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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Period: 1970s
Period: 1930s
'The Green Shoes', SF Women's College, SF Art Institute, California, Romanoff
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Storer' for Inez May Storer (American, born 1933) and dated 1979. Inez Storer first studied at the San Francisco College for Women, the San Francisco Art Instit...
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Gouache, Color Pencil

City Scene with Faces casein tempera on canvas by Vaclav Vytlacil
Located in Hudson, NY
Signed and dated "Vytlacil 32" lower right Provenance: Estate of the artist #1584; Martin Diamond Fine Art Exhibitions: 1990 Graham Gallery, NYC (label verso) About this artist: B...
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1930s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Tempera, Casein, Canvas

Gouache on Board Painting Titled "Barbecue Stand", by Aaron Bohrod, circa 1935
Located in New York, NY
Aaron Bohrod, 1907-1992 Barbecue Stand, circa 1935 Gouache on board Signed Lower left: “Aaron Bohrod” Inscribed and signed on verso Bohrod-1 Provenance: Private estate, Rhode Island...
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1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Muhammed Ali
Located in New York, NY
Purchased from Ward Estate after his passing in 1990. Part of a private collection since mid 1990's till now and custom framed in handmade unique frames. Ward had a unique vision on ...
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1970s Tonalist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Robin Hood
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Initialed Lower Left Cover Illustration for American Boy Magazine, May 1934. Includes copy of the magazine.
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1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Sports Portrait of Athletic Partially Nude Boy with Rapid Brushstrokes
Located in Miami, FL
Figuration and abstraction meet in this energized quick portrait of an athletic boy with headband and resting on a bench, Most likely done for a magazine like Sports Illustrated - Si...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Masonite, Mixed Media

Matisse's Three Oranges - Calder's Three Oranges
Located in Chicago, IL
This painting is from the Matisse series created by Maurice Sullins in the late 1970s. Sullins' works, set in brilliantly imagined scenes in Tahiti, F...
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1970s Folk Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Dawn, Dawn, Dawn, Ticonderoga pencil advertisement
By Harvey Dunn
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Twice and Dated Lower Left: Harvey / Dunn 1932 Harvey Dunn's Dawn, Dawn, Dawn is a truly exceptional illustration that captures a key moment of American History. In the present work, Dunn skillfully depicts colonial soldiers...
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1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Nude Dancer Burlesque Stripper with Purple Gloves - The Bump -
Located in Miami, FL
A gritty Burlesque Stripper with long purple gloves bumps and grinds with a hard-driving beat. American Social Realist artist Jack Levine paints this se...
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1970s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Charcoal, Oil, Board

Portrait of a Redhead in Profile
Located in Miami, FL
Beautifully rendered in Krolls signature academic style. Unframed - Signed lower right, unframed
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1930s Academic Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood

"Nude Woman with 2 Men"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1970 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 25.00" x 22.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Fawcett book cover. Robert Berran has been a prolific romance and historical book cover il...
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1970s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Shore Leave, Saturday Evening Post Cover, August 1931
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Center August 8, 1931 Saturday Evening Post Cover
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1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Chisholm Trail"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Charles Hargens (1893 - 1997) Carversville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania artist and illustrator Charles was born in Hot Springs, South Dakota. As a young boy he loved to draw cowboys, Indians and ranch buildings. By age ten, he was “a commercial success” selling drawings of neighbors’ barns and houses for $25. When he grew older, his parents consented to enroll him at the Pennsylvania Academy (1913-20) where he studied with Daniel Garber, Hugh Breckenridge, Henry McCarter, and William Merritt Chase. At Garber’s invitation, Hargens occasionally came to visit his Lumberville studio to paint with him. A lifelong friendship resulted. In 1915, the Pennsylvania Academy awarded Hargens its Cresson Traveling Scholarship and he went to Paris to study at the Academie Julian and the Academie Colarossi. Hargens was a fellow of the Pennsylvania Academy and a member of the Society of Illustrators, the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and the Philadelphia Sketch Club. He exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago (1923 awards) and at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (1915 prize, 1917 prize, 1918 award). By the early 1920s, he began to produce illustrations for book jackets, books, magazines and advertisements. His career took off and soon his illustrations of cowboys, Indians, Western life, Revolutionary War action and boy scout themes appeared in, or adorned the covers of The Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, Liberty, McCall’s, Boy’s Life and Gentlemen’s Quarterly. His work also appeared on billboards and advertisements for Stetson hats and Coca-cola. It was conditioned by Hargens that all of his original art was returned to him after being published. His entire body work remained in his studio until his death in 1997; this is largely the reason his paintings have not yet commanded the high prices of his contemporary Saturday Evening Post illustrators (i.e. Rockwell, Leyendecker and N.C. Wyeth). At first he and his wife worked from their studio in Philadelphia. In 1940, they purchased a property at the intersection of Aquetong and Sawmill roads in Carversville. They commuted to Philadelphia regularly and stayed in South Dakota every summer. Eventually, he set up a studio next to his Carversville home. After moving to Carversville, Hargens began a lifelong friendship with George Sotter. Hargens’ Carversville home was the subject of many of George Sotter’s paintings long before and during the time Hargens lived there. Hargens also studied with Henry Rand...
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1930s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Cover Illustration for ''Motor'' Magazine
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Cover Illustration for ''Motor'' Magazine, February 1931 Depicting a Duryea Automobile Driving by a Blacksmith Shop
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1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Smoke Shop
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left
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1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Satyrs
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Unsigned Edmund F. Ward estate stamp on verso
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1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

The Confrontation, 1934
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed, Dated, and Dedicated Lower Left
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1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Woodstock
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Painting for a Woodstock film's poster.
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1970s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Board, Acrylic

Charity Bazaar
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board Dimensions: 27.00" x 21.50" Signature: Signed Lower Right Date: 1930s Probable magazine cover, 1930-1935.
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1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

New Years Baby, Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1932 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 18.00" x 20.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right A New Year's themed cover painting by Leslie Thrasher for the January 9, 1932 edition of L...
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1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1931 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 20.00" x 16.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Liberty Magazine Cover, October 17, 1931
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1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Maclean's Magazine Cover, 1930
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Signed Lower Right Maclean's Magazine Cover, September 15th, 1930
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1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Turf and Sport Digest
By Randall Shaull
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1930 Medium: Oil on Canvasboard Dimensions: 27.00" x 21.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Cover for Turf and Sport Digest, probably late 1930s
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1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Board

Amateur Nite - Cowboy Bill's Ramblers, The Saturday Evening Post cover, Jan
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Left: Monte / Crews Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, January 11th, 1936
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1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1976 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 29.00" x 22.00" Signature: Faintly Signed "Marchetti" Lower Right Cover art for the companion book to the 1976 film starring Bruce Dern and Madeline Kahn.
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1970s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

George Washington Marine Procession New York Presidential Inauguration, Life Mag
Located in Miami, FL
"The Great Man Comes to Take His Oath" Life Magazine Spread, July 4th, 1960, This epic narrative depicts the celebration of George Washington's inauguration, en route to Federal Hall...
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1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Milton Avery #6"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Gershon Benjamin (1899-1985) An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon Benjamin sustained an active career for over seven decades. D...
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1930s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Pastel

Cappers Farmer Magazine Cover, June 1933
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Sight Size 12.00" x 10.00", Framed 20.00" x 18.00" Signature: Signed Lower Left June 1933 Cappers Farmer Magazine Cover.
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1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Study for 'Christmas Peek, ' Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil and Pencil on Canvas Laid Down on Board Study for the December 23rd, 1939 issue The Saturday Evening Post.
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1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board, Pencil, Canvas

Doctor Looking into Childs Mouth, Study for SEP Cover, 1930
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Study for the November 22, 1930 cover illustration of The Saturday Evening Post.
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1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Pose
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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1970s Conceptual Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Hans Baluschek Sommer an der Havel ( Summer On The River Havel ), 1934
Located in Berlin, DE
Hans Baluschek ( 1870-1935 ), Germany. "New Objectivity" Style. Mixed media on paper, 1934. Signed and dated lower right: HBaluschek.34. Framed. Height: 26.18 in ( 66,5 cm ), Width:...
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1930s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media

