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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Period: 1950s
Period: 1760s
Abstract Procession Jewish Wedding Chuppah Oil Painting Modernist Judaica
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Modern
Subject: Abstract
Medium: Oil
Surface: Canvas
Country: United States
Sabina Teichman: (1905-1983) Studied at Columbia Univ. (BA, MA), also with Charles J. Martin and Arthur J. Young.
Exhibits include WMAA, Art USA, 1958, PAAM, Butler Institute Amer. Art, Audubon Artists Ann., Womens Westchester Center.
Sabina Teichman's paintings have a touch of fauvist vitality and responsiveness and color. Her Lyrical Paintings convey the great joy of life which is hers. the joy is so profound that it cannot be obtained in traditional art forms and so it has become necessary for Sabina to create new forms to express the euphoria. As the dynamic colors emerge from her luxuriously coated brush, she surrenders to a newly realized adventure in abstract expressionism. A boldness belies he femininity which yields an exciting style and a joyful freshness. Sabina Teichman illuminates the canvas with strokes of color that affect the very soul of the viewer , for she feels that color inspires the inner being of man. Her response to color elation.
Dynamic colors emerge from the luxuriously coated brush of this artist, surrendering to her newly realized adventure in abstract impressionism. A boldness belies her femininity which yields an exciting style and a joyful freshness. Sabina Teichman illuminates the canvas with strokes of color that affect the very soul of the viewer, for she knows as did Goethe, that color inspires the inner being of man.
Sabina Teichman's own response to color is elation. Widely known as a figurative painter, one reviews her earlier style only to find that all shapes lived within the surrounding of abstract settings which now dominate her most recent paintings.
The Vatican Museum's collection of contemporary art has acquired Sabina Teichman's painting The Prophet given in response to an expressed desire of a representative of Pope Paul VI, who said that, to the best of his knowledge, it was the first painting by a living American to become part of the Vatican. Member of Audubon Artists, Provincetown Art Association
Argent Galleries, New York, 1947.
Salpeter Gallery, New York, 1949, 1952, 1954. Shore Galleries, Boston, 1955.
A C A Gallery, New York, 1957, 1960, 1963, 1969. A C A Gallery, Rome, 1965.
Orpheus...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman in a Red Dress, Mid Century Female Illustrator/ Artist, Elizabeth Taylor ?
Located in Miami, FL
Mid-century female illustrator/artist Gladys Rockmore Davis paints a compelling portrait of a contemplative beauty who looks like Elizabeth Taylor. Frontal and lateral forces work together in this pyramidal composition. The sitter stares down at the viewer creating a frontal tension. Her hypnotic gaze is counterbalanced by the lateral movement of her crossed hands and triggers an emotional response. Gladys Rockmore Davis is both a work-for-hire illustrator and a fine artist- She was an illustrator for clients such as Upjohn, Munsingwear, Elgin Watches, and Johnson & Johnson. Davis had a show at the prestigious Midtown Gallery and Babcock Gallery in New York. She studied at the California School of Fine Arts, Art Institute of Chicago, and Art Students League. William R. French Gold Medal...
Category
1950s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
20th Century Oil on Canvas Spanish Signed Painting Maternity, 1950s
Located in Vicoforte, IT
Spanish painting from the mid-20th century. Oil on canvas, glued on masonite, painting depicting Maternity, Woman with child in her arms of excellent pictorial quality. Painting of g...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Village near St. Petersburg" cm. 66 x 71 Oil 1959 Countryside, Party, Summer
By Gleb Savinov
Located in Torino, IT
Countryside, Party, Summer,Green,
Shipment included in the price
GLEB SAVINOV (Charkev, 1915 – St. Petersburg, 2000)
Works by Gleb Savinov can be found in various private collecti...
Category
1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Soleil de Novembre - Impressionist Riverscape Oil by Alexandre Jacob
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on board landscape circa 1950 by popular French impressionist painter Alexandre Louis Jacob. The piece depicts a view of a marsh water mill. The yellow glow of the low Nov...
Category
1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Mr Millerson with Mrs. 1959. Paper, mixed media, 16x6.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Mr Millerson with Mrs. 1959. Paper, mixed media, 16x6.5 cm
Adolfs Zardins
(1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter.
Only in 1990 his relatives give his artist...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor
"Little girl with dog " Oil cm.35 x 25 1950
Located in Torino, IT
Dog,Child,Little girl,impressionisme
KLARA VLASOVA (Moscow, 1926)
MUSEUMS
St. Petersburg, State Russian Museum
Moscow, Pushkin Museum
Moscow, Museum of History and Reconstructio...
