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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Period: 20th Century
Period: 19th Century
Girl playing the flute oil painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Enrique Montserrat Foj (1935-2022) - Girl playing the flute - Oil Oil on canvas glued to cardboard. Oil measures 46x38 cm. Frameless. Romantic cartoonist, especially for the foreign market, and also a gymnast. Cartoonist linked to Editorial Bruguera and its agency Creaciones Editoriales. She got her start drawing girls' or adventure comics in Stories and the Sissi Graphic Novel Supplement. Much of her work from the 1960s was aimed at the European market for young women's magazines through the Selecciones Ilustradas agency. Anecdotally, he collaborated with Marvel Comics, drawing a romantic comic based on a script by Stan Lee for the title My Love (later republished in Our Love Story), credited there as Enrique Monserratt. He retired from comics in the 1980s to focus on painting. He was also an Olympic gymnast, a member of the Barcelona Gymnastics Center and the Barcino Tennis Club. He was champion of Spain in the third category (1955) and third in the Spanish Artistic Gymnastics Championships (1961). He participated in the Mediterranean Games (1959) and in the Rome Olympic...
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1980s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

1950's French Oil Portrait of Man with Cherries & Blue Jug Mid Century original
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Man with Cherries & Blue Jug French School, mid 20th century circa 1950's oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 26 x 16 inches provenance: private collection, France conditio...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Small Neapolitan fishermen. XIX century. With Gulf of Naples and Vesuvius
Located in Firenze, IT
Small Neapolitan fishermen with girl. XIX century. Foreign artist active in Italy. Painting representing two children against the background of the Gulf of Naples with the volcano...
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19th Century Romantic Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

French Impressionist Signed Oil Painting Elegant Lady Pretty Flower Garden
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Garden Terrace by Paul Flaubert (French, 1928-1994) signed oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 18 x 21.5 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: very good and sound ...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

