Figurative Paintings

Beautiful early 20th Century color lithograph of abstracted man with leaves titled "Homme au Feuillage" (Man with Foliage) by French artist Jean Lucat (French, 1892 - 1966), circa 19...

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...

"El Torero-The Bullfighter" Pierre Ambrogiani (France, 1905-1985) Oil on canvas Circa 1950's 28 1/4 x 20 3/4 (31 1/4 x 23 3/4 frame) inches "If Diego Velázquez and Henri Matisse h...

Cat and Mouse by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968) Oil on canvas 61 x 51 cm (24 x 20 ⅛ inches) Signed and dated lower centre Orovida 1948, altered by the artist in 1966 Provenance Royal ...

Alex Tschernjawski Self Portrait Oil on Canvas 1960s Size: 38x26x0.5in Signed by hand COA provided Ref.: 924802-1827 *Condition: Good vintage condi...

IN THE SHADOWS Size: 39 x 30 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas An outstanding mid-century abstract figurative painting, executed in oil onto board. A figure standing in an interio...

Act. Double sided. cardboard, oil, 71x45 cm

"The Lumberjacks" Pierre Ambrogiani (France, 1905-1985) Oil on canvas Circa 1950's 27 x 22 1/2 (frame) Self-taught artist from a very young age, influenced by Seyssaud and Chabaud,...

Very well executed original oil on canvas painting of a busy street scene in Montmartre, Paris. The scene is Rue Norvins with Sacre-Coeur in the background. Signed by the artist lower left. Titled on stretcher verso. Circa 1950. Condition is very good. The painting is housed in its original frame of chestnut wood with wide gold liner. Overall framed measurements are 21.5 by 23.5 inches. Provenance: A Osprey, Florida collector. Krafft, Andre (Born, Paris, 1911-1986). A French twentieth century painter Andre Krafft...

BASKET CARRIERS Oil on Canvas Size: 74 x 43.5 cm (including frame) A wonderful mid century modernist composition, painted in oil onto canvas. Two figures with baskets on their head...

What makes this work important? It's not that it's a commissioned artwork for a men's 60s pulp adventure magazine depicting the instant a soldier is shot. The big point of the painting is how brilliantly the formal elements are thought out, designed, and executed. John McDermott tells a story using a complex figural composition in an unexpected wide-angle vision. The work is as abstract as it is representation. His use of light is significant because it creates a high-contrast two-color style that bears the mark of its creator. This is a work done by a master artist/illustrator without peers compared to artists living today. If the contemporary art world gave awards for draftsmanship, painting technique, and graphic design .... John McDermott would win the highest accolades. Initialed lower left - unframed John McDermott (August 30, 1919 – April 20, 1977), also known under the pen names J.M. Ryan and Mariner, was an American illustrator and author noted for action and adventure illustrations.[1] McDermott worked as an in-between and effects animator for Walt Disney Studios and as a US Marine combat artist,before establishing himself as a cover illustrator for 1950s paperbacks and pulp magazines such as Argosy, American Weekly, and Outdoor Life. Under his J.M. Ryan pen name, he wrote the novels The Rat Factory (1971), a derogatory satire of Walt Disney and the Disney studio; Brooks Wilson Ltd (1967), on which the 1970 film Loving was based; and Mother's Day (1969) about Ma Barker. Under his own name, he novelized director-writer Bo Widerberg's screenplay for the 1971 film Joe Hill, which would be his final published book. Early life John Richard McDermott was born 30 August 1919 in Pueblo, Colorado, the younger of two sons of Henry McDermott, an oil broker. McDermott was a young child when his father committed suicide.[4] The family eventually moved to Los Angeles where McDermott's mother, Hazel, worked in a beauty parlor. He graduated from Hollywood High School in 1936. Although he had had no formal art education, he took a job as an artist at Walt Disney Animation Studios. Career Disney At Disney, McDermott worked as an in-betweener and effects animator on Brave Little Tailor, Pinocchio, The Reluctant Dragon and Fantasia. His experiences while working at Disney, particularly during the time of the 1941 Disney animators' strike, would later become the basis for his 1969 satirical novel The Rat Factory. McDermott left Disney to fight with US forces during World War II. US Marines McDermott World War II sketch titled "Buddy is Wounded" On September 29, 1942, McDermott enlisted with the US Marine Corps. He served as a "pistol and palette" combat artist assigned to the map-making section. As a sergeant with the III Amphibious Corps, McDermott was involved in battles in the South Pacific theater of war, documenting the Guam, Okinawa and the Guadalcanal Campaigns. McDermott considered his wartime years to be his art education. "In the Marines, as a combat artist, I traveled with the troops and for three years got all the drawing opportunity anyone could want. My work changed enormously during this time and I’m sure it was due to constant drawing, every single day, from life, just putting down what I saw around me. In a few instances it was a dangerous kind of scholarship." According to the Marine Corps history journal Fortitudine, McDermott was so prolific that his contemporary style pen-and-ink sketches became easily recognizable to both Marines, from published work in Leatherneck Magazine, and civilians, from glossy copies supplied by the Marine Corps to the nation's press.His wartime art appears in World War II history books and is displayed at the Pentagon and the National Museum of the Marine Corps. Illustration Following the end of World War II, McDermott moved from California to New York City to work as a freelance illustrator. McDermott made his reputation drawing modern action, war and adventure scenes. His work adorned the covers and inside story pages of popular pulp magazines of the 1950s such as Argosy, Adventure, Blue Book, Outdoor Life and American Weekly. McDermott's illustrations appeared on numerous covers of 1950s paperback novels published by Dell, Fawcett Gold Medal, Bantam Mystery and others. His action graphics were geared toward thriller and detective genres, such as Donald Hamilton's Matt Helm books Murderers' Row and The Betrayers. He also created covers for science fiction comic titles such as Voyage to the Deep[citation needed] and horror-themed paperbacks such as the classic 1955 science fiction novel The Body Snatchers...

