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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Period: 1970s
Period: 1950s
Muhammed Ali
By Edmund Ward
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 ...
Category
1970s Tonalist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
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...
Category
1970s Folk Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Young Woman
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Sergei Besedin was born in the village of Ruska near the Ukrainian city of Lozovaya. He was born into a working class family who were staunch communists. Besedin, shortly after the R...
Category
1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sports Portrait of Athletic Partially Nude Boy with Rapid Brushstrokes
By Bob Peak
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...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Masonite, Mixed Media
Company K - Book Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Book cover for "Company K" by William March.
Subject matter features three army soldiers in monochrome ...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
The Savior, Paperback Cover
By James Meese
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1952
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 23.00" x 16.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
This is the paperback cover for A Bullet For My Love by Octav...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Sir Henry
Located in Wien, 9
Ludwig Schwarzer formulates a highly independent work, bizarre in content and marked by perfection in craftsmanship. After realistic and later expressionist attempts, he found his ow...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Woodstock
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Painting for a Woodstock film's poster.
Category
1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Acrylic
End of the Road, Golden Light Ladies Home Journal, Golden Age of Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
This sunbathed painting will light up your room with warmth. Sundblom's painting technique has the freedom and quick energy in his paint application. His subjects are bathed in the ...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Do Bee Book of Manners
By Art Seiden
Located in Miami, FL
Grosset & Dunlap, Illustration, Art Seiden was a top children's book illustrator in the 1950' - 1060's Work comes in two parts that are butted together by the artist
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Ink
Lighthouse Keeper, Brant Point
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Left ‘Stevan Dohanos’
Medium: Mixed Media on Paperboard Laid Down on Masonite
The present work was published as the cover illustration of the June 26th, 1954...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Paper, Mixed Media, Board
Civil Rights, Racial Justice Little Rock
Located in Miami, FL
"Civil Rights." Evergood's early commentary on racial issues in the 1950s depicts four black men gagged, roped and hanging from a tree. In the background, imprisoned blacks look on through a barbed-wire fence. Whites watch in horror but do nothing to help. Meanwhile, a two-legged and three-headed serpent who symbolizes evil - wraps himself around the tree that physically and symbolically separates the races. This is an important work in the history of American art. It may be one of the very earliest examples of a major American painter doing a major work that challenges racial segregation and injustice at a time when no one else would. The title of the work is inspired by a Historic Supreme Court decision on racial segregation. The Little Rock...
Category
1950s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Nude Dancer Burlesque Stripper with Purple Gloves - The Bump -
By Jack Levine
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...
Category
1970s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Oil, Board
Katrina Paperback Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Painting
Signature: Unsigned
Contact for dimensions.
Katrina, By Jeramie Price. Publisher is Pocket Books, Inc. (1956). Comes with book.
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint
(Untitled)
By Tom Lovell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1958
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 23.20" x 33.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Story illustration for Good Housekeeping magazine, December 1958. Image of woman and two sailors leaving house at Christmas time.
Exhibited: The Triumph of Winter, National Arts Club, New York, December 16, 2013- January 5, 2014
A Native American finding a Raggedy Ann doll...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Signed M. Maccari Post Impressionist Figurative Painting dated 1956 oil canvas
By Mino Maccari
Located in Florence, IT
The painting (oil on canvas, 44.5 x 35 cm; with wood frame 64 x 54,5 cm) represents a moment on deception.
It's signed Maccari on the bottom left, and it's dated 1956 and titled "ins...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fred C. Dobbs Paddle Steamer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
This illustration dates circa 1950.
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Girl Peeling Apple, Johnson & Johnson Advertisement, 1959
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Masonite
Signature: Signed 'John Falter' Lower Right
Sight Size 7.00" x 9.375;" Framed 9.50" x 12.00"
Johnson & Johnson reproduced the present work as an advertisemen...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
"End of Track, " Paperback Cover, 1951
By Jerome Rozen
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
End of Track - Paperback Cover, written by Ward Weaver, Popular Library, 1951.
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"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...
Category
1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman in Horror and Terror at Gunpoint
Located in Miami, FL
Signed lower right.
Inscribed on the reverse 'My first color illustration, Nov. 1954.'
Work is unframed, Film Noir in paint
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Pajama Party
By Victor Kalin
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Medium: Gouache on Board
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Family Picnic, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1952
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 34.00" x 27.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Cover for The Saturday Evening Post Magazine, May 31, 1952.
Clymer's coverscape takes you to Massachusetts' tidelands where the frost is on the pumpkin and the red and gold areon the trees. Gloucester harbor and the inlets roundabout-- for three centuries this haven has been the homeport of renowned and valiant fisherman. They were the Captains Courageous of Rudyard Kipling, the hero’s of Longfellow's The Wreck of the Hesperus and of James B. Connolly's tales of the sea.
