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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Style: Victorian
Style: Surrealist
Screams for Peace
Located in Sempach, LU
Sometimes I like to let my paintings do the talking for me when we switch on the news at the moment, it's full of horror when the world is crying out for peace
To say that Ta is a v...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Egg girl
Located in Sempach, LU
02 / 10 / 2023 I signed a book contract for Egg Island; it will now go through the publishing process and will be in print next year.
I was overwhelmed by the editorial board's fee...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Conflab" Oil on Canvas 18x22"
Located in Southampton, NY
In continuing with representing fine artists that are connected to the music industry we are please to announce that we are the only gallery in the United States representing the wor...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
ShaoHua Nong Surrealist Original Oil Painting "Embrace"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Embrace
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 16 x 12 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Note: This painting is unstretched
Year: 2015
Artist: ShaoHua Nong...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th Century Cornish/ Devon Fishing Cottages & Family Coastal Landscape Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Fisherfolk
English School, 19th centurysigned oil on canvas, framed
framed: 17 x 23 inches
painting: 12 x 18 inches
provenance: private collection, England
condition: very good ...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled Micro-Gestalt H4
By Airom
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Acrylic and ink on canvas
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
Release Jealousy (Hummingbird, Portrait, Storytelling, Oil Painting)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Joseph Broghammer
Release Jealousy (Hummingbird, Portrait, Storytelling, Oil Painting)
Oil on Canvas
Year: 2022
Size: 44x34in
Signed by hand
COA provided
Ref.: 924802-1892
*on stret...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Yoni (Hummingbird, Portrait, Storytelling, Oil Painting)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Joseph Broghammer
Yoni (Hummingbird, Portrait, Storytelling, Oil Painting)
Oil on Canvas
Year: 2023
Size: 40x30in
Signed by hand
COA provided
Ref.: 924802-1890
*on stretcher frame -...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Boss getting a hair cut
Located in Sempach, LU
Welcome to my world of Monkeys and Lions smoking cigars, the Egg family, my Lovers Jazz Conspirators and Ladies in Red.
Someone once said of my work. 'I often wonder why people worl...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Blessing the Harvest - Belgian 19thC art figurative Victorian oil painting
Located in London, GB
This stunning arched top Victorian figurative oil painting is by noted Belgian artist Charles Soubre. It was painted in 1853 and is signed and date lower right. The composition is a ...
Category
1850s Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
19th Century continental townscape oil painting of a busy harbour
Located in Moreton-In-Marsh, Gloucestershire
Ludwig Hermann
German, (1812-1881)
A Bustling Harbour Town
Oil on canvas, signed & dated 1863
Image size: 26 inches x 36.5 inches
Size including frame: 35.25 inches x 45.75 inches
A wonderful continental townscape scene of a bustling harbour by Ludwig Hermann. The Medieval architecture is reminiscent of North Germany and the Baltic sea area with its busy trading ports. Figures can be seen chatting to traders as ships sail around the harbour.
Ludwig Hermann or Herman was born Elias Ludwig Julius Herrmann at Greifswald, Germany in 1812 to Wilhelm and Sophie Herrmann. Although little is recorded about his early life and education, he is known to have left his home in 1831 at the age of 19, to pursue an artistic career in Berlin. There he entered the Prussian Academy of Arts where he studied under Johann Gottfried Schadow (1764-1850).
Hermann started exhibiting at the Berlin Academy exhibitions in 1836. A year later in 1837, he travelled to Paris to study under Eugène Isabey (1803-1886) and Eugène Lepoittevin (1806-1870). By 1841 he had returned to Berlin where he married Caroline Wilhelmine ‘Auguste’ Dupont on 16 October, 1841. From his base in Berlin he travelled around Europe painting views of France...
Category
19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Luck Memory (Hummingbird, Portrait, Storytelling, Oil Painting)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Joseph Broghammer
Luck Memory (Hummingbird, Portrait, Storytelling, Oil Painting)
Oil on Canvas
Year: 2023
Size: 21x17in
Signed by hand
COA provided
Ref.: 924802-1897
*Framed - read...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Modern Figurative Surrealism Watercolor Painting, Drawing 'Faces of Deceit'
Located in Surfside, FL
On heavy Arches deckle edged paper. This combines text or poetry in calligraphy on the side.
