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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Period: 18th Century
Period: 1930s
Antique Italian Grand Tour Oil Painting Figures in Arcadian Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Figures under Archway
Italian School, 18th century
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 13.5 x 16.5 inches
provenance: private collection, United Kingdom
condition: very good and sound co...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Italian Old Master Portrait Painting 18th Century Portrait of a Gentleman
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
A Venetian Gentleman
18th Century Venetian School
oil painting on board, framed
framed: 7.25 x 6 inches
board: 5.25 x 4 inches
provenance: private collection, UK
condition: some scu...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Baseball New Yorker Cover Proposal c. 1930s Yankee Stadium American Scene Modern
Located in New York, NY
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994)
Fly Ball
New Yorker cover proposal. c. 1930s
12 1/4 X 8 1/4 inches (sight)
Framed 18 X 14 inches
Gouache on board...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Original Painting. New Yorker Magazine Published 1935 American Scene Modern WPA
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting. New Yorker Magazine Published 1935 American Scene Modern WPA
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994)
Movers
New Yorker published, Se...
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Sheltering from the storm - Romantic landscape illuminated by lightning bolt -
Located in Berlin, DE
George Morland (1763 London - 1804 Brighton). Sheltering from the Storm. Oil on canvas, relined, 37.5 x 29.5 cm (visible size), 53.5 x 45.5 cm (frame), signed and dated at lower left...
Category
1790s Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Restaurant Scene
Located in Long Island City, NY
An original oil on canvas painting by African American artist, Charles Alston. Completed sometime in the 1930s, "Restaurant Scene" focuses on a crowded ...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Carlotta
Located in Washington, DC
Literature
Dorival, Bernard & Rouault, Isabelle, Rouault, L’Oeuvre peint(Monaco, 1988), vol. 2, p. 150, no. 1864 (illus.)
Executed in 1937, Carlotta belongs to a group of portraits...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tuscan Landscape - Original Oil Paint by Ottone Rosai - 1933
By Ottone Rosai
Located in Roma, IT
Tuscan Landscape is an original, outstanding painting realized by the italian artist Ottone Rosai in 1933.
Oil on cardboard.
It depicts the Tuscan Countryside, one of the favourite...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Religious Subject Oil on Canvas Italy XVIII Century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil painting on canvas. Northern Italian school of the 18th century. A peculiarity of this scene is the presentation of the characters concentrated in the lower part of the canvas, w...
Category
18th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Saint Germain" Paris Cityscape by Konstantin Korovine
Located in Soquel, CA
"Saint Germain" Paris Cityscape by Konstantin Korovine
Lively Paris street scene by Konstantin Alexievitch Korovine (Constant Korovin) (Russian, 1861-1939). In a plaza outside a large building, people are going about their daily lives. In the foreground, a woman relaxes at a table with a few apples on it. A car passes behind the woman to the left. The painting is executed in Korovine's signature style - rapid, confident strokes that evoke the character of the scene without excess detail.
Signed in the lower left corner "Constant Korovine". And Titled with date and signature,
Location and dated: "Saint Germaine, September 13, 1931", and artist's name "Constant Korovine" written in lower right corner.
Two stamps on verso (one from Douane Centrale, Paris)
Board size: 13"H x 16"W
Konstantin Alekseyevich Korovin was a leading Russian Impressionist painter.
Konstantin was born in Moscow to a merchant family officially registered as peasants of Vladimir gubernia. His father, Aleksey Mikhailovich Korovin, earned a university degree and was more interested in arts and music than in the family business established by Konstantin's grandfather. Konstantin's older brother, Sergey Korovin, was a notable realist painter. Konstantin's relative Illarion Pryanishnikov was also a prominent painter of the time and a teacher at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.
In 1875 Korovin entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, where he learned from Vasily Perov and Alexei Savrasov. His brother Sergey was already a student of the School. During their scholar years the Korovins became friends with their fellow students Valentin Serov and Isaac Levitan...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board
German Tischbein Figurative Nude Mithology Painting 18th centuryoil canvas
Located in Florence, IT
The painting–thin oil on canvas, in some parts unfinished−can be referred to the hand of the German painter Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein. It should be dated in the years between...
Category
1780s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Still Life - Original Oil on Canvas by Arturo Tosi - 1936
By Arturo Tosi
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is a beautiful original oil on Canvas realized by Arturo Tosi in 1936.
Signed lower right "A. Tosi".
