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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Period: 1940s
Period: 1910s
"The Opera Singer" Expressionist Oil Portrait on Panel by Maurice Saint-Lou
Located in Pasadena, CA
Expressionism, a revolutionary art movement of the early 20th century, aimed to elicit emotional responses, often exposing the harshest and most tumultuous aspects of the human condi...
Category
1940s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Signed Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Young Boy
Located in Pasadena, CA
The aesthetics of the human figure in art offer a captivating perspective for artists and enthusiasts, a delicate balance between simplicity and subtlety. In this oil painting, a you...
Category
1940s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
La Chalandiere a Briere - Impressionist River Landscape Oil by Pierre Montezin
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and titled oil on canvas riverscape by sought after French impressionist painter Pierre Eugene Montezin. The work depicts a view of a river in autumn. The trees that line the ...
Category
1910s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Parade" Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern American Scene WPA Regionalism
Located in New York, NY
"Parade" Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern American Scene WPA Regionalism
Gerrit Van Sinclair (1890 – 1955)
Parade
20 x 15 inches
Oil on board, c. 1940s
Signed lower right
Fram...
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Place Pigalle - Post Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting by Elie Pavil
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed figures in cityscape oil on canvas circa 1910 by Russian-born post impressionist painter Elie Anatole Pavil. The piece, painted in a predominantly blue and yellow tones, depic...
Category
1910s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
On the Sea (På havet, 1911) by Swedish Carl Wilhelmson
Located in Stockholm, SE
The painting På Havet (On the Sea) by Carl Wilhelmson, created in 1911, stands as a remarkable testament to the artist's profound connection with the s...
Category
1910s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Men Working Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
Men Working Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern
Jo Cain (1904 – 2003)
Men Working: WPA Mural Study
17 ½ x 10 ½ inches
Oil on ...
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
UN Poster Design American Scene Mid 20th Century Modernism WPA World Peace
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
UN Poster Design American Scene Mid 20th Century Modernism WPA World Peace
Jo Cain (1904 – 2003)
We Are All Members of the Human Race: UN Poster Proposal
21 x...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Egg Tempera
Antique Historical Painting - First Thanksgiving, Plymouth - Jennie Brownscombe
Located in Baltimore, MD
Jennie Augusta Brownscombe was born in a log cabin in Honesdale, Pa in 1850. She went past her modest roots to attend Cooper Union and the National Academy in New York. By 1890, ...
Category
1910s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Queen , 1947, by French Transgender Artist JM Poulain
Located in Paris, FR
By French famous Transgender artist, Michel Marie Poulain (Born Paris December 5, 1906. Died 1991) this rare oil on canvas it represents the Queen and he...
Category
1940s Feminist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Jean-René Chatelain, Carnation Vase, Oil on Canvas
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas dating from 1946 by Jean-René Chatelain. Beautiful canvas of a neo-realism soothed. Measurements : with frame: 81x72x7.5 cm - 31.9x28.3x3 inches, without frame: 68x58 c...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Makaula" the Seer - Mid Century Modern Surrealist Hawaiian Visionary Art
Located in Soquel, CA
Symbolic and surreal landscape with a Makaula or seer and a woman seeking to know her future by Marguerite Louis Blasingame (American; 1906-1947), circa 1940-45. Marguerite and her h...
Category
1940s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Mid Century Modern Surrealist Hawaiian Visionary Art - The Dream & the Dreamers
Located in Soquel, CA
Symbolic and surreal landscape with three women in a mystical garden setting walking toward a plaque "The dream and the dreamer are one" by Marguerite Louis Blasingame (American; 190...
Category
1940s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Chartres Cathedral
Located in Storrs, CT
William Lee-Hankey, R.E., R.W.S., R.O.I. 1869-1952.
Chartres Cathedral. Oil on canvas. 27 x 25. Signed, lower left. Price on the strecther, verso: $1000000. Provenance: Woodrugg Brot...
Category
1910s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Crayon, Watercolor, Oil
Le port de Sanary by Moïse Kisling - Port scene painting
Located in London, GB
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Le port de Sanary by Moïse Kisling (1891-1953)
Oil on canvas
60 x 73 cm (23 ⁵/₈ x 28 ³/₄ inches)
Signed lower right, Ki...
Category
1910s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Le Pont Neuf - Post Impressionist Landscape Oil by Jacques Martin-Ferrieres
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and dated oil on board riverscape by sought after French post impressionist painter Jacques Martin-Ferrieres. This beautiful pointillist piece, painted in predominantly blue a...
Category
1910s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Couronne de Marguerite - French Belle Epoque Portrait Oil Painting Paris Beauty
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘La Couronne de Marguerite’ by Édouard-Louis-Lucien Cabane (1857-1942).
