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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Style: Modern
Style: Post-Impressionist
DOG
By Angel Rivas
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Acrylic painting on canvas
Shipped roll in a tube.
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Over and Above: No. 6, Surreal Cat w/ Fish Bones, 20th Century Cleveland School
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904–2000)
Over and Above: No. 6, 1963
Oil, sand & fish bones on canvas
Signed and dated upper left
53 x 31 inches
Clarence Holbrook Carter achie...
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Bimba in poltrona" olio su cartone cm. 35 x 25 1980 ca
Located in Torino, IT
Childhood, Little Girl, Green, Summer
KLARA VLASOVA (Moscow, 1926)
MUSEUMS
St. Petersburg, State Russian Museum
Moscow, Pushkin Museum
Moscow, Museum of History and Reconstructi...
Category
1980s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
WILD ANIMAL
By Angel Rivas
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Acrylic painting on canvas
Shipped roll in a tube.
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Oil
Over and Above Surprise (Serpent), 1960s snake painting, Cleveland School
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Over and Above Surprise (Serpent), 1967
Casein on board
Signed lower right
7.75 x 5.5 inches
Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a lev...
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Casein
1940's French Signed Modernist Oil Painting Nude Figure in Room Interior
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Nude in Interior
by Maurice Delavier (French mid 20th century)
signed and dated 1944
oil on board, unframed
board: 18.5 x 14.5 inches
inscribed verso
provenance: private collection, ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Mid Century Modern Figurative -- Seated Samurai Original Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Vintage Mid Century Modern Figurative -- Seated Samurai Original Oil on Canvas
A quiet mood of this warrior is captured by listed California artist Molly E. Brubaker (American, 1922...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Little Flower
Located in Oslo, NO
A beautiful girl in a beautiful summer dress admires a small flower in a blooming meadow. And the girl herself looks like a flower, born for life and the beauty of the world! The fee...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Falling Into The Sky
Located in Oslo, NO
This large oil painting is a memory from my childhood. One day, like the girl in the picture, I was lying on a haystack, looking up at the sky and feeling incredibly happy!
The esse...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Madonna con il gelato
Located in Oslo, NO
The painting "Madonna con il gelato (Madonna with Ice Cream)" was created based on the impression of a trip to the Italian city of Pisa. The family settled near a street cafe. The da...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Modernist Judaica Jewish Ink Drawing Painting "New Immigrant" Off the Boat WPA
Located in Surfside, FL
An ink drawing Judaic painting by modern artist Ben-Zion Weinman. It depicts a portrait of an old Jewish man. Coming over from Europe on a ship crossing. The work is signed "Ben-Zion".
Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual works as a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Influenced by Spinoza, Knut Hamsun, and Wladyslaw Reymont, as well as Hebrew literature, Ben-Zion wrote poetry and essays that, like his visual work, attempt to reveal the deep “connection between man and the divine, and between man and earth.”
An emigrant from the Ukraine, he came to the US in 1920. He wrote fairy tales and poems in Hebrew under the name Benzion Weinman, but when he began painting he dropped his last name and hyphenated his first, saying an artist needed only one name. In 1920 he settled in America, where he found little interest in his writing. He began teaching Hebrew to support himself and then in the early 1930s returned to painting. He used his art to comment on the rise of fascism in Europe, events he felt could not be adequately explored with words. Largely self-taught, Ben-Zion visited the museums of New York City to learn his new trade. His first painting on a large scale, Friday Evening (1933, Jewish Museum, New York), depicts a Sabbath dinner table as recalled from his family home. Ben-Zion supported himself by working odd jobs until the establishment of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project. Under the auspices of the wpa, Ben-Zion thrived and galleries began to show his work. In 1936, after his first one-man show at the Artists' Gallery in New York
Ben-Zion was a founding member of “The Ten: An Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Hillside and Stream, early 20th century modernist Cleveland School painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clara Deike (American, 1881-1964)
Hillside and Stream, 1916
Gouache on paper
Signed and dated lower right
22 x 18 inches
25.5 x 21.5 inches, framed
A graduate of the Cleveland Schoo...
Category
1910s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Donald McIntyre. Girl and Chapel, North Wales. Modern British. Rural Welsh Life.
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Donald McIntyre.
English ( b.1923 - d.2009 ).
Girl and Chapel, North Wales.
Oil on card.
Signed with monogram twice lower left.
