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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Style: Surrealist
Style: Academic
Return Of Columbus In Chains To Cadiz By Emanuel Leutze
Located in New Orleans, LA
Emanuel Leutze
1816-1868 American
Return of Columbus in Chains to Cadiz
Signed E. Leutze / Philadelphia (lower right)
Oil on canvas
Painted by the artist in 1842, this masterpiec...
Category
19th Century Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Passeggiata a cavallo a Trieste
Located in Roma, RM
Alfredo Tominz (Trieste 1854 – 1936), Passeggiata a cavallo a Trieste
Dipinto ad olio su tela di cm 69 x 110 firmato e datato 1890 in basso a destra.
Provenienza: Asta Stadion Trie...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cleopatra Queen of Egypt 17' century Painting Oil on Canvas
Located in Rome, IT
Amazing painting of Cleopatra oil on canvas with a gilt wood frame.
Attributed to Giuseppe Diamantini (Fossombrone 1621-Venice 1705)
The dramatic subject of the painting depicts th...
Category
Late 17th Century Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Buamdong Honey House
Located in Seoul, SO
Lim Jin Sil
Lim Jin Sil expresses the coexistence of self and others and the sense of heterogeneity resulting from the differences between different worlds through old media such a...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
Guardian of the Ancestral Land
Located in Singapore, SG
We believe in life after death, where the spirits of our ancestors reside. In Javanese tradition, they believe that ancestral spirits are always with us and take care of us even thou...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Choices
Located in Singapore, SG
Smart people learn from their own mistakes while wise people learn from the mistakes of others. Options have always existed throughout the history of human life. Sometimes the choice...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Fair Student
By Henry Wyatt
Located in Washington, DC
Signed and dated '1835' center right
Category
1830s Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Exotic Story
Located in Singapore, SG
This painting illustrates the story of the worldly desires of humans who never feel that they have enough, always wanting more in terms of fashion, position, wealth and so on. It is human nature to always desire to pursue something they consider beautiful and exotic.
About the Artist
Saepul Bahri is an established painter from Indonesia with a distinctive surrealist style with flexible and twisted human body figures. He has an interest in body anatomy and started painting human bodies with their bones when he was in middle school. Saepul also likes the imagination of the sea and waves, this is what then gives the shapes of flexibility and twists to the figures in his works. There are number of artists who inspired him such as Rene Magritte, HR Giger...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Courtship and The Shepherd's Family (a pair)
Located in Washington, DC
19th Century Dutch
Category
1860s Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Daydreaming
Located in Washington, DC
Ideal head by 19th-century American painter.
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Siren
Located in Nashville, TN
Alison Underwood's work evokes various emotions of desires as her artwork proves to display the ideas of temptation and anticipation. These profound feelings are demonstrated in the ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Oil Crayon
Tamansari Swara
Located in Singapore, SG
Tamansariswara is a fun learning concept as taught by the father of Indonesian education, KH Dewantara. He called the school a 'taman' which means a park, a place to play and learn i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
AUTUMN BALANCE, Oil on Canvas
Located in Montreux, CH
Karen Shahverdyan „Autumn balance“ 90 X 110cm, oil on canvas
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Redhead in Profile
By Leon Kroll
Located in Miami, FL
Beautifully rendered in Krolls signature academic style. Unframed - Signed lower right, unframed
Category
1930s Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
Strana luce Sul Porto, 2006
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Gigino Falconi was born in Giulianova (Teramo) in 1933. He began painting at the age of sixteen, and in 1954 he obtained a Liceo Artistico of Pescara. During the early years of his c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
L'incubo, 2010
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Gigino Falconi was born in Giulianova (Teramo) in 1933. He began painting at the age of sixteen, and in 1954 he obtained a Liceo Artistico of Pescara. During the early years of his c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Prospector firing Rifle ( Happiness is a Warm Gun ) Gay Art
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
Tempera mixed with gum arabic and alcohol on Renaissance Panel
Robert Riggs was a gay man. Being gay in American during the 1940's time was something not to flaunt in public. Rigg's had to communicate his underlying feelings in more symbolic ways.
Throughout Riggs oeuvre, one sees continuous references to strong hunked out manly men and vulnerable boys. It is a core element of is iconography and is described in a powerful graphic style.
In “Prospector firing Rifle” is a Dick Pic. Riggs is clearly making a sexual statement about the moment of climax. The long, straight rifle explodes and is captured at the peak moment of climax. Meanwhile, the bag two bags of gold clearly resemble the other part of the male anatomy. Riggs was a thoughtful and meticulous visual thinker and nothing in any of Riggs’s compositions were haphazardly placed. In tribute to the artist’s suppressed feelings, I have given this work a second title “Happiness is a Warm Gun...
Category
1940s Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
The Goddess Hera - 19th Century Neoclassical Oil Painting Ancient Greek Myth
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Hera’ by Eduard Niczky (1850-1919).
The painting - which depicts the Greek queen of the gods in golden diadem and yellow robe - is signed by the artist and hangs in a newly commis...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
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
Heinrich Richter "#50", 1969
Located in Washington, DC
Oil on canvas painting by Heinrich Richter (German/Polish, 1920-2007). Painting is titled #50, signed and dated 1969. Heinrich Richter has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in ...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Acecho
By Gonzalo Morales
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Oil on Canvas, Signed
Dated 2013
14 x 18 Inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Story Time', Paris, Salon d'Automne, New York, ASL, Corcoran, PAFA, Art Deco
By Nura Ulreich
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left 'Nura' for Nura Woodson Ulreich (American, 1899–1950). Additionally signed, verso, dated March 1928 with artist's New York City ...
