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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Period: 21st Century and Contemporary
Period: 1990s
Path of Life # 2
Located in Singapore, SG
Path of life it’s a historical based painting. A lot of example over in history that a king becomes a monk, a robber becomes a monk or nature lover. They always try to spread his lov...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
The Model
Located in Paris, IDF
Nikolai MAKAROV
(Born in 1952)
The Model
Acrylic on canvas mounted on panel
Signed lower right
130 x 90 cm
2021
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Untitled (View Things from a Distance)
Located in London, GB
David Shrigley
Untitled (View Things from a Distance), 2022
acrylic on paper
75 x 56 cm
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Time Flies but Memory Stays
Located in Singapore, SG
Time flies but memories stay in the mind along with feelings. Some of the memories we may let dry and wither like leaves that fall from the tree and some we...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Its A Wander-Full Life
Located in Detroit, MI
It's A Wander-Full Life
acrylic on canvas
60x60 in
Part of the Lunacy series
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
untitle
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Jean-François LARRIEU (1960) (France) is an artist born in 1960 The oldest auction result ever registered on the website for an artwork by this artist is a painting sold in 1991, at...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Medium Oil painting of Vintage, Antique, Collectable Toy Wearing American Flag
Located in Fort Worth, TX
Political Chatter, 2017
John Hartley discovered his life's passion while growing up in Piqua, Ohio. Encouraged to develop his talents in an academic envi...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Canvas
Veduta
Located in Paris, IDF
Nikolai MAKAROV
(Born in 1952)
Veduta
Acrylic on canvas mounted on panel
Signed lower right
70 x 50 cm
2015
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
En el Florida Garden, 2003
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Graciela Genovés was born on October 24th, 1962. She graduated from the University of La Plata (Argentina) as a Professor and Licentiate in Fine Arts and subsequently worked at the U...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Kelli
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Graduated from the Prilidiano Pueyrredón National School of Fine Arts. He also studied set design, was a student of Osvaldo Attila and Armando Sapia, among other artists.
He held so...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Resultado Del Deseo - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Painting, Japanese
By Mari Ito
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Mari Ito was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1980. She majored in Nihonga, Japanese-style painting made with traditional practices, techniques and materials. She moved to Barcelona (Spain) i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Sumi Ink, Mixed Media, Wood Panel, Washi Paper, Pigment
Nature bleue
Located in ATLANTA, GA
DANIEL-ANTOINE (1961) is an artist born in 1961 The oldest auction result ever registered on the website for an artwork by this artist is a painting s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Blue Jay" Original Oil Painting by Susan McDonnell, Avian Art
Located in Denver, CO
Susan McDonnell's "Blue Jay," created in 2021, is a masterful oil on panel that captures the vibrant essence and lively demeanor of its avian subject. Measuri...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
The Incarnation
Located in Singapore, SG
For this painting the artist found inspiration from the religious poem on the ‘Sarvesh’ incarnation of Lord Mahadev. This work illustrates the beauty of that poetic description.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Sailcloth, Tempera
Cape of the Goat
Located in Paris, IDF
Didier LAPÈNE
(Born in 1964)
Cape of the Goat
Oil on canvas
33 x 41 cm
2017
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Zumbi dos Palmares
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Halo presents an amazing cast of historical black figures, most of whom were legendary and mythic characters in their time, but have been nearly lost to the vagaries and biases of history as seen through a white lens. With Halo, Greenfield brings the stories of Black folk-saints, martyrs, freedom-fighters, survivors, magicians, and visionaries back into view. Many of the figures are from the 1400-1800s, a timeframe that corresponds with Europeans beginning to use racial distinction as a tool to justify slavery. Greenfield honors their
simultaneously disturbing and astounding lives by bestowing them with halos, traditionally seen as reverential symbols of adoration and respect. “I am reimagining what a saint is,” Greenfield says. “Maybe in studying their stories, they can inform us on better ways to live.”
Thought to have been a descendent of central African royalty...
