: 117,5x90x4 cm - 46.3x35.4x1.6 inches. Without frame: 114x87 cm - 44.9x34.25 inches. Signed low...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Maurice Asselin (1882-1947) A Bunch of flowers in a vase, Signed oil on canvas
Located in Paris, FR
Maurice Asselin (1882-1947)
A Bunch of flowers in a vase
Signed lower left
Oil on canvas
In good condition
46 x 38 cm
Framed : 52 x 44 cm
Maurice Asselin was born on June 24, 1882 ...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Evening in Paris - 20th Century Oil, Figures in Cityscape at Night - Louis Hayet
By Louis Hayet
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
A wonderful oil on canvas by Louis Hayet depicting figures in a cityscape at evening time. Signed and dated 1932 lower left.
Louis Hayet had a difficult and itinerant childhood, du...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Nuages sur la Seine - Fevrier - Impressionist Riverscape Oil by Alexandre Jacob
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
A good sized signed oil on canvas landscape circa 1930 by popular French impressionist painter Alexandre Louis Jacob. The piece depicts a view of the River Seine. The cold scene is s...
Category
1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Motion Pictures
Located in West Hollywood, CA
We are proud to present for the first time in more than thirty years, the original painting of American artist Peter Korling.
Peter Korling was classically trained at the Chicago In...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Man Reaching Down: Tondo
Located in London, GB
Alkyd-oil on Masonite, signed and dated (middle left), 61cm (diam.), (83cm diam. framed). (This work was kept by the artist for his personal collection. It remained in his collection...
Category
1980s Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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.
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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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