Gary Hansmann (1947-2008) was active/lived in California. He is known for abstract, Surrealism figure painting.
Gary William Hansmann was born Dec. 4, 1940, in San Diego to Ethel May Williams and Lester Hughes Hansmann. He grew up in Encinitas and served in the Army in the early 1960s.
Gary Hansmann, San Diego artist, teacher and gallery owner, was known for his Surrealist nude and animal drawings and graphics. He spent time working in Paris and exhibiting his art throughout Europe, but San Diego was home until he moved to Washington state. His life partner was fellow artist, Jill Hosmer. Mr. Hansmann, a respected printmaker and prolific artist, created thousands of drawings, prints and paintings as well as hundreds of poems. His interest in bullfighting led to a book of poetry and illustrations on the subject, “La Corrida, The Run”, a collection of poetry & artwork written as he was preparing for his first bullfight. Prologue written by famous Mexican Matador Antonio Lomelin. The book is written in English and translated into Spanish on opposing pages and was published in 1983. Mr. Hansmann taught intaglio and monotype at the Academy of Fine Arts in San Diego from 1977 to 1980 and at the San Diego Museum of Art in 1980. He also gave lectures and demonstrations throughout the art community, including at the San Diego Art Guild in Del Mar and Artist Equity in San Diego. Although he attended Palomar College in San Marcos and studied lithography at the San Diego Academy of Fine Arts, Mr. Hansmann was mostly self-taught and self-educated. Mr. Hansmann had shows in several art-world capitals, including Paris; Lisbon, Portugal; Cologne, Germany; Brussels, Belgium; and New York. he had one-person exhibits at the Loft Gallery in Clarkston, the Lewis-Clark State College Center of Arts & History, the Carnegie Art Center in Walla Walla and the Valley Art Center in Clarkston. During his long, distinguished career as an artist he had numerous one-person exhibits all over the world and the United States.
His group shows are too numerous to mention, but his one-person exhibits were in Koln, Germany; Bruxelles, Belgium; Paris, France; Viana do Castelo, Portugal; Lisbon, Portugal; Tecate, Mexico; and British Columbia, Canada; and many states at home.
Palomar College, San Marcos, Calif.
San Diego Academy of Fine Arts
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, N.Y.
University of Southern California, Idyllwild (ISOMATA)
University of San Diego
San Diego Museum of Art
James Copley Library, La Jolla, Calif.
Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice, Italy
Centre de Arte Moderna
Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
Museo Taurino de la Communidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Atelier Lacouriere et Frelaut, Paris, France
Gordon Gilkey Collection
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Or.
Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay...
Category
1980s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Watercolor
Signed Victorian Oil Painting d.1885 Fisherfolk on Coastal Shore Nets & Catch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Fisherfolk
by C. Forster, British 19th century
signed oil on canvas, framed
dated 1885
framed: 17 x 21 inches
canvas: 12 x 16 inches
provenance: private collection, England
condi...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Monumental Surrealist Pastel, Of Course We Evolve But Does Anything Ever Change?
Located in Cotignac, FR
Surrealist, figurative large scale pastel of a deconstructed head and other elements by Gordon Muir. With original exhibition title label. Presented in fine silvered wood and fabric custom frame, under glass.
A magnificent and truly monumental work of a 'deconstructed' head and three other triptych elements. Influenced by the paintings of Francis Bacon and Salvador Dali the work is intriguing and arresting at the same time. We can see how Muir gained such success later for his sculptural pieces as he is even in this work thinking in three dimensions. On closer inspection the details reveal themselves, the eyeball reminiscent of the shell of a horse chestnut, the furry surface to the tongue all in soft pastel shades. The three upper elements, in monochrome revealing the development of man. A really intriguing and strong painting that would grace any interior and be the talking point of any collection.
It is very unusual to find a pastel of these proportions. The medium itself gives the work a softness creating an intriguing juxtaposition to the subject itself.
