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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Period: 18th Century
Period: 1930s
Allegoria della Religione Dipinto olio su tela Felice Boscaratti (1721 - 1807)
Located in Milan, IT
Felice Boscarati (Verona, 1721 – Venezia, 1807)
Allegoria della Religione
Olio su tela, cm 230 x 140
Scheda critica del Prof. Giuseppe Sava
Felice Boscarati (Verona, 1721 – Venezia, 1807), talvolta citato anche come Boscaratti o Boscarato, fu un pittore veneto allievo degli artisti Matteo Brida e Pietro Rotari...
Category
18th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oil
Poultry Seller - Jewish School of Paris
Located in London, GB
This oil painting is hand signed by the artist "I. Ryback" in the lower left corner.
This painting was created in the early 1930's
Provenance: The authenticity of this work has been...
Category
1930s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tony's Fruit Market Antique Folk Art Figurative Oil Painting 1930
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3787 Antique folk art oil painting
Image size 17x23.5"
Folk art wood frame
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Caravan of shepherds Oil on canvas painting Giuseppe Tassone
Located in Milan, IT
Giuseppe Tassone (Rome 1653 - Naples 1737)
Shepherd's Caravan
Oil on canvas, 130 x 155 cm
Expert opinion Prof. Alberto Crispo
The manner of outlining the people and animals with...
Category
18th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oil
Italian painter (Copper plate) - 18th century figure painting - Flagellation
Located in Varmo, IT
Italian painter (18th century) - Flagellation.
17 x 15 cm without frame, 21 x 19 cm with frame.
Ancient alium painting on copper, in a gilded wooden frame.
Condition report: The m...
Category
Early 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Copper
Camp scenes Pair of paintings Angela Maria Pittetti known as Palanca
Located in Milan, IT
Angela Maria Pittetti known as Palanca (Palancato, 1690 - Turin, 1763)
Hunting rest
Camp scene
(2) Oil on canvas, 85 x 66 cm - with frame 90 x 71 x 4 cm
A work of Piedmontese sco...
Category
18th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Paint
Game of bowls Oil painting on canvas by Domenico Olivero
Located in Milan, IT
Domenico Olivero (Turin, August 1, 1679 - January 13, 1755)
Game of bowls
Oil on canvas, 43 x 65 cm
With frame, 54.5 x 76
Expert opinion Prof. Alberto Crispo
The painting shown here depicts peasants playing bowls near a farmhouse, while one of them offers sweets to a little girl. The canvas, in my opinion, can be traced back to the hand of Pietro Domenico Olivero (Turin, August 1, 1679 - January 13, 1755), as revealed by comparisons with other works by the artist, such as the Peasants' Feast already at the Gilberto Zabert Gallery in Turin, where we find an entirely similar layout, with the figures crowded around the building, placed on the left, and some household goods piled up on the right, including a copper cauldron almost identical to the one sketched in our painting. But see also other similar subjects painted by the Turin-based artist, such as the Game of Bowls already at the Cantore Gallery in Modena or the other version on the Genoese market in 2019, which, although radically different compositionally, confirm the painter's interest in playful themes and manifest the same ways in delineating characters, with synthetic and robust brushstrokes. The artist was born in Turin, in the parish of St. Thomas, on August 1, 1679 to Giovanna and Francesco, a carver by profession. He trained at the workshop of the painter and architect Melchiorre Baldassarre Bianco. He was esteemed by Victor Amadeus II of Savoy, who commissioned paintings for the Venaria Reale (1714), the Royal Palace of Turin (1716), and Rivoli Castle (1724), as well as by his ministers Pietro Mellarède and Carlo Vincenzo Ferrero di Roasio marquis of Ormea whose collections counted many of the painter's works. His success on the Turin art scene earned him election as prior of the Accademia di San Luca in Turin (1726). In 1731 he painted the eleven canvases with Stories of Franciscan Saints in the sacristy of the church of St. Thomas in Turin, while in 1734 he made the Marriage at Cana for the sanctuary of Oropa. The Savoy commissions continued with the ten canvases executed for the castle of Agliè (1737), the decoration of the third room of the New Archives in the Royal Palace of Turin (1739-41), and the thirty or so works for the hunting lodge at Stupinigi (1748-51). The painter also measured himself in designing sets for the Teatro Regio in Turin (1745-46). He made his will on November 15, 1754, and died in his hometown on January 13, 1755. Olivero's genre scenes, such as the one commented on here, reveal a focus on Flemish painting, particularly by David Teniers the Younger, Peter Mauritz Bolckman, Theodor Helmbreker, and Cornelis de Wael, as well as Roman bamboozlers such as Pieter van Laer, Michelangelo Cerquozzi, and Jan Miel...
