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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Style: Art Deco
Style: Minimalist
R.B. FELTRAP, Oil on canvas, Nude, 1937
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas signed R.B.FELTRAP, France, 1937. Nude. With frame : 101.5x82.5 cm - 40x32.5 inches ; without frame : 92x73 cm - 36.2x28.75 inches. Format 30F. Signed and dated "R.B.Fe...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mother and Child Bathing - British Slade School 30's Art Deco nude oil painting
Located in London, GB
An intriguing 1930's Art Deco Slade School oil on canvas painting. The work depicts a mother and child bathing, surrounded by other bathers. It possibly has religious overtones. This...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Floating in pink II - figurative painting, landscape painting
Located in New York, NY
This beautiful minimalist round figurative painting by Ana is from her latest body of works.
It is acrylic on canvas, 60 cm in diameter and comes signed dated along with a certificat...
Category
2010s Minimalist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Early 20th century Red Chalk drawing of Art Deco nude women with Bob hair style
Located in Woodbury, CT
Davis Kemp
Early 20th century Red Chalk drawing of Art Deco nude women with Bob hair style.
Very well drawn nude study of two women from 1928 in t...
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk
Alexandria
By Buckley MacGurrin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
BUCKLEY MACGURRIN
"ALEXANDRIA"
OIL ON CANVAS, SIGNED, TITLED
AMERICAN, DATED 1949
EXHIBITED: DALZELL-HATFIELD GALLERY
14 X 20 INCHES
Buckley MacGurrin
1896 –1971
Buckley MacG...
Category
1940s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Early 20th century Red Chalk drawing of Art Deco nude women with Bob hair style
Located in Woodbury, CT
Davis Kemp
Early 20th century Red Chalk drawing of Art Deco nude women with Bob hair style.
Very well drawn nude study of two women from 1928 in t...
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk
DOGGY
By Angel Rivas
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
+ 5cm / 2inches of white edge
Acrylic on canvas
Shipped rolled in a tube
I can do commissioned works
Category
2010s Minimalist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Permanent Marker
MINIMAL ANIMAL
By Angel Rivas
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Markers & acrylic on paper
Shipped well protected, unframed
Category
2010s Minimalist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Permanent Marker
Regattas day (a tribute to Seurat). Large format Riverside scene with figures.
Located in Segovia, ES
Reggatas day (tribute to Seurat), by Fabio Hurtado, is an oil painting on canvas which was created in 1995 and which obtained the Honorary Medal at the C...
Category
1990s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Floating in turquoise - figurative painting, landscape painting
Located in New York, NY
This beautiful minimalist round figurative painting by Ana is from her latest body of works.
It is acrylic on canvas, 60 cm in diameter and comes signed dated along with a certificat...
Category
2010s Minimalist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Chroma sky (Blue key) 12 - Contemporary, Landscape, Light Blue, Pastel, Clouds
Located in Berlin, DE
Chroma sky (Blue key) 12, 2007
Acrylic and oil on canvas
(Signed on reverse)
23.62 H x 31.49 W in
60 H x 80 W cm
The artist wrote about how he conceives this work:
"The transform...
Category
Early 2000s Minimalist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Oil, Canvas
The wedding - Painting Blue Green Grey Brown Orange Yellow White Black
Located in Sofia, BG
"The wedding" is a painting by Maestro Edele Bessy - MABILLOT GRANDJEAN GENEVIEVE
The painting is unframed.
Her paintings bring emotion of happiness, love, energy and beauty represented by the vast creative power of her talent.”
Dear art lovers,
if you like the art of maestro Bessy, please click the link to follow this artist and art gallery Snow Pearl to discover all our artists and beautiful artworks.
Thank you so much! we appreciate your interest to our work.
Maestro Edele Bessy was born on August 7, 1946. Self-taught painter since 1982. At first she mainly worked in miniature on ivory, which she then abandoned in favor of oil painting.
New beings appear unconsciously on his canvases taking on the dimension of a wandering crowd, mostly women whose eyes arise and challenge us with ever so much acuity.
Maestro Bessy paints in a very personal, constantly evolving style.