Category
1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Phi-Phi, rideau - Phidias - Premier acte fait pour les Bouffes-Parisiens
By Erté
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is a unique, original gouache on paper by Erte, also known as Romain de Tirtoff. Erte was a vastly diverse artist who excelled in an array of fields including fashion, jew...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Polish French Ecole de Paris Mid Century Modernist Oil Painting Clown Juggler
By Abram Krol
Located in Surfside, FL
Abram Abraham Krol was born January 22, 1919, in Pabianice (Lodz), Poland.
Abram Krol went to France in 1938 to study civil engineering at the University of Caen. In 1939 at the be...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Coffee Break, Saturday Evening Post cover
By Benjamin Prins
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Sight Size 29.00" x 26.00;" Framed 38.50" x 35.00"
Framed under glass.
Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Po...
Category
1950s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Falcon hunt after a 16th century tapestry
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Maurice ALBE
(Beaugency 1900 - Périgueux 1995)
Falcon hunting, from a 16th century tapestry
Oil on canvas (hessian type)
H. 150 cm; L. 120 cm
Signed and dated lower right 1554 (for 1...
Category
1950s French School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Birch grove. Oil on cardboard. 27, 5 x 21, 3 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Birch grove. Oil on cardboard. 27, 5 x 21, 3 cm
Category
1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
The harvest after a 16th century tapestry
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Maurice ALBE
(Beaugency 1900 - Périgueux 1995)
The grape harvest, from a 16th century tapestry
Oil on canvas (burlap type)
H. 170 cm; L. 100 cm
Signed and dated upper left 51
Proven...
Category
1950s French School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Winter Evening Fifth Avenue - New York at Night
By Ernest Fiene
Located in Miami, FL
Ernest Fiene depicts Fifth Avenue looking down from 57th Street with an unobstructed view of the Empire State Building. The absence of newer glass and steel architecture gives the painting the charm of old New York. The artist captures a dark, moody blue sky as light bounces back from the clouds. This contrasts with the somewhat haunting yellow glow given to pedestrians and street traffic. The people have somewhat of a zombie quality akin to George Tooker. Best viewed with a top and direct gallery light...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Kolkhoz in winter. 1950, oil on cardboard, 28.5x35.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
skiers by Kolkhoz at winter
A. Zviedris was a member of the Latvian Artists’ Union since 1945 and had more than 50 solo exhibitions in Latvia. He travelled extensively by yacht aroun...
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
"Study for decoration Moscow metro station" Kievskaya Tempera, Real socialism
Located in Torino, IT
Real Socialism,Moscow,1970,Russia,Orange,Men at Work,Propaganda
VIKTOR A. KONOVALOV (Uidol, Vladimir region 1912 – Moscow 1995)
Russian painter and gr...
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Tempera
" Ice-skating " Skating, Children, Blue, White, Impressionism , Oil cm. 46 x 32
Located in Torino, IT
Skating,Sport,Ice-skating,Winter sport,blue, white
KLARA VLASOVA (Moscow, 1926)
MUSEUMS
St. Petersburg, State Russian Museum
Moscow, Pushkin Museum
Moscow, Museum of History and...
Category
1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Picnic, Modern Figurative Oil Painting by Anton Refregier
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Anton Refregier
Title: Picnic
Year: 1959
Medium: Oil on Masonite, signed and dated l.r.
Size: 24 x 44 inches (61 x 112 cm)
Frame: 31.5 x 51.5 inches
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Landscape with pagodas in Vietnam
By André Maire
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
André MAIRE
(Paris 1898 – Paris 1984)
Landscape with pagodas in Vietnam
Chalk Conté on paper
H. 50 cm; W. 32 cm
Sensitive to the outline of his artistic gifts, his father enrolled h...
Category
1950s French School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Charcoal
Les Competiteurs, American Modernist, Abstract Figurative Oil on Canvas, 1952
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Les Competiteurs" by American modernist painter Leonard Nelson is a 36" x 26" oil on canvas abstract figurative painting, created in 1952. The work is framed in classic black and si...
Category
1950s Abstract Geometric Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Three studies executed in the Pitti Palace in 1761 by Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Located in PARIS, FR
This brilliant study sheet, of which we present here a counterproof, is a souvenir of Fragonard's return journey from Italy. Between April and September 1761, he accompanied the abbot of Saint-Non on his way back to France. Three studies after the masters taken from the Pitti Palace’s gallery in Florence are gathered on this sheet. Although The Ecstasy of Saint Margaret...
