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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Period: 1940s
Period: 1920s
Early 20th Century Figurative -- The Paper Boy and His Comics
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful 1940s figurative of paper boy reading the comics by Louise Miller Clark (American, 20th Century). Signed "Louise Miller" lower right. Unframed. Im...
Category
1940s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Canvas, Oil
French school Provence Village - Rare Oil painting Signed
Located in Zofingen, AG
Landscape "Provencal Village"
Provencal landscape from Henri Farré. According to Wikipedia, Henri Farré was a painter and aviator during WWI. Born in the South of France (Foix), ...
Category
1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
River Seine Banks by René THOMSEN
By René Thomsen
Located in Pasadena, CA
THOMSEN René
Born in Paris in 1897 and died in 1976 in Paris.
20th century. French.
Painter of figures, nudes, portraits, landscape, still life, flowers.
Pupil of Louis ...
Category
1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Franklin Atwood Park, VP of Singer Mfg. Co.
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of Franklin Atwood Park, VP of Singer Mfg. Co.
Stately portrait of Franklin Atwood Park by Arthur Trevethin Nowell (British, 1862-1940). Park is sitting for a classical por...
Category
1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
At the fair
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category
1940s 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
Washerwoman oil on cardboard painting impressionism Spain woman
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Joaquin Terruella Matilla (1891-1957) - washerwoman - Oil on cardboard
Oil measures 11x15 cm.
Frame measures 15x19 cm.
Joaquim Terruella Matilla (1891 - 1957)
Joaquim Terruella Mat...
Category
1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Pointe du Vert-Galant Paris by Paulémile Pissarro - City scene of Paris
Located in London, GB
Pointe du Vert-Galant Paris by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972)
Oil on canvas
46 x 65 cm (18 ¹/₈ x 25 ⁵/₈ inches)
Signed lower right, Paulémile Pissarro
Executed circa 1925
This work ...
Category
1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
Baltars - Decorative wall plate 1927, faience, d 20.3 cm; h 2.7 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Porcelain painting workshop Baltars - Decorative wall plate 1927, faience, d 20.3 cm; h 2.7 cm
The author of the painting is Dimitry Abrosimov, after L. Godkevich drawing
Category
1920s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Faience
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
Spanish flamenco dance oil on board painting impressionism Spain
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Joaquin Terruella Matilla (1891-1957) - Flamenco - Oil board
Oil measures 35x39 cm.
Frame measures 40x44 cm.
Joaquim Terruella Matilla (1891 - 1957)
Joaquim Terruella Matilla, neph...
Category
1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Jacques Martin Ferrieres Le Marche D'Assise, 1927
Located in Dallas, TX
Jacques Martin-Ferrières (French, 1893-1972) Le marché d'Assise, 1927
A warm gathering at the beginning of the last century at a mountain top courtyard in Assisi Italy built just af...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint
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
Andre Derain 94 Sketch of Faces. original pencil drawing painting
By André Derain
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
profile face. original pencil drawing painting
André Derain (Chatou, June 10, 1880-Garches, September 8, 1954) was a French painter, illustrator and set designer, representative of ...
Category
1920s Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Au bord de la riviere - Pointillist Figure in Landscape Oil by Joseph Lepine
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed divisionist oil on artist's panel landscape by French painter Joseph Louis Francois Lepine. The painting depicts a view of the River Seine on a bright summer's day. A boat sai...
Category
1920s Pointillist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Jens Sørensen, Bakken, Oil Painting
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This early 20th-century oil painting by Danish artist Jens Sørensen (1887-1953) depicts a lively scene at Bakken, the world’s oldest amusement park.
Jens Sørensen was predominantly ...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Antique American Impressionist Framed Beach Scene Signed Elegant Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive American impressionist beach scene painting. Oil on board. Framed. Signed.
Category
1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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
"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
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
Nocturne, Fenetre Eclairee - Post Impressionist Landscape Oil - Henri Le Sidaner
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed divisionist landscape oil on panel circa 1920 by French painter Henri le Sidaner. This stunning piece depicts a white house framed by trees at nighttime. Light glows from the...
Category
1920s Pointillist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, 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
Little Golfer, Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original cover for Liberty Magazine, published July 25, 1925
Framed, dimensions: 30 x 24 in.
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1923 Cottage Painting by Hungarian Artist Koronthály Jenő
Located in Larchmont, NY
Koronthály Jenő (Hungarian, 1883-1973)
Untitled, 1923
Oil on wood panel
11 3/8 x 14 1/2 in.
Framed: 14 1/8 x 17 1/4 x 1 in.
Signed and dated lower left
A Hungarian artist, Koronthál...
Category
1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
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
Sailor’s Ball
By Margrete Levy
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Margrete Levy
1881-1962
Levy was a Danish artist; she worked in Paris from 1905-1911.
Levy was niece to the Danish master painter Kristian Zartmann.
She married French author Lou...
