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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Style: Art Deco
Style: Post-Impressionist
Antique French Post-Impressionist Oil Painting Portrait of Drummer Large Canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Drummer
French School, late 19th century
Post-Impressionist School
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 28 x 22.5 inches
canvas: 24 x 18 inches
provenance: private collection, France
co...
Category
Late 19th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Les Rois des Lègendes, Costume pour femme ésclave, 1919
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
Les Rois des Lègendes, Costume pour femme ésclave from 1919 is a gouache painting on black paper, 10.75 x 9 inches, framed in a custom, closed-corner, Art Deco frame, 24 x 20 inches....
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
'Portrait of the Artist, Victor Isbrand', Paris, Copenhagen, Morocco
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed upper right, 'Oda Lauritsen' for Oda Lauritsen Isbrand (Danish, 1904-1987) and dated, upper left, '1928'.
A powerful oil portrait of the artist's husband-to-be, the notable D...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Canvas, Oil
Troisemmè Dame, 1919
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
Troisemmè Dame from 1919 is a gouache painting on paper, 12 x 9.5 inches, framed in a custom, closed-corner, Art Deco frame to 20.25 x 18 inches. Signed recto 'Erté' mid lower right ...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Spanish fishermen on the beach Spain oil on board painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Gabriel Casarrubios Martín (1953) - Fishermen - Oil on panel
Oil size 22x27 cm.
Frameless.
Gabriel Casarrubios Martín (1953)
The Toledo artist trained in Fine Arts in Madrid, at th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Martha, Act I (Chicago Opera), 1925
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
Martha, Act I (Chicago Opera) from 1925 is a gouache on paper measuring approximately 9 x 7 inches and framed in a custom, closed-corner frame. Signed recto 'Erté' mid-right and stamped with Erte's Villa Excelsior block stamp and 'Composition originale' verso. Annotated in fountain pen verso 'No 659 Martha I acte Pour Madame Ganna Walska...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
La Pendule (Au Réveil de Passé), 1923
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
La Pendule from Au Réveil de Passé was created in 1923 and is a gouache on paper measuring approximately 15 x 10.75 inches and framed in a custom, closed-corner Art Deco...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Untitled Fashion Design, 1920
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
Untitled (Fashion Design) was created for Harper's Bazar and appeared in the February, 1920 edition of the magazine. This is a gouache painting on tissue paper measuring approximately 10 x 6.5 inches and framed in a custom, closed-corner Art Deco...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Mother and Child in Tender Moment - Female Illustrator Golden Age
Located in Miami, FL
Female Illustrator of the Golden Age, Ruth Mary Hallock, paints a sensitive, heartwarming portrait of Mother and Child in a post-impressionist style. Richly saturated hues and gestur...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Demeter (Les Idoles, Folies Bergère), 1924
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
Déméter from Les Idoles, Folies Bergère was created in 1924 and is a gouache on paper measuring approximately 14.75 x 10.5 inches. Framed in a custom, closed-corner Art Deco...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Optimism and Pessimism, 1927 (Harper's Bazar Cover - May 1929)
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
Optimism and Pessimism, created in 1927, was the cover design for Harper's Bazar in May 1929. This is a gouache painting on board, signed recto 'Erté' lower right in the image, and f...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
The Treasures of Indo-China, 1922
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Treasures of Indo-China, created in 1922, is a gouache on paper, 15 x 11.25 inches and framed in a custom, closed-corner Art Deco frame. Signed rec...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
The flutist and the pianist oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Rafael Duran Benet (1931-2015) - Music - Oil on canvas
Oil measurements 60x73 cm.
Frameless.
Rafael Duran Benet (Terrassa, 1931 - Barcelona, 2015) is a Catalan painter...
Category
1990s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Le Roi Yvetot, 1919 (no. 227)
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
Le Roi Yvetot (no. 227) from 1919 is a gouache painting on tissue paper mounted on board. The image size is 9.25 x 6 inches, framed in a gold-tone frame, 22.5 x 19 inches. Signed recto 'Erté' lower right, in the image and annotated verso, 'Les Rois des Lègendes, No 8, Le Roi Yvetot 227'. Erte name and 'Composition originale' stamps verso.
