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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Period: 19th Century
Period: 1990s
19th Century British Oil Painting Fisherfolk on Shore with Boats Signed original
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Fisherfolk on the Shore
British School, late 19th century
indistinctly signed and inscribed
oil on board, framed
framed: 15.5 x 17 inches
board: 12 x 13.5 inches
provenance: private ...
Category
19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Francesco Guardi follower (Venetian school) - Late 19th century painting Venice
Located in Varmo, IT
Venetian painter (19th century) - Venice, view of the Punta della Dogana.
29 x 23 cm without frame, 46 x 31 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on canvas, in a carved and gilded wo...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fine 19th Century Country Cottage Interior Young Family Enjoying Meal Together
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Family Meal
German School, mid 19th century
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas : 10.75 x 11.75 inches
provenance: private collection
condition: very good and sound condition
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Enchantress - 19th Century Belle Epoque Oil Painting Portrait French Beauty
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘The Enchantress’ by Nathaniel Sichel (1843-1907). This large fine 19th century oil on canvas, depicting a dark-haired beauty wearing a crown of holly, is signed by the artist and ha...
Category
Late 19th Century French School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Paesaggio
Located in Firenze, FI
Title:"Paesaggio"
Media: Oil on canvas
Size: 50x70 cm
Sergio Scatizzi (Gragnano Lucca), 20 October 1918 – Florence December 1º 2009)
Art and nature are the themes of Scatizzi’s wor...
Category
1990s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
Othello & Desdemona - 19th Century Oil Painting of Shakespeare Play Venice Italy
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Othello recounting his adventures to Desdemona and Brabantio’ by Robert Alexander Hillingford (1828-1904).
The painting – which depicts Shakespeare’s Venetian general, his lover D...
Category
Late 19th Century English School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
20th Century Surrealist Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Hoddesdon, GB
20th century modernist oil painting on canvas . Signed with artists monogram and Dated 1991.
This large and impressive painting evokes a range of emotions and interpretations. With...
Category
1990s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Grand Tour Venice - 19th Century Venetian Oil Painting St Mark's Sq & Canal
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘The Grand Tour, Venice’ by Josef Carl Püttner (1821-1881).
The painting – which depicts a group of 19th century Grand Tourists on the Riva degli ...
Category
1870s Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mount Snowdon - 19th Century Royal Academy Welsh Mountain Oil Painting Landscape
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Llyn Gwynant and Mount Snowdon’ by Edward Charles Williams (1807-1881).
The painting – which depicts figures seated on the lake shore before the iconic Mount Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa) i...
Category
1860s Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vale of the Conwy, Snowdonia - Large 19th Century Landscape Oil Painting Wales
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Vale of the Conwy’ by Samuel Lines (1778-1863). The painting – which depicts a single female figure in Welsh dress walking with a goat in an extensive mountain landscape – is signed...
Category
Early 19th Century English School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Landscape Oil Painting View Of Pantheon Rome Italian School Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
an impressive view of Pantheon in Rome an Italian School landscape oil painting of late 19th century; the artist made a perfect storytelling and give the opportunity to the observer ...
Category
Late 19th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Early 19th Century Oil - Greeting the Prince
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming classical scene depicting figures bowing before a prince. The artist uses sepia tones to capture the figures standing before a vast landscape. Unsigned. Part of a pair of ...
Category
Early 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
18th Century European School Original Oil Painting -- Soldiers at Rest
Located in Soquel, CA
18th Century European School Figurative and Landscape Painting of Soldiers at Rest
Evocative Dutch School painting of soldiers resting at end of day in old ruins, signed J. Kamp (D...
Category
Early 19th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Portrait of a Woman in Purple - Parisian Art Deco Female Figurative
By Dominique Amendola
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of a Woman in Purple - Parisian Art Deco Female Figurative
Colorful and quirky art deco style figure painting of a seated Parisian woman dressed in light purple with decora...
Category
1990s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Fine 1800's Italian Grand Tour Oil Painting Figures before Classical Buildings
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Arcadian View
Italian School, circa 1800
Grand Tour subject
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas : 12 x 16 inches
provenance: private collection, UK
condition: very good and sound cond...
Category
Early 1800s Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Painted Wood Tavolette Book Cover Binding in the Biccherna Style Siena Tuscany
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Icilio Federico Joni.
