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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Period: 20th Century
Period: 1960s
Hobo & Three Clowns at Poker
By Hal Crecy
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 24.00" x 30.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Hobo & 3 clowns at poker
Category
20th Century 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
Oil, Panel
Alpine Haymaking 20th Century Realist Oil Painting by German Landscape Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Alpine Haymaking Harvesting 20th Century Realist Oil Painting by German Landscape Artist, Wolfgang Heinz (1930–2014). Horses, cart, figures in a beautiful sunny mountain setting near...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Golden Age of Illustration Romance Story, Man Woman Relationship - Green Yellow
Located in Miami, FL
This impeccably rendered mid-century double portrait of a quarreling man and woman exhibits a supreme academic training knowledge lost in almost all contemporary art. It features an ...
Category
1960s Romantic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache, Pencil, Graphite
In the Den
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 29.00" x 25.00"
Signature: Signed Upper Right
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tempête à Honfleur
Located in LE HAVRE, FR
Lyne SEYBEL (1919-2009)
Tempête à Honfleur
Oil on canvas
Size: 65 x 92 cm
Signed lower left.
In perfect state of conservation.
With beautiful frame
Provenance: Family of the artist...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Picador et Cigarière
Located in PARIS, FR
Bernard Buffet (French, 1928 – 1999) was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor. An extremely prolific artist, he produced a varied and extensive body of work. His style was excl...
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
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...
Category
1930s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Casein, Canvas
Study for Cain was a Plowman - Pastel Russian Art
By Abel Pann
Located in London, GB
This work is hand signed in pencil by tha artist "Abel Pann" at the lower left corner.
It is also inscribed “Jerusalem” next to the signature.
The work is titled in French in pencil ...
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel, Paper
The Young Artist
By Grant Wood
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"The Young Artist" is an oil on panel painting made in 1926 by Grant Wood. The work is signed lower right, "Grant Wood". The painting size is 11 x 14 x 1 inches. The framed size is 2...
Category
Early 20th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Red Figure Holding a Heart - Irish Art
Located in London, GB
This original work is hand signed in ink by the artist at the lower right corner "Rakoczi".
Condition: Very good condition. A few cuts in the edges of the board (possibly from forme...
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Board, Gouache, Oil
Lalibela
Located in Wien, 9
Egon Hofmann war nicht nur als Maler wichtig und wegweisend, sondern auch als Netzwerker, der als Gründer und langjähriger Präsident der Künstlervereinigung „März“ eine wichtige Roll...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Gouache on Board Painting Titled "Barbecue Stand", by Aaron Bohrod, circa 1935
By Aaron Bohrod
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...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Haitian Couple in Bed Simultaneously Adjusting their Radios, Surrealism
Located in Miami, FL
Wilson Bigaud is an idea artist in who showcases visual ideas in many of his paintings. In this work, a married Haitian couple tunes their radios in sync as they lie in bed. Bigaud was greatly interested in radios, which appeared in many of his works. This work rises to the level of Surrealism in that Bigaud is doing more than just depicting a normal bedroom moment. There is something very strange and bizarre in the couple's synchronized actions. Also of note, it looks like the woman is swallowing the edge of the radio. Signed lower right in a handmade and hand-painted frame.
Wear to the edges of board, including delamination in the corners, some dents and losses. Frame rubbing with associated wear. Areas of white discoloration to the bed and headboard...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Lavandaie, ca 1905
Located in BLARICUM, NL
OTTO VAN REES
Freiburg im Breisgau 1884-1957 Utrecht
WASSENDE VROUWEN I LAVANDAIE
1905
Oil on canvas
43 x 52 cm.
Signed: lower left ‘OvR’
Particularities: ID 35.
Provenance: Pri...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Folk Night
Located in London, GB
This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Anthony Tucker on behalf of the artist’s estate.
signed ‘ETUCKER’ (lower left)
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman and Tiger
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed by artist lower left.