Category
1760s Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Folk Singer oil painting by Byron Browne
By Byron Browne
Located in Hudson, NY
Lovely oil painting by Byron Browne. Measures 18" x 14" and framed 24" x 20" x 1 3/4".
Signed "Byron Browne" lower left.
Inscribed on canvas verso: Byron Browne / 1958 / – Folk Singer– / 18 x 14 / N.Y.C.
About this artists: Through an oeuvre displaying the re-envisioning of figural subjects and the formation of an abstract expressionist style, Byron Browne stands out among the American abstractionists of his generation. Born in Yonkers, New York, in 1907, the artist was a bright talent at the National Academy of Design in his teens. From 1924 to 1928 Browne studied at the Academy under notable artists Robert Aitkin, Charles Courtney Curran, Charles Hawthorne, Alice Murphy...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Man San Francisco Bay Area Figurative Movement Peter Witwer
By Peter Witwer
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of Man San Francisco Bay Area Figurative Movement
Figurative portrait of a man by San Francisco artist Peter Witwer (American, 1928-1968). Unsigned from a collection of his work. Provenance estate of Peter Witwer, Lost Art Solon.
Image 32"H x 26"W
Frame, 32.5"H x 26.5"W x 1.75"D
Posthumous show of the artists work exhibit card on verso.
Born George Peter...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait. On a yellow background 1950's, oil on cardboard, 49.5x35 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Portrait. On a yellow background
1950's, oil on cardboard, 49,5x35 cm
Laimdots Murnieks has said: "I am a sunny artist. The sun and a woman are the center of the world. It is not ...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Sam Uhrdin, The Twilight View
By Sam Uhrdin
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This beautiful mid-20th-century oil painting by Swedish artist Sam Uhrdin (1886-1964) depicts a woman playing the guitar in a gently lit room at twilight.
Bathed in a warm radiance ...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Conductor with Singer, Figurative Oil Painting by William Harnden
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: William Harnden, American (1920 - 1983)
Title: Conductor with Singer
Medium: Oil on Masonite, signed
Image Size: 11.5 x 23.5 inches
Frame Size: 17.5 x 30 inches
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
"Untitled"
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on canvas painting by the Italian artist, Jean Calogero. Circa 1950. Signed lower left
Overall in museum quality gold leaf frame 17.5 by 15.75 inches. Condition: Good. Provenan...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled Figure (c. 1950s)
By Adine Stix
Located in Summit, NJ
Gorgeous oil and watercolor on paper by abstract expressionist artist Adine Stix. Beautiful shades of pink, purples, cobalt blue with s hint of orange cover the paper to create the h...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Watercolor
18th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Landscape Painting Pastoral Scene, 1760
Located in Vicoforte, IT
Antique Italian painting from the 18th century. Artwork oil on canvas depicting a bucolic landscape, pastoral scene with chariot of good pictorial quality. Small painting adorned wit...
Category
1760s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bullfighting Scene oil on board painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Artist: José María Tuser Vázquez (1919-1986)
Title: Bullfighting Scene
Technique: Oil on board
Dimensions: 25.6 x 21.3 inches
Period: 20th century
Art Movement: Figurative Expression...
Category
1950s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Girl with red headband and nude study
Located in Genève, GE
Work on cardboard
Golden wooden frame
60 x 49 x 6 cm
This captivating work, dated 1950, presents a striking portrait of a young girl captured in a moment of intimate contemplation....
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid Century Portrait of Actress Paula Laurence - Wife of Joseph Hirshhorn
By Lily Harmon
Located in Miami, FL
Quick and loose expressionist portrait of stage and screen actress Paula Laurence
Portrait of Paula Laurence (1916-2005). Oil and graphite on linen. Signed top right. Exhibited: "Lil...
Category
1950s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Graphite
Shoo the Moos, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1950
Medium: Oil on Masonite
Dimensions: 25.75" x 20.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, July 1st, 1950.
The Post des...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Expressionist Figure
Located in Buffalo, NY
A modern abstract expressionist oil painting signed illegibly and dated 1956.
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Helen - Mid 20th Century Pencil Figurative Nude Lady by Arthur Royce Bradbury
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Born on the 17th September 1892 in Preston, Lancashire. He specialised in painting portraits, landscapes and marines on oil, watercolour and pastel and was an accomplished etcher and...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
The Collector, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, August 11, 1951.