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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
"Workers" Russian Constructivist 1920s Modern Social Realism Cubism Figurative
Located in New York, NY
"Workers" Russian Constructivist 1920s Modern Social Realism Cubism Figurative
VLADIMIR VASIL’EVICH LEBEDEV (1891-1967)
"Workers"
Gouache on paper
Monogramed lower right
15 1/8 x 10...
Category
1920s Constructivist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
"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
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
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
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
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
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
Alfred Broge, Courtyard With Thatched Cottage & Seated Woman, Oil Painting
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This early 20th-century oil painting by Danish artist Alfred Broge (1870-1955) depicts a rustic courtyard with thatched cottage and seated woman.
Amidst the gritty and grimy changes...
Category
1920s Naturalistic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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
Amedee de La PATELLIERE, Eclipse with 4 Characters, 1928
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas by Amedee de La PATELLIERE, France, 1928. Eclipse with four characters. With frame: 63x54 cm - 24.8x21.25 inches ; without frame: 41x33 cm - 16.15x13 inches. Format 6F....
Category
1920s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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
Nude Dancer with Ornate Floral Headdress and Japanese Lantern - Carnival
Located in Miami, FL
A stunning, beautiful nude dancer exhibiting ideal proportions and crowned with an ornate floral headdress holds a luminescent Japanese Lantern. The lantern glows, and the dancer glows back in this light-infused painting. The background shows a Japanese screen with cranes...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Art Deco Spanish Woman Fashion Illustration
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Elegant and glamorous fashion illustration from the 1920's,
Original signed gouache painting on paper.
Monogrammed V.S. lower right.
Site: 10"x 7.75" Frame: 19.25"x 17"
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
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
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
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
Devil - Battle of Good and Evil - Nude woman Like Hieronymus Bosch
Located in Miami, FL
Will good ultimately triumph over evil?
Or is it a perpetual tug of war?
WPA Artist Leonard Lopez paints a complex figural work addressing the theme of "the fight between good and e...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Neo-Romantic Surrealist Painting "Circus" by Kristians Tonny
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Kristians Tonny
(French, born Holland; 1907-1977)
Circus
Oil on prepared board, 16 1/2 x 13 inches
Framed: 22 x 19 inches (approx.)
Inscribed on reverse: (in pencil) "cadre noir/ave...
Category
1920s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
'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
Study of Blue Boy
By Mary Welch
Located in Soquel, CA
Oil painting of a study of "Blue Boy" standing with his hat in his left hand by Mary Welch (American, 1875-1967). Circa 1918. Signed "M. Welch" lower left and gifted circa "1955" on verso. Image: 6"L x 9"H.
Mary Welch, born 10 years after the end of the Civil War, was a woman ahead of her time. She signed her paintings M. Welch, hoping that potential buyers wouldn't discover she was a woman. More often than not, when they learned her sex, art dealers lost interest.
The Hutchinson artist never married, never had children. But when she died in 1967, she left an impressive body of paintings, many of them familiar Kansas landscapes...
Category
1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, 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
Centaur and a woman
By Alexis Gritchenko
Located in Bayonne, NJ
This is a very rare to find painting that was exhibited by Alexis Gritchenko at the Athens Museum of Byzantine Art in 1923. Originally, 36 encaustic on cardboard pieces from the Gree...
Category
1920s Byzantine Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Encaustic
English River landscape, with Swans on the Thames at Temple Lock near London UK
Located in Woodbury, CT
English River landscape, with Church and River at Sunset, Abingdon on the Thames. England
Wonderful scene of Abingdon on the Thames by one of Englands best known landscape painters....
Category
1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Silent Night (Stilla natt), 1921, Large Moonlight Oil Painting
Located in Stockholm, SE
"Silent Night, 1921" by Gottfrid Kallstenius is a wonderful painting that captures the beauty of the Swedish archipelago in moonlight. In our opinion, we think that this painting is ...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cute Children's Book Illustration British Female Illustrator - Teddy Bears
Located in Miami, FL
A British Female Illustrator paints a warm and fuzzy scene from a child's imagination, with ducks and teddy bears gazing at a "Mr Willoughby's eyeglass" standing on it's edge as it l...
Category
1920s Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
"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
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
Figurative portrait interior oil painting Women and child portrait painting
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Antique post impressionist Art Deco figurative oil painting by French artist Bernard Py. This large size animated interior painting of two wom...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pêcheur sur la Cure by Paulémile Pissarro - Landscape watercolour
Located in London, GB
Pêcheur sur la Cure by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972)
Watercolour and ink on paper
23 x 30 cm (9 x 11 ³/₄ inches)
Signed lower right, Paulémile-
Executed circa 1920
This work is ac...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Paper, Watercolor
Lumier et neige fondante - Impressionist Landscape Oil by William Samuel Horton
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on canvas landscape by American impressionist painter William Samuel Horton. The piece depicts a nighttime view of Pontarlier, a commune in eastern France near the Swiss b...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Figurative Paintings for Sale
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