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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Period: 1980s
Period: 1930s
Large Modernist Italian Oil Painting Surrealist Abstract Figures
Located in Surfside, FL
Marco Cingolani was born in Como in 1961 and moved to Milan at a very young age, in 1978. He began to frequent the underground creative environment, where art was mixed with fashion and punk music. In those years a new artistic sensibility was being formalized in Milan, whose roots no longer sank in the history of art and in the citation but practiced the critical manipulation of reality and its communication through the mass media. The image was taken out of context, subtracted from the use of common sense, radically distorted, almost mocked. The work of Marco Cingolani, from the beginning, has always tried to cancel the regulatory power of media images, subjecting them to the radical care of the artist, certain that art offers a decisive point of view for the interpretation of the world. In this context the interviews of the Interviews were born, where celebrities for their privacy were submerged by the microphones and the famous series dedicated to the attack on the Pope and to the tragic story of Aldo Moro. After having participated in numerous group exhibitions including An emerging scene (1991, Museo Pecci, Prato) and Two or three things that I know of them (1998, PAC, Milan), he is dedicated to major anthological exhibitions at prestigious public institutions such as Palazzo Strozzi in Florence and Promoter of Fine Arts in Turin. In November 2006 he took part in the collective exhibition "Senza famiglia", in the Palace of the Promoter of Fine Arts in Turin. In 2007 Cingolani received a further consecration: the Galleria Emilio Mazzoli hosts the exhibition entitled "What color are they?" in which the pictorial reflections on the color of Power and its disguises are presented. The art of Cingolani has always been fascinated by the passage from news to history and vice versa; also in this case the UN blue helmets, the red urn containing the electoral ballots, the multicolored segments of the Wall Street charts, the military uniforms and the party flags are contextualized in highly symbolic scenarios. In 2009 a return to the origins for Marco Cingolani, often the author of works expressly inspired by the religious theme. In particular, for this exhibition entitled " Percorsi della Fede", the artist focused his attention on the Marian apparitions that have marked the last two centuries: Lourdes and Fatima . In the same year an exhibition in Lucca at the National Museum of Villa Guinigi, joins him to some of the leading Italian artists of the last two generations; by the universally recognized and celebrated masters, present in the main international museums such as Mimmo Paladino, Sandro Chia, Salvo, passing through some of the protagonists of the 52nd Venice Biennale as Gian Marco Montesano, Daniele Galliano, Nicola Bolla, Bertozzi & Casoni who exhibited in 2009 in contemporary at the Lucca exhibition and at the Italian Pavilion of the Venetian event, to get to the young artists of the last generation already present in important national and international artistic events. Giacinto di Pietrantonio invites him the following year, 2010 to PAC, Pavilion of contemporary art in Milan, for the collective exhibition "Hybrid", alongside Jan Fabre, Gilbert & George, Charles Avery, Damien Hirst, Piotr Uklanski, Patrick Tuttofuoco and other great ones on the international scene. 2012 is the year of "Il Belpaese dell'arte", at Gamec di Bergamo, always curated by Pietrantonio and Maria Cristina Rodeschini, in the company of Elmgreen...
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1980s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Oil

A Kaleidoscope of life
Located in East Grinstead, GB
Edward Le Bas R.A. was an English artist and collector of art, his father's wealth gave him a sizeable private income which enabled him to travel and pai...
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1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Girl with Braided Hair, Raphael Soyer
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Raphael Soyer (1899-1987) Title: Girl with Braided Hair Year: Circa 1987 Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 12 x 9 inches; framed size, 19 x 16 inches Condition: Excellent Inscripti...
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1980s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Lady in Garden Impressionist Acrylic Painting by Brunelli
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
4072 Large scale acrylic impressionist painting by Brunelli Rapped canvas
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1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Untitled, Figurative, Gouache on Paper by Gobardhan Ash "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Gobardhan Ash - Untitled - Gouache on Paper 15 x 9 inches (unframed size) ( Unframed & Delivered ) Style : Regarded as a pioneer of modern Indian art, Ash’s contribution at the time...
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1980s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Tavern on the Green (New Yorker Magazine cover proposal)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Barbara Shermund (1899-1978). Tavern on the Green. Watercolor and ink on paper, 9 3/8 x 12 inches. Unsigned. Excellent condition. Provenance: Ethel ...
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1930s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Ink, Watercolor

