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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Period: 20th Century
Period: 19th Century
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1960s Conceptual Figurative Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
Evening prayers by fishermen under the high coast of Celebes
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Jacob Eduard Van Heemskerck Van Beest (1828-1894)
“Avondgebed; Maleidische tripang visschers onder de hoge kust van Celebes” (Ev...
Category
19th Century Romantic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Study for Irish Liberty
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Unsigned
The present work is a study for the cover of the March 18, 1922 cover of The Saturday Evening Post.
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Sword Merchant
Located in New York, NY
ADDISON THOMAS MILLAR
American, 1850-1913
The Sword Merchant
Signed Addison T Millar
Oil on board
10 in x 8 in
Framed: 18 in x 10 in
Category
Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Old Couple
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 21.00" x 28.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Book cover, The Old Couple.
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Illegal Rebirth of Billy the Kid, Paperback Cover
By Dean Morrissey
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1991
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 36.00" x 24.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
DEAN MORRISSEY (American, 20th Century) The Illegal Rebirth of Billy the Kid...
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman in Horror and Terror at Gunpoint
Located in Miami, FL
Signed lower right.
Inscribed on the reverse 'My first color illustration, Nov. 1954.'
Work is unframed, Film Noir in paint
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Wallpaper Blouse, Saturday Evevning Post Cover, October 1941
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Saturday Evening Post magazine cover, October 25, 1941
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
"The Cave Man, " Liberty Magazine Cover, 1927
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1927
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 20.00" x 16.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Liberty Magazine Cover, November 12, 1927 "The Cave Man or the Cave Max?"
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dancing Couple at the Ball, Theatre Magazine Cover
By Clara Peck
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache watercolor painting on artist board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Size: 18" x 14"
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Gouache, Watercolor
The Insurance Salesman
By Arthur Herschel Lidov
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 15.00" x 15.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Bugsy Malone, Movie Poster Illustration
By Charles Moll
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1976
Medium: Mixed Media on Board
Dimensions: 38.25" x 28.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
This artwork was created as a promotional poster for the film, Bugsy Malone...
Category
1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Board
Lovers
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed on the Back
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Study for World War I Soldier Collier's Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Unsigned
Study for the July 7, 1917 cover of Collier's National Weekly (the title story was "Why I'd Let My Boy Go To War").
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Turf and Sport Digest
By Randall Shaull
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1930
Medium: Oil on Canvasboard
Dimensions: 27.00" x 21.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Cover for Turf and Sport Digest, probably late 1930s
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
1956 Ford Thunderbird, Oil Painting by John McCormick
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: John McCormick, American
Title: 1956 Ford Thunderbird
Year: 1983
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 18 in. x 32 in. (45.72 cm x 81.28 cm)
Category
1980s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Lay the Mountains Low" Book Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Acrylic on Board
Dimensions: 20.50" x 24.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
"Lay the Mountains Low" Book Cover, by Terry C. Johnston
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
(Untitled)
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1928
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 16.00" x 22.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Interior setting with people standing around.
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Backwoods Hussy, Paperback Cover
By Rudy Nappi
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1952
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 22.25" x 16.25"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
This classic Nappi painting was first published as the cover for Backwoods Hussy by Hallam Whitney (PBO, Original books...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Thief, Biblical Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 14.00" x 18.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Biblical illustration
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"You're Not to Tell Anyone"
By Tom Lovell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 32.00" x 35.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Story illustration for “Mrs. Parkington” by Louis Bromfield for Cosmopolitan, published November 1942, pages 56 and 57.
The full caption reads: “‘And you’re not to tell anyone where you’re going or that you’re going away together,’ Mrs. Parkington said as she told Janie and Ned her plan.”
A Native American finding a Raggedy Ann doll...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Charity Bazaar
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 27.00" x 21.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Date: 1930s
Probable magazine cover, 1930-1935.