John Ford Clymer's success as an artist can be traced to his boyhood in the Kittitas Valley located in the central regions of Washington state. It was there that he developed an enthusiasm for the world around him and an abiding respect for historical accuracy. Over the years John Clymer received numerous awards and honors including the revered Prix de West in 1976, from the national Academy of Western Art. Other great achievements included both gold and silver metals for his oils and charcoal drawings from the Cowboy Artists of America, "Western Artist of the Year" from the National Wildlife Art Collectors Society, and both John and Doris were honored at the Ellensburg National Art Show and Auction for their contributions to western heritage. John's highest honor came in 1988 when he was awarded the prestigious Rungius Medal from the Wildlife of American West Art...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Lion and the Throne, The Atlantic Magazine Cover
By James Avati
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Contact for exact dimensions.
The Atlantic Magazine Cover Illustration.
November 1956, Volume 198
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
In The Bride's Shop, Lord & Taylor
Located in Miami, FL
Signed lower right
Printer's and designer's marks in margins
"Tool pearls in bodice, train & headband & ribbon under bosom."
Ex-collection photographer Frank Paulin...
Category
1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Backwoods Hussy, Paperback Cover
By Rudy Nappi
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1952
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 22.25" x 16.25"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
This classic Nappi painting was first published as the cover for Backwoods Hussy by Hallam Whitney (PBO, Original books...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
The Gods of Voodoo
By Harold McCauley
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvasboard
Signature: Unsigned
Dimensions: Sight Size 18.00" x 24.00;" Framed 28.50" x 35.50"
Cover for Fate Magazine - August 1953
The original cover painting by H.W. McCauley used for the August 1953 cover of Fate (True Stories of the Strange and Unknown), illustrating "The Gods of Voodoo" by North Hildabrand. In this offering a dancing pin...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
The Hatchet - Movie Moment of High Drama
By Amos Sewell
Located in Miami, FL
High drama and fear is exressed on the faces of 5 kids as they anticipate the outcome a scary event.
Signed lower left
From the Estate of Charles Martignette.
Most likey for the Sa...
Category
1950s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
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.
Category
1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Charles Laughton, Time magazine cover Illustration, March 31, 1952
Located in Miami, FL
Archivally Matted to 17.75 x 16.75 inches
Signed lower left
Category
1950s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache
Pose
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1970s Conceptual Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
A geometric Play of Masks, Eyes and Lines. Post war Expressionist. 1970's.
Located in Firenze, IT
A Geometric Play of Masks, Eyes and Lines.
Post war Expressionism.
1970's.
Patrick Boudon.
Art Informel. Ecole de Paris.
Technique: oil on canvas, very textural and colorful.
Patr...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
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...
Category
1970s Fauvist 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...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Clay, Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Modern Impasto Oil Painting - Venice St. Mark's Basilica at Sunset
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Modern Impasto Oil Painting -- Venice at Sunset with St. Mark's Basilica
Wonderful and evocative modern painting of Venice with gondolas and St. Marks Basilica by postw...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen, Stretcher Bars
" Bhukara evening" Oil cm. 69 x 59 1975 Turquoise, Uzbekistan, blue
Located in Torino, IT
Middle East landscape, , Blue and turquoise mosques Uzbekistan, Khiva
Dmitrij KOSMIN (Omsk, 1925 – Moscow, 2003)
Dmitrij Kosmin has represented the Soviet Union at the Biennale of V...
Category
1970s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Modernist Mid century Swedish tram and figure scene in Fauvist colors
Located in Woodbury, CT
Acquiring a mid-20th-century Fauvist painting by Wilhelm Henning is an opportunity to own a piece of art that captures the vibrant spirit and expressive color palette of the Fauvist ...
Category
1950s Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Spanish market oil on canvas painting fauvism
By Jordi Curos
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2007) - Market - Oil on canvas.
Work measurements 46x55 cm.
Frame size 51x60 cm.
Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Spanish painter.
H...
Category
1970s Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Mid Century Modern Original Oil Painting - Prehistoric Deer Migration
By Honora Berg
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Modern Oil on Canvas Painting - Migration of a Prehistoric Herd
A striking Mid Century original oil painting of deer reminiscent of the paleolithic art found in the cav...
Category
1950s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
"My Name is Freddie" - Portrait of Black Woman with Headscarf
By Lucille H. Olpin
Located in Soquel, CA
A beautiful, painterly portrait of a young black woman with colorful headscarf and sarong by Lucille H. Olpin (Ethel Lucille Harman Olpin), (American, 1909-1990). Signed "Olpin" lowe...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
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...
Category
1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
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 ...