Sculptor, born in Hawick, Gordon Muir was educated at art colleges in London, Scotland and the University of New Mexico, after which he spent time working with woodblock artists in Japan. He has more recently concentrated his artistic endeavours on sculpture, much of this in collaboration with the Paul Hogarth...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Young Boss jamming with Girlfriend
Located in Sempach, LU
I paint people; I want my paintings to have character to tell a story but without words as if using mime. To be dramatic, emotional, sometimes theatrical but always with feelings and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Conspirators hatching a plot
Located in Sempach, LU
I am an accomplished fine portrait artist, but my real passion is in colour and how the arrangement of colour can produce a different emotional experience of art. I want original and...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
King of Jazz
Located in Sempach, LU
Ta has a vibrant personality and loves nothing more than a happy toe-tapping audience appreciating melodic jazz. Jazz and lady in red oozes musical finesse and sultry song.
Ta is ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Spanish Lady
By Charles Baxter
Located in St. Albans, GB
A perfect example of Charles Baxter's work. A beautiful Spanish lady wearing typical Spanish attire. Despite being unsigned, the painting has full provenance having being fully catal...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Wee One 9 (Hummingbird, Portrait, Storytelling, Oil Painting)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Joseph Broghammer
Wee One 9 (Hummingbird, Portrait, Storytelling, Oil Painting)
Oil on Canvas
Year: 2023
Size: 14x11in
Framed: 15x12x1in
Signed by hand
COA provided
Ref.: 924802-1903...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Glen Cloy Arran - Scottish Victorian art Landscape oil painting man and dog
Located in London, GB
This superb Victorian Scottish landscape oil painting is by noted landscape artist John MacWhirter. Painted circa 1880 the location is Glen Cloy, Arran, a very popular walking and holidaying destination along with the Fairy Glen. The composition is a stream in the foreground with a man and his dog approaching. Either side of them are rolling hills giving way to cloud enveloped mountains in the background. The palette of greens and brown of the flora and fauna is so rich and varied. An excellent example of Scottish Victorian art and of MacWhirter's work.
Signed lower right.
Provenance. Sotheby's 26.8.86 lot 694.
Condition. Oil on canvas, 38 inches by 24 inches unframed, in good condition.
Frame. Housed in a gilt swept frame, 50 inches by 37 inches in good condition.
John MacWhirter RA (27 March 1839 in Slateford, Edinburgh - 28 January 1911 in London) was a Scottish landscape painter. John was the third of four children. One of his elder sisters, Agnes MacWhirter was also a noted artist of still lifes. He attended a school in Colinton, and after his father's death was apprenticed to Oliver & Boyd, booksellers in Edinburgh. He stayed there for only a few months and then in 1851 enrolled at the Trustees Academy under Robert Scott Lauder and John Ballantyne (1815–97). He spent long periods sketching and studying nature outdoors. His first painting to be exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy at age 14, was 'Old Cottage at Braid'. In 1880, he was made an Honorary Member of the Royal Scottish Academy. Exploring and painting abroad he visited Italy, Sicily, Switzerland, Austria, Turkey, Norway and the U.S.A. - the Alps being a great inspiration. Of a drawing of wildflowers, Ruskin wrote i have never seen anything like it. Some of these sketches were later purchased by Ruskin and bequeathed to the Ashmolean, Oxford. He moved to London in 1867 and on 4 May 1893 was elected a Royal Academician. MacWhirter specialised in romantic landscapes with a great fondness for trees, spending much time in the hilly countryside of Perthshire. Initially, under the influence of John Everett Millais, he experimented with the detailed images of the Pre-Raphaelites, but later adopted a more sweeping style. His friendship with William McTaggart shows in his freedom of brush. With John Pettie...
Category
1880s Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
19th Century genre oil painting of a woman peeling apples with her daughters
By Joseph Clark
Located in Moreton-In-Marsh, Gloucestershire
Joseph Clark ROI
British, (1834-1926)
Peeling Apples
Oil on canvas, signed & dated 1873
Image size: 20.5 inches x 16.5 inches
Size including frame: 30.25 inches x 26.25 inches
Provenance: Thomas Agnews & Sons, Manchester
A lovely genre painting of a woman peeling apples with her two young daughters by Joseph Clark. The eldest daughter is shown standing next to her mother in the kitchen, whilst the younger child plays on the floor.
