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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Style: Modern
Style: Minimalist
New challenge mindset
Located in Long Island City, NY
There is no definitive answer to the message my work seeks to communicate.
I begin my work with mixed feelings between ‘feeling-self’ and ‘conscious-self’.
We cannot logically explai...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Figurative Oil Painting - Three Musicians
Located in Bristol, GB
THREE MUSICIANS
Size: 63 x 42 cm (including frame)
Oil on Canvas
A striking mid-century figurative composition, executed in oil onto canvas.
Three figures are depicted, presumably...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Parisian Model
By Max Weber
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Parisian Model" is an oil on canvas painting by Max Weber painted in 1908. The work is signed and dated, lower right, "Max Weber Paris 1908". The painting size is 35 1/2 x 19 5/8 inches. The framed size is 43 x 27 x 2 1/4 inches.
"Parisian Model" was painted in 1908, when Weber participated in a life class in Matisse's studio in Paris and painted several nudes. Weber was influenced toward a more Cubist styler after seeing Cezanne's work in the 1906-07 Salon in Paris, and he consorted within avant-garde circles in Paris as early as 1905. After returning to the US in 1909, Weber was credited with showing American audiences Cubism based on his firsthand knowledge of the key players and the style.
Several drawings of Weber's from this time are in museum collections at The Met, the Smithsonian, and MoMA and show a similar style and stocatto gesture. Parisian paintings by Max Weber are extremely rare as there are hardly any that have sold publicly.
Provenance:
Estate of the Artist
Gerald Peters Gallery...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dunure Castle
Located in Storrs, CT
Dunure Castle. Oil on canvas. 16 1/2 x 28 3/8. Signed, lower right. Housed in a dramatic 22 x 34-inch gold leaf frame.
The ruins of Dunure Castle lie in a quiet location overlookin...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
FANTASY WORLD
By Angel Rivas
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
A fantasy world to immerse yourself in. It is inspired by great masters of painting such as; Chagall, Miró, Picasso.
Acrylic painting on canvas
Shipped roll in a tube.
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Oil
Motion Pictures
Located in West Hollywood, CA
We are proud to present for the first time in more than thirty years, the original painting of American artist Peter Korling.
Peter Korling was classically trained at the Chicago In...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
GOLDEN MASK
By Angel Rivas
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Acrylic painting on canvas
Shipped roll in a tube.
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Oil
Modernist Portrait of a Woman by Philadelphia Artists Julius Bloch
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Julius Thiengen Bloch
(American, born Germany, 1888-1966)
Portrait of a Woman
Oil on canvas, 32 x 25 1/4 inches
Framed: 38 x 31 inches (approx.)
Signed at lower right: "Julius Bloch"...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Signed 20th Century French Modernist Oil Painting Naked Woman on Beach
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Sur la Plage
French Modernist artist, 20th century
indistinctly signed
oil on canvas, framed
inscribed verso
framed: 20.5 x 26.5 inches
canvas : 20 x 26 inches
provenance: private c...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
'Montmartre, Place du Tertre', Paris, Woman Modernist, AIC, Smithsonian, Carmel
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Patricia Cunningham' for Patricia Stanley Cunningham (American, 1907-1984) and painted circa 1965.
The first woman to serve as president of the Carmel Art Assoc...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
WPA Scene American Modernism 20th Century Workers Strike Realism Industrial
Located in New York, NY
WPA Scene American Modernism 20th Century Workers Strike Realism Industrial "Pawns" 16 x 20 inches,. Oil on board, c. 1930’s. Signed lower left.
Stowell Sherman...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
WILD ANIMAL
By Angel Rivas
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Acrylic painting on canvas
Shipped roll in a tube.
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Oil
GOLDEN MASK
By Angel Rivas
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Acrylic painting on canvas
Shipped roll in a tube.
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Oil
People Lawn Bowling in Central Park New York City 1950 oil/canvas NYC blue green
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Aaron Berkman (1900 - 1991)
“Bowling in Central Park” New York
Oil on canvas
10 x 14 inches
Signed and titled verso: Aaron Berkman 1950
Provenance:
Private collection, USA
Aaron Ber...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
GOLDEN MASK
By Angel Rivas
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Acrylic painting on canvas
Shipped roll in a tube.
