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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Period: 1950s
Period: 1940s
“Untitled #2”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on canvas provocative figurative painting by the American artist Martin Rosenthal. Mid century modern. Signed lower right. Circa 1955. Condition is very good. Present...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled (Transcendental Composition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This work is part of our exhibition - America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s
Untitled (Transcendental Composition), oil on board, 1947, oil on board, signed and dated lower r...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
The Old World
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Old World, by 1943, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 43 ½ x 30 ½ inches, artist’s name and title inscribed verso; exhibited 1) Romantic Painting in America, Museum of Modern Art, N...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vicente Cristellys, Oil on canvas "Gina Lollobrigida", Late 1950s
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas by Vicente CRISTELLYS (1898-1970), School of Paris, late 1950s. "Lolo", portrait of Gina Lollobrigida in Notre-Dame de Paris (film).
Arriving in Paris during the 1920s, Vicente Cristellys settled in Montparnasse like many of his colleagues from the Ecole de Paris. He paints characters and scenes largely inspired by his native Spain. It was after a bohemian period that he began to illustrate cinema posters and he managed to settle in the Parisian cinematographic milieu. For example, he will sign posters for The Big Sleep, The Man in The iron mask...
Category
1950s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Post Office WPA Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Modern 20th Century
By Carlos Lopez
Located in New York, NY
Post Office WPA Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Modern 20th Century
Carlos Lopez (1910-1953)
"Bounty" WPA Mural Study for Michigan Post Office
19 ½ x 22 ½ inches
Oil on B...
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
"Two Seas and a Moon" Surrealism American Scene WWII Modern WWI Denver WPA Era
Located in New York, NY
"Two Seas and a Moon" Surrealism American Scene WWII Modern WWI Denver WPA Era
Arnold Ronnebeck (1885 - 1947)
Two Seas and a Moon
30 x 22 1/2 inches
Oil on Canvas, c. 1943
Signed u...
Category
1940s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Incredible Vintage Surreal Religious Framed Signed Latin American Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed lower right.
Category
1940s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Spanish Beauty (Portrait of the Artist's Wife)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Spanish Beauty (Portrait of the Artist's Wife)
Oil on canvas, c. 1940's
Signed upper right "A.G. Warshawsky" (see photo)
According to the daughter-in-law of the artist, this painting...
Category
1940s Abstract Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Landscape with characters spanish original oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Joaquim Marsillach i Codony (1905-1986) - Landscape with characters
Oil on canvas
Oil measures 46x55 cm.
Frame measures 69x78 cm.
Marsillach Codony, Joaquim. Olot (Gerona), 22.V.190...
Category
1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Impressionist New England Beach Bathers Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century impressionist bather scene by John Edward Costigan (1888 - 1972). Oil on board. Framed. Signed verso.
Category
1940s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Joni" - Mid Century Modern Portrait of a Girl in Yellow Dress in Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
"Joni" - Portrait of a Girl in a Yellow Dress in Oil on Canvas
Skillful portrait of a young girl by Morris Zirlin (American, 1913-1990). A young girl with wide brown eyes poses for ...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Abstract Expressionist Mixed Media Figures signed and dated 1951
Located in Hoddesdon, GB
An early American Abstract Mixed media / Ink on woven paper of four abstract figures . American abstract artist Lester Epstein (1919 -1963 ) signed and dated 1951 .
Professionally ...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
'Mother and Child', Woman Impressionist, Paris, Académie Julian, Benezit
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Initialed lower right, 'A.E.M' for Anna Elisabeth Munch (Danish, 1876-1960) and painted circa 1940.
This notable Danish Modernist first studied with Karl Jensen (1889) and C. N. Overgaard (1891–1892). She later traveled and studied in Italy and, subsequently, at the Académie Julian under Jean Paul Laurens and Benjamin Constant. After her return to Denmark, Munch became a student of the Impressionist Julius Paulsen (1895-1897) and made her début at the 1898 Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition.
Munch became the first Danish woman to receive commissions for large devotional altarpieces and her early subjects were often derived from Nordic and Christian mythology. These themes were also explored in the large fresco commissions she completed after studying fresco with Joakim Skovgaard (1909-10).