Le Roi Yvetot is a design by Erte for the 1919 theater production of Les Rois des Lègendes.
The King of Yvetot
William Makepeace Thackeray: 1811 –1863
There was a king of Yvetot, Of whom renown hath little said,
Who let all thoughts of glory go, And dawdled half his days a-bed;
And every night, as night came round, By Jenny, with a nightcap crowned,
Slept very sound: Sing ho, ho, ho! and he, he, he!
That's the kind of king for me.
And every day it came to pass, That four lusty meals made he;
And, step by step, upon an ass, Rode abroad, his realms to see;
And wherever he did stir, What think you was his escort, sir?
Why, an old cur. Sing ho, ho, ho! and he, he, he!
If e'er he went into excess, 'Twas from a somewhat lively thirst;
But he who would his subjects bless, Odd's fish!—must wet his whistle first;
And sofrom every cask they got, Our king did to himself allot,
At least a pot. Sing ho, ho, ho! and he, he, he!
To all the ladies of the land, A courteous king, and kind, was he;
The reason why you'll understand, They named him Pater Patriae.
Each year he called his fighting men, And marched a...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Mother and daughterr oil on canvas painting interior
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Rafael Duran Benet (1931-2015) - Interior - Oil on canvas
Oil measurements 124x97 cm.
Frameless.
Rafael Duran Benet (Terrassa, 1931 - Barcelona, 2015) is a Catalan painter, nephew o...
Category
1990s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Women from ibiza Spain oil on canvas painting spanish seascape mediterranean
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Ignacio Gil Sala (1913-2003) - Characters from Ibiza - Oil on canvas
Oil measures 38x46 cm.
Frameless.
Ignacio Gil Sala, was a painter, bohemian character, adventurous and intrepid ...
Category
1980s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Woman Seated', Paris, Louvre, Grand Palais, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Stamped verso with estate stamp for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and painted circa 1965.
A bold, Post-Impressionist figural oil of a young woman, shown seated on a bench wi...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Still life, oil, cm. 63 x 52 1970 ca
By Enzo FARAONI
Located in Torino, IT
flower,fruts
Enzo FARAONI (S. Stefano Magra, La Spezia, 1920/2017)
Enzo Faraoni is a great painter and engraver from Florence; he expresses the poetic everyday life of simple and co...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Spanish dancers pastel drawing
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Pierre Carro (1952) - Spanish Dancers - Pastel
Drawing measurements 45x34 cm.
Frame measurements 93x79 cm.
Category
1980s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Barcelona Spain acrylic on canvas painting fauvist
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Emilio Bosch Roger - Barcelona - Acrylic on canvas
Canvas measurements 55x46 cm.
Frameless.
Category
1970s Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Spanish fishermen on the beach Spain oil on canvas painting mediterranean sea
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Gabriel Casarrubios Martín (1953) - Fishermen - Oil on canvas
Oil size 60x73 cm.
Frameless.
Gabriel Casarrubios Martín (1953)
The Toledo artist trained in Fine Arts in Madrid, at t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Cadaques oil on board painting Spain spanish seascape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Rafael Duran Benet (1931-2015) - Cadaques - Oil on board
Oil measurements 50x73 cm.
Frameless.
Rafael Duran Benet (Terrassa, 1931 - Barcelona, 2015) is a Catalan painter, nephew of ...
Category
1990s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
'Seated Nude with Flowers' Paris, Louvre, Académie Chaumière, SFAA, LACMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Accompanied by certificate of authenticity for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and painted circa 1955. Additional painting, verso, with old inscription by the artist's wife, Jan...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Barcelona Spain spanish urbanscape acrylic painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Jose Luis Florit - View of Barcelona - Acrylic paper glued to canvas
Canvas measurements 73x92 cm.
Frameless.
José Luis Florit Rodero (Madrid,...
Category
1980s Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper, Canvas
Nils Kjellberg, The Sower, Antique Oil Painting
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This early 20th-century post-impressionist oil painting by Swedish artist Nils Kjellberg (1871-1938) depicts a field worker sowing the land. It’s inspired by Jean-François Millet’s w...