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Couple Under a Tree
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 30.00" x 20.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Women on a Rainy Day, Saturday Evening Post Cover, 1939
By John LaGatta
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor & Acrylic on Board
Signature: Signed
May 20, 1939 Saturday Evening Post Cover
John LaGatta - Women on a Rainy Day Painting Original Art (c. 1940). LaGatta's work...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Watercolor, Board
'None but the Brave, ' Liberty Magazine Cover, 1928
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1928
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 20.00" x 16.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Liberty Magazine Cover 3/31/28
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dimanche au Champ de Course (Deauville) (Sunday at the Racetrack)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Hugues Claude Pissarro
b.1935 French
Dimanche au champ de course (Deauville)
(Sunday at the Racetrack)
Signed “H. Claude Pissarro” (lower left)
Pastel on card
French artist Hugues Claude Pissarro offers a unique perspective of the racetrack in Deauville in this exceptional pastel. The spectators are as much his subject as the sport in this artistic tribute to a leisurely Sunday at the tracks. Following the impressionist tradition of his father and grandfather before him, Pissarro infuses this pastel with dynamic light and vibrant colors. Entitled Dimanche au Champ de Course (Deauville), it showcases the artist's highly distinctive and sophisticated style.
Hailing from a long lineage of painters, Pissarro's artistic talents were cultivated at an early age. He exhibited his first works at the young age of 14 and later studied in Paris at the École du Louvre and École Normale Supérieure. A 1959 White House commission to paint the portrait of President...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Oil Pastel
Portrait of a Charming Seated Woman Against Maroon Drapes
Located in Miami, FL
Charming portait with Modernest colors.
Provenance: Christie's
Mercedes Matter, daughter of the artist, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York. Private Collection. Sale: Skinner, Inc...
Category
1910s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Girl with Bloomers, Good Housekeeping Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil and Gold Paint on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Sight Size 19.00" x 16.00" Oval, Framed 24.00" x 21.00"
April. 1920 Good Houseke...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil, Paint
Amateur Nite - Cowboy Bill's Ramblers, The Saturday Evening Post cover, Jan
By Monte Crews
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Left: Monte / Crews
Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, January 11th, 1936
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Thanksgiving, Good Housekeeping Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Sight Size 15.50" x 15.00", Framed 23.00" x 22.00"
signed Jessie Willcox Smith (lower right); signed Jessie Willcox Smith and titl...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
"Mortmain" by Arthur Train, Book Illustration, 1918
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fare Thee Well! Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1928
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 20.00" x 16.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Liberty Magazine Cover, August 4, 1928
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Child in Prayer Cover of Good Housekeeping Magazine
Located in Miami, FL
Famed female illustrator Jessie Willcox Smith paints the " Ideal Child" in a spiritual moment for the Christmas cover of Good Housekeeping. The accompl...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Mixed Media
Prairie Fire
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 16.00" x 20.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Spring Carrying Out Winter, Collier's Magazine Cover, March 24, 1923
By E.M. Jackson
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Collier's Magazine Cover, March 24, 1923
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Cappers Farmer Magazine Cover, June 1933
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Sight Size 12.00" x 10.00", Framed 20.00" x 18.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
June 1933 Cappers Farmer Magazine Cover.
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
In the Hands of God
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Painting
Signature: Unsigned
Artist Unknown
Contact for dimensions.
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint
Harlequin Grinning and Brandishing his Batte
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache and Pencil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Carter's Monthly, February 1898, cover illustration. Newly Framed.
Category
1890s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board, Pencil
Ben Franklin
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Approximate Date: 1950
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Size: 42.00" x 37.00"
PRICE ON REQUEST-
This image was used in magazine advertisements and promotion...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Doctor Looking into Childs Mouth, Study for SEP Cover, 1930
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Study for the November 22, 1930 cover illustration of The Saturday Evening Post.
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Grandma, Boy & Dog
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Contact for exact dimensions.
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Figures (Head and Torso), figural, painterly, colorful
Located in New York, NY
Oil Painting by Luis Frangella done in 1984. This painting is on a 24x34" canvas, of a figure cut off at the knees and a reclining head. Defined with pa...
Category
1980s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dreaming of a Better Life
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 29" x 20"
Signature: Initialed Lower Left
American Artist (20th Century)
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Prospector firing Rifle ( Happiness is a Warm Gun ) Gay Art
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
Tempera mixed with gum arabic and alcohol on Renaissance Panel
Robert Riggs was a gay man. Being gay in American during the 1940's time was something not to flaunt in public. Rigg's had to communicate his underlying feelings in more symbolic ways.
