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Figurative Paintings For Sale
"Winter Landscape with Stream" Carl Rudolph Krafft, Early 20th Century Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Carl Rudolph Krafft
Winter Landscape with Stream
Signed lower right and with thumbprint
Oil on canvas
25 x 30 inches
Carl Rudolph Krafft was born in 1884 in Reading, Ohio, and his ...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique English Oil Painting 'The Knight Errant' Pre-Raphaelite Nude & Knight
By John Everett Millais
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Knight Errant
English School, circa 1900
after the painting by John Everett Millais (1829-1896)
oil painting on board, framed
board: 13 x 10 i...
Category
Early 20th Century Pre-Raphaelite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Venezia Italy oil on canvas seascape urbanscape seascape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Josep Maria Vayreda Canadell (1932-2001) - Venice Italy - Oil canvas
Oil measures 55x46 cm.
Frameless.
Josep Maria Vayreda Canadell
Year of birth: 1932
Biography:
Member of a family spanish saga of artists, which highlighted Joaquim Vayreda...
Category
1990s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Irreplaceable You - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Women, Love
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
How do you feel when you know you're irreplaceable? People in general are irreplaceable in life.
We are ourselves that cannot be copied in a sense of personality. Simply similar
Sh...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
WAITING THE BIG WAVE, , , Yuri Krotov 1964 Russian impressionist
By Yuri Krotov
Located in Pollenca, Illes Baleares
Yuri Krotov was born 1964 in Grivenskaya Cossack Settlement, Krasnodar Territory, located close to the Azov Sea. At the age of 8 he met a local painter G.A. Polugaev who became his ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Original 1930's Vintage Motor Car Racing Original Drawing Signed Dated
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Wonderful original pencil drawing depicting a vintage motor car racing scene from the 1930's.
The drawing is by - "K. B. White" - a British illustrator and motoring artist who was working in the 1930's.
The drawing perfectly capture the glamorous spirit of vintage...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
G.H. Ackermann "Wayside Gossip" Early 20th Century Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
G.H. Ackermann "Wayside Gossip" early 20th century painting
Oil on canvas
10.5" x 15.75" unframed
17" x 22" framed
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Winter's Song" (2023), Original Oil Painting by Kevin Weckbach
Located in Denver, CO
Kevin Weckbach's (US based) "Winter's Song" is an original, hand-made oil painting that depicts a secluded snowy forest in the early morning sunlight.
Artist Statement:
"Subject mat...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
"5th Avenue - Midtown" Impressionist Snow Oil Painting in Style of Guy Wiggins
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
A charming depiction of Snow on 5th Avenue New York City with figures walking and cars in the distance. A cozy impressionistic street scene with colors of cobalts, light pink, whites, and burnt sienna's. An iconic street scene with beautiful brushwork and whimsical details, this piece captures the essence of New York in snow. This work is a following of Guy Wiggins. This painting is signed by the artist lower right and it comes housed in a beautiful antique ornate gold tone giltwood frame with hanging wire on verso ready to be displayed.
Art measures 13 x 8.5 inches
Frame measures 17.5 x 13 inches
Inspired by whimsey and purity of the feminine form, Cindy Shaoul is known for her impressionistic and abstract style. She is best recognized for her series ‘Brides’, ‘Dripping Dots’ and ‘Hearts’, as well as her ‘Plein-Air’ street scenes of quintessential New York locations. Shaoul’s works can be found in hundreds of private and corporate collections worldwide.
Since her first group show at Parsons School of Design in 2009, her work has been showcased internationally – from Italy to South Korea – and has been shown at various art fairs nationwide including Miami, Palm Beach, Dallas, and New York. Shaoul has had numerous solo exhibitions and has garnered the attention of notable celebrities such as Emma Roberts, Lily Collins, Ashley Park, Catherine Deneuve and John Malkovich.
Her love of painting began at the age of 18 when she was on Thanksgiving break from college. She painted a 9-foot colorful, abstract mural in her mother’s art...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Orpheus - Original Oil on Canvas Attr. to Tommaso Salini - Early 17th Century
By Tommaso Salini
Located in Roma, IT
Orpheus is an original artwork realized in the first decades of the XVII century and attributed to the Italian master Tommaso Salini.
Oil painting on canvas.
A golden wood frame is...