Category
1910s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nu allonge - Post Impressionist Nude Figurative Oil - Georges D'Espagnat
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on panel nude circa 1920 by French post impressionist painter Georges D'Espagnat. The work depicts a nude woman laying a patch of green grass on top of a hill with a view of the valley in the distance.
Signature:
Signed lower right
Dimensions:
Framed: 16"x20"
Unframed: 9"x13"
Provenance:
A certificate of authenticity for this work is available from Mr. Jean Dominique Jacquemond upon request
Private French collection
From the beginning of his career, it was a constant concern of Georges d'Espagnet to assert his originality. His studies at the École des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, did not last very long, for he wanted immediate independence and decided to follow courses in the private academies of Montparnasse. In about 1900, he became acquainted with Maurice Denis, Bonnard and Vuillard, and his collaboration with Denis led to a renewal of religious art in France.
In 1903, d'Espagnet was one of the founders of the Salon d'Automne, and was appointed professor in charge of studios at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, in 1934. He illustrated a number of books: Rémy de Gourmont's Evil Prayers ( Oraisons mauvaises) (1896), The Saints of Paradise ( Les Saintes du paradis) (1898), Simone (1907), Sistine ( Sixtine) (1922); Alphonse Daudet's The Immortal ( L'Immortel) (1930); André Gide's The Pastoral Symphony ( La Symphonie pastorale); Francis Jammes' Clearings in the Sky ( Chairières dans le ciel) (1948).
D'Espagnet belongs to the group of artists who made the Courrier Français so successful. The drawings of his which are published in it are strongly expressive and some bear comparison with the designs of the great Renaissance masters. He also contributed to L'Image. He often placed cheerful nudes in a landscape, reminding us that, though he moved away from the Fauves, he retained their freedom of colour and arabesque. He painted many portraits, including those of Albert André, André Barbier, Victor Boucher, Déodat de Séverac, Albert Marque, André Marty and Albert Roussel. He also painted mural decorations, including a wall for the Palais de la Découverte (1937), the ceiling of the Victor Hugo Room in the Palais du Luxembourg (1939), a decorative panel for the Palais de Justice, Toulouse (1941) and interior decorations for private houses. His landscapes are Impressionist in inspiration, and work for a certain sobriety, an intimacy, both in their composition - one, two or three sketched figures and large open spaces - and in the choice of colours and treatment with the special hazy brushstroke that marks his style.
D'Espagnet took part in a number of annual Parisian exhibitions, including the Salon des Indépendants, the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, the Salon d'Automne (from 1903 to 1949, except in special circumstances), the Salon de la Libre Ésthétique, Brussels (1899, 1901), the Berlin Secessionists (1940). He also exhibited at the first Salon de la Société de la Gravure sur Bois. Among other exhibitions were 1912, A Century of French Art ( Centenaire de l'art français), St Petersburg; 1916, Kunstverein, Winterthur; 1918, 1926, Galerie M. Bertheim, Paris; 1930, Contemporary French Art...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Amsterdam oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Rafael Duran Benet (1931-2015) - Amsterdam - Oil on canvas
Oil measurements 73x92 cm.
Frameless.
Rafael Duran Benet (Terrassa, 1931 - Barcelona, 2015) is a Catalan painter, nephew o...
Category
1980s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Spring Dining - Mid Late 20th Century Oil of Garden Cafe by Frank Hill
By Frank Hill
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Frank Hill is a professional artist living and working in North Norfolk. He studied art at Waltham Forest School of Art and later at St Martins School of Art.
Frank’s professional c...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Figures Walking down Tree Path Signed French Impressionist 1950's Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Jean La Forgue (French 1901-1975)
signed oil on thick card, unframed
painting: 18 x 13 inches
provenance: the artists estate, France
condition: very goo...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Cadaques oil on canvas painting Spain spanish seascape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Rafael Duran Benet (1931-2015) - Cadaques - Oil on canvas
Oil measurements 73x92 cm.
Frameless.
Rafael Duran Benet (Terrassa, 1931 - Barcelona, 2015) is a Catalan painter, nephew of...