Munch continued her studies in both France and Italy and also traveled extensively to Sweden and Norway. Together with the writer Sophie Breum, Munch built a house on the island of Funen at the artist's colony of Kerteminde. Munch illustrated several of Breum's books and, through her, was introduced to the women's movement. She furthered her art studies with Fritz Syberg...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Gathering
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Jirayr Zorthian(1911-2004), went through two Turkish massacres before age eight. He left Turkey at age nine with his family and spent a year in Padua, Italy, waiting for his visa to open to the United States. This period was very important in his life because his father took him to many cities in Europe and exposed him to great works of art. Zorthian arrived in the United States at the age of eleven and settled with his family in New Haven, Connecticut. He obtained his formal education there, after graduating from Yale in 1932, the Winchester Fellowship granted him a year and a half at the American Academy in Rome with travel and study throughout Europe.
His art career branched into various directions on his return to the United States. As a mural painter his reputation was established. He has forty two (42) murals throughout the United States. Zorthian worked and taught painting at some of the finest art academiJirayr Zorthian(1911-2004), went through two Turkish massacres before age eight. He left Turkey at age nine with his family and spent a year in Padua, Italy, waiting for his visa to open to the United States. This period was very important in his life because his father took him to many cities in Europe and exposed him to great works of art. Zorthian arrived in the United States at the age of eleven and settled with his family in New Haven, Connecticut. He obtained his formal education there, after graduating from Yale in 1932, the Winchester Fellowship granted him a year and a half at the American Academy in Rome with travel and study throughout Europe.
His art career branched into various directions on his return to the United States. As a mural painter his reputation was established. He has forty two (42) murals throughout the United States. Zorthian worked and taught painting at some of the finest art academies on the west coast including both the Chouinard Art Institute and the Otis Art Institute.
es on the west coast including both the Chouinard Art Institute and the Otis Art Institute.
The Gathering...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Hortense (Ballerina) /// Impressionism Degas French Ballet Renoir Figurative Art
By Pal Fried
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Pál Fried (Hungarian, 1893-1976)
Title: "Hortense (Ballerina)"
*Signed by Fried lower left
Circa: 1940
Medium: Original Oil Painting on Canvas
Framing: Framed in a light gold...
Category
1940s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oil
" on vacation" Oil cm. 36 x 29 , 1959
Located in Torino, IT
Painter, vacation, summer, impressionism, picnic, 1950s
Russia,Green
Category
1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Red Landscape with trees, Original Gouache on Paper, Impressionist style
Located in PARIS, FR
*Dimensions include the frame
This French artwork from around 1940 exhibits a vivid, expressive style, reminiscent of Vincent van Gogh's post-Impressionist works. The robust, swirli...
Category
1940s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Laid Paper
'The Artist as a Young Man' by Hal Frater - Ashcan School Figurative Painting
By Hal Frater
Located in Carmel, CA
Hal Frater's "The Artist as a Young Man" is a striking oil on canvas that captures the essence of the artist himself, rendered in a raw, emotive style. The palette is earthy, with na...
Category
1950s Ashcan School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Clowns: Aren't We All?" Henry Glintenkamp, WPA Era Circus Figures, Modern
Located in New York, NY
Hendrik (Henry) J Glintenkamp
Clowns: Aren't We All?, 1942
Signed lower left; signed, titled and dated on the reverse
Oil on Masonite
20 x 16 inches
The painter and illustrator Henr...
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Virgin Mary and child Jesus oil on board painting Christ
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Josep Lloveras Feliu (1922-2014) - Virgin Mary and child Jesus - Oil on panel
Oil measurements 60x49 cm.
Frame measurements 68x57 cm.
Josep Lloveras y Feliu, was a painter and sculp...
