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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Style: Post-Impressionist
Style: Academic
Diane's Garden
Located in Miami, FL
Diane's Garden is a painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist. This piece is a part of a flower series, defined by their distinct bright colors, satiny, silky,...
Category
1970s Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Orchestra
Located in Miami, FL
Orchestra is a colorful painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist. The artist uses bright colors in this expressionist painting to show how she feels the music...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
May Valley
Located in Miami, FL
May Valley is a colorful painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist, while she was in Seychelles for art residency. The artist uses bright green tons colors in ...
Category
1980s Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Carroussel
Located in Miami, FL
Carroussel is a painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist. This piece is a part of a flower series, defined by their distinct bright colors, satiny, silky, vib...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Iris conversation
Located in Miami, FL
Iris conversation is a painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist. This piece is a part of a flower series, defined by their distinct bright colors, satiny, sil...
Category
1990s Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Exotic Sunshine
Located in Miami, FL
Exotic Sunshine is a painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist. This piece is a part of a flower series, defined by their distinct bright colors, satiny, silky...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Seated Nude with Flowers', Woman Artist, Salon d'Automne, Paris, LACMA
By Janet Ament
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Inscribed, verso, 'Janet Ament' (American, 1916-2000), titled 'Pink Figures' and painted circa 1955. Accompanied by certificate of authenticity.
A substantial figurative oil of a p...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Tulips
Located in Miami, FL
Tulips is a painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist. This piece is a part of a flower series, defined by their distinct bright colors, satiny, silky, vibrati...
Category
1990s Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Girl in a Hat - Late 20th Century Figurative Sketch by Roy Petley
By Roy Petley
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Roy Petley (born 3 April 1950 ) is a British painter.
Petley paints en plein air to depict the wide expanse of English beaches and the gentle allure of Venetian landscapes. His work...
Category
1980s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Mixed Media
Lady Degas-Ga
Located in PARIS, FR
Original and unique painting by contemporary french artist Thierry Bruet.
Oil on canvas. Anachronistic artwork created by Thierry Bruet.
Category
2010s Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cotton Canvas
Vintage post-impressionist painting of a ballerina, figurative interior scene
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Stunning large heavy vintage oil painting of an interior scene with a woman sat looking out of a window. The detail on this painting is amazing. A ballerina, perhaps ready for an e...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sextet by Lesley Powell, Framed Lemon Still Life Oil on Linen with Green
Located in Atlanta, GA
Unframed this piece measures 12"H x 16"W
Lesley Powell paints in oils with a classical approach to composition and color, but she has a point of view that is fresh and contemporary....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Boulevard Bonne Nouvelle By Edouard Léon Cortès
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edouard Léon Cortès
1882-1969 French
Boulevard Bonne Nouvelle
Signed “Edouard Cortès” (lower right)
Oil on canvas
French Post-Impressionist artist Edouard Léon Cortès captures on...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Women on the Beach
By Ruth Shively
Located in New York, NY
figurative, women, beach scene
Oil and Charcoal on Linen
Category
2010s Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Charcoal, Oil
Corpus Christi II
Located in PARIS, FR
Original and unique painting by contemporary french artist Thierry Bruet.
Oil on canvas, 2024.
#arthistory
Reinterpretation of Titian's "The Entombment...
Category
2010s Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Vintage impressionist oil painting of a woman by Pio Santini
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Vintage impressionist oil portrait painting of a young woman by Pio Santini (1908-1986), signed bottom right. A textured oil on canvas with vigorous impasto enforced brush and knif...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tableau de Chasse
Located in PARIS, FR
Original and unique painting by contemporary french artist Thierry Bruet.
Oil on canvas. Anachronistic artwork created by Thierry Bruet.
Category
2010s Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Bears Hunting
Located in PARIS, FR
Original and unique painting by contemporary french artist Thierry Bruet.
Oil on canvas.
Anachronistic artwork created by Thierry Bruet, inspired by a pa...
Category
2010s Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Petite Mendiante By William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Located in New Orleans, LA
William Bouguereau
French 1825-1905
Petite Mendiante
(Little Beggar)
Signed “W. Bouguereau 1880” (center left)
Oil on canvas
William Bouguereau's faithful images of young women a...
Category
19th Century Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Au Bord Du Ruisseau By William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Located in New Orleans, LA
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
1825-1905 French
Au Bord du Ruisseau
Signed and dated “W-Bouguereau-1888” (upper left)
Oil on Canvas
“Bouguereau’s paintings of children allowed for th...
Category
19th Century Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Toutou
Located in PARIS, FR
Original and unique painting by contemporary french artist Thierry Bruet.
Oil on canvas.