Includes a beautiful coeval wooden frame cm...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fishing Harbor, Brittiny
By Hayley Lever
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right and dated 1930.
Lever’s “Fishing Harbor in Brittany” is as much a scene celebrating the boats and quaint architecture of coastal France, as it is a nod to its ...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Church Paris Oil Painting by Emil Kosa Jr.
Located in Pasadena, CA
Emil Kosa, Jr., N.A. (1903-1968) Born: Paris, France; Studied: Academy of Fine Arts (Prague), Ecole des Beaux Arts (Paris), Chouinard Art Institute (Los Angeles); Member: National Academy of Design, American Watercolor Society, California Water Color Society, Philadelphia Water Color Club, New York Water Color Club. Emil Kosa, Jr. received art instruction and music lessons at a very early age. When he was in his late teens, he had to decide between being a professional musician or artist. He chose art, but his family and instructors believed he could have been a famous musician had he chosen that occupation.
In the 1920s, he moved to California, but returned to France several times to continue his art education. He received traditional painting instruction from Pierre Laurens and studied non-objective painting with Frank Kupka. After settling in California in 1928, he worked as a mural artist and operated a business with his father that produced decorative art for churches and auditoriums. When that line of work was slow, he took on portrait commissions and sold fine art paintings through local galleries.
In the early 1930s, Kosa became friends with Millard Sheets and with Sheet’s encouragement, began aggressively pursuing a national reputation as a California watercolor artist...
Category
1930s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Composition - Original Oil Paint by Filippo De Pisis - 1938
Located in Roma, IT
Signed and dated (19)38 lower right, verso on old label "Natura Morta".
Exhibition: "Pittura e disegni di De Pisis" Galleria di Roma, December 1939, n. 12.
Bibliography: C.E. Opp...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
English mid- 20th century portrait of a Jazz Musician, circa 1930-40
Located in Woodbury, CT
Outstanding mid-20th-century portrait of a Jazz Musician.
Harold Wilfred Yates, was born at West Ham, London on 26 June 1916, son of Wilfred David Yates (7 August 1890-1 April 1958), an amateur artist who worked as a cartoonist for the trade press, and his wife Elizabeth née Biggs (7 March 1890-3 September 1959), who married at West Ham in 1915. Harold studied for 18 months at Portsmouth School of Art 1930-1931 after which he joined a commercial studio as a figure painter but became disillusioned with the disciplines and began to paint abstract works in his spare time. He exhibited with the Artists International Association and the London Gallery...
Category
1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
After Richard Westall, ‘The Fishing Party’ 19th Century Oil on Canvas
Located in London, GB
After Richard Westall, early 19th century
‘The Fishing Party’
Oil on panel; held in a period Empire style frame.
Dimensions listed refer to framed size.
Provenance: Private Colle...
Category
Late 18th Century Romantic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Heavenly Performers
Located in Austin, TX
Artist Unknown
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 16" x 13" (canvas)
22" x 19" (frame)
Framed
Category
18th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
French Countryside - Oil on Canvas by F. De Pisis - 1938
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful painting realized by De Pisis in 1938, depicting a landscape in the countryside, probably in France.
In very good conditions, it includes a beautiful gilded wooden frame.
...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Landscape - Oil on Canvas by A. Donghi - 1937
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original oil on canvas artwork realized by Antonio Donghi in 1937.
Original title: Paesaggio.
Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin.
Inclu...
Category
1930s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Knight Looking Through Glass
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Norman Rockwell painted Christmas: Knight Looking in Stained Glass Window for the December 6, 1930 cover of The Saturday Ev...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Metamorphosis of a Persecuted Star
Located in Long Island City, NY
A monumental oil painting by Benjamin Benno, American (1901 - 1980) measuring 80 x 67 inches, framed to 84 x 71 inches. Signed and dated 1938. By the early 1930s Benno had establis...
Category
1930s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait d"une Bourgeoise Parisienne
Located in Paris, FR
French Post Impressionist Portrait of Madame, an elegant portrait made before the 2nd World War showing a Parisian burgeoise lady by that time . Big dimension.
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Oil
Heavenly Phenomena
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Provenance
Private collection, Chicago, IL, 1996-present
Exhibited
Bonestell Gallery, New York, May, 1940
Museum of Modern Art, 1943 (label verso)
42.25 x 34.25 inches framed
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
The Bure Valley
By Edward Seago
Located in Missouri, MO
Edward Brian Seago (1910-1974)
"The Bure Valley" 1938
Oil on Artist's Board
Monogrammed and Dated Lower Right
Estate Stamped and Titled Verso
Panel: approx 11 x 14 inches
Framed: a...