Image size 12 inches x 15.6 inches ( 30.5cm x 39.5cm ...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Surrealist Still Life with Apples, Mid 20th Century Cleveland School Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Still Life with Apples, 1940
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated upper right
18 x 24 inches
Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a level of na...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Paco Gorospe Filipino (1939-2002), Abstract Figurative Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Paco Gorospe Filipino (1939-2002)
Oil on canvas
Abstract painting of figures with fishing nets
Canvas dimensions: 18.25" x 24.25" (on stretcher, no frame)
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Floral painting, abstract floral large scale oil painting
Located in Basalt, CO
This 60" x 48" original floral oil painting called "Charmed" is one of the first in Tania's recent body of large format flower-inspired oil paintings. On a sprawling 60" canvas, hues...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid Century French Impressionist Signed Oil Portrait of Man with Moustache
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Suzanne Dinkés (French, 1895 - 1984) signed
Title: portrait of a man with a moustache
Medium: oil on board, unframed
Size : 10 x 7 inches
Provenance: private coll...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Conjuring Spirits (Jungle Drums)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Dynamic jungle drummer scene by unknown NYC American artist. Oil on canvas measuring 20 x 26 inches. Signed "T 42" in ink on verso. Anco stretchers and Grumbacher NYC store stamp con...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
1960's French Modernist Large Oil Painting Christ Preaching to Crowd
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Christ Preaching to the Crowd
French Modernist artist, circa 1960's period
oil on board, framed
framed: 27 x 31 inches
board: 20 x 24 inches
provenance: private collection, France
co...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Swedish Figurative Oil Painting - Dance
Located in Bristol, GB
DANCE
Size: 42 x 49.5 cm (including frame)
Oil on Canvas
An endearing mid-century figurative composition, executed in oil onto canvas.
In the painting, two couples engaged in a dan...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Children's Room
By Odette Chauvet
Located in Pasadena, CA
CHAUVET Odette
Born in Nantes (Loire Atlantique) 20th . French.
Painter of portraits, interiors, still lifes.
She exhibited in PARIS at the Salon d'Automne since 1919, she also exhib...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Mid-Century Swedish Modern Figurative Oil Painting - The Lonely Diner
Located in Bristol, GB
THE LONELY DINER
Size: 63 x 48 cm (including frame)
Oil on Canvas
An emotive mid-century figurative composition, executed in oil onto canvas and dated 1962.
The focal point of the ...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Echoes of Life in the Forest
Located in THOMERY, FR
Immerse yourself in the heart of the wild with "Echoes of Life in the Forest," a vibrant and captivating piece by artist Linda Clerget. On a canvas measuring 116 x 89 cm, the magic o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
'Montmartre, Place du Tertre', Paris, Woman Modernist, AIC, Smithsonian, Carmel
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Patricia Cunningham' for Patricia Stanley Cunningham (American, 1907-1984) and painted circa 1965.
The first woman to serve as president of the Carmel Art Assoc...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
A Young Girl Reading a Book, Pointillist Artist
Located in Stockholm, SE
"A Young Girl Reading a Book" is a captivating portrait by Swedish artist Gustaf Arnolds.
Arnolds was a prolific painter whose roots began in Vingåker and later in Ronneby from his teenage years.
His educational journey in art took him through prestigious institutions such as Althins målarskola and the Tallbergska grafikskolan in Stockholm,
followed by a significant period at the Konstakademien, Stockholm, between 1904 and 1909. His talent and dedication were recognized early on, earning him a scholarship to Paris, a city that would deeply influence his artistic direction.
This particular work, likely painted shortly after his return to Sweden, reveals a profound influence from his time in Paris. It portrays a young girl absorbed in reading a book, a simple yet profound subject that Arnolds imbues with a sense of tranquility and introspection. The background hints at a serene landscape, dotted with quaint houses, a nod to the everyday beauty surrounding us. What sets this piece apart is Arnolds’ technique, reminiscent of pointillism but distinguished by longer, more expressive brush strokes that add a vibrant texture and depth to the canvas. This method showcases Arnolds' unique adaptation of the techniques he encountered during his Parisian studies, particularly during his interactions with Nils Dardel...
Category
1930s Pointillist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Figurative Portrait of a Nude Male Model
Located in Soquel, CA
Figurative Portrait of a Nude Male Model
Handsome example of a vibrant figurative of a nude male model by Katherine Kallick (American, b. 1952).