Category
18th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oil
Lady In Blue Art Deco Female Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
4066 Art Deco Lady in blue pastel painting
Set in a white frame
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
Italian painter - Late 18th century figure painting - Allegory of Peace - Metal
Located in Varmo, IT
Italian painter (18th century) - Flagellation.
17 x 15 cm without frame, 21 x 19 cm with frame.
Ancient alium painting on copper, in a gilded wooden frame.
Condition report: The m...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Metal
Portraits of Francis Wood, and John Wood of Hollin Hall, Yorkshire (Pair))
Located in West Sussex, GB
A Superb pair of oval portraits with full provenance. Portrait of John Wood Esq of Hollin Hall, Yorkshire; Portrait of Francis Wood. Circa 1710.
Oils on canvas:29 x 24 in. Frame: 37...
Category
Early 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fine 1700's Italian Old Master Ink & Wash Drawing Roman Allegorical Sicilia
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Sicilia'
Italian School, 18th century
ink and wash drawing on paper, framed within a light oak wood frame (behind glass)
image size: 10.5 x 7 inches
overall framed: 17 x 13 inches
c...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink, Archival Paper
Follower Nicolas Lancret (French) - 18th century figure painting - Gallant scene
Located in Varmo, IT
Follower of Nicolas Lancret (Paris 1690 - Paris 1743) - Gallant scene in a landscape.
63.5 x 76 cm without frame, 91 x 102.5 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on canvas, in carve...
Category
Mid-18th Century Rococo Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rococò master (Italian school) - 18th century figure painting - Samson Delilah
Located in Varmo, IT
French master (18th century) - Samson and Delilah.
81 x 119 cm without frame, 99 x 137 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on canvas, in antique carved wooden frame.
Condition rep...
Category
Mid-18th Century Rococo Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Huge 1700's English Portrait Aristocratic Wigged Gentleman in Stately Landscape
By Jacobo Amigoni
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of an Aristocratic Gentleman in his landscape, circa 1730's
Standing, three quarter length, wearing a dark russet coat and holding a book and a cane,
circle of Jacopo Amigoni (Italian 1682-1752)
oil on canvas, unframed
50 x 40 inches
Condition: old lining; retouching, principally towards the edges and in the background; the canvas with slight unevenness where the lining is not secured at upper right.
Provenance: private collection, England
Jacopo Amigoni (ca. 1685 – September 1752), also named Giacomo Amiconi, was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period, who began his career in Venice, but traveled and was prolific throughout Europe, where his sumptuous portraits were much in demand.
He was born in Naples. Amigoni initially painted both mythological and religious scenes; but as the panoply of his patrons expanded northward, he began producing many parlour works depicting gods in sensuous languor or games. His style influenced Giuseppe Nogari. Among his pupils were Charles Joseph Flipart, Michelangelo Morlaiter, Pietro Antonio Novelli, Joseph Wagner, and Antonio Zucchi...
Category
Early 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fine 1700's Italian Old Master Ink & Wash Drawing Roman Female Statue of Beauty
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Belleza (The Art of Beauty)
Italian School, 18th century
ink and wash drawing on paper, framed within a light oak wood frame (behind glass)
image size: 10.5 x 7 inches
overall framed...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper, Watercolor
18th Century French Oil Painting Tavern Scene Interior Figures & Violin Player
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Violin Player in Tavern
18th century French School
oil on canvas
canvas: 8 x 11 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: good and sound condition
Category
18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Painters and Model, 1934
Located in Franklin, MI
A fine early work by the artist done while he was a student at the ART STUDENTS LEAGUE in the class of the noted teacher and artist Kenneth Hays Miller----Provenance: purchased direc...