The painting – which depicts a young French beauty wearing a crown of daisies – is signed by the artist and ...
Category
1910s French School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Four Generations, Landscape and Figures by Female American Realist Artist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Four Generations" is a 30 x 40 inches landscape with figures and animals, painted by female, American Realist painter, Molly Luce. The painting is signed Molly Luce in the lower lef...
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Self Portrait" Female Self Portrait, Early American, Robert Henri School
Located in New York, NY
Theresa Bernstein
Self Portrait, circa 1915
Signed upper right
Oil on canvas
22 3/4 x 21 1/4 inches
Theresa F. Bernstein was born in Philadelphia in 1895 to cultured, middle-class ...
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A. J. Bennett - Light and Shade - Post Impressionist Painting, South Africa 1919
Located in Meinisberg, CH
A. J. Bennett
(South African, fl. Early 20th century)
Light and Shade
• Oil on canvas artist board ca. 42.5 x 29.5 cm
• Later frame ca. 53.5 x 41 cm
Worldwide shipping for this ob...
Category
1910s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
A Redheads Dream - Figurative Nude With Butterflies and Flowers
Located in Soquel, CA
A Redheads Dream - Figurative Nude With Butterflies and Flowers
Original figurative nude painting of a redhead woman surrounded by butterflies and magenta flowers, by possibly an u...
Category
1940s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Maternite - Post Impressionist Figurative Interior Oil Painting - Henri Lebasque
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed figurative oil on canvas circa 1910 by French post impressionist painter Henri Lebasque. The work depicts a mother seated on a yellow change feeding her young baby.
Signature...
Category
1910s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Francisco Bores, Sans titre
Located in Madrid, ES
FRANCISCO BORES
Spanish, 1898 - 1972
SANS TITRE
signed and dated "Borès 42" (lower left)
oil on panel
13-3/4 x 10-5/8 inches (35 x 27 cm.)
framed: 19 x 15-3/4 inches (48 x 40 cm.)
B...
Category
1940s Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Portrait of Roger Goldet (Goldschmidt) child
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Abel FAIVRE
(Lyon, 1867 – Nice, 1945
Portrait of Roger Goldet (1911-1997) at age 4
Pastel
H. 59.5 cm; L. 43 cm
Signed at the top right and dated 1914
Provenance: The model's family
...
Category
1910s French School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Pastel, Laid Paper
Cornish Family in an Interior - British 1912 Newlyn School art oil painting
Located in London, GB
This superb British figurative interior oil painting is by noted Newlyn school artist Harold Harvey. Painted circa 1912 the composition is a Cornish family, bathed in golden light, s...
Category
1910s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mother and Child
Located in Greenwich, CT
An exceptional watercolor in terms of quality and presentation. During this earlier period of Day's career he exhibited extensively and was inspired by Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite ...
Category
1910s Pre-Raphaelite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
The Model Asleep - Mid 20th Century Nude Still Life Oil Painting by Dorothy King
By Dorothy King
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Dorothy King was born and lived in London in 1907. She studied at the Hornsey School of Art under JC Moody, then briefly at the Slade School of Fine Art with Randolph Schwabe. She to...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fine Edwardian British Society Portrait of an Elegant Lady Signed Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of an Elegant Lady
by John Arthur Machray Hay (Scottish, 1887-1960)
signed and dated 1910
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 30 x 24 inches
provenance: private collection, UK
c...
Category
1910s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Summer Afternoon Firth of Clyde - British exh figurative seascape oil painting
Located in London, GB
This lovely Scottish exhibited seascape oil painting is by noted Scottish artist Patrick Downie. It was painted in 1914 and exhibited at the Glasgow Institute of Fine art that year e...
Category
1910s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Au Cafe
By Elizabeth Ronget
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Frame size 42 x 52.5 inches
ELISABETH RONGET
"AU CAFE”
OIL ON CANVAS, SIGNED
FRANCE, C.1940
Elisabeth Ronget
1886-1962
Elisabeth Boehm Ronget was born in 1896 in Conitz, Polan...
Category
1940s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
fishermen's beach Spanish seascape Spain oil on canvas painting mediterranean
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Joaquín Asensio Mariné (1890-1961) - Beach - Oil on canvas
Oil measures 65x81 cm.
Frame measures 81x96 cm.
Asensio Mariné (Barcelona, 1890-1961) was a painter who specialized in lan...
Category
1940s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Pointillism City View Over Gamla Stan, Stockholm, 1910
Located in Stockholm, SE
Axel Erdmann's painting "View Over Gamla Stan, Stockholm, 1910" is a luminous celebration of Stockholm's historic heart, Gamla Stan, as seen from Södermalm. Erdmann, a Swedish paint...