English Impressionist Oil Painting Artists Nude Model Posed On Bed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Nude Model by Helen Greenfield (British 20th century) oil painting on board, unframed board: 15.5 x 24 inches condition: overall very good provenance: all the paintings we have by t...
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20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Edna Hibel Mother and Child Original Oil Painting on Silk
Located in San Francisco, CA
Edna Hibel: 1917-2015. Well listed important American artist. Mostly associated with Florida and Massachusetts. There is a Hibel Museum in Florida. Some called her the latter 20th ce...
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1960s Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Oil Painting by Well Known Cartoonist and Illustrator Upper East Side, Manhattan
By Sandy Huffaker
Located in Surfside, FL
An Upper East Side of Manhattan New York city scene of bald guy reading newspaper on bench with East River and tugboat in background. The 1970s were the “glory days,” Huffaker says, for himself and a stable of talented illustrators whose work routinely found itself on the covers of the nation’s premier newsmagazines and in the pages of The New York Times. For the better part of that decade, Huffaker was among an elite breed of commercial artists—his hero and fellow Southerner Jack Davis, the legendary Mad Magazine illustrator, among them—working during a remarkable period when art directors routinely turned to illustration to give comic relief to the country’s deeply serious and dark problems. From civil rights and the women’s movement to Vietnam and Watergate, the gas crisis and inflation to the rise of Jimmy Carter, Huffaker mined a deep well of material ripe for his brand of visual wit and caustic satire. He sent his portfolio to children's book illustrator Maurice Sendak, the legendary “Where The Wild Things Are” illustrator to gauge his prospects, and when Sendak replied, “C’mon up, you’ll do all right,” SELECT HONORS: 2 Page-One Awards (from the New York Newspaper Guild), for work in Fortune Magazine and Sports Illustrated. Nominated 3 times for Cartoonist-of-the-Year by the National Cartoonists Society (illustration category). Desi Award of Excellence (Graphic Design Magazine). 20 Award of Merit citations from the Society of Illustrators. One-man show, Society of Illustrators. Illustrators 22 - annual national exhibition for the Society of Illustrators. SELECT MAGAZINE COVERS Time Magazine (6), Sports Illustrated (2), Business Week (12), Forbes, Saturday Review, New York Times Sunday Magazine, The New Republic, Family Weekly, Madison Avenue, New York Daily News Sunday Magazine (2), Junior Scholastic, ACLU, The Nation , and more EDUCATION BA, University of Alabama. Attended Pratt Graphic Center and The Art Students League, New York City. BOOKS WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED The Dispensible Man (M. Evans and Co.) and The Bald Book (M. Evans and Co.) BOOKS ILLUSTRATED White Is (Grove Press), The Begatting of a President (Ballantine Books), The Biggest Sneeze (Harper-Collins), H. Phillip Birdsong's ESP (Young Scott Books), Kids Letters to President Reagan (M. Evans), The Worlds Greatest Left-Handers (M. Evans), Does My Room Come Alive at Night (HarperCollins), The Man With Big Ears (HarperCollins), Jake Snake's Race (HarperCollins), and more POLITICAL CARTOONING Political cartoonist at The News and Obsever in Raleigh, NC and syndicated during the early 70's. Today, syndicated in 750 publications 3-times a week with Cagle Cartoons. FINE ART SHOWS Allied Artists of America, Salmagundi Club, Phillips Mill Annual (honorable mention), New Hope Shad Festival (grand Prize), Hunter Museum in Chattanooga ( one -man career retrospective), Santa Fe public library (one--man), Rosenfeld Gallery (Philadelphia), Potter...
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20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Men Working Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern
Located in New York, NY
Men Working Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Jo Cain (1904 – 2003) Men Working: WPA Mural Study 17 ½ x 10 ½ inches Oil on ...
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1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Two Women in a Cafe - British 1930's art oil portrait painting Spain jugs pink
By Darsie Japp
Located in London, GB
An original oil on canvas by the British listed artist Darsie Japp. It was painted circa 1930 and depicts two woman at a table having a drink. A very evocative inter war oil painting...
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1910s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Antique English Dog Painting Portrait of Border Terrier framed oil painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Border Terrier by Leonard Richard Finn (British, b. 1891) signed oil on canvas, framed framed: 24 x 20 inches canvas: 20 x 16 inches provenance: private collection, UK condition:...
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Early 20th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Coastal Landscape - British Victorian art marine oil painting France boats
Located in London, GB
This lovely British Victorian coastal oil painting is by noted artist Thomas Eyre Macklin. It was painted in 1882 and the location is France. The composition is fisherman in the foreground around upturned boats on grass. A couple of ladies are sat on the grass over looking the sea, one with a sun umbrella. Beyond is the sea or harbour with buildings, including one with a French flag, on the land across the water and the cliffs of the headland. The detail and brushwork are superb as are the vibrant greens of the grass and red roofs. This is a lovely 19th century figurative coastal landscape and an excellent example of Macklin's work. Signed Thomas Eyre Macklin and dated (18)82 lower left. Provenance. Sussex collection. Condition. Oil on canvas. Image size 21 inches by 11 inches. In good condition. Housed in a gilt gallery frame which compliments the picture, 25 inches by 15 inches framed and In good condition. Thomas Eyre Macklin RBA (1863-1943) was a British painter in oils and watercolour, illustrator, sculptor and designer of monuments, who signed his works T. Eyre Macklin or T.E. Macklin. After a promising career at various art schools, including the Royal Academy, in the late 19th century Macklin produced Romantic black-and-white illustrations for books, numerous landscapes, figurative paintings and civic portraits, all of which came to the attention of local newspapers in his native Newcastle upon Tyne. In the 20th century he concentrated on Art Deco monuments and other sculpture, his best-known works being the South African War Memorial in Newcastle, the Bangor Memorial, County Down, and the Land Wars Memorial at Auckland, New Zealand. According to Macklin, his ancestors were from County Donegal. He was the son of John Eyre Macklin, a soldier, journalist and landscape painter; both were Newcastle-born. Macklin married writer Alice Martha Alys Philpott and they had one child, but she later petitioned for divorce on the grounds of infidelity. He had bouts of illness during later life and died in Devon in 1943. Encouraged by his father, Macklin showed a remarkable aptitude for drawing from childhood, and devoted himself to art from the age of ten, being one of W. Cosens Way's students at the Newcastle School of Art, where he was one of the most successful pupils ... On one occasion he carried off the four head prizes of the year. Macklin was selling his pictures by the age of thirtee. In 1884 he moved from Newcastle to London to sketch antiques at the British Museum, and trained at Calderon's Art School until c.1887. After that, he studied at John Dawson Watson...
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19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Five figures and a horse
Located in San Francisco, CA
Franklin Faust Mixed media on board 1961 Five figures and a horse 23 x 27.5 unframed 27.75 x 33.75 framed
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1960s Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media, Wood