Category
1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Illustration Board, Oil
Lillies
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting a magnificent early watercolor by American artist Robert McIntosh(1916-2010.)
Lillies, is an original watercolor on paper, signed, painted in 1936, currently unframed with an image dimension of 10.5 x 15 inches, excellent original condition, acquired directly from the personal collection of the artist.
Please contact our West Hollywood gallery...
Category
1930s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
In the Woods - Original Oil Painting by Lucie Navier - 1931
By Lucie Navier
Located in Roma, IT
In the Woods is an original painting realized by Lucie Navier in the 1931.
Original oil painting on cardboard.
Hand-signed on the lower right corner.
Very good conditions.
Col...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Marquis of Sourches and family, Large Oil Painting on Canvas by Louvre Copyist
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Marquis of Sourches and his family at the Country Concert"
After Hubert DROUAIS (1699-1767)
oil painting on canvas, late 20th century
from the studio of Dagher, Paris (read notes below), stamped verso
canvas: 61 x 50 cm (24 x 19.75 inches) unframed.
provenance: the atelier Dagher, Paris
Very fine quality large scale oil painting after the 17th century Renaissance painting by Hubert DROUAIS (1699-1767), "Marquis of Sourches and family at the Country Concert".
The painting itself dates to the late 20th century and is an original work by the world famous studio in Paris, the "Atelier Dagher". The Atelier Dagher have for 35 years been faithfully painting Old Masters copies and are one of the few artists to be authorised by the Louvre and Orsay Museums in Paris to paint in situ.
Mr Amal Dagher...
Category
18th Century Rococo Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Broken Mirror
By Ron Blumberg
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting an exceptional ealry oil painting by American artist Ron Blumberg (1908-2002).
The Broken Mirror, is an original oil on canvas, signed, dated...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Man of Wales
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Medium: Oil on Handboard
Literature:
Mabelle Glenn et al., eds., The World of Music: Song Programs for Youth; Adventure, Boston, Massachusetts, 1938, illustrated in color opp. p. 64
Douglas Allen...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
At the Market
By Vilmos Aba-Novak
Located in London, GB
VILMOS ABA-NOVAK (ABA-NOVÁK) 1894-1941
1882 - Budapest - 1941 (Hungarian)
Title: At the Market, ca. 1939
Technique: Original Signed Tempera on Board...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Tempera
La Plage
By André Lhote
Located in Los Angeles, CA
ANDRE LHOTE
"LA PLAGE"
PASTEL, SIGNED
FRANCE, C.1927
17.75 X 24 INCHES
André Lhote
1885-1962
Lhote was born in Bordeaux, France in 1885. H...
Category
1930s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Pastel
Camilla
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting a rare, early original oil painting, "Camilla", by American artist Robert McIntosh(1916-2010)
McIntosh was extremely prolific and exhibited throughout his lifetime, inclu...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Stan Spohn
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting a rare, early original oil painting, "Stan Spohn", by American artist Robert McIntosh(1916-2010)
McIntosh was extremely prolific and exhibited throughout his lifetime, ...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
New York Gymnasium
By Ron Blumberg
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting a rare painting from American artist Ron Blumbergs New York series, "New York Gymnasium", has just arrived.
Ron Blumberg was classical...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Corner Boys
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Premiering for the first time in three decades, the original paintings of American artist Maurice Green.
Born in 1908 in Latvia, Maurice Green studied with prominent artists of th...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Auto Portrait
Located in West Hollywood, CA
A rare, early original self portrait by American artist Robert McIntosh(1916-2010)
McIntosh was extremely prolific and exhibited throughout his...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Backstage
Located in West Hollywood, CA
"Backstage", is a large theatrical Art Deco painting by French artist Paul Alex Deschmacker.
The painting depicts two theater performers, one se...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Corner Barber Shop
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 academies on the west coast including both the Chouinard Art Institute and the Otis Art Institute.
The Corner Barber Shop...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mademoiselle
Located in West Hollywood, CA
A rare, early original figurative charcoal by American artist Robert McIntosh(1916-2010)
Robert McIntosh was extremely prolific and exhibited throughout his lifetime, including fi...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
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By Ron Blumberg
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting a rare, early watercolor by American artist Ron Blumberg.