Category
1970s Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Capitola, California, 1950s Framed California Seascape Marine Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Capitola (California) is an oil on board painting by Jon Blanchette (1908-1987) circa 1955. Marine seascape painting with crashing waves and buildings along the coast painted in shad...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Vintage Montmartre Paris Impressionist Oil Landscape 1950's
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-3253a Oil on canvas od the streets of Paris set in a vintage wood frame
Image size 9.5x8"
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Anemone Pool Abstraction
Located in Lawrence, NY
Casein on paper
Like many of his compatriots of the time, Shulman transitioned from representation to abstraction in the post-WWII period as he studied with Hans Hoffman. Yet, his wo...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Casein
Freight Dock
By John Rockwell
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Freight Dock" is an original oil on canvas by noted American artist John Rockwell, 1902-1960 It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist, and also signe...
Category
1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Bubblegum Girl
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Fantastic painting of a young girl blowing bubblegum. Oil on canvas, 24 x 32 inches; slightly larger in chrome frame. Signed illegibly lower right.
Category
1970s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Patrick Boudon. Inner Family. Post-war Expressionism. 1970s.
Located in Firenze, IT
Patrick Boudon.
Inner Family.
Post-war Expressionism.
1970s.
Patrick Boudon.
Art Informel. Ecole de Paris.
Technique: oil on cardboard.
This painting by Patrick Boudon from the 197...
Category
1970s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Family Seated on a Bench at the Port
Located in London, GB
'Family Seated on a Bench at the Port', oil on board, by François Diana (circa 1970s). A painting with a very wholesome, homespun theme harks back to a more innocent time. A family i...
Category
1970s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Composition With Figures. Figurative Gouache Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Excellent work from this Indian Born (1930) artist, who moved to South Africa.
She has received International critical aclaim and her work rarely reaches the market
Reddy’s style of...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Vintage Hawaiian Figurative Oil Painting -- Before The Luau
Located in Soquel, CA
1970's Original Hawaiian Figurative Oil Painting - Before the Luau
Colorful figurative of three Hawaiian women as they prepare for a Luau, circa 1970. The lush tropical backdrop fra...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Octave Denis Victor Guillonnet (1872 - 1967) Les Oliviers, oil on panel signed
Located in Paris, FR
Octave Denis Victor Guillonnet (1872 - 1967)
Les Oliviers, A landscape with olive trees
signed "EODV Guillonnet" lower right
Oil on wood panel
38 x 46 cm
Framed : 44 x 52 cm
Provena...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Still Life - 1950s - Pio Semeghini - Painting - Contemporary
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed and dated by the artist lower right. Includes a beautiful contemporary wooden gilded frame. In excellent conditions.
References:
- Catalogo della mostra di Pio Semeghini...
Category
1950s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
Au Port de Bordeaux
Located in Los Angeles, CA
BORIS CHEMETOV
"AU PORT DE BORDEAUX"
OIL ON CANVAN, SIGNED
FRANCE, C.1950
26 X 32 INCHES
FRAMED 33.5 X 39 INCHES
______________________________________________________
Boris C...
Category
1950s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Le port de Sète (South of France) - Oil on canvas, 66x92 cm., framed
Located in Nice, FR
Oil on Canvas by François Desnoyer, not framed. It depictes the port at Sète, in Occitanie, France.
François Desnoyer, né à Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne) le 30 septembre 1894, et mort...
Category
1950s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The barn oil painting spanish landscape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Jaume Mariné - the barn - Oil
Oil on canvas glued to board.
Oil measurements 27x35 cm.
Frame measurements 43x51 cm.
Born in Poblenou in 1935. died in 2012. He was the son of a wall ...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Leda and the Swan - Painting - 1978
Located in Roma, IT
Leda and the Swan is a modern artwork realized by an Anonymous artist in 1978.
Fair condition with a missing piece of paper.
Tempera and waterclor on paper.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Woodcut
Pipe Fitters
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Byron Gere (1898 - 1962) was active/lived in United States. Byron Gere is known for Painting.
Byron Gere. Pipe Fitters. American signed dated 1951.
It has a cool provenance. This p...
Category
1950s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Figurative Paintings for Sale
Figurative art, as opposed to abstract art, retains features from the observable world in its representational depictions of subject matter. Most commonly, figurative paintings reference and explore the human body, but they can also include landscapes, architecture, plants and animals — all portrayed with realism.
While the oldest figurative art dates back tens of thousands of years to cave wall paintings, figurative works made from observation became especially prominent in the early Renaissance. Artists like Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and other Renaissance masters created naturalistic representations of their subjects.
Pablo Picasso is lauded for laying the foundation for modern figurative art in the 1920s. Although abstracted, this work held a strong connection to representing people and other subjects. Other famous figurative artists include Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud. Figurative art in the 20th century would span such diverse genres as Expressionism, Pop art and Surrealism.
Today, a number of figural artists — such as Sedrick Huckaby, Daisy Patton and Eileen Cooper — are making art that uses the human body as its subject.
Because figurative art represents subjects from the real world, natural colors are common in these paintings. A piece of figurative art can be an exciting starting point for setting a tone and creating a color palette in a room.
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