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Fine 1700's Italian Old Master Ink & Wash Drawing Roman Allegorical Africa
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Africa'
Italian School, 18th century
ink and wash drawing on paper, framed within a light oak wood frame (behind glass)
image size: 10.5 x 7 inches
overall framed: 17 x 13 inches
co...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink, Archival Paper
18th century French figure painting - Portrait lady - Oil on canvas Rococò
Located in Varmo, IT
French painter (18th century) - Portrait of a lady.
43 x 35 cm without frame, 69 x 59 cm with frame.
Oil on canvas, in carved and gilded wooden frame.
- Inscription on the back.
...
Category
Mid-18th Century Rococo Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rococò French painter - 18th century figure painting - Joseph Interior prisons
Located in Varmo, IT
French painter (18th century) - The prison.
84 x 105cm.
Antique oil painting on canvas, without frame.
Condition report: Lined canvas. Good state of conservation of the pictorial ...
Category
Mid-18th Century Rococo Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
17th Century Italian Old Master Oil Painting Moses Striking Water from the Rock
By Pier (Pietro) Dandini
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Moses Striking Water from the Rock;
Circle of Pietro Dandini, Italian 1646-1712
Italian School, late 17th century
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 3...
Category
Early 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Madonna in Adorazione del Bambino dormiente, Copia da Guido Reni
Located in Milan, IT
Olio su tela.
L'opera è una delle numerose repliche, con alcune varianti, del celebre soggetto realizzato dal celebre pittore bolognese Guido Reni (1574 -1642) e dalla sua bottega.
...
Category
18th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique 18th Century Flemish Netherlandish Religious Baroque Gilt Wood Triptych
Located in Portland, OR
Antique late 18th Century Baroque, Netherlandish/Flemish Gilt Wood Triptych Painting, egg tempera on panel, circa 1780, "Saint Tobias and The Angel". The gilt wood case with iron strap hinges and gilded decoration, the central panel painted with an allegory of Saint Tobias. The triptych evidently influenced by the Italian Renaissance work of Verrocchio's altar painting...
Category
Late 18th Century Baroque Figurative Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera
Religious Venetian painter - 18th century figure painting - Baptism Christ
Located in Varmo, IT
Venetian painter (18th century) - Baptism of Christ.
58.5 x 75.5 cm without frame, 65 x 82 cm with frame.
Oil on canvas, in a wooden frame.
- Bears...
Category
Early 18th Century Rococo Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Francesco Battaglioli (Venetian painter) - 18th century landscape painting
By Francesco Battaglioli
Located in Varmo, IT
Francesco Battaglioli (Modena 1710 ca. - Venice post 1796) - Architectural capriccio with characters.
83.5 x 114.5 cm without frame, 98 x 130 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on...
Category
Mid-18th Century Rococo Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Meeting in the Woods" 19th Century Antique Oil Painting on Canvas
By George Henry
Located in Jacksonville, FL
The painting is signed.
Description:
George Henry Boughton: A Master of Narrative and Natural Beauty
George Henry Boughton, a distinguished Anglo-American artist of the 19th centur...
Category
18th Century Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Woman with rose
Located in Genève, GE
Work on wood
Golden wooden frame
58 x 49.5 x 4 cm
Category
18th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fine 1700's Italian Old Master Ink & Wash Drawing Roman Allegorical India
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'India'
Italian School, 18th century
ink and wash drawing on paper, framed within a light oak wood frame (behind glass)
image size: 10.5 x 7 inches
overall framed: 17 x 13 inches
con...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink, Archival Paper
Large Tel Aviv Orchestra Israeli Bezalel School Modernist Painting Moshe Matus
By Moshe Matus (Matusovsky)
Located in Surfside, FL
Moshe (Matusovski) Matus (Polish Israeli , 1908-1958),
Depicting an orchestral concert.
Hand signed lower right.
Dimensions: (Frame) H 31" x W 37", (Sight) H 21" x W 28"
Moshe ...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Rococò French painter - 18th century figure painting - Joseph brothers Interior
Located in Varmo, IT
German painter (18th century) - The cauldron.
