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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Urban Empire # 9
Located in Singapore, SG
In the Mughal era, we see kings and queens looking out into their natural space - scenic beauty containing nature and architecture. Given the settings, what would happen if the king ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic, Pigment

Christmas Cover Design for Life Magazine
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil, Ink and Gold Leaf on Paper Dimensions: 15.00" x 12.00" Signature: Signed Lower Center The present work was published as the cover of the December 2nd, 1899 issue of Lif...
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Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Audrey
Located in New York, NY
Acrylic on Wood Panel. Portrait or Audrey Hepburn is 24x24. Vibrant colors. About the Artist: "Tomlin is young, upcoming artist based out of NY. His interests in portraits, i...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Wood Panel

The Subdivision, Liberty Magazine Cover, June 18, 1927
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Laid on Board Signature: Signed Lower Right Sight Size 14.50" x 13.00;" Framed 23.75" x 21.75" The Subdivision, Liberty Magazine Cover, June 18...
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1920s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Board

"Spring is Here" The Country Home Magazine Cover, March (Year Unknown)
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Laid on Board Signature: Signed Lower Left "Spring Is Here" The Country Home Magazine Cover, March (Year Unknown).
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20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Board

En La Pulga de Maria (in Maria's Beetle)
Located in Atlanta, GA
Born in Manziales, Colombia in 1987, Esteban received his MFA from the New York Academy of Art before returning to his native country. Related works are featured in top collections, ...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Study for World War I Soldier Collier's Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Unsigned Study for the July 7, 1917 cover of Collier's National Weekly (the title story was "Why I'd Let My Boy Go To War").
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1910s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Keith Snow Storm
Located in New York, NY
Mixed Media on wood featuring the infamous Keith Richards. Photographed by Joester. About the Artist: Steve Joester is a British-born Rock & Roll photographer and mixed media a...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Mixed Media, Photographic Film

The Smoke Shop
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left
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1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"End of Track, " Paperback Cover, 1951
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left End of Track - Paperback Cover, written by Ward Weaver, Popular Library, 1951.
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1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Mother with Child by Candlelight
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Right Illustration, 1917
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1910s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Movie Poster Illustration for "American Pop"
Located in Miami, FL
McLean's consummate skill as a portrait artist, graphic designer and master of composition is on full display in the complex narrative work. This work contains 41 portraits including those of Bette Midler, Jimi Hendrix, and Benny Goodman...
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1980s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Girl Peeling Apple, Johnson & Johnson Advertisement, 1959
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Masonite Signature: Signed 'John Falter' Lower Right Sight Size 7.00" x 9.375;" Framed 9.50" x 12.00" Johnson & Johnson reproduced the present work as an advertisemen...
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1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Boy in Striped Sweater Sits on a Tree Branch, Advertisement, Cream of Wheat, 1929
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Unsigned Advertisement, Cream of Wheat, 1929.
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1920s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Superstar
Located in New York, NY
Innocence of childhood. Portrait. About the Artist: My art is a visual recording of the powerful imagines that occur regularly in life, distilling them down and preserving the ...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Girl in Pareu"
By RAD Miller
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Robert Alexander Darrah “R.A.D.” Miller (1905 - 1966) Robert Alexander Darrah Miller, called “RAD” by his friends, was born in Philadelphia. He enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1923 to 1927 under the tutelage of Daniel Garber. In 1928, Miller moved to Bucks County where he would meet and marry Celia Belden Marshall, daughter of Dr. George M. Marshall, who at that time owned the Phillips Mill property. Nearly a year later, in 1929, a committee headed by artist, William Lathrop, negotiated to purchase the Mill property from Dr. Marshall for the purpose of holding art exhibitions. Thus, the Phillips Mill Art Association was formed. RAD Miller was a regular exhibitor at the Phillips Mill with the traditional New Hope Impressionists. Many of the original founders of the New Hope Art Colony, set in their ways, frowned upon the concept of modernist painting. A decision was made by the Association to not include the growing group of modernist painters in the area to exhibit with them at Phillips Mill. Although clearly not a traditional impressionist, Miller was not being excluded with the others, largely because his father-in-law formerly owned the mill and was one of the Association’s board of directors. RAD was sympathetic to his fellow modernists. In 1933, he was one of the original members of the Independents, a group formed for modernist artists who chose to embark on a more non-traditional creative path. They would exhibit in tandem with the Impressionists but at different locations. Around the time of his arrival to New Hope in 1928, Miller struck up a friendship with Thomas Hart Benton, and in 1932 he worked under Benton on a mural project. RAD’s paintings...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