Anachronistic artwork created by Thierry Bruet, inspired by a pa...
Category
2010s Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Devant Le Restaurant De La Paix By Kees Van Dongen
Located in New Orleans, LA
Kees van Dongen
1877-1968 Dutch-French
Devant le Restaurant de la Paix
(In front of Restaurant de la Paix)
Oil on canvas
Signed "Van Dongen” (lower right)
This dazzling work of a...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nu dans un miroir - Post Impressionist Figurative Oil Painting by Othon Friesz
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed figure in interior oil on canvas circa 1920 by French post impressionist painter Achille-Emile Othon Friesz. The piece depicts a woman standing at...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Water Under the Bridge by Lesley Powell, Oil Parisian Scene with Bridge
Located in Atlanta, GA
Lesley Powell paints in oils with a classical approach to composition and color, but she has a point of view that is fresh and contemporary. Whenever possible, she prefers to paint f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Keith Acting
Located in PARIS, FR
Original and unique painting by contemporary french artist Thierry Bruet.
Oil on canvas.
This anachronistic work is inspired by a fusion of the works of the Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo...
Category
2010s Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cotton Canvas
Red
Located in PARIS, FR
Original and unique painting by contemporary french artist Thierry Bruet.
Oil on canvas.
Anachronistic artwork created by Thierry Bruet, inspired by a pa...
Category
2010s Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cotton Canvas
Light on the water large colorful Impressionist landscape with Monet-like irises
Located in Norwich, GB
It is probably those irises in the foreground that always make me think of Monet's garden when I look at this landscape! Just like he Master's late work, it is so impressionist that ...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Cadaques Spain oil painting seascape landscape spanish
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Rafael Duran Benet (1931-2015) - Cadaques - Oil on canvas laid board
Oil measurements 46x55 cm.
Frameless.
Rafael Duran Benet (Terrassa, 1931 - Barcelona, 2015) is a Catalan painter...
Category
Early 2000s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Board
Montmartre
Located in LE HAVRE, FR
Lyne SEYBEL (1919-2009)
Montmatre
Oil on canvas
Size: 65 x 46 cm
Signed lower right
In perfect state of conservation.
Without frame
Provenance: Family of the artist
Painting sold ...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Le Jardin D'Eden - Post Impressionist Oil, Nudes in Landscape by Paul E Gernez
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
A wonderful oil on canvas circa 1920 by French post impressionist painter Paul Elie Gernez depicting nude figures in the garden of eden.
Signature:
S...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The New Church and Old Houses in the Hague
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"The New Church and Old Houses in the Hague" is an oil on canvas on cardboard painting made by Vincent van Gogh, c. 1883. The painting size is 13 5/8 x 9 3/4 inches. The framed size ...
Category
Late 19th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cardboard, Oil
1930's French Oil Portrait Atmospheric Moody Atmosphere Lady in Black Dress
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Jean La Forgue (French 1901-1975)
oil on unstretched canvas, unframed
painting: 24 x 19 inches
provenance: the artists estate, France
condition: the painting is on unstretched canvas...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Buzzy French Cafe Outside Scene 20th Century French Impressionist Signed Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The French Cafe
signed oil on canvas stuck on board, framed
framed: 13 x 9.5 inches
canvas: 9.5 x 6.5 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: very good and sound co...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Poitillist (Pointillism) Northern Landscape, 1913
Located in Stockholm, SE
Anders Loman (1879–1953) Sweden
Northern Landscape, 1913
oil on canvas
signed and dated And.Loman 1913
canvas dimensions
framed 67.5 x 120 cm
unframed 56.5 x 109 cm
Essay:
In the realm of early 20th-century Swedish art, Anders Loman may not have been the most widely recognized name, yet his talent is evident in this painting that echo both traditional Scandinavian motifs and avant-garde techniques.
"Northern Landscape" from 1913 is a prime example of this juxtaposition. At first glance, the canvas is dominated by imposing evergreens in the foreground. Their detail is painstakingly rendered, providing a stark contrast to the background. Beyond these trees lies a tranquil lake and distant mountains, but it is here that Loman's boldness in technique is most apparent. Inspired by the Pointillism movement, the background is rendered using short brush strokes, with the waters shimmering in shades of pink and lilac, and the mountains painted...
Category
1910s Pointillist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Colorful Torero - Original Oil on Canvas, Signed and Framed
Located in Paris, FR
Pierre AMBROGIANI
Colorful Torero
Original oil on canvas
Signed bottom right
On canvas 38 x 46 cm (c. 15 x 18 in)
Presented in a golden wood frame 50 x 58 cm (c. 20 x 23 in)
Very g...
