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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Period: 1970s
Period: 18th Century and Earlier
British Animal painter - 18th century horses painting - Oil on panel figure
Located in Varmo, IT
English painter (18th century) - Horses at the river.
53 x 70 cm without frame, 67 x 86 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on wood, in a carved and gilded wooden frame.
Condition...
Category
1770s Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Important 18th Century Royal Academy Old Master Oil Painting of Georgian London
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘St. James’ Day’ by Richard Morton Paye (1750-1820). This very large and important 18th century oil on canvas depicts a diverse crowd of Londoners at an oyster stand on a summer’s ev...
Category
1780s Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Robots, or "Strange Self-Sufficient Machine" by Giuliano Ghelli
Located in Firenze, IT
Robots, or "Strange Self-Sufficient Machine" by Giuliano Ghelli ( Florence, 1944- 2014, Chianti).
Painting in a wooden frame with glass.
Oil on canv...
Category
1970s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Glass, Wood, Oil
Original Vintage Abstract Expressionist Figurative - "Lovers’ Embrace"
Located in Soquel, CA
Original Abstract Expressionist Painting - "Lovers’ Embrace"
Wonderful example of a vibrant abstract expressionist figurative of couple embracing by Ka...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Fine 17th Century Italian Old Master Oval Portrait of Lady on Copper Wooden Frm
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Lady (female saint?)
Italian School, 17th century
oil on copper, framed
frame: 9 x 8 inches
board: 5 x 4 inches
provenance: private collection
condition: very good and ...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
After Franken School Crucifixion of Jesus Pannel
Located in Pasadena, CA
Frans Francken the Younger (1581, Antwerp – 6 May 1642, Antwerp was a Flemish painter and the best-known and most prolific member of the large Francken family of artists.[1] He painted large altarpieces for churches as well as smaller historical, mythological and allegorical scenes. His depictions of collectors' cabinets established a popular new genre of art in the era. Francken often collaborated with other artists, adding figures and narrative elements to scenes created by specialists in landscape, architectural and floral still life painting
Francken was a versatile artist who practiced in many genres and introduced new subjects into Flemish art. Many of his works are small historical, allegorical and biblical...
Category
17th Century Flemish School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
“Place du Tertre, Montmartre, Paris”
Located in Southampton, NY
Exquisite orginal oil painting of the Place du Tertre in Montmartre, Paris by the well known artist, Jose Luis Leiva. Beautiful vibrant colors and use of light and shadows. The lan...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Holy Family with saints Anne and Joseph. Tuscan school. Circa 1610.
Located in Firenze, IT
The Holy family with St. Joseph and St. Anna.
Tuscan school. Late mannerist period, Circa 1610.
Oil on canvas.
Size 102cm x 77cm
Painting by an unknown Tuscan painter from the lat...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Renaissance Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Military Encampment Soldiers on Horseback Dusk Landscape 1700's Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Military Encampment
Circle of Carel van Falens (1683-1733, Flemish)
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 8 x 10.5 inches
provenance: private collection, UK
condition: very good and so...
Category
Early 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Allegory of Music School After Lorenzo Lippi
Located in Pasadena, CA
After Lorenzo Lippi (Florence, May 6, 1606 - Florence, April 15, 1665) is a Baroque painter of the Florentine school and a seventeenth-century Italian poet.
Category
17th Century Renaissance Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Adoration
Located in MADRID, ES
Incredible triptych from the end of 15 century.
Category
16th Century Medieval Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel
Mission San Juan Bautista, 1971 - Original Oil Painting
Located in Soquel, CA
Mission San Juan Bautista, 1971 - Original Oil Painting
Oil painting of Mission San Juan Bautista by Gorman Woody (American, 1907-2000). The viewer l...
Category
1970s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Saint Jerome, Antwerp, 16th century, circa 1550, cercle of Lambert Van Noort
Located in PARIS, FR
Saint Jerome in the desert
Cercle of Lambert Van Noort (1520-1571, Antwerp)
Antwerp School, mid-16th century
Oil on oak panel.
Dimensions: panel h. 69 cm (27.16 in), l. 52.5 cm (20.6...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Jean-Marc Nattier (1685 - 1766) - Portrait of Charlotte de Hesse-Rheinfels
Located in PARIS, FR
Jean-Marc Nattier (Paris, 1685 - 1766) and his workshop
Portrait of Charlotte de Hesse-Rheinfels
Oil on canvas : h. 44.09 in, w. 38.19 in
18th century carved giltwood framed
Fra...