'The Green Hat', California, SF Women's College, SF Art Institute, Romanoff
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Storer' for Inez May Storer (American, born 1933) and dated 1979. Inez Storer first studied at the San Francisco College for Women, the San Francisco Art Instit...
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Gouache, Color Pencil, Paper

"History of US Postal Service" American Scene Social Realism WPA Modern Chicago
Located in New York, NY
"History of US Postal Service" American Scene Social Realism WPA Modern Chicago Harold Haydon "History of the U.S. Postal Service" 21 x 25 1/2 inches Oil on canvas, c. 1938 Estate s...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Music Duo
By Jozef Popczyk
Located in Oakland, CA
Jozef Popczyk, a Polish artist known for his vibrant palette and affinity for Cubism, demonstrates his skill in blending Cubist and Art Deco styles in this oil painting on paper. Lik...
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1930s Cubist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paint

Rare Angelic Figure by Animator Fred Mogubgub
Located in Larchmont, NY
Fred Mogubgub (American, 1928-1989) Untitled, c. 1970s Oil on canvas 18 1/4 x 14 x 1 in. Signed verso Fred Mogubgub (1928–1989) was an animator and painter who first came to attenti...
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1970s Pop Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Woman - Oil Painting by Leo Guida - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is an original contemporary artwork realized by Leo Guida in 1970s Mixed colored oil painting on canvas. Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Sensitive to current issues, artistic movem...
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Bread Bakers oil painting by John Barber
By John Barber
Located in Hudson, NY
Measures 22" x 18" and framed 27" x 24" x 3". About this artist: Born in Galatz, Romania, John Barber became a modernist painter of figures and scenes of...
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1930s Cubist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Simka Simkhovitch WPA W/C Painting Gouache American Modernist Bouquet of Flowers
Located in Surfside, FL
Simka Simkhovitch (Russian/American 1893 - 1949) This came with a small grouping from the artist's family, some were hand signed some were not. These were studies for larger paintings. This is a miniature watercolor and gouache vibrant, colorful bouquet of flowers in a vase. Simka Simkhovitch (Симха Файбусович Симхович) (aka Simka Faibusovich Simkhovich) (Novozybkov, Russia May 21, 1885 O.S./June 2, 1885 N.S.—Greenwich, Connecticut February 25, 1949) was a Ukrainian-Russian Jewish artist and immigrant to the United States. He painted theater scenery in his early career and then had several showings in galleries in New York City. Winning Works Progress Administration (WPA) commissions in the 1930s, he completed murals for the post offices in Jackson, Mississippi and Beaufort, North Carolina. His works are in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Born outside Kyiv (Petrograd Ukraine) into a Jewish family who owned a small department store. During a severe case of measles when he was seven, Simcha Simchovitch sketched the views outside his window and decided to become an artist, over his father's objections. Beginning in 1905, he studied at the Grekov Odessa Art School and upon completion of his studies in 1911 received a recommendation to be admitted to the Imperial Academy of Arts. Though he enrolled to begin classes in architecture, painting, and sculpture at the Imperial Academy, he was dropped from the school roster in December because of the quota on the number of Jewish students and drafted into the army. Simchovitch served as a private in the 175th Infantry Regiment Baturyn [ru] until his demobilization in 1912. Re-enrolling in the Imperial Academy, he audited classes. Simka Simkhovitch exhibited paintings and sculptures in 1918 as part of an exhibition of Jewish artists and in 1919 placed 1st in the competition "The Great Russian Revolution" with a painting called "Russian Revolution" which was hung in the State Museum of Revolution. In 1922, Simkha Simkhovitch exhibited at the International Book Fair in Florence (Italian: Fiera Internazionale del Libro di Firenze). In 1924, Simkhovitch came to the United States to make illustrations for Soviet textbooks and decided to immigrate instead. Initially he supported himself by doing commercial art and a few portrait commissions. In 1927, he was hired to paint a screen for a scene in the play "The Command to Love" by Fritz Gottwald and Rudolph Lothar which was playing at the Longacre Theatre on Broadway. Art dealers began clamoring for