Category
Early 17th Century Baroque Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Lieselotte Friedländer', Bauhaus, Berlin National Gallery, Munich Sezession
By Georg Rössner
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Georg W. Rössner' for Georg Walter Rössner (German, 1885-1972), titled 'Bildnis Lieselotte Friedländer' and painted circa 1926; original artist card verso.
A substantial, Modernist portrait of the fashion designer, Lieselotte Friedländer, shown seated in a chrome-steel Bauhaus chair with a view beyond to a sunlit, woodland grove.
Georg Rössner first studied in Berlin and, later, in Paris with Lovis Corinth. Rössner was a member of both the Berlin and Munich Sezession committees and, in 1920, was appointed professor at Berlin’s Staatliche Kunstschule. Over the course of a long career, Rössner exhibited internationally with success including at the 1929 Paris Exhibition des Peintres-Graveurs Allemands. His work is held in prominent private and public collections including the permanent collection of the National Gallery in Berlin.
Born in 1898, Lieselotte Friedländer moved to Berlin with her family in 1909. By the mid-1920s, she had established herself as the Weimar Republic...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ornette by African American Artist Bai, Colorful Work on Paper
Located in New york, NY
A muted color acrylic and oil pastel of an androgenous subject with Modigliani eyes, Ornette by African American artist Bai is an enigmatic portrait made on 15” x 11” etching paper. ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Rag Paper, Ballpoint Pen
Huntsman and Hounds in English Countryside Signed Sporting Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The English Hunting Party
late 20th century
signed oil on canvas, framed
framed: 21 x 25.5 inches
canvas: 16 x 20 inches
provenance: private collection, UK
condition: very good and s...
Category
20th Century English School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
19th Century historical military oil painting of Napoleon before Waterloo
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
Ernest Crofts
British, (1847-1911)
The Morn of Waterloo
Oil on canvas, signed & dated 1888
Image size: 24.25 inches x 17.75 inches
Size including frame: 30.75 inches x 24.25 inches
...
Category
19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled (Cafe Interior), Shimshon Holzman
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Shimshon Holzman (1907-1986)
Title: Untitled (Cafe Interior)
Year: 1962
Medium: Watercolor and graphite on wove paper
Size: 27.75 x 19.75 inches
...
Category
1960s Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
Francisco Bartus, "Flourishing ", 39x39 Textured Tree of Life Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This piece, "Flourishing", is a 39.5x39.5 mixed media painting on canvas by artist Francisco Bartus. Featured is a tree of life symbol, made up of individual helpings of paint, strat...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Figures Walking On The Southern French Beach Post Impressionist Signed Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Beach Walk
by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
signed on front and back
oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas: 9.5 x 13.75 inches
Colors: Beige colors, grey, blue, green, brown a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
HOLY SCENE - Italian School - Italy - Figurative- Oil on canvas painting
Located in Napoli, IT
Holy scene - Ciro de Lucia Italia 2007 - Oil on canvas cm. 40x50
Oil painting on canvas depicting the Madonna and Child lying down.
Category
Early 2000s Italian School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Elegance – Oil Portrait of a Woman, Spanish Romantic Figurative Art
Located in London, GB
This captivating oil painting by Luís Muntané Muns exemplifies the artist’s mastery in figurative art, portraiture, and classical elegance. Renowned for his evocative depictions of finely dressed women, Muns presents a young woman in an opulent, multi-layered gown, her delicate posture exuding both grace and introspection. The artist’s soft yet expressive brushwork enhances the flowing fabric, creating a striking contrast against the dark, atmospheric background.
Muns, born in 1899 in Mataró, Spain, studied under José Mongrell...
Category
Mid-20th Century Romantic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"A Perfect Day by the Lake" Impressionist Cafe w Figures Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in New York, NY
A whimsical oil painting depicting a Courtyard Scene with a cafe of figures in France by Luigi Cagliani. As an Italian Impressionist artist, most of Cagliani's works were produced in...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1890's French Impressionist Oil Painting Lady Walking Country Landscape Fields
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Figure in Landscape
French School, circa 1890's
follower of Camille Pissarro (Danish/ French 1830-1903)
dated 'Mai 1890' to the lower right corner.
oil painting on canvas, framed
ca...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Every Single Minute (Minden Egyes Perc) - Figurative Portrait Painting
Located in East Quogue, NY
Figurative painting of a couple by contemporary Hungarian artist Gabor Rosko.