Maestro MABILLOT GRANDJEAN GENEVIEVE - ADELE BESSY
Awards :
Prix de Peinture du Salon de Beauchamp 2023
Médaille du Conseil Départemental de Bourg la Reine 2023
Prix de peinture Salon des Amis des Arts de Chaville 2022
Prix de peinture Salon des beaux-arts de Boulogne-Billancourt 2022
2ème Prix de Peinture Salon de Chablis 2022
Prix de la ville Salon du SPAM Pontoise 2021
Grand Prix de Peinture de SEMEAC 2021
Prix du Jury indépendant Etampes 2021
Prix du conseiller Départemental Salon de Croissy sur seine 2019
Médaille de la ville de St Maurice...
Category
2010s Minimalist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Summer - figurative painting, landscape painting
Located in New York, NY
This beautiful minimalist round figurative painting by Ana is from her latest body of works.
It is acrylic on canvas, 60 cm in diameter and comes signed dated along with a certificat...
Category
2010s Minimalist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
BIRD / HEAD
By Angel Rivas
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Markers & acrylic on paper
Shipped well protected, unframed
Category
2010s Minimalist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Permanent Marker
BIRD & SNAKE
By Angel Rivas
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Marker on paper
Shipped well protected, unframed
I can do commissioned work of any technique, style and size, contact us without obligation
i can ship several drawings together if ...
Category
2010s Minimalist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Permanent Marker
MINIMAL ANIMAL
By Angel Rivas
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Markers & acrylic on paper
Shipped well protected, unframed
Category
2010s Minimalist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Permanent Marker
Arabian Nights - Guard and Sitting King - Islamic Golden Age - Gustaf Tenggren
By Gustaf Tenggren
Located in Miami, FL
One Thousand and One Nights - It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights. What is notable about this work is how magnificently composed, designed, and rendered it is. Its l...
Category
1950s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
MINIMAL FACE
By Angel Rivas
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
+ 5cm / 2inches of white edge
Acrylic on canvas
Shipped rolled in a tube
I can do commissioned works
Category
2010s Minimalist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Permanent Marker
Floating in pink I - figurative painting, landscape painting
Located in New York, NY
This beautiful minimalist round figurative painting by Ana is from her latest body of works.
It is acrylic on canvas, 60 cm in diameter and comes signed dated along with a certificat...
Category
2010s Minimalist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Tribute to Felicie Painting Blue Green Grey Brown Orange Yellow White Black
Located in Sofia, BG
"Tribute to Felicie" is a painting by Maestro Edele Bessy - MABILLOT GRANDJEAN GENEVIEVE
The painting is unframed.
Her paintings bring emotion of happiness, love, energy and beauty represented by the vast creative power of her talent.”
Dear art lovers,
if you like the art of maestro Bessy, please click the link to follow this artist and art gallery Snow Pearl to discover all our artists and beautiful artworks.
Thank you so much! we appreciate your interest to our work.
Maestro Edele Bessy was born on August 7, 1946. Self-taught painter since 1982. At first she mainly worked in miniature on ivory, which she then abandoned in favor of oil painting.
New beings appear unconsciously on his canvases taking on the dimension of a wandering crowd, mostly women whose eyes arise and challenge us with ever so much acuity.
Maestro Bessy paints in a very personal, constantly evolving style.
Maestro MABILLOT GRANDJEAN GENEVIEVE - ADELE BESSY
Awards :
Prix de Peinture du Salon de Beauchamp 2023
Médaille du Conseil Départemental de Bourg la Reine 2023
Prix de peinture Salon des Amis des Arts de Chaville 2022
Prix de peinture Salon des beaux-arts de Boulogne-Billancourt 2022
2ème Prix de Peinture Salon de Chablis 2022
Prix de la ville Salon du SPAM Pontoise 2021
Grand Prix de Peinture de SEMEAC 2021
Prix du Jury indépendant Etampes 2021
Prix du conseiller Départemental Salon de Croissy sur seine 2019
Médaille de la ville de St Maurice...
Category
2010s Minimalist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
MADELEINE (ORIGINAL GOUCHE)
By Erté
Located in Aventura, FL
Unique, one of a kind original gouache on paper from Harper's Bazar series. Hand signed lower front by Erte; titled top front with studio catalog number on verso. Sheet size 10.7...
Category
1950s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Lucien Victor Guirand de Scevola (1871-1950) A bunch of flowers, oil on canvas
Located in Paris, FR
Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scevola (1871-1950)
A Bunch of flowers
Oil on on canvas
Signed upper left
38 x 46 cm
In a nice modern frame : 53 x 61 cm
Lucien...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Study for Marjanah
Located in Buffalo, NY
A beautiful art deco portrait by well listed American Ashcan School artist Alexander Oscar Levy. This piece was featured in the American Art Review article about the Levy retrospect...