Category
1730s Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Surreal Modern Female Acrylic Faces of Women Figurative Painting 1970
By Ernestine Madaleine
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-2744 Figurative acrylic on artist board
Displayed in a black wood frame
Image size 13.5x16"
Signed Ernestine Madaleine
Category
1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Adam and Eve in paradise, studio of Jan Brueghel the Younger, 17th century
Located in PARIS, FR
Studio of Jan Brueghel the Younger
17th century Antwerp school
Oil on oak panel, h. 37 cm, w. 49 cm
Tortoiseshell veneered baroque style frame...
Category
Mid-17th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Huge 18th Century English Oil Aristocratic Portrait of a Gentleman Standing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of an Aristocratic Gentleman
British artist, first half 18th century
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 50 x 40 inches
provenance: private collection, Dorset, England
condition...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique painting depicting the mystical marriage of Saint Catherine. Naples 19sec
Located in Torre Del Greco, IT
Antique oil on canvas painting depicting the mystical marriage of St. Catherine.
The work is rich in iconographic invention and intoned in full-bodied, ringing colors, with effects ...
Category
18th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Modern British, Interior with an old record player, port decanter and glass
Located in Woodbury, CT
Colin Ruffell is an English painter of interiors, cityscapes, and many other unique subjects.
His styles have varied and include iconic cityscapes of London, New York, Venice, Hong ...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
French Impressionist Artist Studio Figurative Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
#5-3049 French Artist Studio,a 1970's figurative painting , oil on canvas displayed in a wood frame, signed by C.smith lower left.Image size 18.5 H x 23.25 W
Category
1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Nicolas de Largillière - Portrait of a Lady, Paris, circa 1695
Located in PARIS, FR
Nicolas de Largillière (Paris, 1656-1746)
Portrait of a lady, circa 1695
Oil on canvas (relined): 76 x 61 cm
Framed: h. 97 cm, l. 82 cm
To be included in the forthcoming catalogue ra...
Category
1690s Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Moses Strikes the Water from the Rock. XVII cent. Dutch school.
Located in Firenze, IT
Moses Strikes Water from the Rock Dutch school, XVII century. Workshop of Jacob de Wet (Haarlem, 1610-1675).
Technique: Oil on oak wood panel, composed of 3 horizontal panels.
In this evocative work, Moses stands in a cave, gathering the Israelites. There was no water to drink or for their cattle. The people were discontented in the desert.
But Moses and Aaron listened to the voice of God. With Aaron’s staff, Moses struck the rock, and water gushed forth abundantly, quenching their thirst.
Jacob de Wet’s workshop specializes in subjects from the Old and New Testaments.
The recognizable rectangular format, simple compositions, and clear narratives define his style. The interplay of light and shadow, reminiscent of Rembrandt, adds timeless allure. The characters’ costumes, with their large hats and turbans...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Cercle of Ambrosius Francken, Adoration of the shepherds, 17th century Antwerp
Located in PARIS, FR
Adoration of the shepherds,
Cercle of Ambrosius Francken,
Early 17th century Antwerp school
Oil on oak panel: h. 55 cm, w. 43 cm (21.65 in x 16.93 in)
17th c. ebonized and moulded f...
Category
Early 17th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Fine 17th Century Flemish Old Master Oil Painting Travellers Country Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Travellers in a Country Landscape
circle of Jacques d'Arthois (Flemish 1613-1686)
oil on canvas, framed
frame: 13.5 x 18.5 inches
canvas: 11 x 16 inches
provenance: private collectio...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fine Quality 17th Century Dutch Old Master Oil on Wood Panel Trial of Christ
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Trial of Christ
Dutch Old Master, 17th century
oil on panel, unframed
panel: 11 x 7.5 inches
provenance: private collection, England,
Christies auction stencil marks verso
condi...
Category
17th Century Baroque Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Louis XIV and his army at the crossing of the Rhine by Adam-Frans van der Meulen
By Adam Frans van der Meulen
Located in PARIS, FR
Adam-Frans van der Meulen (Bruxelles, 1632 - Paris, 1690)
Louis XIV and his army at the crossing of the Rhine 12 June 1672
Signed A.F VANDERMEULEN at the right low corner
Oil on can...
Category
1670s Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“Mother and Child” Early Figurative Portrait Painting of a Black Woman and Child
By Buford Evans
Located in Houston, TX
Early figurative portrait painting by Houston-based artist Buford Evans. The work features a black woman dressed in a green dress gingerly caressing her young child. Signed by the ar...