Category
1950s Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
"Zapotecan" Marion Greenwood, Indigenous Mexican Figurative Watercolor
Located in New York, NY
Marion Greenwood
Zapotecan, 1956
Signed and dated
Watercolor on paper
12 1/4 x 9 5/8 inches
Provenance:
Milch Galleries, New York
Marion Greenwood, a painter and printmaker, was bo...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Portrait of Boy and Guitar Original oil by Angeli - Italy circa 1960
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of Boy and Guitar Original oil by Angeli - Italy circa 1960
Classical portrait of a young boy ad his guitar by Angeli, an unknown Italian painter (Italy, 20th Century). Roc...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Mid Century Seascape and Figural Original oil painting on Linen
Located in Soquel, CA
Seascape Original oil painting on Linen 1956
Solitary figure on wharf by California artist Robert Watson, painted 1956 (1923 - 2004)The following, is from Tony Watson, son of the ar...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Mid Century Figurative Seascape with Sailboats
By Henryk Dzienczarski
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid-century figurative seascape with boats by Henryk Dzienczarski, (Poland, b-1917). Signed "H. Dzienczarski" lower right. Displayed in a wood fra...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
School of Paris, Sleeping Woman, Nude, Oil on Canvas
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas by Fortunato Pirazzini (1907-2003), School of Paris, ca.1950. "Sleeping woman, Nude". Measurements : with frame : 56x71 cm - 22x28 inches
without frame : 46x61 cm - 18....
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
At the fair
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Same Old Story (Brooklyn Dodgers & St. Louis Cardinals Illustration)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Bill Crawford (1913-1982). Original illustration artwork depicting teams as they advance to the World Series. Depicted are representations of the St. Louis Cardinals and The Brooklyn...
Category
1940s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Ink, Gouache, Pencil
Bunch of Roses, Oil on Paper
By Gustave Lino
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on paper mounted on cardboard by Gustave Lino (1893-1961), France, 1950s. Bunch of Roses. Measurements : with frame: 73.5x58.6 cm - 28.9x23.1 inches
without frame: 61x46 cm - 24...
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Cardboard
French Impressionist mid century cafe scene of two women seated in a Cafe
Located in Woodbury, CT
Francois Gall, Hungarian by birth, became an impressionist painter in the pure French tradition after he moved to Paris in 1936. He was born in Kolozsvar in the former region of Tr...
Category
1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Soleil de Novembre - Impressionist Riverscape Oil by Alexandre Jacob
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on board landscape circa 1950 by popular French impressionist painter Alexandre Louis Jacob. The piece depicts a view of a marsh water mill. The yellow glow of the low Nov...
Category
1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
School of Paris, Barbara, Oil on Canvas, 1950s
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas dating from the 50s whose subject strangely resembles Barbara, the French singer. If it is really her, I am unable to confirm that she played the guitar, or that it is ...
Category
1950s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Quai des bouquinistes- Impressionist Figures in Landscape Oil - Jules Rene Herve
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed figures in cityscape oil on original canvas circa 1950 by French impressionist painter Jules Rene Herve. The piece depicts a view of a bookseller's stall beside the River Seine in Paris, France, with blossom trees overhead.
Signature:
Signed lower left & again verso
Dimensions:
Framed: 21"x24"
Unframed: 13"x16"
Provenance:
The Dominion Gallery - Montreal - Canada
Jules Rene Hervé began his formal art studies in an evening school in Langres, France. Hervé was trained at the Ecole nationale supérieure d’arts decoratifs of Paris, and studied with Fernand Cormon and Jules Adler...
Category
1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
People Lawn Bowling in Central Park New York City 1950 oil/canvas NYC blue green
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Aaron Berkman (1900 - 1991)
“Bowling in Central Park” New York
Oil on canvas
10 x 14 inches
Signed and titled verso: Aaron Berkman 1950
Provenance:
Private collection, USA
Aaron Ber...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Young Girl with Horse Illustrations Original Oil on Linen by John Turner 1941
Located in Soquel, CA
Young Girl with Horse Illustrations Original Oil on Linen by John Turner
Impressionist painting of a young horse enthusiast by John Turner (American, 19th,20th C).
Exceptional detai...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Portrait of Wife
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Beautiful impressionistic portrait of Soviet master, Aleksei Belykh's, wife. Belykh was a Russian artist from Sverdlovsk. This painting is signed and dated and in great condition. ...