Category
1990s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
L’air Qu’on Respire by Jean Pierre Cassigneul
Located in New Orleans, LA
Jean-Pierre Cassigneul
b.1935 French
L’air qu’on respire
(The Air We Breath)
Signed “Cassigneul” (lower right)
Signed, titled and dated "L’air qu’on respire / Cassigneul / 2001" (...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Smartly dressed Figures in the Park in Summer Sunshine by Italian Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Smartly dressed Figures in the Park in Summer Sunshine. 1970's Vintage Oil Painting by Italian Artist, Antonio Vicentini, born in 1932.
Art measures 20 x 16 inches
Frame measures ...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Parisian Street Scene Place Du Tertre" Post-Impressionist Oil Painting Canvas
By Roger Henry
Located in New York, NY
This painting depicts "Place Du Tertre" in Paris France, a popular subject of the times painted by many important impressionsit 20th Century painters. This piece, is a bold display o...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Henri-André Martin, Les Baux de Provence, Oil on Canvas, 1961
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas by Henri-André Martin (1918-2004), France, ca.1980s. Les Baux de Provence. With frame: 71x98 cm - 28x38.6 inches. Without frame: 65x92cm - 25.6x36.2 inches. 30P format. Signed lower right "Henri A Martin" (see photo). Located and dated 1961 on the back (see photo). Can be matched to make a pair with another painting by Henri-André Martin that we offer on 1stdibs whose title is "Henri-André Martin Olive Tree Field in the Alpilles, Provence, Oil on Canvas".
Born in Lyon in 1918, the child and the adolescent Henri-André Martin spent his youth in Saint-Étienne, his father, Edme Martin, first installed as a practicing doctor in Lyon, having been appointed doctor of the anti-tuberculosis dispensaries of the Loire.
During his first years of studying medicine in Lyon, he nevertheless enrolled in the Beaux-Arts. Appointed hospital intern upon his return from captivity in 1942, he ended his medical career as director of the otolaryngology university clinic at Édouard-Herriot hospital. But painting was his passion.
Painting was for Henri-André Martin the way of expressing his feelings. By nature very reserved and of an extreme modesty that many took for coldness, it was what allowed him to express his strong artistic sensitivity and, his pictorial periods are as many reflects of his anxieties, of his hopes, of his joys. At every period of his life, wherever he goes and whenever he has a moment, he paints gouaches, often of small size, but sometimes of larger size. He also paints beaches that have been compared to those of Boudin. Their invoice shows, however, that this figure is only appearance and that in fact, these beaches made of water, sky and sand, readily dispense with the motif, the work of the material seeming to have more importance. as the subject. Despite the fact that until the 1970s he painted "on the ground", his canvases remain far removed from the anecdote. Often harsh like the landscapes of Provence, the Parisian walls which express concern, or the railways, the switch tracks which suggest, in ocher and black, all the embarrassment of choice. We find the same nostalgic gravity in the canvases of the carcasses of boats which, as his friend Louis Pons later wrote, "seem to die of immobility" or in the canvases of Venice, or the landscapes of Eygalières.
In the following years, his painting became simpler, more synthetic, such as these landscapes with tortured almond trees, black and gnarled olive trees, plane trees standing out against the ocher sky of the dawn of Provence, in winter. These are also the canvases of Hamburg in the dough becomes heavier, the colors darken, marking all the gravity of the port landscapes. Workshop work gradually takes precedence over motif painting.
The pivotal period coincides with that of his work on the olive tree, during which he leads the realization of the "Trunks", a collection of six lithographic plates, of the book L'olivier comprising many lithographs and serigraphs, but also texts. poetic and numerous paintings. He then became passionate about everything related to the olive tree (literature, painting, traditions, history), but also to the tree itself, its thousand-year-old history, its poetry, its symbols, but also its culture, its size. oil production...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman on the balcony oil on canvas painting spanish
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Rafael Duran Benet (1931-2015) - Woman - Oil on canvas
Oil measurements 92x65 cm.
Frameless.
Rafael Duran Benet (Terrassa, 1931 - Barcelona, 2015) is a Catalan painter, nephew of th...