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Jonah before Nineveh
By David Sharir
Located in Jerusalem, IL
The art of David Sharir draws upon many elements. He has found inspiration from such forms of art as the calligraphy of Torah scribes, medieval Hebrew manuscripts...
Category
1960s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Au Cafe
By Francois Chabrier
Located in Los Angeles, CA
FRANCOIS CHABRIER
“”AU CAFE"
OIL ON CANVAS, SIGNED
FRANCE, C.1960
32.5 X 39.5 INCHES
Framed 41 x 48 inches.
François Chabrier
Born 1916
François Chabrier was born in 1916 in Bel...
Category
1960s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Arnau - figurative painting, landscape painting
Located in New York, NY
This beautiful minimalist figurative painting by Ana is from her latest body of works.
It is acrylic on canvas and comes signed dated along with a certificate of authenticity.
"I pai...
Category
2010s Minimalist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Life Magazine Art Deco Showgirls Cartoon
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Barbara Shermund (1899-1978). Showgirls Cartoon for Life Magazine, 1934. Ink, watercolor and gouache on heavy illustration paper, matting window measures 16.5 x 13 inches; sheet measures 19 x 15 inches; Matting panel measures 20 x 23 inches. Signed lower right. Very good condition with discoloration and toning in margins. Unframed.
Provenance: Ethel Maud Mott Herman, artist (1883-1984), West Orange NJ.
For two decades, she drew almost 600 cartoons for The New Yorker with female characters that commented on life with wit, intelligence and irony.
In the mid-1920s, Harold Ross, the founder of a new magazine called The New Yorker, was looking for cartoonists who could create sardonic, highbrow illustrations accompanied by witty captions that would function as social critiques.
He found that talent in Barbara Shermund.
For about two decades, until the 1940s, Shermund helped Ross and his first art editor, Rea Irvin, realize their vision by contributing almost 600 cartoons and sassy captions with a fresh, feminist voice.
Her cartoons commented on life with wit, intelligence and irony, using female characters who critiqued the patriarchy and celebrated speakeasies, cafes, spunky women and leisure. They spoke directly to flapper women of the era who defied convention with a new sense of political, social and economic independence.
“Shermund’s women spoke their minds about sex, marriage and society; smoked cigarettes and drank; and poked fun at everything in an era when it was not common to see young women doing so,” Caitlin A. McGurk wrote in 2020 for the Art Students League.
In one Shermund cartoon, published in The New Yorker in 1928, two forlorn women sit and chat on couches. “Yeah,” one says, “I guess the best thing to do is to just get married and forget about love.”
“While for many, the idea of a New Yorker cartoon conjures a highbrow, dry non sequitur — often more alienating than familiar — Shermund’s cartoons are the antithesis,” wrote McGurk, who is an associate curator and assistant professor at Ohio State University’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. “They are about human nature, relationships, youth and age.” (McGurk is writing a book about Shermund.
And yet by the 1940s and ’50s, as America’s postwar focus shifted to domestic life, Shermund’s feminist voice and cool critique of society fell out of vogue. Her last cartoon appeared in The New Yorker in 1944, and much of her life and career after that remains unclear. No major newspaper wrote about her death in 1978 — The New York Times was on strike then, along with The Daily News and The New York Post — and her ashes sat in a New Jersey funeral home...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache
Art Deco Female Nude By George J. Illian
Located in Norwood, NJ
Female nude by George John Illian (1894-1932), American exhibited at the Salmagundi Club Annual Exhibition. George John Illian born in 1894 and was largely inspired by the 1900s and ...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Art Deco Fantasy Charcoal Drawing Lithograph Print by Adolf Uzarski
Located in Atlanta, GA
This stunning charcoal drawing lithograph print on paper depicting a fanciful lion kidnapping a young woman was designed by Adolf Uzarski (1885-1970), a German artist. This drawing i...
Category
1910s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Landscape - figurative painting, landscape painting
Located in New York, NY
This beautiful minimalist figurative painting by Ana is from her latest body of works.
It is acrylic on canvas and comes signed dated along with a certificate of authenticity.
"I pai...
Category
2010s Minimalist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Punta de flecha - figurative painting, landscape painting
Located in New York, NY
This beautiful minimalist figurative painting by Ana is from her latest body of works.