Category
Mid-20th Century Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Jeune Fille Pensive (Pensive Girl)" colorful interior portrait of a woman
Located in Austin, TX
A Post Impressionistic interior scene similar to the works of Matisse, painted by Albert Bertalan (1899 - 1957, Hungarian). The picture features a colorful home interior rendered wi...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Spring' Impressionist Oil Painting of a Street Scene
Located in Rye, NY
Duong Viet Nam is a Vietnamese contemporary artist known for his Post-Impressionistic style of painting. He often captures city scenes during busy parts of the day. In his paintings...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Hanoi Style' Impressionist Painting
Located in Rye, NY
Duong Viet Nam is a Vietnamese contemporary artist known for his Post-Impressionistic style of painting. He often captures city scenes during busy parts of the day. In his paintings...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Tête de paysanne à la coiffe blanche by Vincent van Gogh
Located in New Orleans, LA
Vincent van Gogh
1853-1890 Dutch
Tête de paysanne à la coiffe blanche
Oil on canvas laid down on panel
A striking and evocative example of Vincent van Gogh’s early portraiture, Tête de paysanne à la coiffe blanche showcases the artists’ powerful ability to capture both the likeness and the essence of his sitters. Rendered in thick, deliberate brushstrokes, van Gogh paints his sitter with an unbroken forward gaze. The composition's tertiary palette conjures a dimly lit evening setting, accentuating the dramatic lighting of the subject's solemn face. The woman’s white headpiece...
Category
19th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Panel
French Village Landscape, Trees and The Square, Gassin.
Located in Cotignac, FR
An important oil on canvas village landscape, probably Gassin in the South of France, by noted Dutch painter Willem Anthonie 'Wim' Oepts. The painting carries the atelier stamp botto...
Category
Mid-20th Century Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Tornado by Swedish Artist Pelle Swedlund, Early 1900s, Oil on Canvas
Located in Stockholm, SE
We have a stunning painting by the Swedish artist Pelle Swedlund (1865-1947) that is available for sale. The painting depicts a dramatic scene with a to...
Category
1910s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
PIERRE GRISOT, (1911 - 1995) “At The Cafe” Post Impressionist
By Pierre Grisot
Located in Holywell, GB
“At The Cafe”
An elegant painting of a young woman in a cafe by Pierre Grisot. Grisot was a French post-Impressionist artist who took his inspiration from the Parisian School of art...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled (Crucifixion on the Battlefield)
Located in Cliffside Park, NJ
One of the most successful illustrators of the early 20th century Dean Cornwell
Untitled (Crucifixion on the Battlefield)
initialed DC (center left), oil on canvas, framed
canvas: 33...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Le miroir Vénitien by André Brasilier
Located in New Orleans, LA
André Brasilier
B. 1929 French
Le miroir Vénitien
Signed "André Brasilier" (lower right)
Oil and pencil on canvas
Quiet and contemplative, French a...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Pencil
"Repose in Viridian" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Suchitra Bhosle's "Repose in Viridian" is an original, hand made oil painting that depicts a feminine model in a white dress reclining on a background ...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Spinning Yarn in the Harem by Rudolf Ernst
By Rudolf Ernst
Located in New Orleans, LA
Rudolf Ernst
1854-1932 Austrian
Spinning Yarn
Signed and dated “R. Ernst 86” (lower right)
Oil on panel
Austro-French Orientalist painter Rudolf Ernst showcases his aptitude for the genre in this skillfully executed oil on panel. In it, two exotically dressed...
Category
19th Century Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
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
Boats in Mediterranean Harbour Large 20thC French Post Impressionist Signed Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Mediterranean Harbour
by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
signed lower corner
inscribed verso
oil painting on canvas, framed
framed: 32 x 40 inches
canvas: 24 x 32 inches
Very ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"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
Evening - Post Impressionist Divisionist Oil Figures in Landscape - Henri Martin
By Henri Martin
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Stunning divisionist oil on panel circa 1895 by sought after French post impressionist painter Henri Martin. The work depicts a worker in a field re...
Category
1890s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Makeup by Jacob Lawrence
Located in New Orleans, LA
Jacob Lawrence
1917-2000 American
Makeup
Signed (lower right)
Tempera on board
Inspired by the famed Apollo Theatre in Harlem, Jacob Lawrence’s mast...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Tempera
Le carnaval du sage by René Magritte
Located in New Orleans, LA
René Magritte
1898-1967 Belgian
Le carnaval du sage
(The Sage’s Carnival)
Signed “Magritte” (lower right); titled and dated "Le carnaval du sage 1947" (en verso)
Oil on canvas
The enigmatic paintings of René Magritte have become some of the most familiar and celebrated of the Surrealist movement. Among the most influential of the Surrealist painters of the 20th century, Magritte is an artist of international renown, as beloved for his popular appeal as he is for the psychological intensity of his works. The present oil on canvas, entitled Le carnaval du sage, was executed in 1947 at the height of his career, and it is a tour-de-force example of the haunting, mysterious scenes that comprise his oeuvre.