Category
2010s Byzantine Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
L'incubo, 2010
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Gigino Falconi was born in Giulianova (Teramo) in 1933. He began painting at the age of sixteen, and in 1954 he obtained a Liceo Artistico of Pescara. During the early years of his c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Figurative Still life painting - Seven pots
Located in Beijing, CN
Feng Shi, born in Shanghai in 1990, professional painter. In 2009, he studied in the painting department of the school of fine arts of Shanghai Normal Univer...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Corréjou, Brittany, France
Located in Paris, IDF
Didier LAPÈNE
(Born in 1964)
Corréjou, Brittany, France
Oil on canvas
58 x 61 cm
2018-2021
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
American Contemporary Oil of Antique/Vintage Toy Race Car Driver
Located in Fort Worth, TX
'Champion,' 2019
John Hartley discovered his life's passion while growing up in Piqua, Ohio. Encouraged to develop his talents in an academic environment...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Oil
Superman
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Carlos J. Tirado (born on April 3, 1964 in Caracas, Venezuela) is an artist, painter and sculptor who has developed a very personal and precise line of work linked to Neo-Pop art. Wi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Isabelle and Cup, 2001
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Anthony Palliser was born in 1949 of an English father and a Belgian mother. He studied at Downside school and graduated from New College Oxford. In 1...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
16724 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Painting, Mixed Media, Canvas
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
"Martí Bofarull’s work fits in with renovation of the urban landscape that has characterized Catalan painting of the last twenty years. Among our art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
"Untitled" - Agave, pink and green, organic, nature, Mexican, figurative paint
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
Daniel Berman's production is not only torrential and overflowing but also mutating as if it were a chameleon, it changes to support and scale to explore the possibilities of each te...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"l'Auberge de la Place au Manège", Gerard Valtier, Oil on Canvas, French, Hotel
Located in Dallas, TX
"l'Auberge de la Place au Manege" by Gerard Valtier is an original oil on canvas that measures 29x36 inches. Valtier uses many different bright and vivid c...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Butterfly 2, 2018
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Lisa Matrundola was born the youngest of five children in Montreal, Quebec. Her parents immigrated to Canada from Italy and England in the mid 1950’s. Self-sufficiency, hard work and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Siren
Located in Nashville, TN
Alison Underwood's work evokes various emotions of desires as her artwork proves to display the ideas of temptation and anticipation. These profound feelings are demonstrated in the ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Oil Crayon
Victim, 2022, oil on paper, figurative painting
Located in Izmir, TR
In several mystical traditions, there are common elements that are needed for spiritual metamorphosis and transitions to another, transcendent dimension. In Sufism, there is also an inner dimension to the law that has to do with repentance, the abasement of desire, and discipline of the self, or the elimination of the ego. Transparent figures emphasize the inner world of pure innocence which is the prototype human being, pure consciousness, one's true identity, to be contrasted with the material human who is bound by one's senses and materialism. Materialism is shown by also patterns in the paintings. The two different layers are against each other in a contradictory way. Feeling the need to go deeper into this inner, imaginative world, I began to set artworks from the past in less familiar contexts such as seas or patterns and combine the figure with them where they seemed to become like elements in some greater dream. With her small paper works, Ece Gauer...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cosmo
Located in Atlanta, GA
Born in Manziales, Colombia in 1987, Esteban received his MFA from the New York Academy of Art before returning to his native country. Related works are featured in top collections, ...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Word Portrait: In Carl's Words" Painting, Pastels on Cutout Canvas, Figurative
Located in New York, NY
Grace Graupe-Pillard has concentrated on portraiture since her early charcoal drawings which she exhibited at The Drawing Center, NYC in 1981. Her work, which has been exhibited at notable institutions such as MOMA PS1 and galleries including Cheim & Read Gallery (NY) and Carl Hammer Gallery (Chicago), has evolved from over the years from pastels to large-scale oil paintings and installations of people who she describes as “having not been integrated into mainstream society.” Her more recent paintings, inspired by selfies and iPhone photographs, attempt to convey the vitality and diversity of 21st century contemporary culture while capturing the ineffable moments in our lives. “The sensuality and radiant beauty of youth and ethnic diversity are depicted in my choice of subjects, as well as the ravages of time which are imprinted on our being. All stages of life are filled with humanity that both elevates and dissipates the spirit.”