The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine Cover
Category
Early 1900s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Gouache
Russin
By Vilma Eckl
Located in Wien, 9
The extensive work of Vilma Eckl covers a period of more than seventy years. Her incomparable artistic talent and her essential contribution to the history of art can be seen in her ...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Detente
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
Early 20th Century Tonalist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1980s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
Man with Pony on Wasteland
Located in London, GB
This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Anthony Tucker on behalf of the artist’s estate.
signed ‘ETUCKER.’ (lower right)
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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
Female Nude
Located in Wien, 9
The painting was created in 1987, the year of the artist's death and thus a late work. The classically modern nude is depicted with a tendency towards cubism, the colours are luminous.
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Fiberboard
Louis Cabié (1853-1939) - The river at Les Eyzies in summer - Dordogne
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Louis-Alexandre CABIE
(Dol-de-Bretagne 1853 - Bordeaux 1939)
The Vézère at Les Eyzies in summer
Oil on panel
H. 19.5 cm; L. 28.5 cm
Signed lower right, dated 1900. Located on the back.
Provenance: Private collection, Versailles
Louis Cabié...
Category
Early 1900s French School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Parisian Model
By Max Weber
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Parisian Model" is an oil on canvas painting by Max Weber painted in 1908. The work is signed and dated, lower right, "Max Weber Paris 1908". The painting size is 35 1/2 x 19 5/8 inches. The framed size is 43 x 27 x 2 1/4 inches.
"Parisian Model" was painted in 1908, when Weber participated in a life class in Matisse's studio in Paris and painted several nudes. Weber was influenced toward a more Cubist styler after seeing Cezanne's work in the 1906-07 Salon in Paris, and he consorted within avant-garde circles in Paris as early as 1905. After returning to the US in 1909, Weber was credited with showing American audiences Cubism based on his firsthand knowledge of the key players and the style.
Several drawings of Weber's from this time are in museum collections at The Met, the Smithsonian, and MoMA and show a similar style and stocatto gesture. Parisian paintings by Max Weber are extremely rare as there are hardly any that have sold publicly.
Provenance:
Estate of the Artist
Gerald Peters Gallery...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Horse with Swimmers at Beach
By William Theophilus Brown
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by William Theophilus Brown. "Horse with Swimmers at Beach" is a Post-War figurative painting, acrylic on canvas in a palette of greens and purples by American artist Will...
Category
Late 20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Seated Nude
By George Grosz
Located in New York, NY
Seated Nude by George Grosz (1893-1959)
Oil on canvas
9 ½ x 5 ½ inches unframed (24.13 x 13.97 cm)
15 x 12 inches framed (38.1 x 30.48 cm)
Signed on bottom...
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Night Journey - Drip Painting like Jackson Pollock
By Byron Browne
Located in Miami, FL
In Byron Brown's "The Night Journey", 1947, Picasso meets Jackson Pollock. Here Brown strikes a balance between fanciful representation and abstraction. ...
Category
1940s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Webster Cigar Advertisement, Sketch Study
By Edwin Georgi
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor and Gouache on Paper laid on Board
Signature: Signed and Dated on the Reverse
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Board
Young Girl Red Dress lost in Thought, Mid Century Woman's Magazine Illustration
By Lorraine Fox
Located in Miami, FL
Lorraine Fox (1922–1976) was an American illustrator and commercial artist who illustrated magazines, book covers, and advertisements. Among the magazines, she illustrated for was Wo...
Category
1960s Feminist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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.
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pounds and Shillings, 20th Century Female Artist, Signed and Framed Painting
Located in London, GB
Gouache on card, signed lower right
Image size: 16 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches (42 x 29.25 cm)
Contemporary style frame
Joan Fairfax Whiteside
Joan Fairfax Whiteside was a prodigious arti...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Cardboard
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
The Charming Ghost
Located in London, GB
Ink and watercolour
Image size: 3 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches (9.5 x 14.5 cm)
Contemporary frame
Provenance
Private family collection
This painting was created in the early 1900's when the Decadent Movement...