Untitled, Figurative, Gouache on Paper, Orange by Gobardhan Ash "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Gobardhan Ash - Untitled - Gouache on Paper 15 x 9 inches, 18-12-1985 ( Unframed & Delivered ) Style : Regarded as a pioneer of modern Indian art, ...
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1980s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Mardi Gras with a Fish Fiddle (Vivid Colors)
Located in Lafayette, LA
This Vivian oil painting by Francis Pavy dates room 1989. It picks a person dressed in a Mardi Gras mask playing a fiddle with a fish on it. This work displays patterning typical of ...
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1980s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Standing Figure
Located in Mill Valley, CA
A framed oil on canvas painting of an abstract figure.
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Figure in a Lanscape
Located in London, GB
Oil on board, 62cm x 42cm, (70cm x 50cm framed). The picture is in good condition. Plummer trained at the Royal Academy Schools in the early 1950s, championed by Stanley Spencer and Sir Herbert Read, he was the recipient of the coveted Leverhulme Scholarship. In a mixed career which included illustration work for The National Trust, anatomical illustration for Guys Hospital and teaching, painting ran parallel to his commercial work. Plummer specialised in the medium of egg tempera, as well as oil painting, a technique little used since the frescos of the Renaissance, he often worked on a large scale, but in tremendous detail, combining Classical iconography and formal composition with visual exploration evocative of William Blake and...
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1980s Post-War Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Lover
Located in Lafayette, LA
this oil painting by Francis X Pavy Dates from 1989. It is oil on canvas and depicts a woman thinking about her lovers. The painting is mounted on pine stretches 2 inches thick. th...
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1980s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Standing Figure
Located in Mill Valley, CA
An oil on canvas painting of an abstract figure by the very talented Charles Eckhart.
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

French Mid century Impressionist, City view with Cathedral in Paris, France
Located in Woodbury, CT
Excellent French Mid century Impressionist, City view with Cathedral in Paris, Franch The painter was active around the middle of the 20th century, painting landscapes, portraits, a...
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1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

The Three Ages of Man
Located in New York, NY
James Childs The Three Ages of Man 1986 Signed and dated, l.r. Oil on canvas 64 x 69.5 inches This painting is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

'Port of Saint-Malo', French Modern School
Located in London, GB
'Port of Saint-Malo', oil on canvas affixed to board, French Modern School (1984). Although the artist dated this painting '84, it depicts a nostalgic view of the port of Saint-Malo in Western France's, Brittany in 1884 judging by the clothing worn by the characters depicted. The crowd on the shoreline is watching a sailboat regatta starting just inside the port's breakwater. A rather rare sunny day in Brittany brought out the parasols of the sitting ladies on the edge of the old ramparts. The walled city...
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1980s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Board

Tribe of Benjamin, Large Judaica Mixed Media Collage Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Tribe of Benjamin, Biblical mural with wolf. I believe this is a study for a stained glass window. Untitled, mixed media on paper, signed lower left, inscribed "To my dear friend Dav...
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1980s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paint, Paper, Mixed Media

Standing Figure
Located in Long Island City, NY
A shy and dirty man stands alone in a muted landscape, his hand timidly resting on his collarbone. His clothes are disheveled, a dark pair of overalls slouching across his too-narrow...
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1930s Cubist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache

people from ibiza Spain oil on canvas painting spanish seascape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Ignacio Gil Sala (1913-2003) - Characters from Ibiza - Oil on canvas Oil measures 38x46 cm. Frameless. Ignacio Gil Sala, was a painter, bohemian character, adventurous and intrepid ...
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1980s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Verticality - Abstract Expressionist Composition in Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Verticality - Abstract Expressionist Composition in Acrylic on Paper A bold abstract painting by California-based artist, Ricardo de Silva (American/Brazil, 20th C). A blue and red ...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