Med...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
“Place du Tertre, Montmartre, Paris”
Located in Southampton, NY
Exquisite orginal oil painting of the Place du Tertre in Montmartre, Paris by the well known artist, Jose Luis Leiva. Beautiful vibrant colors and use of light and shadows. The lan...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lanscape with river - Oil Paint - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape with River is an oil painting on cardboard realized at the beginning of the 20th century.
Good condition.
Frame included.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid-Century Modern Figurative Oil Painting, Fabian Lundqvist - Garden Vacation
Located in Bristol, GB
GARDEN VACATION
Size: 67 x 59 cm (including frame)
Oil on Canvas
A charming mid-century figurative composition, executed in oil onto canvas by the established Swedish artist Fabian ...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Blue Girl" Modern Abstract Style Modigliani Figure Oil Painting on Canvas
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
Exploring the purity of the feminine form and the drama of French haute couture, artist Cindy Shaoul creates a dialogue between the figurative and the abstract. Her spirited composit...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Acrylic on Canvas Signed P.J. Crook 'The swimming Pool' 1989
Located in Uppingham, GB
Acrylic on Canvas by P.J.Crook titled 'The Swimming Pool' with the frame painted as part of the picture as well.
PJ Crook lives and works in Gloucestershire ...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"People on Horseback" Eva Peron Mural Sketch
Located in Austin, TX
By Gustav Likan
This piece depicts a couple on horseback followed by a man in a red military uniform. A dog runs by the group. This pieces is from the Eva Perón commissioned mural sk...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Modern British, Interior with an old record player, port decanter and glass
Located in Woodbury, CT
Colin Ruffell is an English painter of interiors, cityscapes, and many other unique subjects.
His styles have varied and include iconic cityscapes of London, New York, Venice, Hong ...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Still life with pears - Oil Painting - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Still life with Pears is an oil painting on canvas realized at the beginning of the 20th Century.
Good condition.
Frame included.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Landscape - Oil Paint by Amos Cassioli - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an oil painting on pressed cardboard realized by the Italian artist Amos Cassioli in the XIX Century.
Hand signed lower left.
Good condition.
Frame included.
Category
19th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Via di San Leonardo, Florence (Italy) - Oil Paint - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Via di San Leonardo, Florence (Italy) is an oil painting on pressed cardboard realized at the beginning of the 20th Century.
Good condition (light color degradation).
Frame included.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Spanish school fishermen's beach seascape Spain
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Signed Oliveras - Fisherman's Beach - Oil on canvas.
Slight paint chips on the sides that covered the frame.
Oil measurements 61x122 cm.
Frameless.
Category
1980s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Waiting for the Bus in a Blizzard- WPA American Scene 1938 NYC Modernism Realism
By Maurice Kish
Located in New York, NY
Waiting for the Bus in a Blizzard- WPA American Scene 1938 NYC Modernism Realism. 16 x 16 inches, Oil on board, Signed and dated 1938 lower left.
...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
The kiss
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
American box in black and silver wood
116.5 x 116.5 x 3.5 cm
Category
20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
"Le Marché à Martigues" Colorful Impressionist view of Market Scene Oil Painting
Located in New York, NY
A strong Post-Impressionist oil on canvas painting by André Roubaud depicting the Market in Martigues in France, executed in wonderful colors and gestural brush strokes. With magnifi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Canale Veneziano e l'ospedale di San Giovanni e Paolo Venice" Oil Painting
Located in New York, NY
A stunning oil painting scene depicting figures by the Canale veneziano e l'ospedale di San Giovanni e Paolo executed in the 20th Century. The vibrant colors and impressionistic brus...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Spanish postwar children oil on burlap painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Agusti Ferre Pino (1884-1960) - Children - Oil on burlap
Oil measurements 100x97 cm.
Frame measurements 107x104 cm.
Painter trained at the La Lonja School of Fine Arts. He became kn...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Burlap, Oil
Heal Heart Heal. Contemporary Mixed Media Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
"Heal Heart Heal"
Original Oil and gold leaf on arches paper, cracked varnish finish. Matted
Signed and dated Image 5" x 7"
Category
1990s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Old Man: Contemporary Figurative Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Sympathetic portrayal of old age, really very pretty work by this British artist.
oil and gold leaf on arches paper, cracked varnish finish. Matted and very good condition
Category
1990s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
La Salute le Soir - Venice - Modern Landscape Oil Painting by André Hambourg
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed, dated and titled figures in a landscape oil on canvas by French modernist painter Andre Hambourg. This beautiful piece depicts a view of the gondolas on the canal in Venice a...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Training Day - Mid 20th Century Impressionist Oil Horse & Jockey by Kay Hinwood
By Kay Hinwood
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Kay Hinwood (1920 - 2006)
This piece titled Training Day was created using oil on board and is in a handmade swept composite frame.