Category
1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Countryside of France, Original Oil on cardboard, Impressionist style, signed
Located in PARIS, FR
*Dimensions include the frame
This oil on cardboard by Robert Hofer (1885-1942), created in 1942, exudes the characteristic vibrancy and textural depth that is reminiscent of Impres...
Category
1940s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Oil
Surreal Children Fantasy Oil Painting 1956
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3981 Children's fantasy figurative oil painting set in a hand painted oak frame
Image size 15.5x19.25"
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Sophus Vermehren, Her Favourite Story, Oil Painting
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This mid-20th-century oil painting by Danish artist Sophus Vermehren (1866-1950) depicts a grandmother reading to her granddaughter, who is convalesci...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mill in the marsh, Original Oil on Canvas, Signed, French Expressionist
Located in PARIS, FR
*Dimensions include the frame
Claude Grosperrin's artwork is a vivid exploration of texture and abstraction, capturing the essence of a rustic landscape with a palpable sense of ene...
Category
1950s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Impressionist Over sized Ballerina Figurative Oil Painting
By Carole Nelson
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
#5-3022 Ballerina a 1940's large scale oil on canvas Signed lower left by Carole Nelson,displayed in a gilt wood curved frame.
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Harvest - Dutch Farm Scene, Original Oil Painting On Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
The Harvest - Dutch Farm Scene, Original Oil Painting On Canvas
Original oil painting depicting Dutch farm workers in a vibrant gold colored field by Dutch artist Von Hassler (Nethe...
Category
1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Donkey Rides - Impressionist Figures in Landscape Oil by Jules Rene Herve
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed figures and animals in cityscape oil on canvas circa 1940 by French impressionist painter Jules Rene Herve. This large piece depicts a view of Paris on a bright summer's day. Children enjoy donkey rides in the shade of the green trees and there is a view of the Champs-Elysees.
Signature:
Signed lower left & again verso
Dimensions:
Framed: 40"x48"
Unframed: 32"x40"
Provenance:
Private UK collection
Jules Rene Hervé began his formal art studies in an evening school in Langres, France. Hervé was trained at the Ecole nationale supérieure d’arts decoratifs of Paris, and studied with Fernand Cormon and Jules Adler...
Category
1940s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Surrealist Still Life with Apples, Mid 20th Century Cleveland School Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Still Life with Apples, 1940
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated upper right
18 x 24 inches
Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a level of na...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Modernist Judaica Jewish Ink Drawing Painting "New Immigrant" Off the Boat WPA
Located in Surfside, FL
An ink drawing Judaic painting by modern artist Ben-Zion Weinman. It depicts a portrait of an old Jewish man. Coming over from Europe on a ship crossing. The work is signed "Ben-Zion".
Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual works as a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Influenced by Spinoza, Knut Hamsun, and Wladyslaw Reymont, as well as Hebrew literature, Ben-Zion wrote poetry and essays that, like his visual work, attempt to reveal the deep “connection between man and the divine, and between man and earth.”
An emigrant from the Ukraine, he came to the US in 1920. He wrote fairy tales and poems in Hebrew under the name Benzion Weinman, but when he began painting he dropped his last name and hyphenated his first, saying an artist needed only one name. In 1920 he settled in America, where he found little interest in his writing. He began teaching Hebrew to support himself and then in the early 1930s returned to painting. He used his art to comment on the rise of fascism in Europe, events he felt could not be adequately explored with words. Largely self-taught, Ben-Zion visited the museums of New York City to learn his new trade. His first painting on a large scale, Friday Evening (1933, Jewish Museum, New York), depicts a Sabbath dinner table as recalled from his family home. Ben-Zion supported himself by working odd jobs until the establishment of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project. Under the auspices of the wpa, Ben-Zion thrived and galleries began to show his work. In 1936, after his first one-man show at the Artists' Gallery in New York
Ben-Zion was a founding member of “The Ten: An Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Impressionist Young Female Acrylic Painting Girl at Window Reading
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3909 Acrylic on board set in a gilt wood frame
Image size 14.5x10.5
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Still life with Shell
Located in Pasadena, CA
Constantin Font, born January 11, 1890 in Auch (Gers) and died in 1954 in Paris, is a French artist, painter of genre, nudes, landscapes, orientalist, sculptor and engraver.