84 x 105cm.
Antique oil painting on canvas, without frame.
Condition report: Lined canvas. Good state of conservation of the pictoria...
Category
Mid-18th Century Rococo Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Painting with Concert Scene, 18th century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas.
The scene depicts a chamber concertino: in the center is the spinet player, behind him is the recorder player, and on the right side is the conducting maestro, who li...
Category
Early 1700s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Bread Bakers oil painting by John Barber
By John Barber
Located in Hudson, NY
Measures 22" x 18" and framed 27" x 24" x 3".
About this artist:
Born in Galatz, Romania, John Barber became a modernist painter of figures and scenes of...
Category
1930s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Les arbres by Paulémile Pissarro, 1930 - Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in London, GB
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Les arbres by Paulémile Pissarro (1884 - 1972)
Oil on canvas
60 x 72 cm (23 ⁵/₈ x 28 ³/₈ inches)
Signed and dated...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Port de Honfleur", 20th Century Oil on Wood Panel by Spanish Artist Celso Lagar
By Celso Lagar
Located in Madrid, ES
CELSO LAGAR
Spanish, 1891 - 1966
PORT DE HONFLEUR
signed "Lagar" (lower right)
oil on wood panel
21-3/8 x 16-1/8 inches (31.5 x 41 cm.)
framed: 18-1/2 x 22-1/2 inches (47 x 57 cm.)
...
Category
1930s Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Gouache on Board Painting Titled "Barbecue Stand", by Aaron Bohrod, circa 1935
By Aaron Bohrod
Located in New York, NY
Aaron Bohrod, 1907-1992
Barbecue Stand, circa 1935
Gouache on board
Signed Lower left: “Aaron Bohrod”
Inscribed and signed on verso
Bohrod-1
Provenance:
Private estate, Rhode Island...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Carnival painter (Italian school)- 18th century figure painting - Street show
Located in Varmo, IT
Italian painter (18th century) - Street theatre.
74.5 x 62.5 cm without frame, 86 x 73.5 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on canvas, in a gilded wooden frame.
Condition report:...
Category
Mid-18th Century Rococo Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Balinese Pottery Market
Located in London, GB
'Balinese Pottery Market', oil on canvas, by Régine van den Broek d'Obrenan (1931). The artist visited Bali in 1931 (among other islands) with her new husband, Charles. The naive pai...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Young Man
Located in Lawrence, NY
Gouache
Estate of Samuel Esses
Beautifully framed
Never afraid of trying new styles, curious and opinionated, constantly engaged with the world around him, Rolph Scarlett more tha...
Category
1930s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
"Les Fumeurs", 20th Century Oil on Cardboard by Spanish Artists Francisco Bores
Located in Madrid, ES
FRANCISCO BORES
Spanish, 1898 - 1972
LES FUMEURS
signed & dated "Borès 35" (lower right)
titled in pencil "Les Fumeurs", unfinished sketch (head), signed & dated "Bores 36" (on the reverse)
oil on cardboard
10-5/8 x 13-3/4 inches (27 x 35 cm.)
framed: 15-1/2 x 18-1/2 inches (39.5 x 47 cm.)
NOTE:
THIS WORK IS ACCOMPANIED BY A CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY ISSUED BY “ARCHIVO FRANCISCO BORES”.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Francisco Bores, Reasoned Catalogue, Volume I - Painting 1917-1944, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, 2003, n° 1935 / 49, reproduced in color p. 281
PROVENANCE
Carmen Bores Collection, Francisco Bores daughter
Francisco Bores López (Madrid, May 5, 1898 - Paris, May 10, 1972) was a Spanish painter of the so-called New School of Paris.
His artistic training originated both in the Cecilio Pla painting academy, where he met Pancho Cossío, Manuel Ángeles Ortiz...
Category
1930s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Oil
Fine 1700's Italian Old Master Ink & Wash Drawing Roman Allegorical Marriage
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Concordia Maritale (harmonious marriage)
Italian School, 18th century
ink and wash drawing on paper, framed within a light oak wood frame (behind glass)
image size: 10.5 x 7 inches
o...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink, Archival Paper
Painting with Venus and Cupid Oil on Canvas '700
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas.