Italian ( b.1866 - d.1946 ).
Painted Gesso, Gilt and Wood Tavolette Book Cover Binding in the Sienese Biccherna Style
Book Cover size 11 inches x 8.1 inches ( ...
Category
Late 19th Century Gothic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Oil, Tempera, Wood Panel
Antique Scottish Oil on Canvas Painting Tantallon Castle Ruin East Lothian 1850
By Horatio McCulloch
Located in Portland, OR
A fine & important Scottish oil on canvas painting; a landscape of Tantallon Castle in East Lothian, by Horatio McCulloch (1805-1867) R.S.A. The painting circa 1850.
This very hands...
Category
1850s Romantic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Day in Venice, 1892
Located in Stockholm, SE
This captivating painting by Axel Axelson (1854-1892), titled "A Day in Venice, 1892" illustrates a moment from Venice in the year of 1892. Within the compact dimensions of 24 x 14 c...
Category
1890s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Treeing Walker Coonhounds and Bear - Figurative Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Dramatic western figurative landscape oil painting of three Treeing Walker Coonhounds (aka: Tennessee Lead) "treeing" a bear in a tree by western artist Kim L Powers (American, 20/21st Century). Signed "Powers 1993" lower right corner. Image, 29.5"H x 23.5"W.
Long years on the Navajo reservation as a working cowboy/bull rider...
Category
1990s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Painted Wood Tavolette Book Cover Binding in the Biccherna Style Siena Tuscany
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Icilio Federico Joni.
Italian ( b.1866 - d.1946 ).
Painted Gesso, Gilt and Wood Tavolette Book Cover Binding in the Sienese Biccherna Style
Book Cover size 11 inches x 8.1 inches ( ...
Category
Late 19th Century Gothic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Oil, Tempera, Wood Panel
19th Century Oil - Fishing By Moonlight
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming 19th century oil depicting fishermen pulling in nets by moonlight. The boats are portrayed in choppy waters before a Dutch coastal town. The artist uses a dark palette to ...
Category
19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Meditation" Dutch Woman Sewing Interior Genre Home scene Fruit Flowers on Table
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Bernard de Hoog was born in Amsterdam in 1866. He studied under J.F. Hulk and J.C. van Essen at the Quellinus School in Amsterdam. Mainly a genre and portrait painter, he occupies ...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Love Letter
Located in Washington, DC
Signed and dated '1884' lower right
Category
1880s Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Easter Bonnet - Romantic Portrait Oil Painting by Gustave Jean Jacquet
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on panel portrait circa 1890 by French Romantic painter Gustave Jean Jacquet. The work depicts a young redheaded woman wearing a red velvet jacket lined with white fur. On her head she is wearing an Easter bonnet trimmed with leaves.
Signature:
Signed lower right
Dimensions:
Framed: 14"x11.5"
Unframed: 10"x7.5"
Provenance:
Baron Fine Art...
Category
1890s Romantic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Mid 19th Century English Oil Painting Portrait of Country Squire in Yellow Waist
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Country Squire
English School, mid 19th century
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas : 26 x 21.5 inches
provenance: private collection, UK
condition: basic good condition tho...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Baron's Charger - 19th Century Oil Painting English Soldier & Battle Horses
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘The Baron’s Charger’ by John Frederick Herring Jr. (1815-1907).
The painting – which depicts a 17th century Caroline nobleman with his battle horses and attendant hounds – is sign...
Category
Mid-19th Century English School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Adrien Moreau, Woman with Picked Flowers in a Basket Resting by the Sea
Located in Stockholm, SE
A beautiful watercolor by Adrien Moreau (1843-1906) showing a woman with freshly picked flowers in a basket resting in the grass by the sea. The colors are strong and it is mounted i...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Unframed Hand Painted Green Tara Thangka on Canvas 24K Gold
Located in TRUMBULL, CT
Tara is the most beloved of all the female enlightened beings in the Tibetan Buddhist pantheon. The essence of awakened love and compassion, she is known as “the mother of all the bu...
Category
1990s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
The blue bow: a little boy with tousled hair naturalistic portrait oil painting
Located in Norwich, GB
This sweet little boy sits quietly like a well brought up child, but you can see in his eyes how much he likes to run and play. In this sensitive portrait painted in circa 1860 by Fé...