Retrouvailles
By Paul Guiragossian
Located in PARIS, FR
Unique artwork by Paul Guragossian Signed lower left Born to Armenian parents, who were survivors of the Armenian genocide, Paul Guiragossian experienced the consequences of exile f...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

A Cafe in Madrid, Oil on Board Painting, Signed and Dated 1950, English Artist
Located in London, GB
Oil on board, signed and dated '50 bottom right, entitled on reverse Image size: 13 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches (34.5 x 23 cm) Original frame Exhibitions 1989, Belgrave Gallery, 22 Mason's Yard, Duke Street, St. James', London SW1 'Clifford Hall (1904-1973) 15th June - 14th July, no.12. Clifford Hall Clifford Hall was born in Wandsworth in 1904, and spent his youth in nearby Richmond upon Thames...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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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...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal

Vintage French Impressionist Oil Painting Two Paths Colliding
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Leon Hatot (French 1883-1953) Title: Impressionist oil painting Medium: signed initials oil painting on thick paper, stuck on board unframed. Size: painting: 13...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Large Original Vintage oil Painting on Canvas, Figures, Framed, Signed Colvin
Located in Framingham, MA
This is a one-on-kind vintage oil painting on canvas depicting two figures. Presented in a nice gold frame The painting is in good vintage condition. Please see the photos. Measur...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

"Let Me In, Let Me Out" - Abstract Mixed Media Composition
Located in Soquel, CA
"Let Me In, Let Me Out" - Abstract Mixed Media Composition Boldly colored abstract figurative composition by California artist Elizabeth Arrington Leaf (American, B-1955). Three lar...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Paper, Acrylic

Alexandria
By Buckley MacGurrin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
BUCKLEY MACGURRIN "ALEXANDRIA" OIL ON CANVAS, SIGNED, TITLED AMERICAN, DATED 1949 EXHIBITED: DALZELL-HATFIELD GALLERY 14 X 20 INCHES Buckley MacGurrin 1896 –1971 Buckley MacG...
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1940s Art Deco Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

20th Century Oil - Harbour Scene
Located in Corsham, GB
An impressionistic harbour scene in oil, complete with fine black outlining to the sea-side houses and fishing boats. A second artwork can be seen to the reverse of the oil,- A Still...
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20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Late 20th Century Still Life of Fruit Bowl w/ Bananas, Apples, Pears
Located in Beachwood, OH
Gretchen Troibner (American, b. 1953) Fruit Bowl Casein on paper Initialed lower right 11.5 x 13 inches 19.5 x 21 inches, framed Gretchen Troibner is an American artist whose primary media is painting gouache on paper. Troibner, born in Warren, Ohio in 1953, received her Bachelor’s in Art Education in 1975 as a joint degree from Case Western Reserve University and The Cleveland Institute of Art. Troibner participated in many shows, especially in the 1980s, including the May Show, Butler Midyear Painting, and Case Western Reserve University Alumnae Show, winning the 1983 May Show First Prize Painting...
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Late 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Casein