The morning hour. Act. 1959. Oil on cardboard, 95x71 cm Alfejs Bromults (1913.3.IV - 1991.11.I) His first professional education was at National University at studies to R.Suta, J....

woman. original figurative academician drawing painting Barcelona, 1904 - Barcelona, 1965 It was formed in Buenos Aires, in the Circle of San Lucas of Barcelona and the FAD. He was ...

Portrait painting of Young Boy signed JR 1952 Oil on Canvas 22 x 27 unframed, 30 x 35 framed

A bustling street scene of everyday life in front of the famed Marché in Cap-Haïtien is rendered in Sénèque This is a relatively early work by Obin's signature brightly colored and flat naive style. Signed lower right. Provenance: Galerie Issa - Port-Au-Prince, Haiti - Owned by Issa El Saieh of later named El Saieh Gallery Sénèque Obin...

Signed lower left "Di Gesu" for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and dated 1954. Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art Center and the Chouinard Art School before moving to Paris where he studied with Andre L’Hote...

Devils depicted. Artist Wilson Bigaud paints a graphic narrative of mid-century life in Haiti without modern medicine. A man is dying yet there is no doctor present. In the struggle...

The story of the post-WWII New York School artists is still being written. The role of women in the art of the day still needs examination and study. Kur...

THE STORE Size: 42.5 x 34.5 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas A vibrant and lively mid-century narrative painting, executed in oil onto canvas. The composition captures a scene at...

Oil on canvas by Henri-André Martin (1918-2004), France, ca.1980s. Les Baux de Provence. With frame: 71x98 cm - 28x38.6 inches. Without frame: 65x92cm - 25.6x36.2 inches. 30P format. Signed lower right "Henri A Martin" (see photo). Located and dated 1961 on the back (see photo). Can be matched to make a pair with another painting by Henri-André Martin that we offer on 1stdibs whose title is "Henri-André Martin Olive Tree Field in the Alpilles, Provence, Oil on Canvas". Born in Lyon in 1918, the child and the adolescent Henri-André Martin spent his youth in Saint-Étienne, his father, Edme Martin, first installed as a practicing doctor in Lyon, having been appointed doctor of the anti-tuberculosis dispensaries of the Loire. During his first years of studying medicine in Lyon, he nevertheless enrolled in the Beaux-Arts. Appointed hospital intern upon his return from captivity in 1942, he ended his medical career as director of the otolaryngology university clinic at Édouard-Herriot hospital. But painting was his passion. Painting was for Henri-André Martin the way of expressing his feelings. By nature very reserved and of an extreme modesty that many took for coldness, it was what allowed him to express his strong artistic sensitivity and, his pictorial periods are as many reflects of his anxieties, of his hopes, of his joys. At every period of his life, wherever he goes and whenever he has a moment, he paints gouaches, often of small size, but sometimes of larger size. He also paints beaches that have been compared to those of Boudin. Their invoice shows, however, that this figure is only appearance and that in fact, these beaches made of water, sky and sand, readily dispense with the motif, the work of the material seeming to have more importance. as the subject. Despite the fact that until the 1970s he painted "on the ground", his canvases remain far removed from the anecdote. Often harsh like the landscapes of Provence, the Parisian walls which express concern, or the railways, the switch tracks which suggest, in ocher and black, all the embarrassment of choice. We find the same nostalgic gravity in the canvases of the carcasses of boats which, as his friend Louis Pons later wrote, "seem to die of immobility" or in the canvases of Venice, or the landscapes of Eygalières. In the following years, his painting became simpler, more synthetic, such as these landscapes with tortured almond trees, black and gnarled olive trees, plane trees standing out against the ocher sky of the dawn of Provence, in winter. These are also the canvases of Hamburg in the dough becomes heavier, the colors darken, marking all the gravity of the port landscapes. Workshop work gradually takes precedence over motif painting. The pivotal period coincides with that of his work on the olive tree, during which he leads the realization of the "Trunks", a collection of six lithographic plates, of the book L'olivier comprising many lithographs and serigraphs, but also texts. poetic and numerous paintings. He then became passionate about everything related to the olive tree (literature, painting, traditions, history), but also to the tree itself, its thousand-year-old history, its poetry, its symbols, but also its culture, its size. oil production...