Category
1860s Naturalistic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Flowers Stil-Life
By Edouard Michel Lançon
Located in Pasadena, CA
Edouard Michel Lançon (1854-c.1930), Nice still-life painting with flowers
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Spanish School 19th Century Oil - A Musical Romance
Located in Corsham, GB
An exquisite oil study depicting a young couple by the open window of a villa. The woman plays a guitar while lovingly looking at the man behind her. The pair wear beautiful traditio...
Category
19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Barbizon Landscape Painting on French Porcelain Charger 19th Century by Millet
Located in Rochester, NY
Barbizon landscape painting on porcelain. French. 19th century. Signed E. Millet. Porcelain measures 14.5" in diameter.
Category
19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Porcelain
Gospel Scene on Sunrise Jesus Passing Peter 19th Century Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Stockholm, SE
Gospel of Apostle Luke, Chapter 22:
61. and the Lord turned and looked at Peter; and Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said to him, “Befor...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Pietro Krohn (Attributed), Interior With Woman Knitting, Oil Painting
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This late 19th-century oil painting attributed to Danish artist Pietro Krohn (1840-1905) depicts a gently lit interior with a woman knitting before a statue of the Venus de Milo. It’...
Category
1870s Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Enormous Religious German Oil Painting Adoration of Madonna & Christ Child
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Adoration of the Madonna & Christ Child
German Baroque artist, late 19th century
oil painting on canvas
framed within highly ornate gilt frame
overall size: 68 x 50 inches in total
c...
Category
Late 19th Century Baroque Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th Century Original Scottish Loch Painting in the style of Alexander Nasmyth
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid 19th Century Original Oil Painting of Fishing on Scottish Loch in the Style of Alexander Nasmyth
Gorgeous 19th Century landscape painting of a Scottish loch with fisherman and castle ruins in the style of Alexander Nasmyth (Scottish, 1758 - 1840). This painting features the rough-hewned nature of Scotland's landscape while juxtaposing the peacefulness of a fisherman casting his line into the loch. Adding interest is the castle ruins on the cliff's edge with a sailboat beneath. There is something new to see with each viewing of this picture.
Signed: Illegible monogram lower left corner. (See image)
Framed: Presented in rustic giltwood frame of the period.
Condition: Good
Canvas size: 18"H x 24"W.
Framed Size: 22"H x 28"W x 3"D
Alexander Nasmyth was a painter, illustrator, landscape gardener and engineer. Alexander Nasmyth's style appears to have been molded principally on that of Claude Lorrain in arrangement, color and mood, and on Jacob van Ruysdael...
Category
1860s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Motif From Långälven in Värmland, Sweden.
Located in Stockholm, SE
This enchanting Swedish painting, dated circa 1890, is believed to depict the tranquil waters of Långälven in Värmland, a testament to Ohlson's prowess in capturing the essence of the Swedish countryside.
The scene is a gentle narrative, where we witness a family moment frozen in time. Parents stand by their daughter on a wooden dock, poised to embark on a journey across the reflective waters. The young girl, dressed in period attire, appears eager and curious, a universal symbol of youth's anticipation for adventure. Her parents, dressed in the fashion of the late 19th century, exude a sense of calm and assurance.
Ohlson's brushwork brings the scene to life with a delicate interplay of light and shadow, mirroring the cloud-speckled sky on the lake's surface. The background is dotted with other vessels, suggesting the shared pleasure of the day's end on the water.
Oscar Ohlson (1847–1912), born in Linneryd, Småland, and later settling in Borås, was a multifaceted artist who, after pursuing law, found his true calling in the arts. A student of Alfred Wahlberg...
Category
1890s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The House - Mother & Child Figurative Abstract
Located in Soquel, CA
The House - Mother & Child Figurative Abstract
Wonderfully vibrant mother and child abstract expressionist painting by Kristin Cohen (American, b. 1963). A stylized mother and child...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
PHEASANT SHOOTING
Located in Marlborough, GB
Samuel John Egbert Jones
(1797- 1861)
PHEASANT SHOOTING
Oil on canvas
Frame H. 38cm x W. 47cm Image H. 30cm x W. 40cm
A hunting scene in a beautiful early autumnal wooded landscap...