Joseph Clark was born on 4th of July 1834 at Cerne Abbas, Dorset. He was the son of William Henry Clark, a draper and his wife Susanna (née Shepherd). After the death of his father, his mother encouraged her son to move to London to study at the Leigh’s Academy, (now Heatherley School of Fine Art) which was set up by James Matthews Leigh in 1848. He later continued his artistic education by enrolling at the Royal Academy School and began specialising in genre scenes.
He made his debut at the Royal Academy in 1857 with ‘The Sick Child...
Category
19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Traditional English Signed Oil Painting Children in Cottage Flower Garden
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Cottage Garden
by Les Parsons (British b. 1945) * see below
signed
oil on canvas, framed in swept gilt frame.
framed: 16 x 27 inches
canvas: 12 x 24 ...
Category
20th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
My Problems Hump (Hummingbird, Portrait, Storytelling, Oil Painting)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Joseph Broghammer
My Problems Hump (Hummingbird, Portrait, Storytelling, Oil Painting)
Oil on Canvas
Year: 2022
Size: 40x30in
Signed by hand
COA provided
Ref.: 924802-1891
*on stret...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Egg Boy on a windy day
Located in Sempach, LU
02 / 10 / 2023 I signed a book contract for Egg Island; it will now go through the publishing process and will be in print next year.
I was overwhelmed by the editorial board's fee...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Point To Where It Hurts (Hummingbird, Portrait, Storytelling, Oil Painting)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Joseph Broghammer
Point To Where It Hurts (Hummingbird, Portrait, Storytelling, Oil Painting)
Oil on Canvas
Year: 2023
Size: 66x72in
Signed by hand
COA provided
Ref.: 924802-1898
*o...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
French Surrealist Circus Scene, Children with Balloons Oil Painting J.P. Serrier
Located in Surfside, FL
14.5x10.5 framed, 9X5 without frame
Jean Pierre Serrier (1934 – 1989) was a French painter known for surrealism and absurdist art. Jean-Pierre Serrier was born in Montparnasse, Paris and attended the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
the son of Louis and Solange Serrier. His father fought in World War II and became a prisoner of war. In 1940, as a six-year-old, he and his mother fled Paris for Corrèze in southwest France. Childhood memories of close escapes from German bombardments would later influence his absurdist philosophy of life. Passionate about drawing, in 1951 he applied and was admitted to the École nationale supérieure des arts appliqués et des métiers d'art in Paris. He shared an attic apartment in the 16th arrondissement with fellow student Jean-Baptiste Valadié. For income, he decorated shop windows. A trip to Spain provided motifs for early works. His student work might be characterized as art naïf...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Historical genre oil painting of a gentleman & his dogs
By Frank Dadd
Located in Moreton-In-Marsh, Gloucestershire
Frank Dadd RI
British, (1851-1929)
Time for Supper
Oil on canvas, signed & dated 1925
Image size: 19.75 inches x 15.75 inches
Size including frame: 27 inches x 23 inches
A well-exe...
Category
Early 20th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled by Anton Kushaev - Surrealist painting, oil and acrylic on canvas, 2022
Located in Basel, BS
The Untitled is part of the series "Frame of Sorrows" created by Anton Kushaev for the installation at Voskhod Gallery's showcase in Basel in 2022. This painting was exhibited in the...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Untitled by Anton Kushaev - Surrealist painting, oil and acrylic on canvas, 2022
Located in Basel, BS
The Untitled is part of the series "Frame of Sorrows" created by Anton Kushaev for the installation at Voskhod Gallery's showcase in Basel in 2022. This painting was exhibited in the...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
19th century City view of London from Fleet Street with St.Pauls, shops figures
Located in Woodbury, CT
Archer was born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in 1808. In 1820 he went to London, and became a pupil of John Scott, a noted engraver of animals. His apprenticeship was cut short when Scott became ill, and he returned to Newcastle. There, in collaboration with William Collard he etched a series of large plates of Fountains Abbey, after drawings by John Wilson Carmichael, and on his own produced several plates for Mackenzie's History of Durham. He then moved to Edinburgh, where he made a collection of drawings of the ancient buildings and streets of the city.