The Post described, “Make the acquaintance of Kit Dunham, a Westport, Connecticut, lepidopterist. This is...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Mid Century Modern abstract cityscape, unique oil painting, signed twice, Framed
Located in New York, NY
Norman Carton
Mid Century Modern Cityscape, ca. 1951
Oil on canvas painting (signed twice)
Signed twice: hand signed on the front and also signed on the back
Unique
Frame included:
T...
Category
1950s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sexy Woman in a Swamp Storm - Pulp Magazine, Hispanic Artist, Mid Century
Located in Miami, FL
Rafael Maria de Soto y Hernandez was born February 18, 1904 in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. It's high drama in the swamp. Woman in the Swamp is a masterfully executed example of Pulp Art and showcases Rafael DeSoto's full command of academic painting.
DeSoto did pulp covers up until the industry's demise in the 1950s for such magazines as Adventure, Argosy, Black Mask, Captain Zero, Crack Detective, Fantastic Novels, 15-Story Detective, Fifteen Western Tales, New Detective, Smashing Detective, and Walt Coburn's Western Magazine. He also painted many covers and interior story illustrations for men's adventure magazines, such as Action For Men, Adventure, Battle Cry, For Men Only...
Category
1950s Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Father and children in front of TV - Mid-Century
Located in Miami, FL
John Falter arranges figures and faces in a way that rival the old masters in their compositional perfection. And he makes it look easy. The expressions are captured so the emotions of the story come alive. This Golden Age of illustration artist depicts fathers and children watching...
Category
1950s Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Mid-Century Modern Swedish Oil Painting, Framed Street Scene - Pedestrians
Located in Bristol, GB
PEDESTRIANS
Size: 35 x 30 cm (including frame)
Oil on board
A small yet very impactful modernist street scene composition, executed in oil onto board.
This composition presents a b...
Category
1950s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Woman reading after Henri Matisse by Claire Ragueneau
Located in Soquel, CA
Woman reading after Henri Matisse by Claire Ragueneau
Impressionist seated woman reading a book after Henri Matisse by San Francisco artist Claire Ragueneau (American, 1901-1971).
Cl...
Category
1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board
Futurist Vision - Mid-Century New York Skyline - Industrial Progress
Located in Miami, FL
Rarely do you come across a work of art that is vastly different than just about anything you see. This work is undeniably brilliant and a sheer pleasure to behold. Alexander Leydenfrost...
Category
1950s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board, Graphite, Charcoal
"Composition with Figure, " Irene Rice Pereira
Located in New York, NY
Irene Rice Pereira
Composition with Figure, 1951
Inscribed, signed and dated Salford/Pereira 2/51 (lr); inscribed I Rice Pereira/2669 Great Clowes St/Sa...
Category
1950s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Casein
Young Bridal Couple - Old Married Couple - Probable Magazine Cover Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
The illustration shows a young bride and groom at their wedding table above an older couple sitting down for a nice formal dinner.
Probable Family Herald Magazine Illustration, May 1957
Much like Norman Rockwell, Kurt Ard...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Board
Mona Lisa
By Pal Fried
Located in Sheffield, MA
Pal Fried,
Hungarian/American, 1893-1976
Mona Lisa
Oil on canvas
30 by 24 in.W/frame 38 by 32 in.
Signed lower left
Pal was born in Budapest and studied at the Hungarian Academie ...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Christmas Tree Love, Original holiday cover for The Saturday Evening Post
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original cover forThe Saturday Evening Post, published December 23, 1950
A man arrives home carrying a Christmas tree only to discover that his wife has already bought one. The wo...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
The cliffs of Marqueyssac and Castelnaud in Dordogne
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Hans SEILER
(Neuchâtel 1907 – 1986)
The cliffs of Marqueyssac and Castelnaud, seen from La Roque Gageac
Oil on canvas
H. 40 cm; L. 83 cm
Signed lower right, dated 1973
Provenance : ...
Category
1950s French School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Love Story. Mid Century Desaturated Color
By Jon Whitcomb
Located in Miami, FL
Most likely for Redbook, Cosmopolitan, Collier's Weekly, Good Housekeeping or Macall's
Category
1950s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Crying on Santa's Lap, Original Christmas cover for The Saturday Evening Post
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original Christmas holiday cover for The Saturday Evening Post, published December 6, 1958
We’re thrilled to announce the acquisition of an original 1958 Christmas cover for The Sat...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dancing Class, Saturday Evening Post Cover, 1952
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1952
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 30.00" x 24.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, May 10, 1952.