Baby Pollock - Oil on Canvas by Mark Kostabi - 1989
Located in Roma, IT
Baby Pollock is an artwork by Mark Kostabi in 1989. Mixed Media on Canvas. cm. 24x30. Good conditions! Mark Kostabi (Los Angeles, November 27, 1960) is an American painter a...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Coll Bardolet 78 Bolero Baile Mallorquin original expressionist watercolor
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Bolero Mallorquin original expressionist watercolor painting. Spanish painter maximum representative of the art of Mallorca at the end of the 20th century. Costumbrista work. With d...
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1980s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Seaside Landscape in Cannes, France, oil painting by Françoise Juvin
Located in Montfort l’Amaury, FR
Françoise Juvin - Seaside Landscape in Cannes, France Reference number FJ55 Framed with a natural oak floated frame. 24,5 x 29 cm frame included (19 x 23 cm without frame) This work is painted with oil on a paper that is mounted on a board and placed in a made to measure wood strectcher. It is signed in the bottom right. Françoise Juvin (1927-2010) is a French artist born in Nancy. She entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lyon in 1941 where she met several artists such as Jacques Truphémus...
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1980s French School Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

1980s Vintage American Street Scene Painting, Landscape with Taxi Cabs
By Val Lewton
Located in Surfside, FL
Val Edwin Lewton (May 23, 1937 – April 24, 2015) was a painter and museum exhibition designer. As an artist, he created Realist acrylic paintings and watercolors of urban and suburban scenes, predominantly in the Washington, D.C., area, where he lived and exhibited. Val Lewton was born May 23, 1937, in Santa Monica, California. His father, also named Val Lewton, produced a string of successful and influential B movies for RKO Pictures, including Cat People (1942) and I Walked with a Zombie (1943). His mother, Ruth Knapp, was a painter and teacher of autistic children. He graduated in 1959 from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, and earned a master's degree in fine arts from Claremont University in 1962. After moving to Washington, D.C., he served on the staff of the Smithsonian American Art Museum for 32 years, simultaneously maintaining a career as a painter in his own right. Lewton died in 2015s oon afterwards, exhibitions of his paintings were planned for the Katzen Arts Center (June 17 – August 13, 2017) and Addison/Ripley Fine Art (June 3 – July 8, 2017). Chiefly known for his landscapes, Lewton generally depicted cities and suburbs with a detached, impersonal sensibility. Writing about his watercolors in Arts magazine in 1980, Harry Rand observed, “Either by implication or statement, personalities are absent from Lewton’s work; there is hardly a sense of the lives that move through those spaces he describes.” The critic compared the artist to Fairfield Porter, Edward Hopper, and Charles Sheeler. Lewton painted from a young age. On a family trip to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, he discovered the work of Henri Matisse, an encounter that permanently influenced his artistic vision. In the early 1960s, Lewton lived in southern California and taught art classes at the University of California Riverside. During this period, he was inspired by the paintings of Roger Kuntz...
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1980s Photorealist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Archival Paper

Mediterranean Landcape, oil painting on canvas by Françoise Juvin
Located in Montfort l’Amaury, FR
Françoise Juvin - Mediterranean Landscape Reference number FJ28 Framed with a natural oak floated frame. 23,5 x 34 cm frame included (18 x 26 cm without frame) This work is painted with oil on a canvas. It is signed in the bottom right. Françoise Juvin (1927-2010) is a French artist born in Nancy. She entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lyon in 1941 where she met several artists such as Jacques Truphémus...
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1980s French School Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Magenta and Yellow Abstract Expressionist Composition in Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Magenta and Yellow Abstract Expressionist Composition in Acrylic on Paper Abstract in bright colors on heavy grey paper by California-based artist Ricardo de Silva (Brazilian, 20th ...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor

Three Beautiful Women In A Dreamy Setting
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Three Beautiful Women In A Dreamy Setting (Playa Amarillo) Artist signed and title, floater frame with gold and beige wood. Ethereal oil on canvas figural pa...
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1980s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Cotton Canvas

Japan - colourful, graphic, modern, minimalist, landscape, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
He loved to paint people and places. Ted Harrison became one of Canada’s most popular artists known for his brightly coloured paintings that depicted the ...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

Comeals in Istanbul, oil on paper by Françoise Juvin
Located in Montfort l’Amaury, FR
Françoise Juvin - Comeals in Istanbul, Turkey Reference number FJ148 Framed with a nice gold and silver wood frame with an aging effect. 30,5 x 36,5 c...
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1980s French School Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Portrait of Chinese Couple. Pearl S. Buck Tiger Tiger Illustration Cosmopolitan
Located in Miami, FL
Among the many accolades I would grant Dean Cornwell, the one that rises to the top would be that he is one of America's greatest portrait painters. With a few strokes, he captures h...
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1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Portrait
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Manuel Pardo (1952-2012). Portrait, 1986. Oil on canvas, 11 x 13 inches. Unframed. Signed, dated and dedicated on verso. Excellent condition. Manuel Pard...
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1980s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Red Tent Abstract Expressionist - Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Red Tent Abstract Expressionist - Acrylic on Paper Abstract in bold colors on a stark black background, by California-based artist Ricardo de Silva (Brazilian, 20th Century). A deep...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor

"Gigantic George" Modern Blue Toned Pointillist Figurative President Portrait
Located in Houston, TX
Modern blue toned portrait of George Washington by Texas born artist Clark Fox. The work features an intricate depiction of the former president using pointi...
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1980s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"George Washington Series" Pointillist Figurative Colorful President Portrait
Located in Houston, TX
Modern colorful portrait of George Washington by Texas born artist Clark Fox. The work features an intricate depiction of the former president using pointill...
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1980s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Mountain View from Hålland, Åre by Swedish Artist Ante Karlsson-Stig, From 1932
Located in Stockholm, SE
The painting we are selling is a breathtaking mountain view from Hålland in Jämtland, Sweden, created by Ante Karlsson-Stig in 1932. Ante Karlsson-Stig (1885-1967) was a Swedish pain...
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1930s Naturalistic Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Portrait of Jean-Paul Sartre Yankel Contemporary painting portrait art oil paint
Located in Paris, FR
Oil painting on canvas Unique work Hand-signed lower right by the artist
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Elvis
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Elvis, is a one-of-a-kind, fine art piece by renowned Brazilian artist, Romero Britto. Britto combines a unique use of mixed media and rich, vibrant colors such as, greens, pink, re...
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1980s Pop Art Figurative Paintings

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Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Newsprint

Israeli Pop Art Large Vintage Antique Auto Pink Oil Painting Americana
By Joshua Griffit
Located in Surfside, FL
1951 Born in Tel Aviv, Israel Since graduating from the Fine Art Academy in Florence, Italy and his return to Israel, Griffit presents a fascinating and unique journey from etchings...
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1980s Pop Art Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Study for the Mural "Westward Movement"
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Study for the Mural "Westward Movement" Graphite, watercolor, gouache and paint on paper, 1936 Signed in pencil lower center (see photo) A study leading up to his mural Justice of th...
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1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Still life - Oil Painting by Giordano Becciani - Mid-20th Century
By Giordano Becciani
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is a modern artwork realized by Giordano Becciani in the Mid-20th Century. Mixed colored oil on canvas. Includes frame. The artwork is hand signed on the lower margin. ...
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1930s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Paint

Young Woman Walking On The Beach Large Painting
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Young Woman Walking On The Beach Large Painting Artist signed and titled. Artist signed, dated and titled, floater white-gold frame. Ethereal oil on canvas...
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1980s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil

The Russian Model
Located in Milford, NH
A wonderful large self portrait of the artist with a Russian model by American artist Pauline Lennards Palmer (1867-1938). Born in McHenry, Illinois, Palmer studied at the Art Institute of Chicago between 1893 and 1898, including a one-month session with William Merritt Chase in 1897, and further temporary instruction with Frank Duveneck. She became one of Chicago's early twentieth-century portrait and landscape painters and one of the Midwest's most active and energetic exponents of impressionism. After her career was well established, she moved to Provincetown and studied with Charles Hawthorne...
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1930s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Board

First Long Suit, Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed by Artist Lower Right The Saturday Evening Post cover, September 18, 1937 One of the most prolific and sought-after artists of the Golden Age of Illustration, J.C. Leyendecker captivates the public with his striking, fashionable depictions of handsome men, glamorous women, and adorable children. Painted in 1937 First Long Suit not only encapsulates the high-fashion, glamorous fantasy world that Leyendecker strove to achieve over the course of his vastly successful career, it also poignantly captures a bittersweet moment that every parent experiences--watching our children grow up right before our eyes. Born in Montabaur, Germany, Leyendecker came to Chicago with his Catholic family at age eight. He apprenticed to a printer, J. Manz and Co., and then studied with John Vanderpoel at the Chicago Art Institute. In 1896, he won the Century magazine...
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1930s Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Mid 20th century Impressionist, French City scene, Paris France
Located in Woodbury, CT
Wonderful Mid-20th century Impressionist scene, Ciry scene, PAris France The painter was active around the middle of the 20th century, painting landscapes, portraits, and city scene...
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1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

"Spring 1945", Galina Pshenitsina, Post-War, Figurative, 38x31, Impressionist
Located in Dallas, TX
Galina Vasilevna Pshenitsina was born in 1940 in the town of Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod). She began her studies at the Art School named after Johanson in St. Petersburg. In 1959, she...
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1980s Post-War Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Large figure Yankel Contemporary painting figurative art blue portrait oil paint
Located in Paris, FR
Oil painting on canvas Unique work Hand-signed lower right by the artist
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

French Mid century Impressionist, Along the banks of the River Seine in Paris
Located in Woodbury, CT
Excellent Mid-20th-century, School of Paris oil on board depicting a scene on the banks of the River Seine in Paris, France. The painter was active around the middle of the 20th cen...
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1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Portrait : Fruit and Mirror - Original oil on canvas, Signed
Located in Paris, FR
Pierre GARCIA FONS Portrait : Fruit and Mirror Original oil painting Signed bottom right Signed and titled on the back On canvas 73 x 54 cm (c. 28 x 21 inch) PROVENANCE : Collectio...
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1980s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Spanish school (XX) women on the beach oil on canvas painting seascape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Oil measures 27x22 cm. Frame measures 38x33 cm. Signed Domenech.
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1980s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

COMPANEROS
By Carlos Manuel Salazar Ramirez
Located in Los Angeles, CA
CARLOS MANUEL SALAZAR RAMIREZ "COMPANEROS" ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, SIGNED COSTA RICA, DATED 1989 16 X 24 INCHES Carlos Manuel Salazar Ramírez Born 1954 Ramírez is a artist born i...
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1980s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Country Manor with Geese Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming landscape of a house along a lake with a flock of geese in the foreground by K. Smith (American, 20th Century). Signed and dated "K. Smith '83" lower right. Displayed in a r...
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1980s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Two Figures - Abstract Impressionist Composition in Acrylic Arches Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
The Monuments - Abstract Impressionist Composition in Acrylic on Laid Paper A bold abstract painting by California-based artist, Ricardo de Silva (Br...
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1980s Abstract Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Cotton, Rag Paper

One More Time (Black Devil) Outsider Art Painting, Drawing
By Peter Dean
Located in Surfside, FL
Dean was born in 1934 of Jewish parents in a Berlin, Germany, that was falling prey to the Nazis. The family immigrated to New York City in 1938, and Dean was raised in the refugee community in Inwood. Dean's first show (ironically, in retrospect) was given him by the USIA in Brazil. In 1959, he returned to New York to work six months on, six months off in soil engineering and made art in the interims. He tried, and failed, to get into a Tenth Street Gallery. Studying painting at night with Andre Girard at City College pushed him over the edge, and in 1969 he committed himself to painting full time. Artists who impressed him in the '60s were Robert Beauchamp, Lester Johnson, Jan Muller...
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1980s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Oil Pastel, Acrylic