It features: Horse, horses, training, people, ho...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Antique American School Modernist WPA Winter Ice Skating Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive American modernist winter landscape. Detailed and well painted skating scene. Oil on canvas. Nicely framed.
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Boys Swimming Industrial Landscape WPA Mid 20th Century Social Realism Modernism
Located in New York, NY
Boys Swimming Industrial Landscape WPA Mid 20th Century Social Realism Modernism
Henry Schnakenberg (1982 - 1970)
Boys Swimming Industrial Landscape
11 1/2 x 15 1/2 sight
Oil on Canvas
Signed lower left
14 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches, Framed
Bio
In many cases, American artists visited the Armory Show in New York in 1913, and returned to their studios to react to or against what they saw. However, for Henry Ernest Schnakenberg it was much more life altering. Prior to visiting this important exhibition of American and European modernist art...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
R. QUEYRIE, Walking the Streets, Oil on Hardboard, 1950s
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on hardboard signed R. QUEYRIE, France, 1950s. "Walking the streets". With frame: 55x47 cm - 21.65x18.5 inches - without frame: 46x38cm - 18.1x15 inches. 8F format. Signed "R. Qu...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Sankt Matteus Church in Stockholm, 1907
Located in Stockholm, SE
The painting we have for sale, executed by Swedish artist Erik Tryggelin on May 3rd, 1907, presents an atmospheric and dynamic view of Sankt Matteus Church in Stockholm. This piece i...
Category
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Face, Acrylic on paper by Modern Indian Artist Rabin Mondal “In Stock”
By Rabin Mondal
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Rabin Mondal - Face
14 x 10 Inches
Acrylic on Paper
2018
Mondal was a clear observant of the various migrant workers who lived along his house in the conjected Howrah Area. They c...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Jerusalem Samovar Israeli Judaica Eliezer Weishoff Oil Painting Bezalel Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Eliezer Weishoff (Israeli, 20th century)
Still life of kettle (Russian samovar) over a warmer, 1973
Acrylic or oil on canvas
Signed, dated and signed ...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Oil, Canvas
Woman with Arms Crossed
By Byron Browne
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Woman with Arms Crossed
Mixed media collage-painting on stone chip surface, mounted on fabric, mounted on wood support by the artist, 1955
Signed and dated lower center
Image size: 1...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Other Medium
Antidote from the Gods
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Climate change is a serious issue that we must all work together to address. One key solution is the planting of trees. Trees help to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, which...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic, Pencil, Mixed Media
Brothers
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Brothers" by Ademola Ajayi encapsulates the enduring bond shared between siblings with heartfelt authenticity. Inspired by the poignant sentiment expres...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Canvas, Charcoal, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Pencil
1950's French Modernist Colorist Signed Oil Painting St. Mark's Square Venice
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Piazza San Marco, Venice
by Maurice Delavier (French 1902-1986)
signed oil on canvas, unframed
dated 58'
canvas: 21.5 x 25.5 inches
provenance: private collection, France, with exhib...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Face, Acrylic on paper by Modern Indian Artist Rabin Mondal “In Stock”
By Rabin Mondal
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Rabin Mondal - Face
12 x 9 Inches
Acrylic on Paper
2012
Mondal was a clear observant of the various migrant workers who lived along his house in the conjected Howrah Area. They ca...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Until Morning Comes
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Until Morning Comes" is a captivating artwork by Boluwatife Victoria Lawal that depicts a tender and intimate moment between a man and a woman. In this evocative piece, the couple i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, 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.
Today, a number of figural artists — such as Sedrick Huckaby, Daisy Patton and Eileen Cooper — are making art that uses the human body as its subject.
Because figurative art represents subjects from the real world, natural colors are common in these paintings. A piece of figurative art can be an exciting starting point for setting a tone and creating a color palette in a room.
Browse an extensive collection of figurative paintings on 1stDibs.