Category
Early 1900s Aesthetic Movement Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
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
Gaukler Familie mit Instrumenten (Family of Jesters with Instruments)
Located in Washington, DC
German Modernist
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mask
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Nathan Oliveira. "Mask" is a Post-War painting, acrylic, earth, and oil on canvas by Bay Area Figurative artist Nathan Oliveira. The artwork is signed and dated in the ...
Category
Late 20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
Three Ages of Man, 20th Century Oil on Board Figurative Painting
Located in London, GB
Oil on board
Image size: 16 3/4 x 10 1/4 inches (42.5 x 26 cm)
This work depicts the three stages of life: infancy, adulthood and old age.
Category
20th Century Modern 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...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
“Golden to the Winds” by Achmed Abdullah, Good Housekeeping
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Upper Left "Dan Content 29"
Story Illustration, Good Housekeeping Magazine, September 1929, pg 32-33
Biography:
Daniel Content was born of Dutch parents and grew up in New York City. He attended New Eutriek High School in Brooklyn, NY. He studied under Dean Cornwell at the Pratt Institute as well as attending the Art Students League. Mr. Content worked as a freelance artist for about thirty years. He illustrated for such magazines as Colliers, Cosmopolitan, Readers Digest, and McCall's. In 1928 he illustrated the Windermere Series printing of Robin Hood. During World War II he traveled with the USO to Burma and India entertaining the service men with personal sketches. In the late 1950s he was an Art Director for Benton & Bowles in NYC. He also taught at the workshop School of Advertising Art. Mr. Content continued his sculpting and painting long after retirement. Some of his work can be found at Society of Illustrators in their permanent Museum.
Exhibited:
Masters of the Golden Age: Harvey Dunn and His Students
South Dakota Art...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Four Men Conversing, Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1927
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Liberty Magazine Cover, September 24, 1927
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'East, West, Hame's Best' Liberty Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1929
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 20.00" x 16.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Liberty Magazine Cover, March 16, 1929
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Queen's Grace
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Center
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel
"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...
Category
1930s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"An Afternoon Along the Seine, Paris" Impressionist Oil Painting on Canvas Scene
Located in New York, NY
An exceptional impressionistic depiction of an afternoon along the Seine in Paris by Mario Passoni, on a spring day with the busy activities of people wa...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
Ritratto di Camillo Mastrocinque
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Robert Carroll was born in 1934 and was predominantly inspired by the 1950s growing up. Abstract Expressionism prevailed in the 1950s as a primary method of painting, and explored id...
Category
20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Red & White Food Stores Calendar Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Initialed Lower Left
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Crossed Wires
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
American Magazine story interior illustration
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Untitled
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed "A.O.F 19" Lower Left
"Man & Woman in Disagreement"
Long affiliated with The Saturday Evening Post (nearly 50 years), he did dozens of covers and much story art, most notably the long-running Tug-Boat Annie and with maritime painting, Fischer was more versatile than depicting the sail and dreadnaughts when given a chance. Still, he's best known for painting the sea, her beauty and her dangers (whether hurricanes or U-Boats). It's no surprise that his oils graced such titles as The Cruise of the Cachalot: Round the World After Sperm Whales, Treasure Island, The Mutineers, 20000 Leagues Under the Sea...
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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
Things in My House” Little Golden Book, Children's Book CoverIllustration Art
Located in Miami, FL
Joe Kaufman, writer, illustrator. Recipient Art Directors Club medal, 1948, New York Academy of Sciences Children's Science Book award, 1973, Gold award, Silver award Art Directors C...
Category
1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Figures in Rowboat Alongside of Barg
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed & Dated Lower Right
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ballentine Beer Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Left
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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.
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Pablo Picasso is lauded for laying the foundation for modern figurative art in the 1920s. Although abstracted, this work held a strong connection to representing people and other subjects. Other famous figurative artists include Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud. Figurative art in the 20th century would span such diverse genres as Expressionism, Pop art and Surrealism.
Today, a number of figural artists — such as Sedrick Huckaby, Daisy Patton and Eileen Cooper — are making art that uses the human body as its subject.
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