The Post describe...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pieta
Located in BLARICUM, NL
Spirituality and Christianity played an important role for Hamstra in, as he put it himself, 'the making' of his artworks. combined, he wanted to create a powerful, almost ghostly sa...
Category
1950s Symbolist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wax Crayon
BMW Isetta, Messerschmitt Cars Autobahn - Humorous Mid-Century Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
One of the hallmarks of great art is recognizing the artist's style instantly. This is the case with Richard Erdoes. His highly stylized comic figures are expressive and communicate the story delightfully and joyfully. Even though this work is rendered in flat, minimalistic two colors, the inventive shape relationships and positive and negative areas convey a very high level of artistic skill. The present work was done on assignment for the prestigious Standard Oil ( Exxon's predecessor ) corporation's company magazine, The Lamp. Although not a newstand magazine, The Lamp had the highest editional and artistic content. Work is unsigned and unframed.
Richard Erdoes (Hungarian Erdős, German Erdös; July 7, 1912 – July 16, 2008) was an American artist, photographer, illustrator and author.
Early life
Erdoes was born in Frankfurt,to Maria Josefa Schrom on July 7, 1912. His father, Richárd Erdős Sr., was a Jewish Hungarian...
Category
1950s Outsider Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board, Pencil
Young Girl on a Balcony
Located in Sheffield, MA
Kurt Polter
German, 1914-1987
Young Girl on a Balcony
Oil on Canvas
31 ¼ by 39 ½ in, w/ frame 39 ⅝ by 47 ½ in
Signed lower right
Kurt Polter was born in 1914 in Kassel, Germany. Hi...
Category
1950s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Eavesdropping on Grownups, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, December 2, 1950
The Post described, “One night Art Editor Stuart was having a party. His three boys came downstairs four times and were conducted back up by their mother. The next time they came down, Papa Stuart waxed excited, firmly conveyed them aloft himself, and they did not show up again. Stuart was warmly congratulated on his success as a father. When the party broke up, the youngest lad was found asleep on the stairs. Stuart claims that the older ones never did come down again, but this was probably because they merely went to sleep in their beds from natural causes. George Hugehes has painted some other people’s offspring, to get over the idea that children all over America are eager to improve their minds by listening to sophisticated conversation.”
(The Saturday Evening Post, December 2, 1950, p. 3)
Exhibited:
Norman Rockwell Museum...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Pascal Av. Montaigne - Original Tempera on Paper by Esy Beluzzi - 1956
By Esy Beluzzi
Located in Roma, IT
Pascal av. Montaigne is an original tempera and golden oil painting on a light blue paper, realized in 1956 by the artist Esy Belluzzi.
Hand-signed, titled and dated in pencil on l...
Category
1950s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
"Sacred Family" 1950s Abstract Figurative Impasto Oil Painting, Red, Blue, White
Located in Denver, CO
"Untitled (Sacred Family)" is a powerful abstract oil painting on board by renowned American artist Charles Ragland Bunnell (1897-1968), created circa 1950. Signed by the artist in the lower right corner, this striking piece portrays an abstract interpretation of several figures grouped together, capturing the essence of human connection. The dynamic composition is enhanced by vivid, contrasting colors of black, red, blue, green, orange, yellow, and white, creating a sense of depth and movement within the piece.
This exceptional painting is presented in a vintage frame with outer dimensions of 34 ½ x 29 x 1 ¼ inches, and the image size measures 23 ½ x 18 ¾ inches. It remains in good condition, showcasing Bunnell’s mastery of color, texture, and abstraction. Expedited and international shipping options are available—please contact us for a quote.
About the Artist: Charles Ragland Bunnell, born in 1897 in Kansas City, Missouri, developed a deep passion for art from a young age. His early artistic explorations included drawing on walls and textbooks, eventually leading him to study at the Broadmoor Art Academy (now Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center) under the GI Bill in the early 1920s. After marrying fellow art student Laura Palmer...
Category
1950s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Mid-Century Swedish Framed Figurative Oil Painting - The Ensemble
Located in Bristol, GB
THE ENSEMBLE
Size: 29 x 37 cm (including frame)
Oil on Canvas
A small yet very striking mid century figurative composition, executed in oil onto canvas.
The artist has used the exp...
Category
1950s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid-Century Modern Swedish Figurative Oil Painting - Coastal Dock, Framed
Located in Bristol, GB
COASTAL DOCK
Size: 45 x 49.5 cm (including frame)
Oil on board
A vibrant and expressive mid-century figurative painting, executed in oil onto board.
The composition depicts a bustl...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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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