Category
1970s Naturalistic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Panel
“God Save the Children” Early Figurative Portrait of an Anguished Black Man
By Buford Evans
Located in Houston, TX
Early figurative portrait painting by Houston-based artist Buford Evans. The work features a black man looking to the sky with an anguished expression on his face as a young child cl...
Category
1970s Naturalistic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Panel
Herminia and the Shepherds, a painting by Francesco de Mura (Napoli 1696 - 1782)
Located in PARIS, FR
In this masterly painting, Francesco de Mura presents the meeting of Herminia and the shepherds, a famous episode taken from the seventh canto of Torquato Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered...
Category
1760s Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique painting Madonna and Child. Lombardy 18th century.
Located in Torre Del Greco, IT
Antique oil on canvas painting depicting Madonna and Child with gilded and carved wooden frame.
Mary is depicted according to classical iconography, holding Jesus in her arms.
Jesu...
Category
18th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Vintage American Figurative Surreal Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3057 Figurative Surreal oil painting
Set in a vintage gilt wood frame
Category
1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Surrealist cubism acrylic on board painting picassian
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Gustavo Úbeda (1930-1994) - Picasso Cubism - Acrylic panel
Acrylic measurements 81x100 cm.
Frameless.
The painting by Gustavo Úbeda Romero (Herencia, 1930 – Sao Paulo, 1994) comes f...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Native American Mixed Media Portrait
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
#5-3064 Native American Portraits gouache/watercolor on board, male portrait, displayed in a black/wood frame, signed lower left by A.Jarret. Image size 14 H x 21.75 W
Category
1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Gallant party in the park. French School. Mid-18th century
Located in Milan, IT
The scene depicts a feast within a park enclosed by walls with arched gateways opening onto the countryside, and adorned on the right with an amphora on a small column and in the center, behind the figures, with a gushing fountain, with statues of cherubs and shells.
Two couples of richly dressed ladies and gentlemen entertain themselves gallantly, surrounded by servants; one of the men is playing the violin, crouching in front of his lady, who, flanked by the damsel, follows the melody on the score held up by the dark-haired man at her side, while two musicians accompany the playing with flute and a mandolin; the other couple, in an attitude of intimate dialogue, listens on the left, while on the right the hunter returning from the hunt also observes the scene.
Particularly prominent in the scene is the rich dress of the lady in the center, characterized by the wide back folds falling from her shoulders to create a cape. Such a dress corresponds to what was called "robe à la Watteau," named after the French painter Antoine Watteau who first portrayed ladies wearing this pattern.
Antoine Watteau (1684 -1721), a French painter considered one of the most influential French exponents of Rococo painting, was the forerunner of the pictorial genre of gallant scenes, a genre that developed in France from the late 1600s and continued throughout the following century.
The gallant scenes could be considered as the aristocratic version of the genre scene: characterized by music, dances, pleasant conversations between ladies and gentlemen surrounded by servants, they tended to enhance the costumes, fashionable clothes, and environments of the upper class, conveying a kind of detachment from the real times and places, projecting the viewer into an almost theatrical atmosphere of gestures, looks, colors and stage lights.
Moreover, Watteau, along with the Fêtes galantes cycles, also distinguished himself for those inspired by the theater, absorbing his passion for the scenes and characters of that milieu from Claude Gillot...
Category
Mid-18th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Teacher's Strike, Oil Painting by William Waithe
Located in Long Island City, NY
This painting by William Waithe depicts a teachers strike, possibly the infamous teachers' strike in 1970 by Newark teachers which at the time was the longest teachers' strike in the...
Category
1970s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Dipinto con Madonna ed Angeli
Located in Milan, IT
Olio su tela.
La Madonna è raffigurata in gloria, in piedi nei cieli e circondata da angioletti.
L'opera ancora in prima tela, è stata applicata su telaio moderno: tale dato, insiem...
Category
17th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
David and Abigail, fourth decade of the 17th century
Located in Milan, IT
The painting, done in oil on canvas, depicts the meeting between King David and Abigail, as narrated in the biblical text from the First Book of Samuel (I Samuel 25:1-34).
David, left without food in the wilderness with his army, seeks relief from the wealthy Nabal, who contemptuously denies him any help, ungrateful of the benevolence he previously received from the king. Upon hearing the rejection, the ruler intends to take revenge by killing his entire lineage. Abigail, Nabal's beautiful and wise wife, decides to right the wrong and bring David plenty of food and gifts. In the king's presence the woman humbles herself, winning his forgiveness and benevolence. Soon afterwards widowed, she will in fact become his bride.