Girl & Cat in a Doorway
Located in Milford, NH
A fine early 20th century figurative oil painting of a girl and cat in a doorway by Austrian artist Edmund Adler Rode (aka Edmund Adler) (1876-1965). Edmund was born in Vienna, Austr...
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Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Georges Binet (1865-1949) - Marché De Rouen
Located in ROUEN, FR
Georges Binet (1865-1949) - Marché De Rouen L.33 H.24 cm
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20th Century French School Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Large Landscape Oil Painting Of Rome With Castel Sant'Angelo and Tiber River
Located in Roma, IT
The painting is typical genre scene of Rome of the 17th century, a daily life along the Tiber river. with the river Tiber, Castel Sant'Angelo. Fishermen and characters are on the bank of the river, while several boats travel along it. In the background, perfectly portrayed with a clever play of perspective, Castel Sant'Angelo appears in all its splendor. The work refers to the tradition of Roman painters of the 18th century and in particular is inspired by and takes up the style of Giovanni Battista Busiri a famous and important roman painter of vedute and landscape active in Rome in the 18th century. One of his famous and important artwork a watercolor painting view of the Castel Sant' Angelo, sold at Sothebys previously property of the Dukes of Newcastle under Lyne, and was exposed at Clumber Park...
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20th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Spanish School (XX) Fishermen's Beach oil on board painting seascape Spain
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Signed J. Sureda Lloveras - Fishermen's beach - Oil on board Oil measures 33x41 cm. Frameless. Signed J. Sureda Lloveras.
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1940s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Large Blue and Pink Still-Life - Acrylic Painting on Plywood by James Grant
Located in Pasadena, CA
James Grant's "Large Blue and Pink Still-Life" oil painting delves into the timeless genre of still life, a tradition that has evolved over centuries. While early still-life painting...
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Late 20th Century Cubist Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic, Plywood

Danseuses a la barre - Impressionist Figurative Pastel - Pierre Carrier-Belleuse
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed figurative pastel on canvas circa 1910 by French genre painter Pierre Carrier-Belleuse. The work depicts three ballerinas wearing white tutus, warming up in a studio. Carrier-Belleuse was a contemporary of Edgar Degas and they exhibited simultaneously at the major Salons in Paris. This classic example evokes the Belle Epoque period in french history and is superbly executed. Signature: Signed lower right Dimensions: Framed: 29"x24" Unframed: 26"x21" Provenance: Private French collection Pierre Carrier-Belleuse studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Alexandre Cabanel and the interior decorative artist Pierre Victor Galland. He started out as an oil painter and produced genre compositions, such as his Final Rendezvous. From 1885, however, he opted to work exclusively in pastel, producing a large number of sketches and portraits but always remaining faithful to his earlier genre compositions. Examples include Pierrot, Harlequin, Woman with Cat. The periodical Figaro Illustré published a large number of his sketches of dancers, a recurrent theme throughout his work. From 1875, Pierre Carrier-Belleuse exhibited frequently at the Paris Salon, receiving an honourable mention in 1887 and being awarded a silver medal at the Exposition Universelle of 1889. Museum and Gallery Holdings: Dunkirk: Dancer Adjusting her Shoe (pastel) Gray: On the Dunes; In the Sun La Rochelle: Dancer Le Puy-en-Velay: Fantasy Mulhouse: Mule's Bonnet Paris (Municipal Collection): Tender Vow (pastel) Versailles...
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1910s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Pastel

Large Modernist Oil Painting 1940s, Judaica Hasidic Shtetl Wagon Driver WPA Era
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Modern Subject: Landscape with figure of horse, driver and wagon Medium: Oil Surface: wood Board EMANUEL ROMANO Rome, Italy, b. 1897, d. 1984 Emanuel Glicen Romano was born in Rome, September 23, 1897. His father Henryk Glicenstein was a sculptor and was living in Rome with his wife Helena (born Hirszenberg) when Emanuel was born. His father obtained Italian citizenship and adopted the name Enrico. Emanuel was brought up in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, England and Poland. In 1926 Emanuel Glicenstein Romano and his father sailed for New York. They briefly visited Chicago. Romano's sister, Beatrice, and mother only joined them in New York years later. Romano changed his name on his arrival to America and some have erroneously speculated that this was to avoid antisemitic discrimination. In truth, as the son of a highly-regarded artist, Romano changed his name to ensure that any success or recognition he would later attain, would be the result of nothing other than his own merit as an artist, and not on account of his father's fame. In 1936 Romano was worked for the WPA Federal Art Project creating murals. ( there were many jewish artists active with in the WPA period. notably Chaim Gross, Ben Shahn, Isaac and Moses Soyer, Abraham Rattner and many others. During and immediately after World War II, Romano created a series of allegorical works depicting graphic holocaust images that were held closely by the family until after his passing. One of these works is now on permanent display in the Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg Florida. Emanuel's father died in 1942 in a car accident before they could realize their shared dream of visiting Israel. In 1944 Romano, having completed his degree at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Art Institute of Chicago, began teaching at the City College of New York. Romano moved to Safed, Israel in 1953 and established an art museum in his father's memory, the Glicenstein Museum. COLLECTIONS Indianapolis Museum of Art Metropolitan Museum of Art Boston Fine Arts Museum Fogg Museum Musée Nacional de France Recently his work has been added to the Florida Holocaust Museum collection. His notable works include his holocaust themed allegorical paintings as well as portraits of Marianne Moore, his father and William Carlos Williams...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Set of 4 Hunting Scenes British Oil Paintings Signed - 4 x original paintings
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Set of Four (4) Hunting Scenes British School, 20th century signed Hallard 4 x oil on board, framed inscribed verso each framed: 8.5 x 6.5 inches each board: 7.5 x 5.5 inches proven...
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20th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings

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Oil

The Entombment - British art 30's oil painting religious landscape Jesus angels
Located in London, GB
A huge British adaptation of The Entombment. Oil/Tempera on panel by E G Tucker. The scene depicts Jesus being wrapped whilst the angels look on. The work was executed for The Roma...
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1930s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Poetry of the bird, surrealist drawing, 1948
Located in PARIS, FR
Joséphine Beaudouin (1909-2005) Poetry of the Bird, surrealist painting, 1948 Oil on canvas Signed "Joséphine Beaudouin" and dated "1948" lower left 13,7 x 10,6 inch Born in Albi in 1909, Josephine Beaudouin (née Cals) showed an early interest in drawing. At the age of twelve, she moved to Paris where her mother, Jeanne Ramel-Cals, ran a literary salon that was frequented by art world figures such as Ambroise Vollard. In 1925, while her first drawings appeared in the magazine Crapouillot, the young artist entered the School of Decorative Arts where she studied fresco painting. She married the architect Eugène Beaudouin in 1928, with whom she traveled throughout Europe. Beaudouin, a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, designed a series of buildings that were precursors of modern architecture in France (Clichy, Maison du Peuple; Antony, Résidence universitaire Jean Zay). Josephine Beaudouin exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants, the Salon des Tuileries, the Salon d'Automne and the Salon des Artistes Décorateurs. The work of the one that Jean Cocteau described as "bewitching" is full of mystery. Her work bears the stamp of an extraordinary personality. Indeed, Josephine Beaudouin developed a penchant for dreams at a very early age and took refuge in the works illustrated by Gustave Doré. Her technical virtuosity and overflowing imagination were praised by the critics of her time who unanimously greeted her Marmorées (ill.1). Named by René Barotte, these are paintings made on marble slabs from 1955. The artist exploits the infinite resources of the veins of this support which inspires him poetic compositions with unusual subjects. Marked by surrealism, she returns to the fantastic by delivering a prodigious creation of the mind made of dreamed cities and trompe-l'oeil. The 1948 painting that we propose probably represents a red-billed chough. The bird is a recurring theme in the work of Josephine Beaudouin, as in her life. An avid ornithologist, she kept an aviary in her Parisian home where many island birds were kept. She also built up a collection of stuffed birds. Still on this theme, the writer Claude Aveline (1901-1992), author of the poem L'Oiseau-Qui-N'Existe-Pas, invited several visual artists to freely interpret what this bird could be. The first series of works was produced between 1956 and 1963. In 1957, Joséphine Beaudouin delivered a work with a pen of great finesse, now preserved at the Centre Pompidou (ill.2). Several renowned artists also responded to the invitation of the poet such as Jean Cocteau and Ossip Zadkine. The precision of the graphics of our painting testifies to an attentive observation of the anatomy of the birds. The artist paints with great delicacy: the technique is impeccable, the drawing is careful, the material is smooth, the details are represented with great finesse and mastery. Bibliography : Fernand Pouillon...
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1940s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