Category
1910s Pointillist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Riders of Pigeon Hill
By Jon Corbino
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Riders of Pigeon Hill, c. 1940s, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 24 x 36 inches, label verso with title, artist’s name and address; same information inscribed verso; ex-collection...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Champion Fertilizer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1940
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Dimensions: 26.00" x 26.00"
Fertilizer advertisement, image of a man, girl, boy and dog.
This illustration was also a...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Georges Louis Claude (1879-1963) A bouquet of blue flowers 1940, oil on paper
Located in Paris, FR
Georges Louis Claude (1879-1963)
A bouquet of blue flowers
signed with the initials GLC and dated "II 40" in the lower right
oil on paper
62 x 47 cm
In good condition traces of pins...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
1944 Boats in a Harbor American Painting Signed Nowotny
Located in Larchmont, NY
JJ Nowotny
Untitled, 1944 (date partially obscured but appears to be '44)
Oil on canvas
24 x 30 in.
Framed: 31 x 37 x 2 in.
Signed and dated lower right
Category
1940s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Army Poker
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This work is part of our exhibition - America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s
Army Poker, c. 1943, probably tempera on board, signed upper right, 16 x 20 inches, inscribed verso a) “Army Poker / Mervin Honig / 421 W 42 St. N.Y.C.,” b) “Mervin Honig / US Army Air Force – Seymour Johnson Field – Goldsboro, NC / Circa 1943,” and c) “(This painting was done before men was (sic) shipped off to the Mariana Islands (Saipan) The Second World War.” Note: four pencil sketches for this work included
Mervin Honig was a New York-based painter and illustrator who is best known for his realistic depictions of everyday life and sports themes. Honig was raised in Brooklyn and recalled almost never being without a paintbox in hand from the time he started elementary school. Honig had a deep reverence for the Old Master painters, Vermeer and Bellini, as well as the Americans Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins. He initially studied art from 1939 through 1941 with Francis Criss. At the outbreak of World War II, Honig worked as a mechanic for Republic Aviation, but in August 1942, he enlisted in the US Army Air Corps and was stationed at Seymour Johnson Field in Goldsboro, North Carolina. During the war, Honig began to exhibit nationally, including as part of the Portrait of America exhibitions which originated at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and traveled around the country, as well as at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh. He painted Army Poker in 1943 while stationed at Johnson Field. In this work, Honig draws inspiration from Paul Cezanne's The Card Players (Metropolitan Museum of Art), with a similar placement of the four figures, but Cezanne's table is replaced with an Army cot, the pipe rack with a soldier's mess kit and the drapery in the right background with a heap of discarded uniforms. Unlike the vibrancy of Cezanne's composition, the limited palette of Honig's work suggests the drabness and monotony of stateside Army life.
After being discharged from military service, Honig furthered his studies with Amadee Ozenfant in 1946 and Hans Hoffman from 1947 through 1950. Additional exhibitions included the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the National Academy of Design, the Wadsworth Atheneum, the Provincetown Art Association, and the National Academies Galleries of the Allied Artists Association. He was represented by the venerable Frank Rehn...
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Tempera
"At the Opera" WPA Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Theatre American Scene
Located in New York, NY
"At the Opera" WPA Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Theatre American Scene
John Winters (1904 - 1983)
"At the Opera"
17 x 14 inches
oil on canvas
Signed and dated 1943 lower r...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Shooting Gallery Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Abstract Realism Modern
Located in New York, NY
Shooting Gallery Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Abstract Realism Modern
*William Kienbusch (1914 – 1980)
Shooting Gallery, Sixth Avenue
Post...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Paint
Untitled (Transcendental Composition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This work is part of our exhibition - America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s
Untitled (Transcendental Composition), oil on board, 1947, oil on board, signed and dated lower r...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
The Old World
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Old World, by 1943, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 43 ½ x 30 ½ inches, artist’s name and title inscribed verso; exhibited 1) Romantic Painting in America, Museum of Modern Art, N...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Post Office WPA Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Modern 20th Century
By Carlos Lopez
Located in New York, NY
Post Office WPA Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Modern 20th Century
Carlos Lopez (1910-1953)
"Bounty" WPA Mural Study for Michigan Post Office
19 ½ x 22 ½ inches
Oil on B...
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
"Two Seas and a Moon" Surrealism American Scene WWII Modern WWI Denver WPA Era
Located in New York, NY
"Two Seas and a Moon" Surrealism American Scene WWII Modern WWI Denver WPA Era
Arnold Ronnebeck (1885 - 1947)
Two Seas and a Moon
30 x 22 1/2 inches
Oil on Canvas, c. 1943
Signed u...
Category
1940s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Incredible Vintage Surreal Religious Framed Signed Latin American Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed lower right.