CITY DREAM Size: 56.5 x 66cm (including frame) Oil on canvas A poignant and atmospheric mid-century cityscape composition, executed in oil onto canvas. In the foreground, a group o...

woman. original figurative academician drawing painting. FRAMED Barcelona, 1904 - Barcelona, 1965 It was formed in Buenos Aires, in the Circle of San Lucas of Barcelona and the FAD...

Giselle Shaha Colorful Mid-Century Figurative Abstract 1969 California artist oil on canvas 30 x 40 unframed, 31 x 41 framed

This interesting British Post Impressionist figurative interior oil painting is by noted artist Charles Cundall and entitled A Conversation Piece. Painted circa 1955 the composition ...

Robert Gwathmey Girl with Guitar, 1965 Signed upper right Oil on canvas 16 x 20 inches Provenance: The artist ACA Galleries, New York Mr. Moses Asch, New York Terry Dintenfass Galle...

HELENE Size: 55.5 x 38.5 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas A brilliant modernist-style figurative painting of a nude, executed in oil and dated 1961. The composition captures a st...

ALTEA Size: 25 x 38 cm (including frame) Oil on Board A brilliantly executed semi-abstract mid-century modernist oil composition, painted in 1959 by the established Swedish artist I...

Rafael Durancamps (1891-1979) - Paris - Oil on board Oil measures 22x27 cm. Frame measures 48x53 cm. Rafael Durancamps i Folguera (Sabadell, March 29, 1891 [1] - Barcelona, January 4...

Oil on canvas by Paul Clement (1906-), France, 1967. Bories-en-Provence near Gordes. Measurements : with frame: 106x87 cm - 41.7x34.25 inches, without frame: 100x81 cm - 39.4x31.9 in...

Woman with hat is an oil painting realized by Edmondo Maneglia (1925 - 2003). Woman sitting at the table with glass. Oil painting on canvas. Handsigned in the lower left and on th...

Three Figures - Black and White Illustration in Ink on Paper Bold illustration of three people by an unknown artist (20th Century). The figures are depicted in a tight cluster, as i...

Ben Zion Magal (1908 - 1999) Ben Zion Magal was born in 1908 in Kishinev - Russia and there, years later, graduated from the Art Academy. He arrived to Erertz Israel together with hi...

Clementine Hunter, African House This is an excellent example of Hunter’s work, featuring the iconic African House. Three figures are present in the work, a boy, a girl, and an elde...

Along the fence. Plywood, oil, 14x14 cm

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 Universit...

Signed impressionist oil on canvas landscape circa 1950 by sought after French painter Edouard Cortes. The work depicts an evening scene of the Place de la Republique square in Paris...

MODERNIST BALLERINAS Size: 59.5 x 51 cm (including frame) Oil on Canvas An outstanding mid-century figurative composition, executed in oil onto canvas by the established Swedish ar...

Woman portrait. 1955, oil on canvas, 50.5 x 40.6 cm Provenance Bonhams

Woman portrait. 1955, oil on canvas, 50.8 x 40.6 cm Provenance Bonhams

Listed female vintage modernist Paris cafe street scene by Elise Shaw. Oil on board. Framed.

Rafael Durancamps (1891-1979) - Cadaques - Oil on canvas Oil measures 38x61 cm. Frame measures 52x75 cm. Rafael Durancamps i Folguera (Sabadell, March 29, 1891 [1] - Barcelona, January 4...

PAINTERLY PORTRAIT Size: 53 x 44 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas A very striking and emotive mid-century figurative portrait, executed in oil onto canvas. The painting portrays ...

Shlomo Zafrir is active/lives in Israel, France. Shlomo Zafrir is known for cubist painting. Shlomo Zafrir is a painter and, at the same time, the owner of a nightclub called Omar K...