Oil on panel, 72 x 72 cm. Signed and dated on verso "RG GR 1987-2001"
Gáb...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
L'Antagoniste- 21st Century Contemporary Figure Painting of a Bare Chest Man
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Tania Rivilis
l'Antagoniste
80 x 70 cm
Oilpaint on wood (OSB board)
Tania Rivilis (born in Ukraine 1986) 2022 winner of the 'William Locke Price' from the Royal Society of Portra...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Spanish village landscape Spain oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Jordi Freixas Cortés (1917-1984) - Spanish village landscape - Oil on canvas
Oil measures 65x54 cm.
Frameless.
Jordi Freixas Cortés (1917-1984)
Jordi...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sisyphus, Classical Mythology with a Nude Male Figure, Original Oil, Framed
Located in Chicago, IL
One of the key lessons we can glean from the myth of Sisyphus is the importance of resilience and perseverance in the face of adversity. Sisyphus was condemned to an eternity of ceas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Still-Life with Nautulus Cup and Chinese Bowl with Pumpkin, by Cornelis le Mair
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Cornelis le Mair (Netherlands, Eindhoven, July 3rd 1944) is a Dutch painter.
This Classic painter is famous because of his 17th century paintings. You can see him in his house on o...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Fine 1700's Italian Old Master Ink & Wash Drawing Roman Allegorical Africa
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Africa'
Italian School, 18th century
ink and wash drawing on paper, framed within a light oak wood frame (behind glass)
image size: 10.5 x 7 inches
overall framed: 17 x 13 inches
co...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Provence Countryside Landscape Red Roofs French Expressionist Original Painting
By Akos Biro
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
AKOS BIRO (HUNGARIAN 1911-2002)
gouache/ painting
board size: 9.5 x 10.75 inches
Beautifully colourful, original painting by the very popular and highly regarded Hungarian/ French p...
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Oil Pastel
"Open Pasture, Winter" Francis Henry Richardson, American Impressionist Painting
Located in New York, NY
Francis Henry Richardson
Open Pasture, Winter
Signed lower right
Oil on board
10 3/8 x 13 inches
Richardson, born in Boston, entered the formal art world in his late twenties. His ...
Category
Late 19th Century American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
William Adolphus Knell (Attributed), Yachting In The Mediterranean
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This mid-19th-century oil painting attributed to British artist William Adolphus Knell (1805-1875) depicts a sailing yacht before a Mediterranean coastline. Knell was one of the lead...
Category
1860s Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
DANCING BIRD
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Acrylic on canvas.
Original art by Daria Kusto.
Shipped well protected,
rolled in a tube, unframed from Spain.
Category
2010s Outsider Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Antique American Impressionist Children Playing Forest Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. No signature found.
Category
1910s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Les Grands Boulevards et La Porte Saint Denis
Located in New York, NY
An exquisite oil painting by renown artist Antoine Blanchards depicting the French street scene Les Grands Boulevards et La Porte Saint Denis. Th...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Body in the Field #1 - Body, blue, red, landscape, painting
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Body in the Field #1, 2022
oil on canvas
19 ¹¹/₁₆ H x 15 ³/₄ W in.
50 H x 40 W cm
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body through the prism of the frag...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still-Life in Red - 21st Century Contemporary Oil Painting by Ingrid Smuling
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Ingrid Smuling
Still life in Red
22 x 37 cm ( frame is included in price, size with frame is 35 x 50 cm)
Artist Ingrid Smuling, 80 years in August '24, is still most in her element ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
"Looking for Breakfast", Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Christopher Clark's (US based) "Looking for Breakfast" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a bird perched in a flooded grassy field.
Bio/artist statement:
Christopher has been an artist since early childhood, when he would watch Bob Ross on PBS and mimic the famed oil painter’s art with crayons. He considers himself a self-educated artist, with his studies ranging from personal training with contemporary masters, to classical academic art technique, with much inspiration from 19th Century art and the Impressionist Movement. Christopher lived in Italy for a time, immersing himself in Italian culture and art, which continues to influence his painting. His fan base has grown considerably since his return to the US, gaining the attention of Lucasfilm and Marvel Fine Art, which both signed him as an officially licensed artist in 2016. Other clients include George Lucas, Major League Baseball, Louisville Slugger...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstracted Female Figure, Pastel_Take The Sheets Off The Line by America Martin
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin
"Take The Sheets Off The Line"
Oil & Acrylic on Canvas
48 x 48 Inches
49.5 x 49.5 Inches, Framed
Signed painting by America Martin.