Category
1840s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Preparation of the meal and punished child
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Plaster frame and gilded molded wood
44.3 x 51 x 5 cm
Category
1880s Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pastoral Landscape Meeting on Bridge Early 19th century Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Stockholm, SE
Summer rustic scene depicts an idyllic picture of country life in which harmony and happiness reign. The muted, slightly blurry colors convey the artist's inner world and mood, while...
Category
Early 19th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Oil
Before Storm Vivid Landscape by Swedish Master 19th century
Located in Stockholm, SE
Attributed by Wilhelm von Gegerfelt (1844—1920). The disheveled crowns of the trees indicate to us the raging wind, and the evening sky in the background...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil, Cardboard
Oppressor and the Oppressed
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gallery)
About Artist
Abiodun Nafiu Azeez is an accomplished artist with a diverse background in contemporary painting, particularly Osogbo art. However, his true passion lies in abstract expression, where he seeks to promote African art, culture, and nature. Influenced by his artist father, he paints to preserve memories and connect with broader societal concerns.
Abiodun's artistic style is characterized by the abstraction and simplification of human compositions. He employs vibrant oil colors, often focusing on primary colors that transition into secondary and tertiary hues. His subjects stand out against neutral backgrounds, creating a harmonious balance in his paintings. A prominent feature in his works is the use of red, blue, and yellow tones, subtly blended to emphasize form and shape.
His artistic journey includes training under renowned bead painting contemporary artist Jimoh Buraimoh...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Reclining Portrait of Henriette of France as Flora, After Jean-Marc Nattier
Located in San Francisco, CA
Reclining Portrait of Henriette of France as Flora, After Jean-Marc Nattier
Oil on canvas lined on wood panel
Painting: 36.75" h x 48" w
Frame: 42.25" h x 53.5" w
No visible ...
Category
Late 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mercury Leading Psyche to Heaven
Located in Jacksonville, FL
Henri-Léopold Lévy (23 September 1840, Nancy - 29 December 1904, Paris) was a French painter of Jewish ancestry, known primarily for mythological and Biblical subjects.
He was the s...
Category
19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
" Fiori e Bacche rosse" cm. 60 x 72 1991 olio
Located in Torino, IT
Luminosa Natura morta ,toni dei blu,viola e bacche Rosse
Pittura materica
Category
1990s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
French impressionist landscape, Barbizon forest, with river and cows at Sunset
Located in Woodbury, CT
French impressionist landscape, Barbizon forest, with river and cows at Sunset
Boyle was a pioneering 19th-century British artist inspired by European Impressionist painters.
The i...
Category
1890s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Studies of three heads and an arm for the allegory of music, Paris, Opera
By Edouard Toudouze
Located in PARIS, FR
Edouard TOUDOUZE
Paris, 1848 - Paris, 1907
Studies of three women's heads and an arm for the allegory of music for a rotunda of the Favard foyer of the Opéra Comique (Paris)
Painting...
Category
Late 19th Century Art Nouveau Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Old Woman 1893 by Famous Russian Master Oil Painting on Canvas Frame
Located in Stockholm, SE
Attributed by Nikolay Alekseyevich Kasatkin (1859 - 1930). In this touching artwork, the artist perfectly conveyed the character of the old woman, who has seen a lot in her life. The hands, tired out and riddled with veins, lie helplessly on the knees. Her slouched body tells us about the load of years lived. The painter skillfully conveys a sense of wisdom, kindness, and humility through her wrinkled face and detached gaze. The painting exudes warmth with a subtle touch of sadness and reflection on a life lived. Thanks to moderately contrasting colors, the portrait comes to life and shows us the depth of the artist's intention. Kasatkin not only continued the traditions of the best masters of portraiture in Russia in the 19th century, but also introduced new principles into it. He sought to display on canvas not only the external features of a person, but also to demonstrate his spiritual world. Antique oil painting on canvas, signed bottom left, framed.
Size app.: 68.5 x 52.3 cm (roughly 27 x 20.6 in), frame is 80.5 x 63.5 cm (roughly 31.7 x 25 in). Very good condition, very well preserved recently conserved condition with minimal wear (notice few micro losses here and there). Please study good resolution images for cosmetic condition. In person actual painting may appear darker or brighter than in our pictures, strictly depending on sufficient light in your environment. Weight of app. 5.4 kg is going to measure 8 kg packed for shipment.