Category
1980s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sit woman pastel drawing
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Rafael Duran Benet (1931-2015) - Sit woman - Pastel
Drawing measurements 62x42 cm.
Frame measurements 82x62 cm.
Rafael Duran Benet (Terrassa, 1931 - Barcelona, 2015) is a Catalan painter...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Sitting woman and still life oil on canvas painting
By Jordi Curos
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2007) - Woman
Oil on canvas.
Work measurements 77x79 cm.
Frame size 81x83 cm.
Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Spanish painter.
He t...
Category
1980s Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Women Dancing at a Cafe
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Vintage oil on canvas, in the manner of Isaac Israels.
Beautifully painted, probably done c1930s.
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1930's French Portrait of Young Man in Suit & Tie Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Jean La Forgue (French 1901-1975)
signed oil on unstretched canvas, unframed
painting: 24 x 17 inches
provenance: the artists estate, France
condition: the painting is on unstretched...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pont Neuf
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed and titled lower left.
Francois Gall, Hungarian by birth, became a naturalized French citizen in 1942. He is best known as an impressionist painter in the pure French traditi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Chez Maxim's - Post Impressionist Oil Figures in Interior by Pierre de Belay
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and dated figures in interior oil on canvas by French post impressionist painter Pierre De Belay. The work depicts a gentleman in a black morning suit ...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Spanish people on the beach Spain oil on board painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Gabriel Casarrubios Martín (1953) - Beach´s day - Oil on panel
Oil size 22x27 cm.
Frameless.
Gabriel Casarrubios Martín (1953)
The Toledo artist trained in Fine Arts in Madrid, at ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Vue des Grands Boulevards a Paris by H. Claude Pissarro - pastel on paper
Located in London, GB
Vue des Grands Boulevards à Paris by H. CLAUDE PISSARRO (b. 1935)
Pastel on card
37 x 50 cm (14 ⅝ x 19 ⅝ inches)
Signed lower right, H. Claude Pissarro
This work is accompanied by a...
Category
1990s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel
BEATRICE HUNTINGTON (1889-1988) Scottish impressionist Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, GB
ARTIST: Beatrice Huntington (1889-1988) Scottish
TITLE: "Portrait Of A Red Haired Lady"
SIGNED: lower left and with provenance from The Scottish Gallery Edinburgh and James Bourlet exhibition label also
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
SIZE: 68cm x 60cm inc frame
CONDITION: very good
DETAIL: The Scottish artist Beatrice M. L. Huntington (1889–1988) enjoyed a long and varied career as a painter and is best known for her insightful portraits, characterised by a strong sense of design and an intuitive use of colour.
Her approach to painting was ever-evolving: throughout her long and fascinating life, which spanned a century and bore witness to the advent of the modern era, she remained indefatigably committed to her development as an artist and to 'containing and realising the big-ness of it all', as she herself described it in a letter to a friend in 1977, when at the age of 88 she was still refining her approach to form and colour.
The daughter of an eminent St Andrews doctor, Beatrice grew up in affluent surroundings – an imposing townhouse on St Andrews South Street both her father's surgery and the family home. A precocious talent for both music and art led her, perhaps unusually for a girl at that time, to pursue her studies abroad. In 1906, the year she turned 17, she went to Paris to study drawing and painting and in 1911, after an evidently successful formative period in Paris, she continued her studies in Munich, attending a private art school where she apparently flourished.
By the 1920s, Beatrice's own identity and path as an artist were clearly defined. Her marriage to the painter William Macdonald in 1925 created a unique artistic partnership and cemented her place within the Scottish art scene of the 1920s and 1930s, particularly in Edinburgh where Macdonald was already well established and a close friend of Scottish Colourists F. C. B. Cadell and Samuel Peploe. This is illustrated by surviving correspondence and in particular by a characterful portrait of a debonair William Macdonald by Cadell, dating from the mid-1920s.
Macdonald's particular affinity for the arid landscapes of southern Spain had earned him the nickname William 'Spanish' Macdonald. Beatrice shared his love of travel and together they explored the Continent, returning frequently to the French Riviera and to southern Spain, taking as their base, for a time at least, the picturesque Mediterranean fishing village of Cassis in the South of France, a favoured haunt of the Colourists.
