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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Period: 1920s
Period: Early 1900s
Christ with Sainted Knights
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
J. C. Leyendecker’s illustrations and advertisements fueled a collective visual memory for the early 20th century American public. Over the course of his career, Leyendecker created 322 covers for The Saturday Evening Post, as well as numerous other magazines, including Collier’s and Ladies’ Home Journal. The only illustrator to eclipse his fame was Norman Rockwell and Rockwell was quick to credit Leyendecker as his mentor and inspiration. This previously unknown work was recently discovered at a small country auction in South Carolina. It is likely an early work by Leyendecker, dating to circa 1900. The sinuous reddish orange flames emitted by the slain dragon recall the steam and vapors found in his later work, including an advertisement for Ivory Soap and a Thanksgiving cover for The Saturday Evening Post. The chiseled features and elegant expressions of the two knights and Christ are similar to those of his many successful advertising campaigns and illustrations. The inclusion of columns and the decorative border also are seen in works ranging from the 1901 Thanksgiving edition cover of Success magazine...
Category
Early 1900s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Venice Twilight", 19th Century Oil on Canvas by Charles-Clément Calderon
Located in Madrid, ES
CHARLES - CLÉMENT CALDERON
French, 1870 - 1906
VENICE TWILIGHT
signed "C. Calderon" (lower right)
oil on canvas
15-1/4 x 21-3/4 inches (38.5 x 55 cm.)
...
Category
Early 1900s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Pekingese (Le Pékinois), drawing of a dog by Georges Manzana Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Le Pékinois by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871 - 1961)
Charcoal on paper
41 x 49 cm (16 ¹/₈ x 19 ¹/₄ inches)
Signed lower centre, Manzana Pissarro
This work is accompanied by a cer...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Jerusalem - Oil by Ludwig Viktor Krämer - 1900
Located in Roma, IT
Jerusalem is an original old master artwork realized by Ludwig Viktor Krämer (1861-1949) in 1900.
Oil on Canvas,
Includes frame 98 x 145 cm
Hand signed by the artist and dated 19...
Category
Early 1900s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Early 20th century English Fox Hounds, Huntsmen &, horse and cart in landscape
Located in Woodbury, CT
Early 20th-century English oil painting with the subject taken from one of Robert Bloomfield's poems, The Farmers Boy.
"E'en Sober Dobbin lifts his clumsy heel, and kicks, disdainful of the dirty wheel
Edward Algernon Stuart Douglas...
Category
Early 1900s Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Art Deco Pulp cover or pin-up magazine cover
By Peter Driben
Located in Miami, FL
Pulp cover or pin-up magazine cover
signed lower left
some foxing throughout
work is framed
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Caulking the Seams', American Impressionist School Oil, Sailing Boat, Schooner
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
An early twentieth-century, American School oil showing a view of a sailor caulking the seams of a substantial wooden sailing ship with a view beyond towards red-tiled houses beneath...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Ancient Traveler
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
Vintage water color on paper image size 7x5"
Set in a 16x20" matt
Unframed
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
The woman with the peacock
Located in Roma, RM
Artist: Jules Van Biesbroeck
Title: Woman with the peacock
Medium: Oil on canvas
Signature: Signed lower left “J. van Biesbroeck”.
Exhibitions: 1905, ...
Category
Early 1900s Symbolist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Spanish Souvenir- mantilla, peineta, gilet
Located in Miami, FL
Spanish Souvenir- mantilla, peineta, by Francis Luis Mora is a painting of beautiful Spanish women in traditional dress with their entourage. It's is a museum-quality work. In fact, ...
Category
1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Les Amants (The Lovers - 20th Century Antique Impressionist Figure Painting)
By L. B. Carayon
Located in New Orleans, LA
One of two framed companion paintings we have listed on 1stDibs (the other is called "Le Nouveau Chapeau") - a charming turn-of-the-century painting of lovers ("Amants") by French artist L. B. Carayon, rendered in either gouache or oil wash and graphite on paper. The companion piece is dated 1906, so almost surely the same date for this one. Definitely some Toulouse Lautrec and fin de siecle poster art going on...