Her work has been written about in The NY Times, Art News, The Village Voice...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Pastel
Dialogue
Located in Wien, 9
In his turbulent compositions, lines and colors overlap and condense into figuratively looking scenes. As a figurative informal painter or informal figure painter, he proves in a way...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper
"Gemini" oil painting on panel figurative two women female red hair
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Rachel Bess
Gemini, 2020
oil on panel
17.5" x 12" unframed
21” x 15.5” framed
Rachel Bess is known for her precise and theatrical oil paintings that ble...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Pacifica #4
Located in Quogue, NY
Colorful oil on canvas abstract expressionistic figurative painting.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Wu Jue - Contemporary art, Portrait, Figurative
Located in Coquitlam, BC
Artist: Liang Li
Born in 1985 Henan China, and currently living in Beijing
In 2003, he joined the Basic Department of CAFA Modeling
In 2004, he joined the Second Studio of Oil Painti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Dioscuri" oil painting figurative female portrait stockings
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Rachel Bess
Dioscuri, 2019
oil on Dibond
18" x 12" unframed
21.5 x 15.5" framed
Rachel Bess is known for her precise and theatrical oil paintings that b...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Large Contemporary Oil Portrait of Party People Smoking, Laughing, and Drinking
By Nancy Lamb
Located in Fort Worth, TX
The Menthol Mood, 2009, Nancy Lamb, Oil on canvas, 48 x 85"
Nancy Lamb (American, born 1956), sculptor and painter. Formally trained at Texas Christian Un...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Oil
Futbolito Piscinero
Located in Atlanta, GA
Born in Manziales, Colombia in 1987, Esteban received his MFA from the New York Academy of Art before returning to his native country. Related works are featured in top collections, ...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
COSTA BRAVA
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Pool Time
Located in New York, NY
Fun, vibrant mixed media piece. Woman diving into the pool. On wood.
About the Artist:
Allen's work has gained recognition world-wide for it's complex layering of mixed media works that create a narrative of modern American culture. His work today is a culmination of many years of painting, thinking and experiencing. He blends urban street art with his background of typography, mixed media collage, and abstract expressionism into each of his urban pop expressionist works.
The son of fine artist / commercial artist Harrison Allen, Mark learned a lot very early from his talented father. His think training also includes a bachelor degree in commercial art from Texas State University in San Marcos, TX. He continued study at Parson's School of Design in New York City where he had an apartment across the street from Andy Warhol's factory (they met in 1982.) He continued study later at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA.
Allen is represented in galleries throughout the world. Museums he has shown in include The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Museum - Cleveland, OH; Experience Music Project - Seattle, WA; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art; Dallas Museum of Art, and Acadian Museum - Lafayette, LA.
He was a major figure in the graphic design community for over two decades. Much of his celebrated work is from the entertainment industry doing graphic design work for high profile clients including the 'Yu-Gi-Oh' logo, 'The Wizard of Oz' 60th Anniversary logo, redesigned Coca-Cola bottles, designed 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' logo for Disney and art directed for recording artist Sean 'P Diddy...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Mixed Media
AUTUMN BALANCE, Oil on Canvas
Located in Montreux, CH
Karen Shahverdyan „Autumn balance“ 90 X 110cm, oil on canvas
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Redoshi
Located in Santa Monica, CA
With Halo, Greenfield brings the stories of Black folk-saints, martyrs, freedom-fighters, survivors, magicians, and visionaries back into view.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Els Terrats Dels Confinats - 21st Century, Contemporary, Oil Painting, Abstract
By Tomàs Sunyol
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
"Tomàs Martínez Sunyol was born in Dieulefit (France) in 1964 and was surrounded by art from a young age. Both his father, Joaquim Martínez Lerma, and uncle, Álvaro Sunyol, were pain...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
United Together
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"United Together" is part of a series called "Spoken" by artist Kelvin Agyepong Ansong which depicts the fierce fight women around the world continue t...