The broad scene depicts the climax of the Old Testament episode, the moment when the woman prostrates herself before David and his servants prepare to deliver the gifts.
The biblical event is here a pretext, as is customary in modern-age painting, for staging the colorful description of a sumptuous procession, which can be divided into two parts, almost two wings of a crowd divided specularly: on the left David with his dignitaries and the army; on the other, Abigail's retinue, handmaids, servants leading dromedaries and donkeys laden with food.
The crowded group of figures is set in a natural proscenium: above a low horizon, barely hinted at by distant blue mountains, rises on the left side a craggy rocky cliff, the shelter of the army led by the ruler.
The 'somatic intonation of the characters, as well as the choice of metallic chromatics and the play of light on the shiny fabrics refer to a clear Flemish matrix, particularly the influence of the frothy and sumptuous painting of Rubens and Van Dyck.
As well set forth in the expert report prepared by Professor Giuseppe Sava, the work is to be attributed to Vincent Malò...
Category
17th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Carataco painting in front of Emperor Claudius 18th century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas. Northern European school of the 18th century.
Carataco was a Celtic king of the Briton tribe Catuvellauni and leader of the anti-Roman resistance and famous as a freed...
Category
18th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Penitent Magdalene, c. 1750.
By Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Lo Spagnuolo
Located in Milan, IT
Painting done in oil on canvas. The figure of Magdalene is depicted here, in keeping with tradition, with long red hair; with a gesture of sorrowful dedication she fixes her gaze on ...
Category
Mid-18th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Zoomorphic composition, 1979, India ink on paper
Located in PARIS, FR
Alena NADVORNIKOVA (née en 1942)
Zoomorphic composition, 1979
India ink on paper
Signed and dated "1979" lower left
50 x 32 cm
Frame : 60 x 40 cm
A Czech artist born in 1942 in Lipn...
Category
1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
India Ink
Deposizione di Cristo nel sepolcro. Pittore lombardo (Giuseppe Meda?) 1560-1570
Located in Milan, IT
Olio su tela. La grande scena racconta la Deposizione di Cristo dalla Croce, condensando due momenti della narrazione: il Compianto della Madonna sul corpo del Cristo e la deposizion...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Madonna and Child with St. John, c. 1540-1560. Attributed to Carlo Portelli
Located in Milan, IT
The painting features Our Lady holding the Child, who extends his hand toward the wooden cross, the symbol of the future Passion, and St. John. Behind the three figures a rocky mount...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Greek Island Two lovers Figural Landscape
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-3613a Acrylic on artist board
Set in an ornate vintage frame
Image size 14.5x12.5"
Category
1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic Polymer
Huge 18th Century Oil Painting Classical Landscape Ancient Castle with Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Classical Landscape
English School, 18th century
oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas: 34.5 x 36.5 inches
provenance: private collection
condition: very good and sound condi...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
OLD MASTER OIL PAINTING 18th CENTURY Scottish School FINE DETAIL GOLD GILT FRAME
Located in Ferndown, GB
DESCRIPTION
OLD MASTER OIL PAINTING 18th CENTURY Scottish School
FINE DETAIL
GOLD GILT FRAME
NEW COLLECTION Of RARE PIECES OF Scottish HISTORY
Description
( Late 18th centur...
Category
18th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Dva svety (Two Worlds), 1979, India ink on paper
Located in PARIS, FR
Alena NADVORNIKOVA (née en 1942)
Dva svety (Two Worlds), 1979
India ink on paper
Titled "Dva svety", signed and dated "79" lower left
50 x 32 cm
Frame : 60 x 40 cm
A Czech artist bo...
Category
1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
India Ink
"Let Me In, Let Me Out" - Abstract Mixed Media Composition
Located in Soquel, CA
"Let Me In, Let Me Out" - Abstract Mixed Media Composition
Boldly colored abstract figurative composition by California artist Elizabeth Arrington Leaf (American, B-1955). Three lar...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Acrylic
Painting Young man lighting a pipe 18th century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas.
The painting offers a half-length portrait of a young man in deshabillé who is lighting his pipe by drawing fire with a stick from the candle placed in front of him o...
Category
18th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Woman portrait oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Antoni Vives Fierro (1940) - Portrait of a woman - Oil on canvas
Oil measurements 46x38 cm.
Frame measurements 67x59 cm.