Category
Early 1900s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Wild Flowers
Located in Lawrence, NY
Frank Hutchens was an American Impressionist painter known for his gentle landscapes and portraits. Indeed, one reviewer in the New York Times called h...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Under the Crescent Moon - Impressionist Oil, Children in Landscape - Henri Duhem
By Henri Duhem
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and dated impressionist oil on panel by French painter Henri Duhem. The piece depicts two children playing beside a red-bricked cottage as the crescent moon...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Punt on a River - Impressionist Oil, Figures by River Landscape by Henri Duhem
By Henri Duhem
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Beautiful impressionist signed and dated riverscape oil on panel by French painter Henri Duhem. The work depicts a view of a river. There is a punt tethered to the riverbank under th...
Category
1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Spiritual paintings, oriental idols painting by Hovsep Pushman.
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
Title: Little God (La Petite Dieu).
This painting was displayed March 27th - April 7th , 1928 artist exhibition at Grand Central Art Gallery, New York. Also published exhibition ca...
Category
1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
OVERLOOKING FLORENCE
Located in Los Angeles, CA
LEONARDO BAZZARO
"OVERLOOKING FLORENCE"
OIL ON CANVAS, SIGNED
ITALY, C.1920
23.5 X 19.75
Born in Milan in 1853, Leonardo Bazzaro trained with Gae...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Odalisque à la Plume Rose - Nude Cabaret Dancer with Feathers
By Jacqueline Marval
Located in Miami, FL
Jacqueline Marval was close friends with Kees van Dongen and her work is of the same school as, Matisse and Marie Laurencin. Les Odalisques is quite contemporary looking with it's main figure having joyful life and vitality to her. Some refer to her as a Fauve and some as a post-impressionist. Clearly, she is an overlooked female artist. This work is over...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Evening Prayer in The Polish Mountains by woman artist large jewel coloured oil
Located in Norwich, GB
It is always wonderful to be able to do original research on a mysterious painting by a mysterious artist. Born in Paris in 1867, Marthe Alers-Abran died tragically young in the same...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Gypsy Caravan" 1927 F&R by Sir Alfred Munnings
Located in Bristol, CT
Classic colour equestrian print by Sir Alfred J Munnings (1878-1959) pencil signed (LR) titled, Gypsy Caravan published by Frost & Reed
c1927
w/ French mat and ebony/ gilt frame
Chromolithograph
Sir Alfred Munnings...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
Lively Hamburg Harbor with Four-Masted Barque and Steamship by F. Harden -1920
Located in Roma, IT
Lively Hamburg harbor with four-masted barque and steamship is an original Modern artwork realized by Friedrich Harden (1861 - 1921) in 1920.
Original ...
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Museum Piece #2 Art Lover in Museum Exhibition
Located in Miami, FL
Arnold Friedman studied with Robert Henri and Kenneth Hayes Miller at the Art Students League in 1905 .
Yet as he developed his style he abandoned the academic influence of his teacher.
He started experimenting with materials and techniques.
Friedmans intimate style recalls a variety of post-impressionist artists such as Pointillism of Pisarro, Vuillard and Nabis, and perhaps even Seurat.
His thick application of paint has definitive textual impasto that was influenced by his trip to Paris in 1909.
In "Museum Piece...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Portrait of Dorothy Thompson (The Wild Rose) - Female Artist
Located in Miami, FL
A charming portrait of a beautiful blue-eyed girl in a pink dress holding flowers in her hand. It's based on Renaissance portraits where the subject is pushed to the foreground and i...
Category
1920s Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
In the Village - Impressionist Oil, Figures in Landscape by Henri Duhem
By Henri Duhem
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and dated impressionist oil on panel of figures in a landscape by French painter Henri Duhem. This beautiful piece depicts a view of a village on a summer's day. A mother and ...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Landscape
Located in London, GB
'Landscape', oil on canvas, by Charles Kvapil (1928). The artist, Kvapil, has scores of tremendous artworks which depict scenes in nature such as this one. Here, a bit of Mediterrane...
Category
1920s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Seville Gardens", Early 20th Century Oil on Canvas by Manuel García y Rodríguez
Located in Madrid, ES
MANUEL GARCÍA Y RODRÍGUEZ
Spanish, 1863- 1925
SEVILLE GARDENS
signed, located and dated "Garcia y Rodriguez, Sevilla 1923" (lower left)
oil on canva...
Category
1920s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Saut de la Ravine original watercolor by Louis Claude 1928
By Louis Claude
Located in Paonia, CO
Saut de la Ravine original watercolor by Louis Claude 1928 is a very rare watercolor by Louis Claude created for the publishing house of Sidney Lucas. Mr. Lucas lived in France f...