It is acrylic on canvas and comes signed dated along with a certificate of authenticity.
"I pai...
Category
2010s Minimalist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Duet #3, Large Art Deco Painting by Erik Freyman
By Erik Freyman
Located in Long Island City, NY
"Duet #3" is an original painting on canvas measuring 48 x 36 inches by Erik Freyman. The artist is best known for his 80's style which draws heavily on Art Deco and Cubism.
Frey...
Category
1980s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Minimalist painting on paper
Located in New York, NY
Lyman Kipp
Minimalist painting on paper, 1970
ink roller and oil paint on paper
Signed and dated by the artist on the front
Frame Included
Unique oi...
Category
1970s Minimalist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Ink
"F*ck Bunny" Mixed Media Painting 65" x 44" inch by Ben Cope
By Ben Cope
Located in Culver City, CA
"F*ck Bunny" Mixed Media Painting 65" x 44" inch by Ben Cope
2023
Mixed media oil on wood
Ben Cope is a Georgia native graduating from Columbus State University with a BFA in cer...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Wood Panel
TOGETHER
By Angel Rivas
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Marker on paper
Shipped well protected, unframed
I can do commissioned work of any technique, style and size, contact us without obligation
i can ship several drawings together if ...
Category
2010s Minimalist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Permanent Marker
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity.
Category
1950s Minimalist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Peace Message
Located in Singapore, SG
This painting sends a message to the world to maintain peace for the welfare of mankind. There is the figure of a woman who is standing alone with her eyes staring at the future, on ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
'Ginette', French Art Deco Portrait
Located in Cotignac, FR
French oil on canvas portrait of a young beauty by Charles Alexandre René Picart Le Doux. Signed and dated bottom right. There is an exhibition label with number and title 'Ginette' ...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Grandma's garden - landscape painting, minimalist painting
Located in New York, NY
This beautiful landscape painting by Olga is part of her recent body of works.
Olga is mostly engaged in painting and illustration. She likes breaking the rules of proper reflecting of nature with the use of unexpected elements from another universe. Her works are minimalistic in the form, simply elegant and gracefully colorful.
Olga Szczechowska...
Category
2010s Minimalist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The Sophisticate
Located in West Hollywood, CA
We are proud to have recently discovered, “The Sophisticate”, by American artist Alexander Rosenfeld.
Rosenfeld was classically trained in fine ...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mayan, Large 20th Century Watercolor, Viktor Schreckengost
Located in Beachwood, OH
Viktor Schreckengost (American, 1906-2008)
Mayan
Watercolor heightened with gouache over pencil on paper
Signed lower right
39 x 29 inches
45.5 x 35.5 inches, framed
Registered with The Viktor Schreckengost foundation, stock no. 6891
The son of a commercial potter in Sebring, Ohio, Viktor Schreckengost learned the craft of sculpting in clay from his father. In the mid-1920s, he enrolled at the Cleveland School of Art (now the Cleveland Institute of Art, or CIA) to study cartoon making, but after seeing an exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art he changed his focus to ceramics. Upon graduation in 1929, he studied ceramics in Vienna, Austria, where he began to build a reputation, not only for his art, but also as a jazz saxophonist. A year later, at the age of 25, he became the youngest faculty member at the CIA. In 1931, Schreckengost won the first of several awards for excellence in ceramics at the Cleveland Museum of Art, and his works were shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, and elsewhere.
By the mid-1930s, Schreckengost had begun to pursue his interest in industrial design. For American Limoges...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Leda and the Swan, 20th Century Art Deco Signed Oil
By Arthur Moody
Located in London, GB
Arthur Moody
Flourished 1920 - 1940
Leda and the Swan
Oil on board
Signed lower left and dated 1925
Image size: 15 × 8 inches (33.5 x 54 cm)
Gilt frame
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Fisherman's Wife
Located in Singapore, SG
The weary figure of the fisherman's wife has her eyes closed as she waits for the return of her husband. Something is troubling her. She hopes that her husband will bring home an abu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
BEYLA (ORIGINAL GOUCHE)
By Erté
Located in Aventura, FL
Unique, one of a kind original gouache on paper from Harper's Bazar series. Hand signed lower front by Erte; titled top front with studio catalog number on verso.
Sheet size 10.7...
Category
1950s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
No title
Located in Barcelona, ES
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity.