He was born in Barcelona in 1940. He is a versatile painter ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large 17th century religious family painting - Mary with Christ and Anna
Located in Antwerp, BE
17th century Old Master painting depicting the Infant Christ with Mary and St. Anne attributed to Nicolas de Liemaker
The artist of the present work wonderfully captured the loving gaze of Maria, looking in awe at her child. One can sense the tenderness and love in her eyes. The eyes of Christ appears to be filled with wisdom and love and a finely painted aura crowns his and his mother's heads. St. Anne, Mary's mother, gently holds the infant whilst gazing adoringly at him. The painting is not only a beautiful depiction of Christ and his mother and grandmother, but also a sweet image of the tender bond between a mother's and their children. The vibrant and soft colours of the fabric create a soft cocoon around the figures and seem to further emphasis the beauty and importance of the depicted scenery and its protagonists.
Nicolaas de Liemaecker (also spelled as Liemaker or Liemackere) was a Flemish painter born in Ghent in 1601. He was also known under the name Nicolaas Roose. His father was Jacobus de Liemaecker, a painter upon glass. Nicolaas is reported to have been trained by his father and Gaspard de Crayer II (1), an apprenticeship with Otto Van Veen has also been suggested. In 1624 he worked at the Court of the Bishop of Paderborn and for Ferdinand of Bavaria. He later returned to his native city, where he focused on religious and historical paintings. He was a very accomplished and celebrated artist who attained a high rank in his profession. He witnessed the baptisms of Pieter and Janne-Marie Van Hulle...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
" Summer evenings " Oil cm. 70 x 75 1976
By Gleb Savinov
Located in Torino, IT
Gleb SAVINOV (Kharkiv prov., Ua 1915 – St. Petersburg 2000)
Gleb Alexandrovich Savinov was born in Ukraine and spent part of his childhood in Saratov. His father, Alexander Ivanovic...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Boulevard Haussmann - Post Impressionist Painting by Antoine Blanchard
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Oil on canvas figures in cityscape circa 1970 by French post impressionist painter Antoine Blanchard. The work depicts a bustling scene at the Boulevard Haussmann in Paris, France. Lights illuminate the shopfronts and the street lights as people walk along the paths in their coats and horse drawn carts pass along the cobbled street.
Signature:
Signed lower right and stamped with artist's cachet verso
Dimensions:
Framed: 27.00" x 29.00" (68.6cm x 73.7cm)
Unframed: 18.00" x 22.00" (45.7cm x 55.9cm)
Provenance:
The Boydell Galleries - Liverpool
Antoine Blanchard trained at the École de Beaux-Arts in Rennes for three years. Then from 1932 attended the École de Beaux-Arts in Paris for four years. He painted exclusively Parisian street scenes in which the view is of an idyllic Paris in any season, but always in 1900.
Blanchard received his initial artistic training at the Beaux-Arts in Rennes, Brittany. He then moved to Paris in 1932 where he joined the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He won the Prix de Rome.
Like Edouard Cortes (1882–1969) and Eugène Galien-Laloue (1854–1941), Antoine Blanchard essentially painted Paris and the Parisians in bygone days, often from vintage postcards. The artist began painting his Paris street scenes in the late 1950s. And like Cortès, often painted the same Paris landmark many times, in different weather conditions or various seasons. The most recurrent topics were views of the capital city on cloudy or rainy days. Showing streets busy with pedestrians in a rush to go home, and bright storefronts reflecting on wet streets.
Many of the French Quarter art...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tom Davison "Morning Rush", Oil on board
Located in Glenview, IL
"Morning Rush" by British painter Tom Davison (1934 - 2018) is a large oil on board representing human figures moving about in what appears to be a large l...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Surrealist orixa Brazil acrylic on board painting surrealism Ubeda
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Gustavo Úbeda (1930-1994) - Orixa - Acrylic on panel
Acrylic measurements 61x91 cm.
Frameless.
The painting by Gustavo Úbeda Romero (Herencia, 1930 – Sao Paulo, 1994) comes from a f...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Mexican Market Scene
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful Mid-century painting depicts what is probably a Mexican of Latin American market scene. Oil on canvas glued down to panel measuring 9.75 x 15.25 inches; 11 x 16.5 inches fr...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Modern Abstract Expressionist Woman Portrait
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3723 Acrylic on board
Set in a custom wood frame
Category
1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Vintage American Interior Scene "Friday Nite Bar PickUp" 1970's
By E.Blick
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
#5-3034a Vintage figurative acrylic on masonite displayed in a white wood frame
Signed lower left by E.Blick.
Image size 13.5 H x 10.5 W
Category
1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Rooster and game
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
18th century work
Black wooden frame
55 x 78 x 3 cm
Category
18th Century Dutch School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Figurative Paintings for Sale
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