COSTA BRAVA
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

"Nude Woman with 2 Men"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1970 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 25.00" x 22.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Fawcett book cover. Robert Berran has been a prolific romance and historical book cover il...
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1970s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Half Length Portrait of Mr. Robertson of Edinburgh
Located in Miami, FL
Half Length Portrait of Mr. Robertson Sir. Henry Raeburn ( Scottish 1756 - 1823 ) Half Length Portrait of Mr. Robertson 29x 24 Purchased, J Leger & Son,...
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18th Century Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Tribesmen with Headdresses
Located in Miami, FL
Tempera mixed with gum arabic and alcohol on Renaissance Panel "Robert Riggs was awarded the Gold Medal for Excellence by the New York Art Directors Club for ten consecutive years and received many additional awards." He was elected to the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame. His work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts and the U.S. Library of Congress. Riggs's compositons are "monumental" Walt Reed Riggs was a Gay Artist...
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1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Tempera

Lovers
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed on the Back
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1920s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Dizzy Dean, The Pride of St Louis
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Dizzy Dean, The Pride of St Louis
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20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Falconer, interior Argosy magazine story illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 16.00" x 24.00" Signature: Unsigned
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Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Confrontation, 1934
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed, Dated, and Dedicated Lower Left
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1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Seated Nude
Located in Nutfield, Surrey
An oil on board painting by Belgian Modernist painter Emiel Creado. Framed - 60 x 38 Inches Unframed - 53 x 31 Inches
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20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Oliver
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Made for the movie poster for "Oliver" Signed Lower Right
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1960s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Board

Woman in Horror and Terror at Gunpoint
Located in Miami, FL
Signed lower right. Inscribed on the reverse 'My first color illustration, Nov. 1954.' Work is unframed, Film Noir in paint
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1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Pajama Party
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Right Medium: Gouache on Board
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1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Board

Luna al Atardecer
Located in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato
Original Carmen Gutierrez painting. "Luna al Atardecer", 2016. Oil, acrylic and liquid silver leaf on canvas. Signed by the artist. 17.7 x 18.5 in. image. 20.5 (height) x 21.5 x 1.6 ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Hard-Edge Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Yankee Doodle Girls, Original Poster Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Mixed Media on Board Signature: Unsigned Date: 1900 Dimensions: 30.00" x 14.00"
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Early 1900s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paint

"The Cave Man, " Liberty Magazine Cover, 1927
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1927 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 20.00" x 16.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Liberty Magazine Cover, November 12, 1927 "The Cave Man or the Cave Max?"
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1920s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Touring Car in Reverse
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 20.00" x 27.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right
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Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Family Picnic, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1952 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 34.00" x 27.00" Signature: Signed Lower Left Cover for The Saturday Evening Post Magazine, May 31, 1952. Clymer's coverscape takes you to Massachusetts' tidelands where the frost is on the pumpkin and the red and gold areon the trees. Gloucester harbor and the inlets roundabout-- for three centuries this haven has been the homeport of renowned and valiant fisherman. They were the Captains Courageous of Rudyard Kipling, the hero’s of Longfellow's The Wreck of the Hesperus and of James B. Connolly's tales of the sea. John Ford Clymer's success as an artist can be traced to his boyhood in the Kittitas Valley located in the central regions of Washington state. It was there that he developed an enthusiasm for the world around him and an abiding respect for historical accuracy. Over the years John Clymer received numerous awards and honors including the revered Prix de West in 1976, from the national Academy of Western Art. Other great achievements included both gold and silver metals for his oils and charcoal drawings from the Cowboy Artists of America, "Western Artist of the Year" from the National Wildlife Art Collectors Society, and both John and Doris were honored at the Ellensburg National Art Show and Auction for their contributions to western heritage. John's highest honor came in 1988 when he was awarded the prestigious Rungius Medal from the Wildlife of American West Art...
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1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Bridal White
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right and Titled on reverse Dimensions: 28.13" x 25.13" (71.45 cm x 63.83 cm) Literature: Temple Bailey, Bridal White, The American Mag...
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1940s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Figurative landscape oil painting- Sunny Afternoon
Located in Beijing, CN
Dai Xiangwen was born in Hunan in 1991 and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Jianghan University, He is a member of China Artists Association, China Designers Association, a painter of Li Keran...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Film Noir Curse of the Golden Cross Magazine - Golden Age of Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Herbert Morton Stoops American (1888 - 1948) Curse of the Golden Cross Magazine illustration, 1925 Oil on canvas 40 x 30 in. Not signed Work is framed
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1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