Exploring the identity of both h...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
18th century Dutch, with figures goats and sheep outside in a barn yard or farm
Located in Woodbury, CT
Unknown Artist (Dutch School, late 18th century)
Pastoral Scene with Goatherds, ca. 1780–1800
Oil on canvas
In this lively pastoral composition, a group of figures reclines in rusti...
Category
1790s Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"Philadelphia" Original Gary John Colorful Modern Pop Street Art on Newspaper
By Gary John
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles street artist Gary John exploded onto the international art scene first during Art Basel Miami in 2013. John’s playfully bold work quickly gained attention and he was nam...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Newsprint
Large Scale Persian Hunt Landscape Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
#5-01 Large Scale Persian Hunt, circa 1920's oil painting on canvas depicting hunting scene, displayed in a wood-gesso frame.Image size 39 H X 59.5 W
Artist unknown.
Age wear on the ...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Modern French Oil Painting Figures at a Poolside with Pool House Interior
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Modern French Oil Painting Figures at a Poolside with Pool House Interior
by Bernadette Kelly (French b. 1933)
Unsigned
Medium: oil painting on board, unframed
Painting size: ...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Signed French Oil Tahitian Women with Babies Large Oil after Gauguin
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, late 20th century, after the 19th century painting by Paul Gauguin (bears signature).
Title: Tahitian Women with infants
Medium: oil painting on canvas, framed.
Size:
framed: 35.25 x 28 inches
canvas: 28.75 x 21.25 inches
Provenance: private collection, France; Paris...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Mid 20th Century French Modernist Oil Painting Group of Figures Signed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Modernist, circa 1950's-60's
signed with initials
oil painting on board, unframed
board: 14.5 x 11 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: good and sound cond...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
19th century Austrian mountain landscape with village, church and town
By Herman Reisz
Located in Woodbury, CT
Wonderful Austrian landscape with Church on a mountain .
Hermann Reisz Austrian (1865-1920)Reisz was a well-regarded 19th century Austrian landscape...
Category
1890s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Panel, Oil
Black Heritage 4 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, African, Woman, Hair
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Black heritage portrays the rich cultural, historical, and social contributions of Black individuals and communities throughout history. It encompasses the traditions, values, and ac...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Red Squirrel on Lavender - Original Vivid Figurative Animal Painting on Canvas
By Naomi Jones
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Naomi Jones's richly patterned realistic paintings focus on the preservation of vulnerable wildlife. Jones finds catharsis in painting soulful animals. Portraits of vulnerable specie...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Late 16th-Century Catalan School, Saint Magí & Saint Mauro
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This remarkable late 16th-century fragment depicts Saint Magí, the patron saint of Tarragona, and Saint Mauro, a Benedictine monk. Produced in around 1580, on the cusp of the Anglo-S...
Category
16th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Metal
Antique German Oil Painting Portrait of a Family Group - Restoration project
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Family Group
German School, late 19th/ early 20th century
oil on board
board: 17.5 x 13 inches
provenance: private collection
condition: sound condition but with various surface ...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Eleanor Woolley, Long Winter Shadows 2, Figurative Art, Landscape Painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Long Winter Shadows 2 [December 2022]
original
Oil Paint on Canvas
Image size: H:15 cm x W:15 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:15 cm x W:15 cm x D:2cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look
Long Winter Shadows 2 is an Original Painting by Eleanor Woolley. The Winter Sun is setting, intensifying the contrast between light and dark. The long shadows are cast on the pavements whilst the shoppers and workers make their way home. Lovely pinks and violets make up this painting, which is inspired Cheltenham's Montpelier on a winters afternoon.
Eleanor Woolley was born in the Channel Island of Jersey, and moved to Gloucestershire where she was drawn to the outdoors, always taking walks in the landscape. Her first true love for painting came from an inspirational...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Demure Longing" (2024) By Suchitra Bhosle, Original Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Suchitra Bhosle's "Demure Longing" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a young woman looking off into the distance while resting in a doorway.