Category
1920s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Spanish Tavern
Located in Miami, FL
There is no one alive that can paint and draw like Dean Cornwell. How can that be? They do not train artist the way they did. He was Normal Rockwell's ...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Still life with eggs and red flower" Oil cm. 51 x 61 1920
Located in Torino, IT
Still life, eggs, red flower, White, Realism, 1920s
Henri VAN DE VELDE (1896-1969)
Category
1920s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Edmund Pick Morino Still Life With Chicken
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Still Life With Chicken,
Oil on canvas singed and dated 1923, from the Collection of Bass Museum Of Art. Canvas size 14 1/5x17 1/4 framed 21 3/8 x 23 7/8
Edmund Pick-Morino was the ...
Category
1920s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
At the Beach - Post Impressionist Oil, Figures in Landscape by Pierre de Belay
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
A beautiful oil on panel by French post impressionist painter Pierre de Belay. The work depicts families relaxing on the beach at Villerville under a clear bl...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Old Time Football in the 1920s - Football 1920s - Classic Football
Located in Miami, FL
You Got to be a Football Hero to Get Along with a Beautiful Girl. Masterfully composed and dynamic illustration that show a player getting punched in the jaw. During this period, there were no face...
Category
1920s Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Russian Soldiers
Located in Greenwich, CT
Simkhovitch depicts two Russian soldiers from his native country in a painterly and expressive fashion. He may have been working on illustrations for a...
Category
1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
English Victorian Antique landscape, Figures gathering Primroses
Located in Woodbury, CT
English Victorian Antique landscape, Figures gathering Primroses. Cowleigh Woods, North Malvern, UK
John Bates Noel was born John Noel Bates in Worcester in 1870. He was the son of ...
Category
1920s Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Signed Illustration Indian Royalty Elephant Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique illustration painting. Gouache and watercolor on board, circa 1920. Signed. Image size, 12L x 11H. Housed in a period frame.
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Woman in Snow - Post Impressionist Oil, Figure in Landscape by Victor Charreton
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Large signed landscape oil on canvas circa 1920 by sought after French post impressionist painter Victor Charreton, who was known as the painter of colours. The work depicts a woman ...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
'Agay, le château et le Sémaphore'. Oil on canvas. Signed.
Located in Paris, FR
'Agay, le château et le Sémaphore'.
Oil on canvas. +/- 1922
Signed lower right
Measurements : 60 x 73 cm.
This painting will be recorded in the second volume of the Catalogue Raisonn...
Category
1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
NUDE WITH RED HAIR
Located in Los Angeles, CA
LUCIEN BOULIER
"NUDE WITH RED HAIR"
OIL ON PANEL, SIGNED
FRANCE, C.1930
26 X 20 INCHES
Lucien Boulier
1882-1963
Lucian Boulier was born Verdun...
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
East Indian (Impressionist Figure)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Marian D. Harris (1904-1988). East Indian, 1925. Oil on artist's board, 9 x 12 inches; 12 x 15 inches in wood frame. Signed lower right. Annotated on verso by Harris. Signed, titled ...
Category
1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Roman Countryside - Mixed Media by E. Gioja - 1908
Located in Roma, IT
Roman Countryside is an original modern artwork realized in 1908 by Edoardo Gioja.
Mixed media. Hand signed and dated on the lower right margin.
Includes frame.
Edoardo Gioia (Rome, 1862 - Rome, 1937), an Italian painter and artist. He treated the decoration and portrait with Pre-Raphaelite taste. Influenced by Nino Costa, he repudiated genre painting by reproducing marines, countries, plants, animals and painted and drew with simplicity and with very effective results. He decorated several rooms in London and prepared cartoons for stained glass...
Category
Early 1900s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Watercolor
Deux Couseuses - Impressionist Oil, Figures in Landscape by Ferdinand Deconchy
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
A stunning large oil on canvas circa 1900 by French painter Ferdinand Deconchy. The work depicts two seamstresses dressed in blue blouses and skirts...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Sunlight and Shade, " Edward Dufner, Lady with a Hat, American Impressionism
Located in New York, NY
Edward Dufner (1872 - 1957)
Sunlight and Shade, circa 1920
Oil on artist board
9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches
Signed upper right
With a long-time career as an art teacher and painter of both 'light' and 'dark', Edward Dufner was one of the first students of the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy to earn an Albright Scholarship to study painting in New York. In Buffalo, he had exchanged odd job work for drawing lessons from architect Charles Sumner. He also earned money as an illustrator of a German-language newspaper, and in 1890 took lessons from George Bridgman at the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy.