Nikolay Alekseyevich Kasatkin (1859 - 1930) was a Russian painter, considered to be one of the founders of Social Realism in Russia. From 1873 to 1883 he studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture with Vasily Perov and Illarion Pryanishnikov. Upon graduating, he received a medal for his painting "Beggars at the Church Door". In 1891, he began exhibiting with the Peredvizhniki and, from 1894 to 1917, was a teacher at his alma mater. For thirty years, beginning in 1883, he worked with Ivan Sytin, providing illustrations for his popular almanac/calendars and teaching lithography. He also contributed The Great Reform, an encyclopedia that celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the Emancipation (1861), and a collection called "Russian History in Pictures". In 1903, he became a member of the Imperial Academy of Arts. He participated in the Exposition Universelle (1900), where he won a silver medal, and the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904), among others. In 1923, following the Civil War, he was named the first "People's Artist of the Republic" and became a member of the AKhRR (Association of Artists). He is considered to be one of the forerunners of Socialist Realism in the arts and was sometimes called the "Gorky of Painters". In 1956, the Soviet Union honored him with a 40 kopeck commemorative postage stamp. In 1971, his painting of a female mine worker...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Oil
19th century English village scene with cottages, horses landscape and people
Located in Woodbury, CT
Georgine Lara
English Village landscape
A painting by Georgina Lara depicting a 19th-century English village scene offers a charming and evocative portrayal of a bygone era, captur...
Category
1890s Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
African tribal dance acrylic on board painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
George Lilanga (1934-2005) - Tribal dance - Acrylic on board
Painting size 61x61 cm.
Frameless.
George Lilanga was born in 1934 in the city of Kikwetu, in the southeast of Tanzania ...
Category
1990s Tribal Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Acrylic
Fine English Georgian Oil Family Welcoming Son back From School Country House
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"The Return from School"
English School, circa 1820
after the painting by William Redmore Bigg, RA, British 1755-1828
condition: excellent restored condition
Provenance: Christie’s, 1988; Private Collection, UK
A very fine Georgian painting capturing this wonderful image from the social history of England. We see a school boy returning home for the holidays, his trunk and belongings being handed over, whilst his mother and siblings watch on, on the steps and entrance to their large country home (the gate lodge stands in the distance). It is a superbly painted work and presented in excellent condition. The image is after the original painting by William Redmore Bigg, RA, British 1755-1828. Chiefly known from their many engraved versions, the original oils...
Category
Early 19th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Antique 19th century Original oil painting on canvas, Children with pets, Framed
Located in Framingham, MA
Up for sale is a phenomenal 19th century original oil painting on canvas, depicting a genre scene - two children playing with pets.
No visible signature on the front.
Presented in...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Feria de Sevilla
Located in Madrid, ES
JOSÉ CAÑAVERAL
Spanish, 1833 - 1894
FERIA DE SEVILLA
signed "JCañaveral / Sevilla 1881." (lower right)
oil on canvas
29-1/3 x 19-1/2 inches (74.5 x 49.5 cm.)
framed: 38-1/2 x 29-1/2 ...
Category
1880s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Original Acrylic Abstract Figurative Painting on Paper
By Peter Keil
Located in Columbus, OH
Simplified drawing that expertly captures the expression of the person.
Inscribed 'Berlin' below signature
Artist bio:
Influenced by German Expressionism and graffiti elements, Keil...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Abstract Portrait acrylic painting on paper
By Peter Keil
Located in Columbus, OH
Simplified drawing that expertly captures the expression of the person.
Inscribed 'Berlin' below signature
Artist bio:
Influenced by German Expressionism and graffiti elements, Keil...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Sunset, Original Oil on Canvas, Impressionist Émile Louis Thivier (1858-1922)
Located in PARIS, FR
*Dimensions include the frame
In this small, evocative painting by Émile Louis Thivier (1858-1922), the soft gradations of color and light across the sky create a gentle, atmospheri...
Category
1890s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Cherubs Playing in a Park Grisaille
Located in Pasadena, CA
Framed oil on canvas depicting children. Pink grisaille of cherubs playing in a park. Subject often found over doors or piers in the manner of the 18th century.
Category
Late 19th Century Baroque Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Figurative Paintings for Sale
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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.
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