In about 1830 he returned to London, and entered the studio of the engravers William and Edward Finden, who were then working on illustrations for the annuals and such publications as their Bible Illustrations, and The Ports and Harbours of Great Britain. After a few years the market for this kind of illustration declined, and Archer had to find less renumerative work engraving plates for the New Sporting Magazine.
Having been elected a member of the New Society of Painters in Water Colours, he produced a series of drawings of St. Mary Overy, previous to its restoration, and of Lambeth Palace. Having accumulated more than one hundred drawings of London...
Category
1840s Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Children in School Room Interior - British Victorian Newlyn School oil painting
Located in London, GB
This superb, large British Victorian oil painting is by noted Newlyn and Menton artist Arthur Alfred Burrington. It was painted circa 1890 when Burrington was most likely in Newlyn, ...
Category
1890s Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Happy Days
Located in Nottingham, GB
Anna starts by sketching her figures. Based on everyday people, everyday life. Embossing her art boards with telephone directory before adding oils. Incredible style, akin with Franc...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled by Anton Kushaev - Surrealist painting, oil and acrylic on canvas, 2022
Located in Basel, BS
The Untitled is part of the series "Frame of Sorrows" created by Anton Kushaev for the installation at Voskhod Gallery's showcase in Basel in 2022. This painting was exhibited in the...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Sax duo
Located in Sempach, LU
Welcome to my world of Monkeys and Lions smoking cigars, the Egg family, my Lovers Jazz Conspirators and Ladies in Red.
Someone once said of my work. 'I often wonder why people worl...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled by Anton Kushaev - Surrealist painting, oil pastel on paper, 2023
Located in Basel, BS
Untitled is a work by contemporary Anton Kushaev from the series `Delirium`. In this series, the artist turns to a canonical motif — still life with a flower, the transformation of w...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Cairo
By Frans Wilhelm Odelmark
Located in Wiscasett, ME
An oil on canvas signed in the lower right and inscribed with the location in the lower left. Featuring a glimpse of life in Cairo. The painting is presented in what is probably its ...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique Victorian, Impressionist 19th century English oil, Fishings boat at Sea
Located in Woodbury, CT
Antique Victorian, Impressionist 19th century English oil, Fishings boat at Sea.
Adolphus Knell was a superb painter of marine subjects during the middle of the 19th century. His wor...
Category
1860s Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Dreamer (monkey gorilla iceberg arctic surrealist oil painting light blue)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
Superbe original painting on canvas depicting a gorilla in a contemplative state on top of an iceberg while a young woman next to him plays the guitar.
keywords; guitar playing woma...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Boy and his Dog Oil and Mixed Media Cuban Hyperrealism Framed
Located in Houston, TX
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A Boy and His Dog shows the hyperrealism of modern Cuban art that is now available to the world...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
French Surrealist Trompe L'oeil Apples OIl Painting
By Lucien Mathelin
Located in Surfside, FL
size uncludes frame.
Lucien Mathelin, born in 1905 in Binche, A province of Hainaut, in Wallonia, Belgium, and died in 1981 in Paris. French painter. His work was influenced by surrealism andtinged with irony.
