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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Period: 1970s
Period: 1950s
1970's Large French Surrealist Oil Painting Figures on the Beach
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Surrealist composition
French School, dated 1975 verso
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 33.5 x 27 inches
canvas: 32 x 25.5 inches
inscribed verso
provenance: private collection, France
...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Barca a vela (Bel ami)
Located in Roma, RM
Franco Angeli (Roma 1935 – 1988), Barca a vela (Bel ami) (fine anni ’70)
Smalto e tecnica mista su tela di cm 70 x 50 firmato e intitolato BEL-AMI sul retro.
L’opera risulta archiv...
Category
1970s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Family Seated on a Bench at the Port
Located in London, GB
'Family Seated on a Bench at the Port', oil on board, by François Diana (circa 1970s). A painting with a very wholesome, homespun theme harks back to a more innocent time. A family i...
Category
1970s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Golf players oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Oil size 54x81 cm.
Frameless
Category
1970s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Bubblegum Girl
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Fantastic painting of a young girl blowing bubblegum. Oil on canvas, 24 x 32 inches; slightly larger in chrome frame. Signed illegibly lower right.
Category
1970s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Composition With Figures. Figurative Gouache Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Excellent work from this Indian Born (1930) artist, who moved to South Africa.
She has received International critical aclaim and her work rarely reaches the market
Reddy’s style of...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Au Port de Bordeaux
Located in Los Angeles, CA
BORIS CHEMETOV
"AU PORT DE BORDEAUX"
OIL ON CANVAN, SIGNED
FRANCE, C.1950
26 X 32 INCHES
FRAMED 33.5 X 39 INCHES
______________________________________________________
Boris C...
Category
1950s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'The Green Shoes', SF Women's College, SF Art Institute, California, Romanoff
By Inez Storer
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...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Gouache, Color Pencil
The ship oil painting fauvist spanish seascape
By Jordi Curos
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2007) - The ship
Oil on canvas cardboard.
Oil measurements 55x46 cm.
Frameless.
Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Spanish painter.
He...
Category
1970s Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Octave Denis Victor Guillonnet (1872 - 1967) Les Oliviers, oil on panel signed
Located in Paris, FR
Octave Denis Victor Guillonnet (1872 - 1967)
Les Oliviers, A landscape with olive trees
signed "EODV Guillonnet" lower right
Oil on wood panel
38 x 46 cm
Framed : 44 x 52 cm
Provena...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Warrior and His Horse Original oil and Clay on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Warrior and his Horse Greco-Roman Theme Original oil and Clay on Canvas
Rendition of an ancient warrior and his horse by a unknown but prolific painter (Africa/USA 20th C.).
Possibl...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Clay, Canvas, Oil
The barn oil painting spanish landscape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Jaume Mariné - the barn - Oil
Oil on canvas glued to board.
Oil measurements 27x35 cm.
Frame measurements 43x51 cm.
Born in Poblenou in 1935. died in 2012. He was the son of a wall ...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Grazing Cows - Farm Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Grazing cows on the California Big Sur coast, a farm landscape by J.W Ford (American, 20th Century). Signed "J.W Ford" lower right. Unframed. Image size, 16"H x...
Category
1970s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Leda and the Swan - Painting - 1978
Located in Roma, IT
Leda and the Swan is a modern artwork realized by an Anonymous artist in 1978.
Fair condition with a missing piece of paper.
Tempera and waterclor on paper.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Woodcut
" Bhukara evening" Oil cm. 69 x 59 1975 Turquoise, Uzbekistan, blue
Located in Torino, IT
Middle East landscape, , Blue and turquoise mosques Uzbekistan, Khiva
Dmitrij KOSMIN (Omsk, 1925 – Moscow, 2003)
Dmitrij Kosmin has represented the Soviet Union at the Biennale of V...
Category
1970s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Anemone Pool Abstraction
Located in Lawrence, NY
Casein on paper
Like many of his compatriots of the time, Shulman transitioned from representation to abstraction in the post-WWII period as he studied with Hans Hoffman. Yet, his wo...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Casein
A geometric Play of Masks, Eyes and Lines. Post war Expressionist. 1970's.
Located in Firenze, IT
A Geometric Play of Masks, Eyes and Lines.
Post war Expressionism.
1970's.
Patrick Boudon.
Art Informel. Ecole de Paris.
Technique: oil on canvas, very textural and colorful.
Patr...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lovely 1950s Park Painting
Located in Larchmont, NY
Untitled, 1951
Oil on canvas
19 7/8 x 24 in.