Throughout Riggs oeuvre, one sees continuous references to strong hunked out manly men and vulnerable boys. It is a core element of is iconography and is described in a powerful graphic style.
In “Prospector firing Rifle” is a Dick Pic. Riggs is clearly making a sexual statement about the moment of climax. The long, straight rifle explodes and is captured at the peak moment of climax. Meanwhile, the bag two bags of gold clearly resemble the other part of the male anatomy. Riggs was a thoughtful and meticulous visual thinker and nothing in any of Riggs’s compositions were haphazardly placed. In tribute to the artist’s suppressed feelings, I have given this work a second title “Happiness is a Warm Gun...
Category
1940s Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
The Love Letter
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on canvas
Canvas size: 24 x 18.25 inches
Framed size: 31.75 x 25.75 inches
Signed lower right
Category
19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Young girl Redhead Holding her father's hand Illustration
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
There is a reason why there are few contemporary painters who can paint a portrait this good. It's hard to do. It's easy to throw some paint or spray a mess of graffiti on canvas. ...
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper
Turkish Garden Party, Early 19th Century Oil
Located in London, GB
A Turkish Garden Party
Early 19th Century
Oil on board
Image size: 16 x 20 inches
Contemporary frame
Category
Early 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Study for 'Christmas Peek, ' Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil and Pencil on Canvas Laid Down on Board
Study for the December 23rd, 1939 issue The Saturday Evening Post.
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Pencil, Canvas
Movie Poster Illustration for "American Pop"
Located in Miami, FL
McLean's consummate skill as a portrait artist, graphic designer and master of composition is on full display in the complex narrative work. This work contains 41 portraits including those of Bette Midler, Jimi Hendrix, and Benny Goodman...
Category
1980s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Nude Girl, Polynesian Girl Tahiti, Annabella
Located in Miami, FL
In some instances, a painting will look significantly much better in person than it does digitize. This is one instance. In-person, this painting will knock your socks off. It is...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Katrina Paperback Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Painting
Signature: Unsigned
Contact for dimensions.
Katrina, By Jeramie Price. Publisher is Pocket Books, Inc. (1956). Comes with book.
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint
Story of Shipwreck, Rotarian Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: May 31, 1934
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 22.00" x 20.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Cover of Rotarian Magazine, September 1934.
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1976
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 29.00" x 22.00"
Signature: Faintly Signed "Marchetti" Lower Right
Cover art for the companion book to the 1976 film starring Bruce Dern and Madeline Kahn.
Category
1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Family Gathering, Beer Belongs Advertisment
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Beer Belongs advertisement.
The illustrations of Douglas Crockwell were often simply signed “Douglass” to avoid confusion with the signature of Norman Rockwell, particularly since their work was being published on the covers of The Saturday Evening Post during the same period. Necessary too, because Crockwell also worked very realistically, and like Rockwell, was particularly good with children.
Their backgrounds, however, were entirely different. Crockwell was born in Chicago, Ohio, and took his degree in Science at Washington University, followed by study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Chicago and the St. Louis School of Fine Arts. He received his first commission for a cover for The Saturday Evening Post in 1933, and this was followed by many more, as well as work for other periodicals and a long list of national advertisers.
During the ‘thirties, he also completed Post Office murals in Vermont, New York State and Mississippi, and began to work on experimental animated films. The films, and inventing a “pan-stereo” viewing...
Category
20th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Museum Quality, Nude with Pink Towel
Located in Miami, FL
Walkowitz creates a powerful composition with the tightly cropped nude figure pushed up-close to the viewer and occupying half of the picture plane. Smaller figures lead the eye back...
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Universal Peace, " Cosmopolitan Magazine, August 1911
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Unsigned
Sight Size 24.00" x 16.50;" Framed 31.75" x 24.75"
"Universal Peace" by Hamilton Holt, August 1911. Cosmopolitan Magazine...
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Oakville's Busiest Corner
By Charles Ryan
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Front of Canvas and Pencilled on Back Stretcher
Possibly original magazine illustration for the Saturday Evening Post.
Category
20th Century 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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