the screen and Simkhovitch began a career as a screen painter for the theater. Catching the attention of the screenwriter, Ernest Pascal, he worked as an illustrator for Pascal, who then introduced him to gallery owner, Marie Sterner. Simkhovitch's works appeared at the Marie Sterner Gallery beginning with a 1927 exhibit and were repeated the following year. Simkhovitch had an exhibit in 1929 at Sterner's on circus paintings. In 1931, he held a showing of works at the Helen Hackett Gallery, in New York City and later that same year he was one of the featured artists of a special exhibit in San Francisco at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park. The exhibit was coordinated by Marie Sterner and included four watercolors, including one titled "Nudes". He is of the generation of Russian Soviet artists such as Isaac Pailes, Serge Charchoune, Marc Chagall, Chana Orloff, Isaac Ilyich Levitan, and Ossip Zadkine. In 1936, Simkhovitch was selected to complete the mural for the WPA Post office project in Jackson, Mississippi. The mural was hung in the post office and courthouse in 1938 depicted a plantation theme. Painted on the wall behind the judge’s bench, “Pursuits of Life in Mississippi”, a depiction of black workers engaged in manual labor amid scenes of white professionals and socialites, was eventually covered over in later years during renovations due to its stereotypical African American imagery. Simka painted what he thought was typical of Jackson. His impression of pre-civil rights Mississippi was evidently Greek Revival column houses, weeping willow trees, working class families, and the oppression of African Americans. He painted African American men picking cotton, while a white man took account of the harvest and a white judge advised a white family, calling it Pursuits of Life in Mississippi. Though clearly endorsed by the government and initially generally well-received, the mural soon raised concerns with locals as the climate toward racial segregation began to change. The main concern was whether depictions that show African Americans in subjugated societal roles should be featured in a courtroom. The following year, his painting "Holiday" won praise at an exhibition in Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1940, Simkhovitch's second WPA post office project was completed when four murals, "The Cape Lookout Lighthouse and the Orville W. Mail Boat", "The Wreck of the Crissie Wright", "Sand Ponies" and "Canada Geese" were installed in Beaufort, North Carolina. The works were commissioned in 1938 and did not generate the controversy that the Jackson mural had. The main mural is "The Wreck of the Crissie Wright" and depicts a shipwreck which had occurred in Beaufort in 1866. "The Cape Lookout Lighthouse and the Orville W. Mail Boat" depicted the lighthouse built in 1859 and the mail boat that was running mail during the time which Simkhovitch was there. The boat ran mail for the area until 1957. "Sand Ponies" shows the wild horses common to the North Carolina barrier islands and "Canada Geese" showed the importance of hunting and fishing in the area. All four murals were restored in the 1990s by Elisabeth Speight, daughter of two other WPA muralists, Francis Speight...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Board, Watercolor

Portrait of Lady Caroline Price
Located in Miami, FL
DESCRIPTION: Perhaps the best Romney in private hands. If Vogue Magazine existed in the late 18th century, this image of Lady Caroline Price would be ...
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1970s Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Unframed Hand Painted Buddha Shakti Thangka on Canvas 24K Gold
Located in TRUMBULL, CT
Buddha Samantabhadra (Shakti) is deep blue in color, symbolizing the sky or emptiness of mind. Samantabhadra or buddha's consort is white in color, symbolizing the aspect of the cla...
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1970s Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media

Rubenesque nude woman . full figure Nude Regionalism - "Hilda Nellis"
Located in Miami, FL
Plump or fleshy and voluptuous nude... you can describe it as you see it. Signed, titled and dated lower left: John Steuart Curry / 1934 "Hilda Nellis", John Steuart Curry is best ...
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1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Bad Ischl Austria
By Franz Weidinger
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original antique watercolor painting by well listed Austrian artist Franz Weidinger. This work is signed and titled lower left and housed in a be...
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1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Laid Paper, Watercolor