Oil on canvas by Henri-André Martin (1918-2004), France, ca.1960. Notre-Dame de Paris. With frame: 79.3x 60.3 cm - 31.2x23.7 inches. Without frame: 54x 73 cm - 21.3x28.7 inches. 20P format. Signed lower left "Henri A. Martin" (see photo). Born in Lyon in 1918, the child and the adolescent Henri-André Martin spent his youth in Saint-Étienne, his father, Edme Martin, first installed as a practicing doctor in Lyon, having been appointed doctor of the anti-tuberculosis dispensaries of the Loire. During his first years of studying medicine in Lyon, he nevertheless enrolled in the Beaux-Arts. Appointed hospital intern upon his return from captivity in 1942, he ended his medical career as director of the otolaryngology university clinic at Édouard-Herriot hospital. But painting was his passion. Painting was for Henri-André Martin the way of expressing his feelings. By nature very reserved and of an extreme modesty that many took for coldness, it was what allowed him to express his strong artistic sensitivity and, his pictorial periods are as many reflects of his anxieties, of his hopes, of his joys. At every period of his life, wherever he goes and whenever he has a moment, he paints gouaches, often of small size, but sometimes of larger size. He also paints beaches that have been compared to those of Boudin. Their invoice shows, however, that this figure is only appearance and that in fact, these beaches made of water, sky and sand, readily dispense with the motif, the work of the material seeming to have more importance. as the subject. Despite the fact that until the 1970s he painted "on the ground", his canvases remain far removed from the anecdote. Often harsh like the landscapes of Provence, the Parisian walls which express concern, or the railways, the switch tracks which suggest, in ocher and black, all the embarrassment of choice. We find the same nostalgic gravity in the canvases of the carcasses of boats which, as his friend Louis Pons later wrote, "seem to die of immobility" or in the canvases of Venice, or the landscapes of Eygalières. In the following years, his painting became simpler, more synthetic, such as these landscapes with tortured almond trees, black and gnarled olive trees, plane trees standing out against the ocher sky of the dawn of Provence, in winter. These are also the canvases of Hamburg in the dough becomes heavier, the colors darken, marking all the gravity of the port landscapes. Workshop work gradually takes precedence over motif painting. The pivotal period coincides with that of his work on the olive tree, during which he leads the realization of the "Trunks", a collection of six lithographic plates, of the book L'olivier comprising many lithographs and serigraphs, but also texts. poetic and numerous paintings. He then became passionate about everything related to the olive tree (literature, painting, traditions, history), but also to the tree itself, its thousand-year-old history, its poetry, its symbols, but also its culture, its size. oil production...

Franklin Faust Mixed media on board 1961 Five figures and a horse 23 x 27.5 unframed 27.75 x 33.75 framed

Oil on canvas by Michel Jouenne, France, Early 1960s. Village of France. Measurements : with frame : 38.7x28 inches - 98.3x71 cm, without frame : 36.3x25.6 inches - 92.2x65 cm, Forma...

"Mermaids" is an original watercolor paintng on paper by French artist, Charles Cobelle (1902 - 1994), signed lower right. The playful imagery of the Mermaid, bird and goat in the s...

Salvatore Grippi was my art professor at Ithaca college from 1970- 1971 Who was doing paintings like this in 1950? Jackson Pollack, Willem De Kooning and Salvatore Grippi, and a few...

Oil on canvas by Jallais, France, 1960s. Boats in port. In its pretty dark brown wooden frame. With frame: 68x58 cm - 26.8x22.8 inches, without frame: 61x50 cm - 24x19.7 inches. 12F ...

Really kool little gem here. Oil on canvas of a young girl adding her artistic talents to a graffiti wall. It measures 16 inches wide by 12 high. Frame is 18 1/2 by 14 1/2 inches. It...

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...

Still life with peonies 1969, plywood, oil, 68x59 cm

Signed impressionist oil on canvas cityscape circa 1960 by French painter Edouard Leon Cortes. The work depicts figures in the flower market at the Place de la Madeleine in Paris, Fr...

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...

Italian illustrator Gianni Benvenuti paints a charming fantasy scene. It's of an extreme closeup of a tiny crowned and winged Prince and Princess They are standing upright in a dand...

Risa Propst Kraid (Romanian - Israeli, 1894-1983) Jewish Israeli Woman artist. enigmatic picture of either women picnicking or refugees huddling together. Painting and Sculpture We...

A beautiful oil on canvas which has been laid on board by the English artist David William Burley depicting a group of friends playing football in a park. Signed lower right and pres...

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 A...