Lucien Mathelin was born in a family of artists and has benefited from artistic training since childhood. He made his first oil on canvas at the age of 15 in 1920. In 1924, he exhibited at the Salon d'Automne which he became a member. He did not study plastic arts, but traveled to Morocco (1925-1926) and Greece (1933-1934), where he enriched his palette. In 1937, Mathelin worked for a while for Raoul Dufy to realize the gigantic painting...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Swimmer
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Jeni Stallings creates work that often draws from her dreams and personal experiences. She tends to render those moments in a muted, femininity-infused surrealism far from the hard-...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Archival Paper
Very Large Mid 19th Century Victorian Portrait English Gentleman Seated Leather
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Victorian English Gentleman
Portrait of a Man seated in a leather chair, holding a letter in his hand.
oil on canvas , framed
framed: 41 x 33 inches
canvas: 36 x 28 inches
prove...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
1870's British Sporting Art Oil Painting Hare Coursing with Dogs, signed dated
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Hare Coursing
by J.C Mitchell (British sporting artist, 19th century)
dated 1879
signed oil on board, framed
framed: 11.5 x 14 inches
board: 9.25 x 12 inches
provenance: private coll...
Category
1870s Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Israeli Kibbutz Artist Judaica Shul Torah Ark Surrealist Gouache Painting
By Leo Roth
Located in Surfside, FL
Leo Roth (1914–2002), also known as Lior Roth, was an Israeli painter, born in 1914 in Austria-Hungary. (later Poland)
In 1920, Roth moved to Germany and, in 1933, immigrated to Palestine. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and completed frescoes in Italy and France in the 1950s. Roth first settled in Tel Aviv, then moved to Kvutzat Kinneret, then finally to Kibbutz Afikim where he remained until his death. He served as Director of the Art Academy of the Kibbutzim. In 1959, he was awarded the Jordan Valley Prize for Painting. Roth exhibited in the United States, Israel, Mexico, Spain, Holland, Sweden, and Denmark. He died in 2002.
Education:
1930 School of Art, Duisberg-Hamborn, Germany, under Josef Doppelfeld
Academy of Fine Arts, Hamburg, Germany
1951 Fresco and mural painting, Ecole nationale superiere des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
1951 fresco in Italy
Teaching:
Director of Art Academy of the Kibbutzim
Roth's work was influenced by Cubism and bears much in common with the work of compatriot painter Naftali Bezem. His colourful canvases contain biblical imagery and references to early Israeli pioneer culture.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2015 Home, Montefiore Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
2009 Kibbutz Machanayim Art Gallery
2000 Retrospective, Museum of Art, Kibbutz Ein Harod
1997 Oil paintings, Kibbutz Machanayim Art Gallery
1993 Solo Exhibition, Beit Yad Lebanim, Tiberias
1983 Oil paintings, ''Bet-Emanuel'', Ramat Gan
1980 Wilfrid Israel Museum, Oriental Art and Studies, Kibbutz Hazorea
1977 Tiroche Gallery, Old Jaffa
1976 Hatzrif Art Gallery, Be'er Sheva
1957 Oil paintings, Tel Aviv Art Museum
1950 Katz Gallery, Tel AvivSelected exhibitions
2000: Chaim Atar Art Museum, Ein Harod, Israel: The Works of Leo Roth: An Exhibition
Selected Group Exhibitions
2014 Revelations, Jerusalem Print Workshop
2013 Group Exhibition, Yair Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
2008 The First Decade: Hegemony and Plurality, Ein Harod Art Museum
2000 Group...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Fine 19th Century Portrait of a French Man with Moustache, Large Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, 19th century
Title: Portrait of a smartly dressed gentlema from the 19th century, sporting a moustache.
Medium: oil on canvas, unframed and inscribe...
Category
19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Huge Antique European Portrait of Girl with Plaits in Hair oil on canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of Girl with Plaited Hair
European School, late 19th century
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 41.5 x 35.5 inches
canvas: 36 x 30 inches
provenance: private collection, UK
condi...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Astro Diver
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Jeni Stallings creates work that often draws from her dreams and personal experiences. She tends to render those moments in a muted, femininity-infused surrealism far from the hard-...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Archival Paper
Deep Down - 2023, surrealistic oil painting
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
In a continuation of the idea that originally inspired her massive "Milky Way" painting, Astone creates figures floating in an ethereal deep sea. Being a native of Italy, Astone is f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Canvas
The Cornish Fisherman Antique English Signed Oil Painting Portrait of Sea Man
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"The Old Salt" (Cornish fisherman)
by David W. Haddon (British, late 19th/ early 20th century)
signed and dated
oil on board, framed
framed: 18 x 14 inches
board: 16 x 12 inches ...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Her Majesty the Muse figurative interior painting mint green female success love
Located in Sempach, LU
Her Majesty The Muse
I remember the words our teacher said “Do not wait for a sudden inspiration, for a visit from the Muse. You should begin working, otherwise the Muse will pass b...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Harvest Time - British Victorian exhibited art figurative landscape oil painting
Located in London, GB
This superb large exhibited British Victorian oil painting is by noted artist Thomas Falcon Marshall. Painted in 1849 it was exhibited at the Royal Academy London that year. This lar...