White on White
Located in Columbia, MO
Ann Dettmer White on White Oil on panel 18 x 12 inches, 22.5 x 16.5 (framed) Signed lower left
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20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Oil Painting of Mountain and Forest Landscape by 20th Century Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Oil Painting of Mountain and Forest Landscape by 20th Century Artist, W Ward Art measures 20 x 16 inches Frame measures 24 x 20 inches
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20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Surrealist Female Nude in Industrial Landscape Oil Painting, 1930s Modern
By Virginia True
Located in Denver, CO
Oil on board. Surrealist/Modernist painting with a female nude reaching into a wood burning stove, hilly landscape with barn, houses, still life with a bowl of fruit, stormy sky and a small male figure. Presented in a custom frame, outer dimensions measure 29 ¼ x 35 x ¾ inches. Image size is 24 ¼ x 30 inches. Provenance: Private Collection, Colorado About the Artist: The daughter of a classically-trained pianist mother and a concert violinist father, she had an intellectually stimulating upbringing enhanced by Christian Science values. After graduation from high school in Hannibal, Missouri, she enrolled in the College of Education at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1919. Soon, however, she gave up the idea of becoming a teacher and entered at the John Herron Art Institute (whose collections are now part of the Indianapolis Museum of Art). The Institute’s early faculty included artists from the Hoosier Group trained at the Royal Academy in Munich, Germany, who educated artists in the realist tradition. True’s teacher and mentor, William Forsyth, gave her an excellent foundation in drawing and the technical aspects of painting and composition. When the failure of her father’s business in the early 1920s forced her to start earning a living, the Herron Institute hired her as an instructor for its art school, allowing her to support herself while she finished her studies. Following graduation from the Institute in 1925, she received a one-year scholarship to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Her former teacher William Forsyth wrote in his recommendation: "I can say without exaggeration that she was one of the best pupils I ever had during the twenty-five years I was a teacher at the John Herron Art School." At the Academy, she studied with Daniel Garber, an impressionist landscape painter associated with the New Hope art colony, and Hugh Breckenridge noted for his bold palette and expressionistic use of color, as well as the abstract work he started doing by 1922. She also studied briefly in the art department at Columbia University, perhaps in1928 when she produced some of her New York street scenes. From Pennsylvania, she returned to Indiana teaching for several years at Shortridge High School in Indianapolis. She also began showing her work at several area venues, including the Herron Institute, the Artists of Indiana, and the Hoosier Salon held early on in Chicago. Among the Salon’s exhibitors were Gustave Baumann, Victor Higgins, and Olive Rush, who either were Indiana natives or whose careers included connections with the state. By the 1920s all three of them had become associated with the Santa Fe and Taos art colonies. In the summer of 1928 True experienced both New Mexico communities and Southwest culture firsthand with Francis Hoar and her husband Clement Trucksess, her friends from the Herron Institute. They had relocated to Boulder in 1927 and were teaching at the University of Colorado. She recorded in her journal her initial reaction to the New Mexico landscape: "Might I preserve on canvas my thrill and deep feeling of the grand things of nature I have beheld today….There’s a wideness in God’s country that expresses peace to me." Inspired by her trip, True created a group of watercolors for her solo exhibition in 1928 at the Lieber Gallery in Indianapolis. They marked a transition from the realist style she learned at the Herron Institute to the more modernist, semi-abstract one she soon adopted. In the summer of 1929, she accepted an instructor’s position on the faculty of the Fine Arts Department at the University of Colorado (CU) in Boulder. She after that joined the Art Association of Boulder founded in 1923 by Mrs. Jean Sherwood, an art patron and club woman who relocated from Chicago to teach at the Boulder Chautauqua. Sherwood helped convince Dean Fred B...
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1930s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Snow on the Mall
Located in Columbia, MO
Ann Dettmer Snow on the Mall Oil on panel 12 x 16 inches, 17.5 x 21.5 (framed) Signed lower left
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20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Maurice Asselin (1882-1947) Les Anémones, oil on canvas signed
Located in Paris, FR
Maurice Asselin (1882-1947) Les Anémones, a bouquet of anemones signed upper right oil on canvas 38 x 46 cm Label of the exhibition Maurice Asselin at the Galerie Schmit in february...
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1930s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

“Beach Day”
Located in Southampton, NY
Very well executed original oil on masonite beach painting by the British artist., Miles Christopher Fairhurst. Signed with artist initials lower left. Signed verso along with arti...
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1980s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Masonite

Set of 4 Ancient Greek Monuments Pantheon Athens Antique French Engravings Set
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Set of 4 Antique French Black & White Engravings Ancient Greek views and monument landmarks including the Pantheon, Athens. each paper : 9 x 12 inches...
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19th Century Renaissance Figurative Paintings