The Lion and the Throne, The Atlantic Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Contact for exact dimensions. The Atlantic Magazine Cover Illustration. November 1956, Volume 198
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1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Caïn and Abel II
Located in Paris, IDF
Bruno DESPLANQUES (Born in 1966, France) Caïn and Abel II Painting on wood 120 cm x 90 cm 2021
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paint

Interior Scene
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Left Medium: Mixed Media Illustration
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20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

1956 Ford Thunderbird, Oil Painting by John McCormick
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: John McCormick, American Title: 1956 Ford Thunderbird Year: 1983 Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 18 in. x 32 in. (45.72 cm x 81.28 cm)
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1980s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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2010s Conceptual Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Reckless
Located in New York, NY
Oil painting of car on a curve. Sunglasses hang from the steering wheel. Tone is engaging, fun with universal appeal. About the artist: Molloy...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

In The Bride's Shop, Lord & Taylor
Located in Miami, FL
Signed lower right Printer's and designer's marks in margins "Tool pearls in bodice, train & headband & ribbon under bosom." Ex-collection photographer Frank Paulin...
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1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Story of a Bad Boy" Book Illustration
By Edward John Prittie
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1927 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 27.00" x 18.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right "We Amused Ourselves for an Hour or More, Darting in and out Among the Crowd and Setting off our Crackers", The Story of a Bad Boy...
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1920s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
the painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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1980s Conceptual Figurative Paintings

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Lithograph, Mixed Media

Backwoods Hussy, Paperback Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1952 Medium: Oil on Board Dimensions: 22.25" x 16.25" Signature: Signed Lower Left This classic Nappi painting was first published as the cover for Backwoods Hussy by Hallam Whitney (PBO, Original books...
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1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Broadcast Studio
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left
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20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Large Antique Oil Painting of Samson and Delilah after Anthony van Dyck
By Anthony van Dyck
Located in London, GB
Large antique oil painting of Samson and Delilah after Anthony van Dyck Dutch, 17th Century Height 165cm, width 233cm This very large artwork ...
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17th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Man Fishing
By Leslie Langille Benson
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1914 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 29.00" x 19.00" Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Right
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1910s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Old Couple
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 21.00" x 28.00" Signature: Signed Lower Left Book cover, The Old Couple.
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Study for Irish Liberty
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Unsigned The present work is a study for the cover of the March 18, 1922 cover of The Saturday Evening Post.
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1920s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

(Untitled)
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1928 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 16.00" x 22.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Interior setting with people standing around.
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1920s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Illegal Rebirth of Billy the Kid, Paperback Cover
By Dean Morrissey
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1991 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 36.00" x 24.00" Signature: Signed Lower Left DEAN MORRISSEY (American, 20th Century) The Illegal Rebirth of Billy the Kid...
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1910s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Dancing Couple at the Ball, Theatre Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache watercolor painting on artist board Signature: Signed Lower Left Size: 18" x 14"
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20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Board, Gouache, Watercolor