Category
1940s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Spanish Beauty (Portrait of the Artist's Wife)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Spanish Beauty (Portrait of the Artist's Wife)
Oil on canvas, c. 1940's
Signed upper right "A.G. Warshawsky" (see photo)
According to the daughter-in-law of the artist, this painting...
Category
1940s Abstract Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Impressionist New England Beach Bathers Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century impressionist bather scene by John Edward Costigan (1888 - 1972). Oil on board. Framed. Signed verso.
Category
1940s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
'Mother and Child', Woman Impressionist, Paris, Académie Julian, Benezit
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Initialed lower right, 'A.E.M' for Anna Elisabeth Munch (Danish, 1876-1960) and painted circa 1940.
This notable Danish Modernist first studied with Karl Jensen (1889) and C. N. Overgaard (1891–1892). She later traveled and studied in Italy and, subsequently, at the Académie Julian under Jean Paul Laurens and Benjamin Constant. After her return to Denmark, Munch became a student of the Impressionist Julius Paulsen (1895-1897) and made her début at the 1898 Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition.
Munch became the first Danish woman to receive commissions for large devotional altarpieces and her early subjects were often derived from Nordic and Christian mythology. These themes were also explored in the large fresco commissions she completed after studying fresco with Joakim Skovgaard (1909-10).
Munch continued her studies in both France and Italy and also traveled extensively to Sweden and Norway. Together with the writer Sophie Breum, Munch built a house on the island of Funen at the artist's colony of Kerteminde. Munch illustrated several of Breum's books and, through her, was introduced to the women's movement. She furthered her art studies with Fritz Syberg...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Couronne de Marguerite - French Belle Epoque Portrait Oil Painting of Paris Girl
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘La Couronne de Marguerite’ by Édouard-Louis-Lucien Cabane (1857-1942).
The painting – which depicts a young French beauty wearing a crown of daisies – is signed by the artist and ...
Category
1910s French School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Hortense (Ballerina) /// Impressionism Degas French Ballet Renoir Figurative Art
By Pal Fried
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Pál Fried (Hungarian, 1893-1976)
Title: "Hortense (Ballerina)"
*Signed by Fried lower left
Circa: 1940
Medium: Original Oil Painting on Canvas
Framing: Framed in a light gold...
Category
1940s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oil
Meenakshi Temple Hindu Priest & Sacred Elephant Madurai Tamil India 1913 o/c
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Andre Chéronnet Champollion
Meenakshi Temple Hindu Priest & Sacred Elephant Madurai, Tamil
Oil on canvas
Painting Dimensions: 36 x 28 inches
Framed Dimensions: 44.5 x 36.5 inches
Sig...
Category
1910s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Les Lavandieres - Post Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting - Michel Korochansky
By Michel Korochansky
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on canvas circa 1910 by French post impressionist painter Michel Korochansky. This autumnal landscape depicts a view of women washing linen on the bank of a river. The las...
Category
1910s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Red Landscape with trees, Original Gouache on Paper, Impressionist style
Located in PARIS, FR
*Dimensions include the frame
This French artwork from around 1940 exhibits a vivid, expressive style, reminiscent of Vincent van Gogh's post-Impressionist works. The robust, swirli...
Category
1940s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Laid Paper
La Tour Saint-Jacques, Paris - Impressionist Cityscape Oil by Konstantin Korovin
By Konstantin Alekseyevich Korovin
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and titled landscape oil on board by Russian-born impressionist painter Konstantin Alekseevich Korovin. The work depicts a nighttime view of the ...
Category
1910s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Clowns: Aren't We All?" Henry Glintenkamp, WPA Era Circus Figures, Modern
Located in New York, NY
Hendrik (Henry) J Glintenkamp
Clowns: Aren't We All?, 1942
Signed lower left; signed, titled and dated on the reverse
Oil on Masonite
20 x 16 inches
The painter and illustrator Henr...
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
At the fair
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Same Old Story (Brooklyn Dodgers & St. Louis Cardinals Illustration)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Bill Crawford (1913-1982). Original illustration artwork depicting teams as they advance to the World Series. Depicted are representations of the St. Louis Cardinals and The Brooklyn...
Category
1940s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Ink, Gouache, Pencil
Old Dutch Interior Child and a Man with Chickens and Delft Tiles and Hearth
Located in Soquel, CA
Old Dutch Interior Child and a Man with Chickens and Delft Tiles and Hearth
An oil on ceramic tile of a early Dutch scene with a child and grandfather in the kitchen with a hearth a...
Category
1910s Folk Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Ceramic
Young Girl with Horse Illustrations Original Oil on Linen by John Turner 1941
Located in Soquel, CA
Young Girl with Horse Illustrations Original Oil on Linen by John Turner
Impressionist painting of a young horse enthusiast by John Turner (American, 19th,20th C).
Exceptional detai...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Figurative Paintings for Sale
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