Painted in the years following the Second World War, Le carnaval du sage showcases several recurring themes from Magritte’s oeuvre. Chiefly, a juxtaposition between the visible and the hidden is keenly felt. Throughout his career, Magritte explores the psychological obsession with revealing what is hidden, particularly with regard to the human face. In his Le fils de l’homme, he obscures the face of a man in a bowler hat with an apple, while his Les amants (Metropolitan Museum of Art) conceals the faces of two lovers with white sheets. In Le carnaval du sage, Magritte juxtaposes the blatant nudity of his central figure by masking her face, simultaneously revealing and concealing her from the viewer.
The work also incorporates two of Magritte’s most common tropes – the glass of water and the baguette. Lending the scene a strange sense of domesticity, they appear infinitely familiar and distinctly out of place, and thus heighten the uncanny effect of Magritte’s composition. In the background hovers a ghost obscured by a sheet, a figure which was of particular fascination to Magritte beginning in 1946. He once wrote to his fellow Surrealist Paul Nougé: "I saw in a dream an answer to the problem of the ghost: the traditional ghost draped...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"The Clown", 20th Century Gouache on Cardboard by Spanish Artist Celso Lagar
By Celso Lagar
Located in Madrid, ES
CELSO LAGAR
Spanish, 1891 - 1966
THE CLOWN
signed and dated "Lagar 52" (lower right)
gouache on cardboard
10-5/8 x 8 inches (27 x 20.5 cm.)
PROVENANCE
Private French Collector
Cel...
Category
1950s Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Gouache
Snowy Village - Post Impressionist Oil, Winter Landscape by Victor Charreton
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
A wonderful oil on board circa 1920 by sought after French post impressionist painter Victor Charreton, who was known as the painter of colours. The piece depicts a figure walking th...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Double Portrait of King Frederik IV and Queen Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow of D
Located in New Orleans, LA
When viewed straight on, this "turning picture" by French artist Gaspar Antoine de Bois-Clair appears to be a disorganized collection of painted facial features and wooden slats. However, when viewed at an angle from either side, two separate images are revealed — portraits of Frederik IV and Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, the King and Queen of Denmark. A wonder of both portraiture and trompe l'oeil, this work demonstrates the artist's skill in rendering intriguing visual effects.
An impressive exercise in representing depth and 3-dimensionality in painting, the work is executed on a series of triangularly-cut strips of wood to create an effect now known as lenticular imaging...
Category
16th Century Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil, Panel
Wrestler (Figurative Painting of Athlete by Mark Beard, Bruce Sargeant)
By Mark Beard
Located in Hudson, NY
Academic style figurative painting of a young athlete, wrestler in training
"Wrestler in Training", Painted by Mark Beard as Bruce Sargeant (pseudonym in h...
Category
2010s Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
La Danse pyrrhique (Pyrrhic Dance)
Located in New Orleans, LA
This painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme entitled La Danse pyrrhique is among the most fascinating compositions ever composed by the Academic master’s hand. Gérôme’s iconic scenes of the East captivated a generation, and this work showcases all of the artist’s unparalleled talents. Set in the Ptolemaic period of Ancient Egypt, its depiction of the ritual Pyrrhic dance is vivid and striking. Beautifully painted and rich with detail, it represents the best of Gérôme’s famed Orientalist scenes.
In La Danse pyrrhique, Gérôme gives us a dramatic rendering of this ancient war dance. Greek in origin, it was performed by costumed dancers armed with swords who completed a series of movements set to music pantomiming combat. Homer wrote that Achilles performed this dance in a show of respect and grief at the funeral of his friend, Patroclus. When Julius Caesar introduced it to the Roman Games, its popularity spread across the Roman Empire to include Egypt, where Gérôme’s composition is set.
Gérôme visited Egypt for the first time in 1856, and he returned throughout the late 19th century when this work was created. Gérôme’s first-hand familiarity with this setting is evident in this piece, and his visual narrative is unlike any other. His paintings combine the rationalist style of historical paintings and the theatrical...
Category
19th Century Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Caleche trip by Mohamed Zadeh
Located in Pasadena, CA
Oil on canvas representing a horse-drawn carriage in a western landscape. Hinge sign of a certain Mohamed Zadeh. Painter of Persian origin.
Category
Late 19th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
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.