The couple moved in artistic milieux both at home and abroad, also spending time in Kirkcudbright in Galloway. Their time painting together in Spain culminated with a joint exhibition in 1928 at Messrs Watt and Sons, Dundee, entitled 'Pictures of Spain...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid 20th Century French Signed Oil Painting Portrait of Man in Tie
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Jean La Forgue (French 1901-1975)
signed oil on unstretched canvas, unframed
painting: 27 x 21 inches
provenance: the artists estate, France
condition: the painting is on unstretched...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Parisian Street Scene" French Impressionist Oil Painting of Paris with Figures
Located in New York, NY
In this piece, the artist depicts his subject in a whimsical and impressionistic way, capturing the Cafés of the busy streets from the 20th Century with much life. In the distance we...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mother and Child Bathing - British Slade School 30's Art Deco nude oil painting
Located in London, GB
An intriguing 1930's Art Deco Slade School oil on canvas painting. The work depicts a mother and child bathing, surrounded by other bathers. It possibly has religious overtones. This...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Summer Frolic - British Post Impressionist 30's art nude oil painting Slade Sch
Located in London, GB
This charming Post-Impressionist Art Deco oil painting is by noted British prolific Royal Academy exhibitor and Royal Academician William Dring. It is possible that our painting was ...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Arriving at the Bois de Boulogne, Figural, Park, Paris, France, Watercolor
By Gabriel Spat
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Gabriel Spat was born in Kishinev, Russia, in 1890. Leaving Russia in 1911, he studied at the Academie des Beaux-Arts in Geneva and at the Academie Colarossi and the Academie de la ...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Mother & Child" Post-Impressionist Interior Scene Oil Painting on Canvas Framed
Located in New York, NY
A charming oil painting depicting an interior scene of a mother and child reading together while sitting on a table round table with a mantel, and a window on the background with the...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
Materials
Oil, Canvas
R.B. FELTRAP, Oil on canvas, Nude, 1937
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas signed R.B.FELTRAP, France, 1937. Nude. With frame : 101.5x82.5 cm - 40x32.5 inches ; without frame : 92x73 cm - 36.2x28.75 inches. Format 30F. Signed and dated "R.B.Fe...
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1930s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Water Bearers, Africa - British 1920's Orientalist art oil painting
Located in London, GB
This superb vibrant Orientalist Post Impressionist oil painting is by noted British artist Gerald Spencer Pryse. It was painted about 1925 when Pryse was visiting Morocco and Norther...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Oil on canvas, Naked woman lying in front of her mirror
By Robert Louis Raymond Duflos
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas by Robert Louis Raymond DUFLOS (1898-1929), France, 1920s. Naked woman lying in front of her mirror. With frame: 95x61.5 cm - 37.4x24.2 inches - without frame: 73x40cm ...
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1920s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Family in an Interior - British 1950's art oil painting
Located in London, GB
This interesting British Post Impressionist figurative interior oil painting is by noted artist Charles Cundall and entitled A Conversation Piece. Painted circa 1955 the composition ...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
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
Materials
Masonite, Oil
"Parisian Street Scene Place Du Tertre" Post-Impressionist Oil Painting Canvas
Located in New York, NY
This painting depicts "Place Du Tertre" in Paris France, a popular subject of the times painted by many important impressionsit 20th Century painters. This piece, is a bold display o...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rare Hungarian Jewish Rabbi Judaica Oil Painting Portrait
By Lajos Polczer
Located in Surfside, FL
Rare Pre World War II (Pre Holocaust) Judaica Art. European Judaic art from this period is exceedingly rare.
Polczer was an Hungarian artist, his foundations of painting were taught by a painter Bertalan Karlovszky. His works were exhibited in the National Salon and the Art Hall from 1928. His works are held by the Hungarian National Gallery. In his later years he worked in the United States, he was working in New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 1960s. Known for his Jewish genre scenes, Chess scenes and other early 20th Century salon style nude paintings. In the tradition of Moritz Oppenheim...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Figurative Paintings for Sale
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