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Oil
Sunset in Ireland Countryside - Original Oil Painting by Northern Irish Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Sunset in Ireland Countryside - Original Oil Painting by Northern Irish Artist, Dennis Orme Shaw
Art measures 10 x 8 inches
Frame measures 16 x 14 inches
Dennis Orme Shaw was bo...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Distance Bridged by a Bunny, bright colors
By Jenny Toth
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is a painting of a nude woman sitting on a bed with her leg extended and her foot pushed against a mirror behind the head of the bed. She is looking at the sleeping man next to...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Elegance, nude woman, figurative modern, oil on canvas, textured, minimalism
Located in LANGRUNE-SUR-MER, FR
Sophie Dumont's captivating painting offers a striking portrayal of the female form, expressed with remarkable finesse and mastery. The use of the palette knife imbues the artwork wi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
untitled
Located in Zofingen, AG
This painting was born out of darkness. I painted the canvas black because I didn't want to look inside myself. It's always very painful. The woman's arm appears broken and a bit lar...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Madonna. Oil on canvas, 53x48 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Madonna. Oil on canvas, 53x48 cm
Laimdots Murnieks has said: "I am a sunny artist. The sun and a woman are the center of the world. It is not for nothing that the sun always comes w...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
WILD ANIMAL
By Angel Rivas
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Acrylic painting on canvas
Shipped roll in a tube.
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Oil
WILD ANIMAL
By Angel Rivas
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Acrylic painting on canvas
Shipped roll in a tube.
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Oil
Portrait. Oil on canvas, 64x50 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Portrait. Oil on canvas, 64x50 cm
Laimdots Murnieks has said: "I am a sunny artist. The sun and a woman are the center of the world. It is not for nothing that the sun always comes ...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Oil Painting Interior Scene Chair w Chinese Rug Joseph Solman American Art WPA
Located in Surfside, FL
Joseph Solman (1909-2008),
Chair with Chinese Rug,
oil paint on masonite, initialed JS on recto, titled and signed "J.S." verso,
Dimensions 14" x 10" Framed to 21 X 17
Provenance...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Vintage Mid Century Modern Figurative -- Seated Samurai Original Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Vintage Mid Century Modern Figurative -- Seated Samurai Original Oil on Canvas
A quiet mood of this warrior is captured by listed California artist Molly E. Brubaker (American, 1922...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Figurative Portrait of a Nude Male Model
Located in Soquel, CA
Figurative Portrait of a Nude Male Model
Handsome example of a vibrant figurative of a nude male model by Katherine Kallick (American, b. 1952).
Med...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Large Oil Painting Israeli Pinchas Litvinovsky Jerusalem Israel Bezalel School
By Pinchas Litvinovsky
Located in Surfside, FL
Pinchas Litvinovsky (Russian/Israeli, 1894-1985)
A group of people, Jerusalem Types
Hand signed indistinctly (lower right) in English and in Hebrew Verso.
Oil on canvas
Dimensions 16 1/8 x 51 1/16in
Pinchas Litvinovsky (1894-1985) was a prominent Israeli painter, born in the Russian Empire (now Belarus) in Novo-Georgiyevsk, Russia. As a student he visited the Bezalel exhibition in Odessa and met Boris Schatz, the founder of the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts. Schatz persuaded the young, talented student to study art in Jerusalem at Bezalel. He immigrated to Palestine in 1911, where he became a key figure in the local art scene and was among the pioneers of Israeli art. Litvinovsky studied art in Odessa and later in Paris at the Académie Julian. In the 1930’s he traveled to Paris, France where he encountered the art of Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and artists of the Ecole Juif Jewish School of Paris. (Marc Chagall, Modigliani, Chaim Soutine). Litvinovsky worked in many modernist styles, especially Cubism as reflected in the Russian constructivist paintings of the 1920’s His work, which includes landscapes, portraits, and biblical scenes, reflects a blend of European influences and Middle Eastern motifs. He was a member of the Bezalel group of artists and participated in the establishment of the Tel Aviv Artists' House. Throughout his career, Litvinovsky's art evolved, but he remained dedicated to exploring the unique light and landscapes of Israel, contributing significantly to the cultural fabric of the young nation.
Select Group exhibitions
Jewish Artists Association, Levant Fair, Tel Aviv, 1929
Artists: Arie Allweil, Ludwig Blum, Nachum Gutman, Itzhak Frenel Frenkel, Reuven Rubin, Shmuel Schlezinger,
Eged - Palestine Painters Group, Allenby Street, Tel Aviv, 1929
Artists: Chana Orloff, Abraham Melnikoff, Sionah Tagger, Elias Newman,
A Collection of Works by Artists of the Land of Israel The Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem, 1940
Artists: Moshe Mokady, Jakob Steinhardt, Anna Ticho, Joseph Budko, Mordecai Ardon, Moshe Castel, Abel Pann, Hermann Struck,
Rina Gallery, Jerusalem
Artists: Motke Blum, Efraim Fima (Roytenberg, Ephraim) Zelig Segal, David Sharir, Joseph Halevi, David Caftori, Menashe kadishman, Dedi Ben Shaul, Raffi Lavie
Exposition des Artistes de Jérusalem Grand Palais, Paris, France
Artists: Samuel Ackerman, Marek Yanai, Zvi Tolkovsky, Zvi Miron Sima...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Donald McIntyre. Girl and Chapel, North Wales. Modern British. Rural Welsh Life.