Marina Large Pink Oil Painting With Woman and Sail Boats
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Marina large pink oil painting with woman and sail boats. Artist signed, dated and titled, floater frame. Ethereal oil on canvas figural painting, titled Playa Amarillo (Yellow Beach...
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1980s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil

1939 Mexican Farm Worker WPA Artist Adolf Dehn American Modern Gouache Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
ADOLF ARTHUR DEHN (American, 1895-1969) Portrait of Mexican Man with Agave Cactus plant, 1939, Gouache Painting Hand signed and dated '39 lower left. Whitney Museum of American Art, N.Y. Label verso sight: 20.5 in. X 15 in. Frame is 32 X 24 inches This was subsequently made into a lithograph in 1941 titled Man From Orizaba Standing in the foreground of an agave field is man wearing a straw hat, a white button up collared shirt, white pants and sandals. The man has shaggy black hair, a beard and moustache and large eyes. His right hand is clenched as if holding something and his left hand is open holding some flower-like objects. He stands in the middle of a large agave plant that expands the width of the composition. In the middle ground are large agave plants in subsequent rows. Behind the agave plantation is a mountain range with snow covered peak on the right hand side. Above the mountain range is a partially cloudy sky. Adolf Dehn (November 22, 1895 – May 19, 1968) was an American artist known mainly as a lithographer. Throughout his artistic career, he participated in and helped define some important movements in American art, including regionalism, social realism, and caricature. A two-time recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, he was known for both his technical skills and his high-spirited, droll depictions of human foibles. Dehn was born in 1895 in Waterville, Minnesota. He began creating artwork at the age of six, and by the time of his death had created nearly 650 images. Dehn went to the Minneapolis School of Art (known today as the Minneapolis College of Art and Design), where he met and became a close friend of Wanda Gag. In 1917 he and Gág were two of only a dozen students in the country to earn a scholarship to the Art Students League of New York. He was drafted to serve in World War I in 1918, but declared himself a conscientious objector and spent four months in a guardhouse detention camp in Spartanburg, SC and then worked for eight months as a painting teacher at an arm rehabilitation hospital in Asheville, NC. Later, Dehn returned to the Art Students League for another year of study and created his first lithograph, The Harvest. In 1921 Dehn's lithographs were featured in his first exhibition at Weyhe Gallery in New York City. From 1920 to 1921 in Manhattan, he was connected to New York's politically left-leaning activists. In 1921, he went to Europe. In Paris and Vienna he belonged to a group of expatriate intellectuals and artists, including Andrée Ruellan, Gertrude Stein, and ee cummings...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Listed American Female Folk Art Layered Constructed Sculptural Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Sculptural folk art piece by listed artist Sharon Yavis. This work is constructed by applying layers of wood to create an almost three dimensional effect ...
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1980s Folk Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Wood, Oil

Croton Falls
Located in New York, NY
Thelma Appel Croton Falls, 1987 Acrylic on Paper on Board Signed, titled and dated by the artist on the back Frame Included Thelma Appel is a renowned abstract and representational p...
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1980s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic, Board, Paper

French Mid century Impressionist, on the banks for the River Seine, Paris
Located in Woodbury, CT
Excellent French Mid century Impressionist, on the banks for the River Seine, Paris The painter was active around the middle of the 20th century, painting landscapes, portraits, and...
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1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

surreal scene oil on canvas painting surrealism
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Francesc Gironés (1904-1997) - Surrealist scene - Oil canvas Oil measures 38x46 cm. Frame measures 47x55 cm. Francesc Gironés was a painter from Poblenou about whom little is known,...
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1980s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, 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.

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