1970's Surrealist Figurative -- "Two Nudes in Interior"
Located in Soquel, CA
Stark, surrealist study of two nude figures in a color saturated room by Clayton Anderson (American, 20th Century), 1970. Signed and dated by the artist, left margin. Presented in a ...
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1970s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The sisters young women original oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Frame size 98x117 cm. Ramon Aguilar i Moré (Barcelona, ​​1924-Barcelona, ​​September 23, 2015) was a Spanish painter. His work was influenced by the expressionist movement, although...
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1970s Fauvist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Natural Chilean Nitrate of Soda
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1938 Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left Dimensions: 27.00" x 25.00" Calendar Illustration
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1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Warrior and His Horse Original oil and Clay on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Warrior and his Horse Greco-Roman Theme Original oil and Clay on Canvas Rendition of an ancient warrior and his horse by a unknown but prolific painter (Africa/USA 20th C.). Possibl...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Clay, Canvas, Oil

Country yard in spring. Oil on canvas, 74x96 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Country yard in spring. Oil on canvas, 74x96 cm Oto Pladers (1897.8.III – 1970.2.V) Oto Pladers learned in Riga city school of art (1913 – 15). He was called into the army in 1916 a...
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1930s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Tony's Fruit Market Antique Folk Art Figurative Oil Painting 1930
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3787 Antique folk art oil painting Image size 17x23.5" Folk art wood frame
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1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

1939 Surrealist Cityscape by Mystery Artist
Located in Larchmont, NY
Mystery Artist Untitled, 1993 Watercolor on paper Sight: 13 x 19 1/4 in. Framed: 25 1/2 x 29 1/2 x 1 1/4 in. Signed and dated lower right
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1930s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Devil Emerges from Surrealist Voodoo Drum - Sans titre (Diable)
Located in Miami, FL
An image of a horned devil with pointy claws and bat-like wings emerges from a Voodoo drum. He has with arms stretched out like a Christ figure. The drum grows out of a yellow plant-...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

Maurice Asselin (1882-1947) A bouquet of roses and nasturtiums, Signed oil
Located in Paris, FR
Maurice Asselin (1882-1947) A Bouquet of roses and nasturtiums Signed lower right Oil on cardboard canvas In good condition 39.5 x 31.5 cm Framed : 58.5 x 51.5 cm Maurice Asselin w...
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1930s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Ballerinas on Stage
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Jean Louis Marcel Cosson (1878-1956) Marcel Cosson was born in Bordeaux, France in 1878. Cosson exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français where he won an honorable mention in 19...
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1930s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

French Art Deco Cubist Monkey by Gabriel Beauvais 1930s Ceramic
Located in Oakland, CA
French modernist glazed ceramic monkey sculpture by Gabriel Beauvais,1930. This sculpture was made in a turquoise blue glaze ceramic, a stunning color most likely by Kaza Edition in ...
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1930s Art Deco Figurative Paintings

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Ceramic

Pruna 6 Women Sketch for Bocaccio original watercolor painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Pere Pruna Ocerans (Barcelona, ​​1904-1977) was a Catalan painter and illustrator of figurative style. In 1920, with only 17 years and hardly any academic training, he traveled to ...
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1970s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor

The ship oil painting fauvist spanish seascape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2007) - The ship Oil on canvas cardboard. Oil measurements 55x46 cm. Frameless. Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Spanish painter. He...
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1970s Fauvist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Cardboard, Canvas

bullfighter and bull oil on cardboard painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Frame size 49x59 cm.
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1970s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

Chess Players WPA Depression Era Mid-20th Century American Scene Realism Modern
Located in New York, NY
Chess Players WPA Depression Era Mid-20th Century American Scene Realism Modern. Signed upper right and verso 8 x 10 inches oil on board. BIO The son of a men's haberdasher, Mervin ...
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1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Figurative Paintings for Sale

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