Outstand...
Category
1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique English Beer Drinker Figurative Pub Interior Scene Oil Painting 1940
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-3731 Oil on canvas applied to board
Set in a wood frame
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
White Horse Carousel, 1956 - Original Oil Painting On Linen
Located in Soquel, CA
White Horse Carousel, 1956 - Oil On Canvas
Oil painting of an empty carousel ride, a single white horse gleams in the center. Three doorways are seen to the right, with sunlight ema...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
"People on Horseback" Eva Peron Mural Sketch
Located in Austin, TX
By Gustav Likan
This piece depicts a couple on horseback followed by a man in a red military uniform. A dog runs by the group. This pieces is from the Eva Perón commissioned mural sk...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Place de l'Opera - Impressionist Cityscape Oil Painting by Jules Rene Herve
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed impressionist figures in cityscape oil on canvas circa 1940 by French painter Jules Rene Herve. This bustling evening scene depicts a view of The Place de l'Opera square in Paris, France.
Signature:
Signed lower left & again verso
Dimensions:
Framed: 25"x29"
Unframed: 18"x22"
Provenance:
Private French collection
Jules Rene Hervé began his formal art studies in an evening school in Langres, France. Hervé was trained at the Ecole nationale supérieure d’arts decoratifs of Paris, and studied with Fernand Cormon and Jules Adler...
Category
1940s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Training Day - Mid 20th Century Impressionist Oil Horse & Jockey by Kay Hinwood
By Kay Hinwood
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Kay Hinwood (1920 - 2006)
This piece titled Training Day was created using oil on board and is in a handmade swept composite frame.
It features: Horse, horses, training, people, ho...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Woman with Arms Crossed
By Byron Browne
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Woman with Arms Crossed
Mixed media collage-painting on stone chip surface, mounted on fabric, mounted on wood support by the artist, 1955
Signed and dated lower center
Image size: 1...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Other Medium
R. QUEYRIE, Walking the Streets, Oil on Hardboard, 1950s
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on hardboard signed R. QUEYRIE, France, 1950s. "Walking the streets". With frame: 55x47 cm - 21.65x18.5 inches - without frame: 46x38cm - 18.1x15 inches. 8F format. Signed "R. Qu...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Vintage Italian Fisherman Figurative Oil Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
%-3074 Italian Fisherman Portrait, oil on canvas applied to a board, displayed in a wood frame, signed lower left by E.Mori
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Boys Swimming Industrial Landscape WPA Mid 20th Century Social Realism Modernism
Located in New York, NY
Boys Swimming Industrial Landscape WPA Mid 20th Century Social Realism Modernism
Henry Schnakenberg (1982 - 1970)
Boys Swimming Industrial Landscape
11 1/2 x 15 1/2 sight
Oil on Canvas
Signed lower left
14 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches, Framed
Bio
In many cases, American artists visited the Armory Show in New York in 1913, and returned to their studios to react to or against what they saw. However, for Henry Ernest Schnakenberg it was much more life altering. Prior to visiting this important exhibition of American and European modernist art...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
French Impressionist Figurative Oil Pastel Painting"Resting Mother with Child"
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-2620 Vintage original colored pastel on paper
displayed in a gilt wood frame under glass.Arist unknown
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Antique English Oil Painting on Wood Panel "The Middle Age Trial"
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
#5-2984 Lawbreaker Painting Plaque,scene of Middle Ages court ,vintage English oil on wood panel.Signed E.B /2
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Rare Baltimore Harbor Oil Painting, Pratt Street Dock, ca 1950 - Rosalie Hamblin
Located in Baltimore, MD
This lively oil painting depicts Baltimore’s busy waterfront, specifically the former piers that lined Pratt Street in the Inner Harbor. Painted by local artist Rosalie Mills ( née Hamblin), the scene depicts the watermelon boats that berthed near Pier 5. The painting dates to the 1950’s. The historic buildings that once lined Pratt Street, before urban renewal clearance of the 1960’s, provide the background for the scene. Hamblin’s attention to detail is quite good and calls to mind other Baltimore painters...
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1950s Ashcan School Figurative Paintings
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Oil
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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