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Donald McIntyre.
English ( b.1923 - d.2009 ).
Girl and Chapel, North Wales.
Oil on card.
Signed with monogram twice lower left.
Image size 12 inches x 15.6 inches ( 30.5cm x 39.5cm ...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Over and Above Surprise (Serpent), 1960s snake painting, Cleveland School
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Over and Above Surprise (Serpent), 1967
Casein on board
Signed lower right
7.75 x 5.5 inches
Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a lev...
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Casein
Henry Ottmann (1877-1927) A Still life, oil on canvas signed
Located in Paris, FR
Henry Ottmann (1877-1927)
A Still life,
signed lower right
Oil on canvas
41 x 51 cm
Framed : 53.5 x 63.5 cm
Another fine example of Henry Ottmann's original art, this still life ...
Category
1910s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Over and Above: No. 6, Surreal Cat w/ Fish Bones, 20th Century Cleveland School
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904–2000)
Over and Above: No. 6, 1963
Oil, sand & fish bones on canvas
Signed and dated upper left
53 x 31 inches
Clarence Holbrook Carter achie...
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Acrylic on Canvas Signed P.J. Crook 'The swimming Pool' 1989
Located in Uppingham, GB
Acrylic on Canvas by P.J.Crook titled 'The Swimming Pool' with the frame painted as part of the picture as well.
PJ Crook lives and works in Gloucestershire ...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Hillside and Stream, early 20th century modernist Cleveland School painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clara Deike (American, 1881-1964)
Hillside and Stream, 1916
Gouache on paper
Signed and dated lower right
22 x 18 inches
25.5 x 21.5 inches, framed
A graduate of the Cleveland Schoo...
Category
1910s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Conjuring Spirits (Jungle Drums)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Dynamic jungle drummer scene by unknown NYC American artist. Oil on canvas measuring 20 x 26 inches. Signed "T 42" in ink on verso. Anco stretchers and Grumbacher NYC store stamp con...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Surrealist Still Life with Apples, Mid 20th Century Cleveland School Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Still Life with Apples, 1940
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated upper right
18 x 24 inches
Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a level of na...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Expressionist Landscape Oil Painting - Sea Catch
Located in Bristol, GB
SEA CATCH
Size: 54.5 x 87 cm (including frame)
Oil on Canvas
A brilliantly executed and lively mid-century modernist composition in oil, painted onto canvas.
In this scene, we see ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Modernist Judaica Jewish Ink Drawing Painting "New Immigrant" Off the Boat WPA
Located in Surfside, FL
An ink drawing Judaic painting by modern artist Ben-Zion Weinman. It depicts a portrait of an old Jewish man. Coming over from Europe on a ship crossing. The work is signed "Ben-Zion".
Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual works as a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Influenced by Spinoza, Knut Hamsun, and Wladyslaw Reymont, as well as Hebrew literature, Ben-Zion wrote poetry and essays that, like his visual work, attempt to reveal the deep “connection between man and the divine, and between man and earth.”
An emigrant from the Ukraine, he came to the US in 1920. He wrote fairy tales and poems in Hebrew under the name Benzion Weinman, but when he began painting he dropped his last name and hyphenated his first, saying an artist needed only one name. In 1920 he settled in America, where he found little interest in his writing. He began teaching Hebrew to support himself and then in the early 1930s returned to painting. He used his art to comment on the rise of fascism in Europe, events he felt could not be adequately explored with words. Largely self-taught, Ben-Zion visited the museums of New York City to learn his new trade. His first painting on a large scale, Friday Evening (1933, Jewish Museum, New York), depicts a Sabbath dinner table as recalled from his family home. Ben-Zion supported himself by working odd jobs until the establishment of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project. Under the auspices of the wpa, Ben-Zion thrived and galleries began to show his work. In 1936, after his first one-man show at the Artists' Gallery in New York
Ben-Zion was a founding member of “The Ten: An Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
1962 Vintage Mid-Century Modern Nude Portrait Oil Painting - On the Red Chair
Located in Bristol, GB
ON THE RED CHAIR
Size: 71.5 x 50 cm (including frame)
Oil on Board
A large and very well-executed mid-century modernist oil composition, painted onto canvas and dated 1962.
In this...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Mid-Century Swedish Modern Figurative Oil Painting - The Lonely Diner
Located in Bristol, GB
THE LONELY DINER
Size: 63 x 48 cm (including frame)
Oil on Canvas
An emotive mid-century figurative composition, executed in oil onto canvas and dated 1962.