Category
2010s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Before / After (diptych)
Located in Nashville, TN
Alison Underwood's work evokes various emotions of desires as her artwork proves to display the ideas of temptation and anticipation. These profound feelings are demonstrated in the ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Oil Crayon
Celia
Located in Santa Monica, CA
With Halo, Greenfield brings the stories of Black folk-saints, martyrs, freedom-fighters, survivors, magicians, and visionaries back into view.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Dreamers, 2020
Located in ATLANTA, GA
"Alexei Ravski unites landscape painting with the art of the surreal in his dramatic, large-format compositions. Meticulous in technique, they are marked by a striking use of perspe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pido ayuda
By João Cardoso
Located in MADRID, ES
PIDO AYUDA title means looking for help and this came up when during the painting João Cardoso found an article that had the same title and it was about a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Bridge
By Behzad Tabar
Located in ATLANTA, GA
About Behzad Tabar
My background is in fine and graphic arts, working in a wide range of styles and mediums. My painting has evolved from realism, to surrealism, to abstract. I am mo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Two Horses
Located in New York, NY
Acrylics, inks, archival spray on custom stretched canvas. Triptych of Two Horses at play. Subdued palate.
About the Artist:
My process often moves m...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Quadro teologico in onore di Puccetto, Canarino Morto da Tempo
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Max Pellegrini. "Quadro teologico in onore di Puccetto, Canarino Morto da Tempo" is an oil on canvas painting executed primarily in a palette of blues and yellows with ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
No. 83 - Make A Wish
Located in Wien, 9
No. 83 - Make a Wish (2021), Öl und Acryl auf Leinwand, 100 x 100 cm
Elena Steiner was born in Susice (Czech Republic) in 1975 and lives and works in Vienna. She completed her painting studies at the Institute for Fine and Media Art at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna in Johanna Kandl’s class.
In her series of works, Elena Steiner examines a different type of person, sensitizes the viewer, confronts him with the uncompromising demasking of his own world and that of the portrayed by violating the illusion-bearing canvas surface. She creates realistic acrylic paintings as metaphors for being and appearance. The injuries in the form of seams, stitches and stitches are the epitome of traditional female role fulfillment. Elena Steiner deals with the questions of the value of fulfilling external wishes, social recognition and self-determination. Her works experiment with the border areas between painting, object, real exhibition space and imaginative spatiality and thus offer a captivating game be-tween closeness and distance, between impenetrable closeness and revealing familiarity. Her artistic work shows a zoomed in, sharply focused, snappy, humorous portrait...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
"Shaman" Mixed Media Figurative Painting Oil onLinen Contemporary Art In-Stock
By Alex Lazard
Located in Queretaro, Queretaro
This 210 cm by 220 cm mixed media large-scale painting is one of Lazard's most iconic paintings. Alex Lazard, one of Mexico's most noted contemporary artist today, plays with the material load that he uses in this piece. Using asphalt, marble powder, and oil paint, "This is my representation of time... of the navigation of time in humans and how it never stops being there.
This magical painting shows a spiritual, dreamy scenery where Lazard portraits what he sees in the world of "Shaman"... fishes swimming downwards, flying in the background, and the owl flying...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Mixed Media, Oil
Chelleneshin 37
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Yari Ostovany is an American abstract artist of Iranian origins. He has lived in Tehran, Cologne, Los Angeles, San Francisco and in Reno. He is currently based in New York City. His ...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Candy Girl
Located in New York, NY
Innocence of childhood. Portrait.
About the Artist:
My art is a visual recording of the powerful imagines that occur regularly in life, distilling them down and preserving the ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Hiver XII
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Born in 1951, Eishin Yoza was largely inspired by the 1970s growing up. The art sphere of the 1970s was epitomized by a desire to evolve and strengthen its...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Ink
Acecho
By Gonzalo Morales
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Oil on Canvas, Signed
Dated 2013
14 x 18 Inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Night Pilgrim
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Yari Ostovany is an American abstract artist of Iranian origins. He has lived in Tehran, Cologne, Los Angeles, San Francisco and in Reno. He is currently based in New York City. His ...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Richard Potter
Located in Santa Monica, CA
With Halo, Greenfield brings the stories of Black folk-saints, martyrs, freedom-fighters, survivors, magicians, and visionaries back into view.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
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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