In 1893, using his scholarship, Dufner moved to Manhattan and enrolled at the Art Students League where he studied with Henry Siddons Mowbray, figure painter and muralist. He also did illustration work for Life, Harper's and Scribner's magazines.
Five years later, in 1898, Dufner went to Paris where he studied at the Academy Julian with Jean-Paul Laurens and privately with James McNeill Whistler. Verification of this relationship, which has been debated by art scholars, comes from researcher Nancy Turk who located at the Smithsonian Institution two 1927 interviews given by Dufner. Turk wrote that Dufner "talks in detail about Whistler, about how he prepared his canvasas and about numerous pieces he painted. . . A great read, the interview puts to bed" the ongoing confusion about whether or not he studied with Whistler.
During his time in France, Dufner summered in the south at Le Pouleu with artists Richard Emil Miller...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Mother and Child
Located in Miami, FL
This warm portrait looks like it could have been painted by Corot. Francis Luis Mora paints in that tradition. It's a small painting that invites the viewer to look closer. The art...
Category
1920s Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
“The Harem Girl”
By Konrad Filip
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is an intriguing portrait of a young harem girl in costume by the German artist, Konrad Filip. Signed by the artist top right, Munich. Condition is very ...
Category
Early 1900s Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Moored Boats - Martigues - Impressionist Landscape Oil by Georges Lapchine
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on board landscape circa 1920 by Russian impressionist painter Georges Lapchin. The work depicts moored boats at a port in Martigues in the South of France. It is a bright...
Category
1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Roman Countryside - Mixed Media by E. Gioja - 1908
Located in Roma, IT
Roman Countryside is an original modern artwork realized in 1908 by Edoardo Gioja.
Mixed media. Hand signed and dated on the lower right margin.
Includes frame.
Edoardo Gioja (Rome, 1862 - Rome, 1937), an Italian painter and artist. He treated the decoration and portrait with Pre-Raphaelite taste. Influenced by Nino Costa, he repudiated genre painting by reproducing marines, countries, plants, animals and painted and drew with simplicity and with very effective results. He decorated several rooms in London and prepared cartoons for stained glass...
Category
Early 1900s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Watercolor
Lady by the Pond, 1920's Art Nouveau Nude Figurative Landscape
By John Jay Baumgartner
Located in Soquel, CA
Delicate and vibrant mid-1920's depiction of a nude woman sitting on the edge of a bathing pool by John Jay Baumgartner (American, 1865-1946). Soft light filters through dense foliag...
Category
1920s Art Nouveau Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Laid Paper
Early 20th Century Folk Art, Double-Sided Fairground Advertising, Oil on Canvas.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Early 20th century French folk art oil on canvas, advertising M. Joquelet the dentist and Mme Irma the snake charmer. A wonderful piece of social history.
At the turn of the century...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Oil
Young Woman Sleeping (artist showed in major Paris exhibitions), Framed
Located in New Orleans, LA
For me, this reclining nude spectacularly captures 1920's Paris, in life and art, at least as I understand it from the many books I have read focusing on that magical period. The mo...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"The Painter and his Model", 19th C. Oil on Mahogany Wood Panel by E. L. Garrido
Located in Madrid, ES
EDUARDO LEÓN GARRIDO
Spanish, 1856- 1949
THE PAINTER AND HIS MODEL
signed "E. L Garrido" (lower right)
oil on mahogany wood panel
19-3/4 x 24-1/8 inches (50 x 61 cm.)
framed: 28-1/2 x 32-3/4 inches (72 x 83 cm.)