Category
19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sacrifice - Surreal Painting of Golden Yellow Bird of Prey Hunting a Mouse
Located in Preston, GB
Sacrifice - Surreal Painting of Golden Yellow Bird of Prey Hunting a Mouse, by Contemporary British Artist
Original, Oil on Canvas
30 x 30 inches
Unframed
The painting continue...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil
19th century British portrait of Sir Charles Dickens seated in an interior
Located in Woodbury, CT
Well painted 19th-century portrait of Sir Charles Dickens. The original painting is in the National Gallery in London and I'm sure this piece would have been painted by a fan of the author who was also a very good artist as this piece is a very good copy of the original painting.
There was a great fashion to paint copies of famous paintings during the 19th century and most of the world's most famous paintings have been copied many times.
Often the artist who does the copy is very talented but usually anonymous
With this piece, it's the only way to own an antique copy...
Category
1870s Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Surrealist Large Painting Royal College of Art LGBTQ+ Female Blue Water Sea
By Isabel Rock
Located in Norfolk, GB
Isabel Rock is a creator of contemporary fairy tales. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, her work is an explosion of strange occurrences while a surreal narrative takes the audience on a journey into the imagination.
In October 2023 Isabel won the Evelyn Williams Drawing Award at the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize. Known as the UK’s most prestigious annual open exhibition for drawing; part of the prize is a solo show at Hastings Contemporary, scheduled for 2024.
Whilst Isabel always has a tale to tell for each of her images, you may or may not choose to go on the journey with her or you may indeed have a different story, one of your own that jumps off the page at you, that that you decide to follow.
Artwork Details:
Call of the Sea, 122 x 152cm, Collaged woodblock print, acrylic inks on Somerset satin paper, 2023
Artwork Provenance: from the Artist Studio
photo credits, Isabel working, black and white shots, James Brown
In Isabel's own words:
Call of the Sea:
The sea was calling, calling its sirens song. It threw tempting little waves flirtatiously on the shore. 'Come,' it said, 'come.' The sea glittered with promise, it whispered sweet nothings as it rolled the tiny gem pebbles on the beach. 'Come to me,' it said, 'I will show you the world, the true meaning of life.'
The people felt the pull, the blood pumping in their veins, like a magnet they were drawn towards the sea. Mesmerised, bewitched, they stripped of their clothes, leaving them in molehills on the beach. The breeze caressed bare bottoms, free from the constraints of life. They stepped cautiously at first but as excitement overwhelmed them they broke into a run as they neared the water. The sea tickled their toes and beckoned them in, making sweet promises of delightful pleasures.
*Please note we are happy to ship this work rolled in an art tube. Whilst the work is on heavy duty art paper and mixed media, the artist is happy that the painting will be rolled. This is a more cost effective and environmentally sound method of shipping. Shipping via this method is free.
About Isabel Rock and her work:
Taking inspiration from Japanese woodblock prints and Indian miniature painting Rock has developed a unique collage technique that combines bold structures with large-scale woodblock prints and intricate detailing. The subject is a grand mixture of humour, drama, hidden morals, fanciful characters, modern culture, mythical beings and fantastical situations.