The mythological subject that portrays together the two deities symbolize profane Love, has been extensively illustrated in art: as in this work, Venus is usually d...
Category
18th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fine 1700's Italian Old Master Ink & Wash Drawing Roman Allegorical Napoli
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Napoli'
Italian School, 18th century
ink and wash drawing on paper, framed within a light oak wood frame (behind glass)
image size: 10.5 x 7 inches
overall framed: 17 x 13 inches
co...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink, Archival Paper
"Nude Musicians" WPA Mid 20th Century American Modernism LGBT Social Realism Gay
Located in New York, NY
Carl Gustaf Simon Nelson, American (1898-1988) "Nude Musicians," 30 x 35 inches, oil on canvas
Signed and dated 1938 signature lower right. Provenance: Collection of Seymour Stein
Bio
Carl Gustaf Simon Nelson (1898 - 1988)
A painter, graphic artist and teacher whose paintingfocus was color and content landscapes, Nelson at age five immigrated with his family to Sioux City, Iowa from Sweden in 1903. He studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts* from 1920 to 1921, then at the Art Students League* in New York from 1923 to 1927 with Kimon Nicolaides and Kenneth Hayes Miller. He taught at the American Peoples School of New York, an adult education project; at the Cambridge School of Design from 1948 to 1952; and finally at the Boston YMCA until 1968.
His work was exhibited at the Carnegie...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Baroque painter (Italian school) - 18th century figure painting - Saint Peter
Located in Varmo, IT
Italian painter (18th century) - St. Peter.
44.5 x 34cm.
Antique oil painting on canvas, without frame.
Condition report: Lined canvas. Good state of conservation of the pictorial...
Category
Early 18th Century Baroque Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Tailor" WPA American Scene Social Realism Modernism Mid Century Modern Fashion
By Mervin Jules
Located in New York, NY
"Tailor" WPA American Scene Social Realism Modernism Mid Century Modern Fashion
The board measures 9 1/2 x 15 1/2.
Provenance: Mervin Jules Estate.
Bio
A painter, illustrator, pri...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Haymaking time 1930, pastel on paper, 30x39 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Haymaking time
1930, pastel on paper, 30x39 cm
"Haymaking Time" is a serene and evocative artwork that transports viewers to a simpler time, celebrating the beauty of the countryside and the age-old agricultural activities that have shaped the lives of people for generations. The use of pastels and the light figurative style imbue the artwork with a sense of warmth and nostalgia, inviting viewers to appreciate the natural rhythms of rural life.
Aleksandra Belcova...
Category
1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Two countrywomen with a donkey - Melancholy in an atmosphere of colour -
Located in Berlin, DE
Pierre Louis De La Rive (1753 Geneva - 1817 Geneva). Two countrywomen with a donkey. Oil on canvas, mounted, 27 x 20 cm (visible size), 37 x 31 (frame), monogrammed "P.R." at lower right.
About the artwork
De La Rive has taken the typical scenes of Dutch landscape genre paintings...
Category
1790s Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Old Master Oil Painting Group of Figures Painting Requires Restoration
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French School, 18th century
oil on board, framed
framed: 11 x 8.5 inches
board: 9.5 x 7 inches
provenance: private collection, UK
condition: the painting requires restoration as has ...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fine 1700's Italian Old Master Ink & Wash Drawing Roman Allegorical Magnaminita
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Mgnaminia'
Italian School, 18th century
ink and wash drawing on paper, framed within a light oak wood frame (behind glass)
image size: 10.5 x 7 inches
overall framed: 17 x 13 inches...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink, Archival Paper
Italian Old Master Ink & Wash Drawing St. Anne & The Virgin Mary with Cherubs
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Pietro Fancelli (Italian 1764 - 1850)
bio details attached to the frame
'St. Anne & The Virgin'
ink with watercolor wash on paper, framed
framed: 22 x 16 inches
image: 11 x 6.5 inche...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Life Magazine Art Deco Showgirls Cartoon
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Barbara Shermund (1899-1978). Showgirls Cartoon for Life Magazine, 1934. Ink, watercolor and gouache on heavy illustration paper, matting window measures 16.5 x 13 inches; sheet measures 19 x 15 inches; Matting panel measures 20 x 23 inches. Signed lower right. Very good condition with discoloration and toning in margins. Unframed.