PROVENANCE
Private Spanish Collector
Eduardo León Garrido (Madrid, 1856 - Caen, 1949) was a Spanish painter. He began his training at the Higher School of Painting in Madrid and as a disciple in Vicente Palmaroli...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Chinatown, San Francisco
By Edward Wilson Currier
Located in London, GB
'Chinatown, San Francisco', gouache on fine art paper, by Edward Wilson Currier (1903). Spofford Alley in San Francisco's Chinatown is best known for an address (number 36) where Dr. Sun Yat-Sen plotted the overthrow of China's last dynasty. During Prohibition, it was the site of turf battles over local bootlegging and protection rackets. Today it is lined with seniors' community centres. However, the quiet alley livens up in the evenings when a Chinese orchestra strikes up a tune, mah-jongg games begin with a cascade of clicking tiles, and barbers and florists use the pretence of sweeping their doorsteps to gossip. In this artist's depiction, a man smokes a long-stemmed Chinese pipe under the awning and colourful lanterns hanging from the wooden supports while a child looks on. The artwork is interesting from several standpoints including architectural, cultural and historical. Shortly after this work was painted, the neighbourhood was completely destroyed in the 1906 earthquake that levelled most of the city. From 1910 to 1940, Chinese immigrants were detained at the Angel Island...
Category
Early 1900s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Hedwig Mechle – Grossmann (1857 - 1928) Rose Flower Girl , 1920 - Oil Painting
By Hedwig Mechle-Grossmann
Located in Meinisberg, CH
Hedwig Mechle - Grossmann
(Germann, * 3rd of December 1857, Görlitz - † 1st of October, 1928 Ödenburg)
Die Kleine Rosenverkäuferin - The Little Rose Seller
• Oil on carse canvas, ca. 100 x 75 cm
• Frame, 107 x 81 cm
• Signed and dated 1920 upper right
This large painting will make everybody stop, look, smile and want to buy a lovely rose from that charming girl. Take your time and have a look at the details … the stopper of the water ceramic bottle, her piece of bread, the torn and frayed clothing and more.
Worldwide shipping is complimentary - There are no additional charges for handling & delivery.
Hedwig Mechle-Grossmann is well known and appreciated for her expressive genre scenes depicting children. Born in Görlitz, she worked in Berlin and moved on to Ödenburg, where she died. Important examples of her work are held in the Ödenburg Landesmuseum.
A few words on condition:
The painting has received slight sympathetic restoration - The partially frayed edges have been professionally relined with a narrow strip of new canvas for strength and then the canvas has been re-stretched on to the original stretcher, with the arms of the stretcher covering most of the newly attached strips of canvas.
One of the arms of the stretcher has suffered slight worm damage in the past. That short section has been treated, stabilized and the restorer covered the unsightly area with a strip of the same canvas, which was used to reline the edges.
The frame seems to be original (certainly early 20thC) - the corners have been re-glued, small areas have been retouched and minor sections of the molding are missing.
New small woodblocks...
Category
1920s Naturalistic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
View of the Forum Romanum - Painting by Luigi Tarra - 1929
Located in Roma, IT
View of the Roman Forum is an original modern artwork realized in 1929 by Luigi Tarra (1832 - 1936).
Mixed colored oil on panel.
Hand signed and dated on the lower right margin.
I...
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Dimanche - Post Impressionist Figurative Interior Oil Painting Paul Elie Gernez
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Post impressionist signed and dated oil on paper laid on panel by French painter Paul Elie Gernez. The work depicts a woman wearing a black dress with...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Laid Paper, Paper, Oil, Panel
A Pair of Modern Impressionist Landscape Oil Paintings Framed Female artist NY
Located in Buffalo, NY
A Pair of Modernist Landscapes by listed female artist Margaret Munro Stratton McLennan.
Margaret was a painter working in the early 20th Century in the Syracuse area. These charmi...
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
'Man in a Gold and Coral Turban', Copenhagen, Royal Academy, Benezit, Rajah, Oil
By Hugo Vilfred Pedersen
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Hugo V.P.' for Hugo Vilfred Pedersen (Danish, 1870-1959) and painted circa 1900.
An antique oil painting of an Indian gentleman wearing a saffron and coral turban...
Category
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Thomas Glass, seated half-length, in a brown three-piece suit
Located in Miami, FL
Signed 'ORPEN' (upper left)
Sitter is bathed in warm window light that creates subtle patter of light and shadow in the background. Artists depicts Mr. Glass in a beige and brown ...
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Exquisite Perdita, Cosmopolitan Interior Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
LITERATURE:
C.D.B. Bryan, Mort Walker and the Art of Illustration, Architectural Digest, July 1988, p. 64, illustrated.
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Spring Scattering Stars, Nude allegory scattering stars from a crescent moon
Located in Miami, FL
Spring Scattering Stars is a 1927 Neoclassical painting by American artist Edwin Blashfield. It depicts a nude female allegory of spring on a w...
Category
1920s 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.
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.