Rock creates a world that pulls you in and demands your attention. Quality of line is paramount, the drawings are created using a dipping pen and acrylic ink. An essential tool is a squirrel...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Pen
The Shadow Kiss - 2023, dark figurative oil painting by Daniela Astone
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Part of Daniela Astone's series of figures in different ethereal and surrealistic spaces. "The Kiss" brings to mind Gustav Klimt's famous 1908 painting of the same name but instead of an abstracted gold background, Astone creates a mysterious creature enveloping and suspending the figure in mid-air. The dark monster looks ominous until you notice the nude figure leaning into her partner, her hands lightly caressing or leaning on the the amorphous creature. Her body is relaxed and her eyes closed. As a classical artist who paints the nude figure everyday, Astone is masterful at depicting women at ease in their natural bodies rather than women self-conscious of their nudity—posing but fearful of exploitation at the same time—a theme in art history that continues today.
Some of the sweeping strokes of black are inspired by Japanese paintings techniques, and on the lighter areas there are rain drop falling from a blue-grey cloud in the background.
Artist Bio
Daniela Astone was born in Pisa, Italy, in 1980 and raised in Porto Santo Stefano...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Canvas, Oil
Modern Figurative Surrealism Watercolor Painting, Drawing California Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
"The Sadness of Mr. lapin After the Artist Left"
Gary Hansmann (1947-2008) was active/lived in California. He is known for abstract, Surrealism figure painting.
Gary William Hansmann was born Dec. 4, 1940, in San Diego to Ethel May Williams and Lester Hughes Hansmann. He grew up in Encinitas and served in the Army in the early 1960s.
Gary Hansmann, San Diego artist, teacher and gallery owner, was known for his Surrealist nude and animal drawings and graphics. He spent time working in Paris and exhibiting his art throughout Europe, but San Diego was home until he moved to Washington state. His life partner was fellow artist, Jill Hosmer. Mr. Hansmann, a respected printmaker and prolific artist, created thousands of drawings, prints and paintings as well as hundreds of poems. His interest in bullfighting led to a book of poetry and illustrations on the subject, “La Corrida, The Run”, a collection of poetry & artwork written as he was preparing for his first bullfight. Prologue written by famous Mexican Matador Antonio Lomelin. The book is written in English and translated into Spanish on opposing pages and was published in 1983. Mr. Hansmann taught intaglio and monotype at the Academy of Fine Arts in San Diego from 1977 to 1980 and at the San Diego Museum of Art in 1980. He also gave lectures and demonstrations throughout the art community, including at the San Diego Art Guild in Del Mar and Artist Equity in San Diego. Although he attended Palomar College in San Marcos and studied lithography at the San Diego Academy of Fine Arts, Mr. Hansmann was mostly self-taught and self-educated. Mr. Hansmann had shows in several art-world capitals, including Paris; Lisbon, Portugal; Cologne, Germany; Brussels, Belgium; and New York. he had one-person exhibits at the Loft Gallery in Clarkston, the Lewis-Clark State College Center of Arts & History, the Carnegie Art Center in Walla Walla and the Valley Art Center in Clarkston. During his long, distinguished career as an artist he had numerous one-person exhibits all over the world and the United States.
His group shows are too numerous to mention, but his one-person exhibits were in Koln, Germany; Bruxelles, Belgium; Paris, France; Viana do Castelo, Portugal; Lisbon, Portugal; Tecate, Mexico; and British Columbia, Canada; and many states at home.
Palomar College, San Marcos, Calif.
San Diego Academy of Fine Arts
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, N.Y.
University of Southern California, Idyllwild (ISOMATA)
University of San Diego
San Diego Museum of Art
James Copley Library, La Jolla, Calif.
Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice, Italy
Centre de Arte Moderna
Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
Museo Taurino de la Communidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Atelier Lacouriere et Frelaut, Paris, France
Gordon Gilkey Collection
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Or.
Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay...
Category
1980s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Watercolor
Rondo
Located in Nottingham, GB
Anna starts by sketching her figures. Based on everyday people, everyday life. Embossing her art boards with telephone directory before adding oils. Incredible style, akin with Franc...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
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.
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Pablo Picasso is lauded for laying the foundation for modern figurative art in the 1920s. Although abstracted, this work held a strong connection to representing people and other subjects. Other famous figurative artists include Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud. Figurative art in the 20th century would span such diverse genres as Expressionism, Pop art and Surrealism.
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