The focal point of the ...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid-Century Modern Figurative Oil Painting, Fabian Lundqvist - Garden Vacation
Located in Bristol, GB
GARDEN VACATION
Size: 67 x 59 cm (including frame)
Oil on Canvas
A charming mid-century figurative composition, executed in oil onto canvas by the established Swedish artist Fabian ...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Floral painting, abstract floral large scale oil painting
Located in Basalt, CO
This 60" x 48" original floral oil painting called "Charmed" is one of the first in Tania's recent body of large format flower-inspired oil paintings. On a sprawling 60" canvas, hues...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Swedish Figurative Oil Painting - Dance
Located in Bristol, GB
DANCE
Size: 42 x 49.5 cm (including frame)
Oil on Canvas
An endearing mid-century figurative composition, executed in oil onto canvas.
In the painting, two couples engaged in a dan...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, 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
Lanscape with river - Oil Paint - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape with River is an oil painting on cardboard realized at the beginning of the 20th century.
Good condition.
Frame included.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Via di San Leonardo, Florence (Italy) - Oil Paint - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Via di San Leonardo, Florence (Italy) is an oil painting on pressed cardboard realized at the beginning of the 20th Century.
Good condition (light color degradation).
Frame included.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Heal Heart Heal. Contemporary Mixed Media Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
"Heal Heart Heal"
Original Oil and gold leaf on arches paper, cracked varnish finish. Matted
Signed and dated Image 5" x 7"
Category
1990s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Still life with pears - Oil Painting - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Still life with Pears is an oil painting on canvas realized at the beginning of the 20th Century.
Good condition.
Frame included.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Landscape - Oil Paint by Amos Cassioli - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an oil painting on pressed cardboard realized by the Italian artist Amos Cassioli in the XIX Century.
Hand signed lower left.
Good condition.
Frame included.
Category
19th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Spanish postwar children oil on burlap painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Agusti Ferre Pino (1884-1960) - Children - Oil on burlap
Oil measurements 100x97 cm.
Frame measurements 107x104 cm.
Painter trained at the La Lonja School of Fine Arts. He became kn...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Burlap, Oil
"People on Horseback" Eva Peron Mural Sketch
Located in Austin, TX
By Gustav Likan
This piece depicts a couple on horseback followed by a man in a red military uniform. A dog runs by the group. This pieces is from the Eva Perón commissioned mural sk...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
1960's French Portrait of a Stylish Fashioable Lady Signed Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Lady
French School, circa 1960's
indistinctly signed
oil on board, unframed
board: 19 x 12.5 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: some paint loss t...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Old Man: Contemporary Figurative Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Sympathetic portrayal of old age, really very pretty work by this British artist.
oil and gold leaf on arches paper, cracked varnish finish. Matted and very good condition
Category
1990s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
La Salute le Soir - Venice - Modern Landscape Oil Painting by André Hambourg
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed, dated and titled figures in a landscape oil on canvas by French modernist painter Andre Hambourg. This beautiful piece depicts a view of the gondolas on the canal in Venice a...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
French school circa 1930, Portrait of a young man with blue eyes, oil
Located in Paris, FR
French school circa 1930
Portrait of a young man with blue eyes
Oil on cardboard panel
27 x 21.5 cm
Bears a signature (illegible) upper right
Framed : 34.5 x 29.5 cm
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Woman with Arms Crossed
By Byron Browne
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Woman with Arms Crossed
Mixed media collage-painting on stone chip surface, mounted on fabric, mounted on wood support by the artist, 1955
Signed and dated lower center
Image size: 1...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Other Medium
1940's French Signed Modernist Oil Painting Nude Figure in Room Interior
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Nude in Interior
by Maurice Delavier (French mid 20th century)
signed and dated 1944
oil on board, unframed
board: 18.5 x 14.5 inches
inscribed verso
provenance: private collection, ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Californian Pool Encompassed by Palm Trees-original realism-minimalism painting
Located in London, Chelsea
This captivating original painting by Al Freno, titled "Californian Pool Encompassed by Palm Trees," invites viewers into a world where modern elegance meets natural beauty. Executed with meticulous detail, this piece falls under the category of architectural realism, capturing the essence of a luxurious Californian setting.
In the foreground of the canvas, a modern villa takes center stage, its sleek lines and contemporary design seamlessly integrated into the picturesque landscape. The focal point is a pristine pool, reflecting the vibrant Californian sky...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
The kiss
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
American box in black and silver wood
116.5 x 116.5 x 3.5 cm
Category
20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
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.
Browse an extensive collection of figurative paintings on 1stDibs.