Framed: 28 1/2 x 32 1/2 x 1 1/2 in.
Signed and dated lower left
Category
1950s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Femme se Coiffant
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Georges Dayez
1907-1991
Georges Dayez was born on July 29, 1907. His father Jules was a commercial printer. In 1909, the Dayez family moved to Vaires-sur-Marne. Dayez’s father fough...
Category
1950s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Modern Impasto Oil Painting - Venice St. Mark's Basilica at Sunset
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Modern Impasto Oil Painting -- Venice at Sunset with St. Mark's Basilica
Wonderful and evocative modern painting of Venice with gondolas and St. Marks Basilica by postw...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen, Stretcher Bars
Unframed Hand Painted Buddha Shakti Thangka on Canvas 24K Gold
Located in TRUMBULL, CT
Buddha Samantabhadra (Shakti) is deep blue in color, symbolizing the sky or emptiness of mind. Samantabhadra or buddha's consort is white in color, symbolizing the aspect of the cla...
Category
1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Rare Angelic Figure by Animator Fred Mogubgub
Located in Larchmont, NY
Fred Mogubgub (American, 1928-1989)
Untitled, c. 1970s
Oil on canvas
18 1/4 x 14 x 1 in.
Signed verso
Fred Mogubgub (1928–1989) was an animator and painter who first came to attenti...
Category
1970s Pop Art 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 ...
Category
1970s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Expressionist Judaica French Israeli Modernist Art Oil Painting Rabbi, Musician
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a bright, colorful oil painting of a Hasidic Musician in the the holy city of Jerusalem, Israel
1972,
Oil on canvas,
29 X 26 inches
Hand signed and dated.
George Cheme...
Category
1970s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The sisters young women original oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Frame size 98x117 cm.
Ramon Aguilar i Moré (Barcelona, 1924-Barcelona, September 23, 2015) was a Spanish painter. His work was influenced by the expressionist movement, although...
Category
1970s Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Young naked woman with bunch of grapes
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Molded gilded wood frame
110 x 79 x 6.5 cm
Unknown monogram
Category
1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
“Untitled”
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
Self Portrait
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...
Category
1950s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Anemone Pool Abstraction
Located in Lawrence, NY
Casein on paper
Like many of his compatriots of the time, Shulman transitioned from representation to abstraction in the post-WWII period as he studied with Hans Hoffman. Yet, his wo...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Casein
"My Name is Freddie" - Portrait of Black Woman with Headscarf
By Lucille H. Olpin
Located in Soquel, CA
A beautiful, painterly portrait of a young black woman with colorful headscarf and sarong by Lucille H. Olpin (Ethel Lucille Harman Olpin), (American, 1909-1990). Signed "Olpin" lowe...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Untitled (Elevated Platform)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our current exhibition - America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s
Untitled (Elevated Platform), 1950, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right, 30 x...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“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
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
'The Green Hat', California, SF Women's College, SF Art Institute, Romanoff
By Inez Storer
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...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Gouache, Color Pencil, Paper
Le port de Sète (South of France) - Oil on canvas, 66x92 cm., framed
Located in Nice, FR
Oil on Canvas by François Desnoyer, not framed. It depictes the port at Sète, in Occitanie, France.
François Desnoyer, né à Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne) le 30 septembre 1894, et mort...
Category
1950s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
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-...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
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 ...
Category
1970s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
bullfighter and bull oil on cardboard painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Frame size 49x59 cm.
Category
1970s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
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
Oil, Canvas
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...
Category
1970s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Spanish pyrenean town oil on canvas painting landscape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Frameless.
Category
1970s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"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
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
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
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.
Category
1970s Folk Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
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
Oil, Board
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)....
Category
1970s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
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
Spanish pyrenean town oil on canvas painting landscape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Frameless.
Category
1970s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Avon River - Christ Church, New Zealand" - Mid Century Figurative Landscape
By Leon Worley
Located in Soquel, CA
"Avon River", a beautiful mid century figurative landscape of Christ Church, New Zealand by Leon Worley (American, 1909-2003). Presented in a wooden frame. Signed "Leon Worley" lower...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard, Canvas
" Mother " Child, Mother, Mother's Day oil cm 67 x 100
By Gleb Savinov
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...
Category
1970s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
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
Category
1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
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
Pipe Fitters
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Byron Gere (1898 - 1962) was active/lived in United States. Byron Gere is known for Painting.
Byron Gere. Pipe Fitters. American signed dated 1951.
It has...
Category
1950s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"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
'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
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
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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