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Engraving

K.K - Framed 19th Century Oil, In the Wheat Fields
Located in Corsham, GB
A naive 19th century genre scene in oil, depicting an mother and daughter playing together in golden wheat fields. The artist depicts the two figures, mid piggy back ride, happy with...
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19th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Sunset over London - Late 20th Century Impressionist Acrylic Landscape - Quirke
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Michael Quirke was born in 1946 and studied at St Martin’s School of Art, London. After moving from London, Michael became a member of the art community in St Ives and was elected President of the St Ives Art Club. He is renowned for his passion for London, which he paints in his distinctive, expressionistic style. Michael studied under famed artists Frank Auerbach, Maurice Field and Leon Kossof. His bold use of impasto has won him admiration from his fellow artists in St Ives and collectors. Michael's work is now held in collections throughout the world. His atmospheric views of London streets and scenes are increasingly collectable. This painting of Sunset over London , was created with acrylic on canvas. Keywords: shopping, London, central, England, red, yellow, people, shop, shops, store, stores, busy, evening, could be st bride...
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1990s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

19th century Antique European portrait, young boy seated with book by landscape
Located in Woodbury, CT
A wonderful portrait of a young boy seated in his room looking out over the expansive landscape. Painted circa 1840 this piece has all the style of middle European art. French, Swis...
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1840s Victorian Figurative Paintings

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Wood Panel, Oil

English Impressionist Painting Elegant Lady In Blue Dress Reading A Letter
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Lady Reading by Helen Greenfield (British 20th century) watercolour painting on thin board, unframed painting : 14.75 x 16 inches condition: overall very good provenance: all the pai...
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20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor

Bathers, Oil on Canvas, 1914
By Roger Grillon
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas by Roger GRILLON (1881-1938), France, 1914. "Bathers". With frame: 114x94 cm - 44.9x37 inches ; without frame: 92x73cm - 36.2x28.75 inches....
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1910s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Resting Dancer Figurative Abstract
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-3180a Acrylic on artist board signed Millian Image size 6.5x9" Set in a vintage wood frame
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1970s Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

Scene Near Niagara Falls
By Louis Lang
Located in Milford, NH
A beautiful oval landscape painting with two young girls reading near Niagara Falls by German American artist Louis Lang (1814-1893). Lang was born in Waldsee, Wurtemberg, Germany, and came from an artistic family, his father being a history painter. Combining this heritage with his own native talents, he was producing successful pastels at age sixteen. Lang studied in Stuttgart, Germany and Paris, France, before coming to the United States in 1838. He first settled in Philadelphia, then lived in Italy from 1841-1845, before returning to America (1847) and living the majority of his life in New York City, with frequent visits to Europe. During the Civil War, Lang was working in the well-known artistic landmark, the Tenth Street Studio Building, in New York City. John F. Kensett and Emanuel Leutze...
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1860s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Vele
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Vele c. 1990 is an oil painting on canvas by noted Italian artist Lido Bettarini, 1927-2019. It is signed at the lower left corner ...
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Late 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Garstin Cox, Impressionist painting of Cornwall woods in the Fall, Autumn colour
Located in Harkstead, GB
A very dramatically painted view of a woodland scene in the autumn with such vibrant colour and brushwork, typical of this very collectible artist. Garstin Cox (1892-1933) Woodland ...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Board, Oil

Marche aux Fleurs - Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting by Edouard Cortes
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
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...
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1960s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Lovers - Nude Couple in Bed - Figurative Composition in Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Lovers - Nude Couple in Bed - Figurative Composition in Acrylic on Paper Expressive depiction of a nude couple by Byron Richard Rodarmel (American, 1932-2007). A couple is intertwin...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic, Paper

Ponte Vecchio
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Ponte Vecchio" is an oil painting on canvas by noted Italian artist Lido Bettarini, 1927-2019. It is signed at the lower right corner by t...
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Late 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Village of Provence, Oil on Canvas
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
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...
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1960s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Orientalist "Moorish Soldier Holding a Rifle" Manuel Garcia Hispaleto
Located in SANTA FE, NM
"Moorish Soldier Holding a Rifle" Manuel Garcia Hispaleto (Spanish, 1836-1898) Watercolor on paper Signed lower left "MGHispaleto" Original wood frame with gilded stucco 18 3/4 x 12 1/2 (33 1/2 x 26 frame) inches Manuel García Hispaleto, originally Manuel García y Martínez (22 November 1836, Seville -26 December 1898, Madrid) was a Spanish painter known for portraits and costumbrista (genre) scenes. His brother, Rafael García...
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1850s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Handmade Paper