Category
1950s Minimalist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Elisabeth, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
My work is about dealing with the real world and above all using the images that surround us in everyday life. I often search for the unexpected. An ironic turn to images or things y...
Category
2010s Minimalist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Futurist Vision - Mid-Century New York Skyline - Industrial Progress
Located in Miami, FL
Rarely do you come across a work of art that is vastly different than just about anything you see. This work is undeniably brilliant and a sheer pleasure to behold. Alexander Leydenfrost...
Category
1950s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Charcoal, Graphite, Board
Semi Nude Contemporary Painting Of A Woman Sitting On The Chair
By Urszula Tekieli
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Semi Nude Contemporary Painting Of A Woman Sitting On The Chair
Dianthus Caryophyllus
Semi nude with red cornation flower, framed.
Urszula Tekieli was born ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage 1940’s Circus Acrobat Oil on Canvas Painting. Unique modern style.
Located in Baltimore, MD
This is a highly stylized circus acrobat scene. Done “en grissille” or shades of grey, it portrays an acrobat on a trapeze high above the crowd, abstractly shown lower right. The stark composition, enhanced by the theatrical lighting...
Category
1940s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Coffee Peloton XXXV, Cycling Art, Sports Art, Figurative Painting, Bright Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Coffee Peloton XXXV is an original coffee on paper drawing by artist Eliza Southwood. This piece is a part of Eliza's coffee peloton series which combines the love of cycling with th...
Category
2010s Minimalist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Coffee
Family 2 - Contemporary Minimalistic Figurative Oil Painting, Realism, Beach
Located in Salzburg, AT
Artodyssey
"Julita Malinowska's paintings belong to those, which once seen - are never forgotten. The open spaces, sometimes cool and bright, at other times heavily saturated with co...
Category
2010s Minimalist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Long View, Abstract Figurative Art, Art Deco Painting, Statement Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Paul Emmerson original artwork abstract ….impressionist…. pattern
Painting with acrylic on board with collage using Venilia, Flock and Newsprint
Paul Emmerson is available online and in our gallery with Wychwood Art...
Category
2010s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Coffee Peloton XXXIV, Figurative Sports Painting, Cycling Painting, Coffee Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Coffee Peloton XXXV is an original signed coffee painting on paper by Eliza Southwood featuring a group of cyclists racing. This piece is a part of Eliza's coffee peloton series whic...
Category
2010s Minimalist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Coffee
House 3 - landscape painting, minimalist painting
Located in New York, NY
This beautiful landscape painting by Olga is part of her recent body of works.
Olga is mostly engaged in painting and illustration. She likes breaking the rules of proper reflecting of nature with the use of unexpected elements from another universe. Her works are minimalistic in the form, simply elegant and gracefully colorful.
Olga Szczechowska (born 1987, Radom, Poland) — graduate of Painting and Cultural Studies at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun (Poland); lives and works in Warsaw...
Category
2010s Minimalist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
House 1 - landscape painting, minimalist painting
Located in New York, NY
This beautiful landscape painting by Olga is part of her recent body of works.
Olga is mostly engaged in painting and illustration. She likes breaking the rules of proper reflecting of nature with the use of unexpected elements from another universe. Her works are minimalistic in the form, simply elegant and gracefully colorful.
Olga Szczechowska...
Category
2010s Minimalist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Vintage Chinese Cigarette Advertisement Poster, c. 1930
Located in Chicago, IL
This poster from the 1930s draws from a well known Chinese opera scene. It melds the meticulous detail of traditional Chinese painting with the craft of color lithography. These advertisements, influenced by the Art Deco movement in the west, recall the economic boom of early 20th century Shanghai, an international center of business and trade. Layered with imagery of traditional Chinese life, the poster is nonetheless an advertisement for the modern cigarette industry, with several tobacco brands displayed in the top left corner, including Lan Ting, Hong Chun, and Jade Rabbit...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
City Street: Fifth Avenue
By Ron Blumberg
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting a just discovered oil painting from the earliest period, c.1932, of American artist Ron Blumberg.
After completing his fine art studies art at La Grande Academie Chaumier...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Golfers 13, Figurative Painting, Original Sports Art, Golfing Artwork
Located in Deddington, GB
With golfing as one of the favourite pastime of urban city life, golfers became the latest subject of my Lowry style paintings. Golfers appear to be randomly scattered on the crisp w...
Category
2010s Minimalist 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.
Browse an extensive collection of figurative paintings on 1stDibs.