"Morning in New York" is from the rarest period of the artist; an original watercolor, signed, dated 1934, off...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Le Vin Nouveau
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting a monumental oil painting by French artist Maurice Georges Poncelet, “Le Vin Nouveau” (The New Wine), is original oil on canvas, singed, dated 2931, with an image dimensio...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
"Sirenes"
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Belgian Symbolist artist Jan Frans DeBoever (1872 - 1948), created symbolist/allegorical paintings throughout his lifetime. He centralized on allegorical and literary subjects, gener...
Category
1930s Symbolist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Self Portrait in Green Shirt
By Ron Blumberg
Located in West Hollywood, CA
An early, 1940, oil on canvas by American artist Ron Blumberg.
Blumberg was classically trained at La Grande Academie Chaumiere in Paris, 1932, before moving to New York where he became a National Academy artist and a member of the Art Students League.
"Self Portrait in Green Shirt...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Art Gallery
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Clyde Frederick Kelley (1886-1965) lived and worked in New York as an illustrator before settling in San Diego in 1924. Throughout his career he specialized in figurative, genre subjects that depicted American life in the 1930s-1950??™s; his paintings mirrored the paintings of the American...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Ladies Night
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Clyde Frederick Kelley (1886-1965) lived and worked in New York as an illustrator before settling in San Diego in 1924. Throughout his career he specialized in figurative, genre subjects that depicted American life in the 1930s-1950?€™s; his paintings mirrored the paintings of the American WPA movement, yet retained a sense of expressionism.
Ladies Night...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Before the Bath
Located in West Hollywood, CA
A rare, early original self portrait by American artist Robert McIntosh(1916-2010)
Robert McIntosh was extremely prolific and exhibited throughout his lifetime, including first prize awarded at the Los Angeles County Museum in 1948.
"Before the...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Les Heures"
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Belgian Symbolist artist Jan Frans DeBoever (1872 - 1948), created symbolist/allegorical paintings throughout his lifetime. He centralized on allegorical and literary subjects, generally depicting the constant struggle of good vs. evil. This is consistently reflected by images of beautiful women interacting with skeletons, gargoyles and demons.
"Les Heures...
Category
1930s Symbolist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Surveyor
By Ron Blumberg
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Ron Blumberg was classically trained at La Grande Academie Chaumiere in Paris, 1932, before moving to New York where he became a National Academy artist and a member of the Art Stude...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Artist and Muse
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting a monumental vintage oil painting by French artist Antoine DeRoux.
“Artist and Muse” is an original oil on canvas, signed, dated 1934, with an image dimension of 37.5 ...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Crossing
By Ron Blumberg
Located in West Hollywood, CA
An early,rare oil on canvas by American artist Ron Blumberg.
Blumberg was classically trained at La Grande Academie Chaumiere in Paris, 1932, before moving to New York where he became a National Academy artist and a member of the Art Students League.
"The Crossing...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ceramic
Located in West Hollywood, CA
A rare, early original self portrait by American artist Robert McIntosh(1916-2010)
Robert McIntosh was extremely prolific and exhibited throughout his lifetime, including first pr...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Amour: Helen
Located in West Hollywood, CA
A rare, early original self portrait by American artist Robert McIntosh(1916-2010)
Robert McIntosh was extremely prolific and exhibited throughout his lifetime, including first priz...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Japanese Farm
Located in West Hollywood, CA
A rare, early original painting by American artist Robert McIntosh(1916-2010)
McIntosh was extremely prolific and exhibited throughout his lifetime, including first prize awarded at the Los Angeles County Museum in 1948.
"Japanese Farm...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
The Pink Dress
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Our Gallery acquired the estate of a Northern California artist, Thelma Terrell. Terrell lived in Oakland and was an illustrator and professional graphic artist.
"The Pink Dress...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Harrison on the Hill
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting a rare, early original oil painting, "Harrison on the Hill", by American artist Robert McIntosh(1916-2010)
McIntosh was extremely prolific and exhibited throughout his ...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Badmitten
Located in West Hollywood, CA
An exceptional WPA style oil on panel, "Badmitten", c.1938 with an image of 15 x 25.5 inches.
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Salome'
By Friedemann Hahn
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting a large original oil on canvas, "Salome;" by French artist Friedman Hahn.
"Salome'", is an original oil on canvas, signed, c.1940, with an image dimension of 46 x 27 in...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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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