Octave Cartel(Belgian painter) - 20th century Still life painting - Strawberries
Located in Varmo, IT
Octave Cartel (Belgian, 1884 - 1944) - Still life of strawberries. 27 x 37 cm without frame, 41 x 50 cm with frame. Antique oil painting on cardboard, in a wooden frame and gilded ...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Der Fluss Rhein (Rhine River)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Der Fluss Rhein (Rhine River)" 1950, is an oil painting on canvas by German artist Adolf Gerhard, 1910-1973. It is signed and dated at the lower left corner by ...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

19th Century genre oil painting of a soldier collecting his daughter from school
Located in Moreton-In-Marsh, Gloucestershire
Andre-Henri Dargelas French, (1828-1906) Villa du Connetable, Ecouen Oil on panel, signed Image size: 21.75 inches x 17.5 inches Size including frame: 28.5 inches x 24.25 inches Provenance: Alexander Gallery, Bristol A finely painted genre scene depicting a soldier collecting his daughter from school at the Villa Du Connétable in Ecouen. The soldier, wearing his order of the légion d'honneur, walks with his daughter past a boy with dogs as other parents and school children follow behind. The ‘Villa Du Connétable’ or The Constable’s Villa was the local name for the historic Château d'Écouen. Dargelas lived at Ecouen so would have known the building and area well. Originally a fortress inherited by Anne de Montmorency, the Grand Constable and Commander of the French Army, it was rebuilt by him as a much grander property in 1539. It remained in the Montmorency family until 1632 when it passed to the Bourbon-Conde family. Like many estates owned by the aristocracy, it was confiscated by the state during the French Revolution. In 1806, Napoleon Bonaparte gave it to the Legion d’Honneur and it became a school for the daughters of the chevaliers of the order. Although it was returned to the Conde family after the restoration of Louis XVII, it was re-established as a school for the Legion d’Honneur in 1850 by Napoleon II. In 1862, the château was declared a Monument historique. It remained as a school until 1962 and in 1969 become the home of the collection of Renaissance art of the Cluny Museum. It opened as the French National Museum of the Renaissance in 1977. Andre-Henri Dargelas was a genre painter born in Bordeaux, France on 11 October, 1828 to Jean Baptiste Dargelas and Jeanne Virginie Mimandre. In 1854, he left his home to study at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris where he became a pupil of François Edouard Picot (1786-1868). He lived at 49, Rue d’Hauteville, from where he made his debut at the Paris Salon in 1857. He continued to exhibit at the Salon over the years, receiving a number of medals and honourable mentions. At some point during the early 1860’s, Dargelas moved to Sarcelles, a commune in Northern Paris. By this time, he had begun specialising in paintings of children in a naturalistic style at play. Many of his paintings featured school children, with some set outside against architectural backdrops, such as this fine example. His paintings proved highly popular with collectors in Paris as well as in London and New York. On 10 February 1866, he married Catherine Etienne Gabrielle Duverger. His wife was the daughter of the artist Théophile Emmanuel Duverger...
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19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Charity - Royal Academy exhib. 19thC art Pre-Raphaelite portrait oil painting
By Rudolf Lehmann
Located in London, GB
This stunning circular 19th century oil painting is by noted prolific Royal Academy exhibited artist Rudolf Lehmann. A portrait artist, German born Lehmann moved to England in 1866 w...
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19th Century Pre-Raphaelite Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Oil on Canvas by Jallais, Boats in Port, 1960s
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
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 ...
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1960s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

At the Well, Late 19th Century Orientalist Signed Oil Painting
By George Edward Robertson
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas, signed lower right Image size: 28 x 36 1/2 inches (71 x 93 cm) Orientalist Gilt frame George Edward Robertson George Edward Robertson (born 1864) painted portraits, ...
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Late 19th Century English School Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

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.

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