About the Artist:
Such...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Outside the Synagogue Russian Judaica Oil Painting
By Emmanuel Snitkovsky
Located in Surfside, FL
This piece came from the collection of the Bezalel Art Gallery on the Lower East Side of New York City.
Emmanuil Snitkovsky is an internationally known artist, sculpture and poet.
Emmanuil Snitkovsky was born into a family of artists and scholars from the Odessa Art College in Russia. Immersed in the traditions of Russia art, he approaches form, line, space and color with relentless vision and impeccable technique.
Two highly successful artists, the husband and wife team of Emmanuil and Janet Snitkovsky have exhibited a selection of eight large Judaic paintings at the Chabad Chassidic Art Institute (Chai Gallery) in Crown Heights. Three of those paintings are truly singular visions of Jewish Art that cause us to stop and reassess our preconceptions about the meaning and importance of their subjects. Emmanuil and Janet Snitkovsky were both born in the Ukraine in the 1930′s. Emmanuil was trained in Odessa in public monument art, and Janet majored in fashion at the Lvov Decorative Art Institute. After both narrowly survived the devastation of the Second World War in Stalin’s Russia, they began to collaborate on state sponsored art works in 1962. For ten years, they worked on grandiose public sculptural projects to commemorate the fallen Russian heroes of the Second World War in Moscow, Kiev, Tula and Kazan. They were
exemplary Soviet Realists working for the Soviet regime. Eventually, this career became untenable for them, both as artists and as Jews, when they clashed with Soviet officialdom over a commission to commemorate the Babi-Yar massacre. The Soviets refused to acknowledge this massacre of 100,000 Jews and eventually suppressed the memorial. In 1978, Emmanuil and Janet arrived in New York and began to recreate their artistic lives. In the ensuing 25 years, they have been quite successful, exhibiting widely in the United States and Europe. They have nurtured a hybrid style of painting and sculpture called “Renaissance Revival” combining contemporary and classical subjects in a stylized realism that evokes both the American regionalist Thomas Hart
Benton and the Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli. The works are highly proficient, polished, and commercial productions in a quirky decorative style. They have continued to accept sculptural projects that have not shied away from kitschy realistic sculptures of Charlie Chaplin as “The Kid,” The Little Tramp” and Buster Keaton as “Cameramen.” In some ways, they have appropriated American culture just as they once accepted Soviet culture.
Janet, a graduate of the Lvov College, was invited- by virtue of the high honors she
achieved there- to matriculate at the Lvov University of Art. Such an opportunity is extremely rare for anyone, particularly for someone of Jewish descent. Their works of art are included in collections of the Japanese Imperial Family...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Illustration Board
Missouri American Modernist famous in Europe - abstracted mid century Venice
Located in Norwich, GB
Meet the genuinely exciting modernist William Einstein, who is probably better known in Europe, where numerous publications on his work have been written, than in his native US!
Eins...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century French Portrait Reclining Man With a Pipe Watercolour Study
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Reclining Figure
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: signed watercolour on artists paper stuck on board, glass covered
Size: 9.75 (height) x 9 (width)
Conditi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Mid Century Sgraffito, Saltimbanque and the Card Player, Circle of Picasso.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 20th Century sgraffito work on plaster by Jean Pierre de Cayeux. The work is signed and dated on the skirt of the card player, bottom right, and on the stretcher of the chair, bo...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
"Apple tree" pastel cm. 45 x 35 ( frame cm. 60 x 70)
Located in Torino, IT
with frame is cm. 70 x 60
no frame cm. 45 x 35
Category
1980s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Breakfast Time, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Inspired by family photos from the 1960s, the artwork depicts two sisters enjoying a quiet morning. One reads a newspaper while the other prepares her breakfa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Sonnet of Light II
Located in Atlanta, GA
Gwen Wong's work is both painterly and allegorical, caught somewhere in the middle between the representational painter and the narrator. "I am inspired by the idea of a childhood re...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Young Woman in Interior by Richard E. Miller
Located in New Orleans, LA
Richard E. Miller
1875-1943 American
Young Woman in Interior
Signed "Miller" (lower right)
Oil on canvas
Richard E. Miller's Young Woman in Interior exemplifies the artist's exce...
Category
20th Century Impressionist 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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