Provenance: Ethel Maud Mott Herman, artist (1883-1984), West Orange NJ.
For two decades, she drew almost 600 cartoons for The New Yorker with female characters that commented on life with wit, intelligence and irony.
In the mid-1920s, Harold Ross, the founder of a new magazine called The New Yorker, was looking for cartoonists who could create sardonic, highbrow illustrations accompanied by witty captions that would function as social critiques.
He found that talent in Barbara Shermund.
For about two decades, until the 1940s, Shermund helped Ross and his first art editor, Rea Irvin, realize their vision by contributing almost 600 cartoons and sassy captions with a fresh, feminist voice.
Her cartoons commented on life with wit, intelligence and irony, using female characters who critiqued the patriarchy and celebrated speakeasies, cafes, spunky women and leisure. They spoke directly to flapper women of the era who defied convention with a new sense of political, social and economic independence.
“Shermund’s women spoke their minds about sex, marriage and society; smoked cigarettes and drank; and poked fun at everything in an era when it was not common to see young women doing so,” Caitlin A. McGurk wrote in 2020 for the Art Students League.
In one Shermund cartoon, published in The New Yorker in 1928, two forlorn women sit and chat on couches. “Yeah,” one says, “I guess the best thing to do is to just get married and forget about love.”
“While for many, the idea of a New Yorker cartoon conjures a highbrow, dry non sequitur — often more alienating than familiar — Shermund’s cartoons are the antithesis,” wrote McGurk, who is an associate curator and assistant professor at Ohio State University’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. “They are about human nature, relationships, youth and age.” (McGurk is writing a book about Shermund.
And yet by the 1940s and ’50s, as America’s postwar focus shifted to domestic life, Shermund’s feminist voice and cool critique of society fell out of vogue. Her last cartoon appeared in The New Yorker in 1944, and much of her life and career after that remains unclear. No major newspaper wrote about her death in 1978 — The New York Times was on strike then, along with The Daily News and The New York Post — and her ashes sat in a New Jersey funeral home...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache
Tavern on the Green (New Yorker Magazine cover proposal)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Barbara Shermund (1899-1978). Tavern on the Green. Watercolor and ink on paper, 9 3/8 x 12 inches. Unsigned. Excellent condition.
Provenance: Ethel ...
Category
1930s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Oil on Masonite Painting Titled "Lobster Shack", by Aaron Bohrod, 1938
By Aaron Bohrod
Located in New York, NY
Aaron Bohrod, 1907-1992
Lobster Shack, 1938
Oil on masonite
16 x 20 inches
Signed and dated ower left: Aaron Bohrod 1938
Bohrod-3
Provenance:
Private estate, Rhode Island, 2004
Am...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
A Kaleidoscope of life
Located in East Grinstead, GB
Edward Le Bas R.A. was an English artist and collector of art, his father's wealth gave him a sizeable private income which enabled him to travel and pai...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Standing Figure
Located in Long Island City, NY
A shy and dirty man stands alone in a muted landscape, his hand timidly resting on his collarbone. His clothes are disheveled, a dark pair of overalls slouching across his too-narrow...
Category
1930s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
1700's French Old Master Oil Painting The Penitent Magdalene in the Wilderness
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Penitent Magdalene
French School, 18th century
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas : 33 x 21.5 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: very good and sound condition, ...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Study for the Mural "Westward Movement"
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Study for the Mural "Westward Movement"
Graphite, watercolor, gouache and paint on paper, 1936
Signed in pencil lower center (see photo)
A study leading up to his mural Justice of th...
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Old Master Painting of Christ 17th/18th Century Italian School
Located in Rochester, NY
The crucifixion of Crist Italian school 17th or 18th century. Beautiful detail in the face and hands. The lighting makes the figure of Crist seem to glow. In a good quality later frame.
Presented by Joseph Dasta Antiques...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Canvas, Oil
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.
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