TRESPASS
Located in New York, NY
Homage to Dick Tracey. Pop Art influenced work of amazing, infamous graffiti, pop, street artist. Sprays, enamels, oils acrylics on canvas. About the Artist Born in Belgium and artistically inclined at an early age, V.P. was executing well-defined pencil sketched portraits of anyone who would sit for him by age 4. The family’s emigration to the United States in 1967 landed the 8 year old in the Fordham section of the Bronx at the height of the psychedelic era and POP ART movement.  The Fordham Road shopping district offered the young budding artist a fount of inspiration in the form of vibrant Rock & Roll, “black-light” posters in the windows of “head-shops” and the elaborately colored wardrobes of the hippies crowding the boulevard. The pivotal shift in V.P.’s artistic expression was fueled in 1968 by the sight of a Peter Max designed billboard.  Armed with magic markers and acrylic paints, V.P. recreated the vibrant designs from Max’s billboard, the music posters in store windows and the paisley patterns of the shirts the “flower children” favored, as well as the names and slogans painted on the walls of the neighborhood.  The early seventies brought with it a wondrous sight passing overhead on the sides of the elevated trains. NYC Subway Graffiti had arrived.  Looking up and seeing the esoteric names intricately rendered in multi colored swirls and strategically placed on the sides of the trains completely enthralled V.P.’s creative and adventurous spirit. Compelled to be a part of this fascinating movement he watched and rode the subways, deciphering the names and studying the “styles” on the steel rolling art gallery. Using his artistic influences and skills with markers, V.P. created his first moniker “SONIC-ACE” and obsessively drew it in colorful flowing letters to develop his own style.   At age 13 he set out to traverse the city, facing dangers and overcoming obstacles to enter an unknown and secretive world in order to join those who inspired him.  By 1974, he would change his moniker to “VICTOR-161” and paint hundreds of train cars and soon be admitted into the world famous graffiti clique “WILD STYLE” - an honor bestowed due to peer recognized artistic and stylistic abilities.  (WILDSTYLE was created/coined by the iconic TRACY-168)  V.P. was a well known and respected “writer” who “pieced” with revered writers of the day, under the aforementioned monikers including aka’s T-BOLT-123, SULFA-ONE, FANTA-ONE, BOND & ACES.  V.P. retired from painting NYC subway trains in 1977 with occasional excursions in 1986,1987,1988,1999 & 1992.  He continuously expanded his artistic pallet, studying Art History & Graphic Design in college while seeking knowledge from masters in chosen fields of art.  His works have shown in independent galleries nationally and are sought after by international collectors, with numerous private commissions. He has been featured in several best selling books and magazines focusing on graffiti art as well as his status of having been a part of the 1970’s “Golden Era” of NYC Subway Graffiti. V.P. works with a variety of mediums including aerosol paints, oils, water color & acrylic paints, often combining mediums as well as blending POP, graffiti and abstract styles of painting onto wood, canvas and metal.  His professional artistic background includes commercial art and design, logo design, silk screening, printmaking, large commissioned public murals, sign painting, pin striping and airbrushing cars, sculpting, metal fabrication, woodcarving and tattooing. Exhibitions:  Fashion Moda (BXNY) Group Show 1980/Fun Gallery (NYC) group show 1981, Beef Gallery, (LA) Group Show 1981, Gallery International (NYC) Group Show 1985, Susan Greco Gallery (NY) Group Show 1990, Shady Side...
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2010s Pop Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Spray Paint

Turf and Sport Digest
By Randall Shaull
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1930 Medium: Oil on Canvasboard Dimensions: 27.00" x 21.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Cover for Turf and Sport Digest, probably late 1930s
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1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Board

Portrait of a Charming Seated Woman Against Maroon Drapes
Located in Miami, FL
Charming portait with Modernest colors. Provenance: Christie's Mercedes Matter, daughter of the artist, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York. Private Collection. Sale: Skinner, Inc...
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1910s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Lay the Mountains Low" Book Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Acrylic on Board Dimensions: 20.50" x 24.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right "Lay the Mountains Low" Book Cover, by Terry C. Johnston
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Board

Figurative Paintings for Sale

Figurative art, as opposed to abstract art, retains features from the observable world in its representational depictions of subject matter. Most commonly, figurative paintings reference and explore the human body, but they can also include landscapes, architecture, plants and animals — all portrayed with realism.

While the oldest figurative art dates back tens of thousands of years to cave wall paintings, figurative works made from observation became especially prominent in the early Renaissance. Artists like Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and other Renaissance masters created naturalistic representations of their subjects.

Pablo Picasso is lauded for laying the foundation for modern figurative art in the 1920s. Although abstracted, this work held a strong connection to representing people and other subjects. Other famous figurative artists include Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud. Figurative art in the 20th century would span such diverse genres as Expressionism, Pop art and Surrealism.

Today, a number of figural artists — such as Sedrick Huckaby, Daisy Patton and Eileen Cooper — are making art that uses the human body as its subject.

Because figurative art represents subjects from the real world, natural colors are common in these paintings. A piece of figurative art can be an exciting starting point for setting a tone and creating a color palette in a room.

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