Category
1920s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board
Surrealist Acrylic Portrait Painting, "Opium" by Evgeniya Golik
Located in San Diego, CA
A 18” x 22” x .75" Surrealist Acrylic Portrait Painting executed on Canvas with Gold Leaf by artist Evgeniya Golik. A certificate of authenticity will accompany the piece upon its pu...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Surrealist Hound
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Amazing surrealist painting by Italian artist Nuccio Fontanella (1936-2005). Ink and watercolor on cold pressed illustration board. Image measures 13 x 18 inches; 20 x 25 inches fram...
Category
1980s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Watercolor
Thoughtful - XXI Century, Contemporary Figurative Painting, Surrealism, Nocturn
Located in Warsaw, PL
Mariusz Zdybal (born in 1955)
He was awarded with "Golden Palm" at the international painting competition in Cannes and his works has been shown in Cannes, Warsaw, Gdansk and Berli...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Ernő Tóth Surrealist Painting
Located in Larchmont, NY
Ernő Tóth (Hungarian, b. 1949)
Untitled, c. 20th-21st Century
Oil on board
32 3/8 x 22 3/4 in.
Framed: 36 3/4 x 27 x 1 1/4 in.
Signed lower right
Exhibition labels verso
Ernő Tóth was born in 25. December 1949 in Sajóecseg, Hungary. Schools: 1964-68, Secondary School of Fine Arts; 1974-79 Academy of Fine Arts. His masters: Szilárd Iván, Jenő Barcsay and László Patay. Membership: National Association of Hungarian Artists, Hungarian Artist’s Association, Hungarian Painters’ Society, DunapART Art Society, Inner City Artists’ Society, Hungarian Art Workshop Society.
His works were shown - apart from Hungary - also in Sweden, Finnland, Austria, and Germany. He made study trips in France, The Netherlands, USA, Yugoslavia, and Bulgaria. At various national and international exhibitions he was awarded several prizes, among others the international first prize for painting at the Humor-Satire Art...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Walking on Thread - Large Original Painting on Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Mohamad Khayata’s original figurative artworks are the result of five years of displacement and deal with themes of migration, memory, and identity. Mohamad’s paintings convey an arr...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Blue Heart with Sin
Located in PARIS, FR
Panchat Yodmanee-Ice (1993 - )
Blue Heart with Sin
Acrylique sur toile
97 x 130 cm 38.2 x 51.2 in.
2023
Born in 1993 in Nakornsrithammarat, Thailand, Panchat holds a B.F.A. from th...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Portrait de Femme ( Self Portrait ? )
By Leonor Fini
Located in Miami, FL
This is a possible self portrait by the famed female surrealist artist. It is also strikingly similar in style with it's exaggerated eyes to her portrait of Jean Genet, ( Leonor F...
Category
1940s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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
Category
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-...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, 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
Surrealist Gouache Watercolour on Paper.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Late 20th century gouache and watercolour on paper by British artist Derek Carruthers. The painting is signed to the bottom right and signed and dated 1985 to the reverse.
An impos...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
The Connoisseur By Georges Croegaert
Located in New Orleans, LA
Georges Croegaert
1848-1923 Belgian
The Connoisseur
Signed "Georges Croegaert Paris" (lower right)
Oil on panel
A Cardinal peers through a magnifying glass at gilded treasures in...
Category
19th Century Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Candido Ballester 14 Sueño original Magical Surrealism mixed media paper
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Sueño original magical Surrealism mixed media paper painting
Cándido Ballester is a contemporary Mallorcan painter who was born in 1926. As a child he had to emigrate to Argentina. ...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Cardboard
Composition with Two Female Nudes - painting Paula Craioveanu oil on canvas
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"Composition with Two Female Nudes", oil on canvas, 35.5x19.5in / 90x50cm
Part of my Female Nude series.
Shipped as it is, stretched, directly from the artist's studio.
Category
2010s Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Composition with Two Male Nudes - painting Paula Craioveanu oil on canvas
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"Composition with Two Male Nudes", oil and silver leaf on canvas, 35.5x23.5in / 90x60cm
Part of my Male Nude series.
Shipped as it is, stretched, directly from the artist's studio.
Category
2010s Academic 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
Surrealist Gouache on Paper.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Watercolour and gouache on paper painting titled 'Siamese Slaves' by British artist Derek Carruthers, signed to the bottom right and to the reverse and dated 2008 and titled.
A colo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Surrealist Gouache, 'Kerouac, Orlovsky and Burroughs, The Beat Generation'
Located in Cotignac, FR
A late 20th century watercolour and gouache on paper by British artist Derek Carruthers. Signed to the bottom right.
Carruthers at one period in his painting became quite interested...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Watercolor, Crayon, Paper
Fair scene with actors
Located in PARIS, FR
French school circa 1815
Fair scene with actors
Painting, oil on wood
Unsigned
Painting: 20 x 27 cm
Period frame: 30 x 36.5 cm
Very good condition
Category
Early 19th Century Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Surrealist Gouache and Watercolour on Paper, 'Sunday School Ghosts'.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Surrealist watercolour and gouache on handmade paper by British artist Derek Carruthers. Signed bottom right and signed, dated and titled 'Sunday School Ghosts' to the reverse.
A wo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Watercolor, Handmade Paper
Surrealist Very Large Late 20th Century Oil on Canvas. 'The Temple'.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Very large Late 20th century surrealist oil on canvas by British artist Derek Carruthers. The painting is signed to the bottom right.
An imposing and highly colourful painting of co...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
3 Dimensional Sculptural Surrealist Acrylic on Board. 'Swimfest'.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Late 20th century acrylic on plywood board sculptural painting by British artist Derek Carruthers. The work is not signed but was acquired along with a collection of the artist’s wor...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
20th Century Surrealist Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Hoddesdon, GB
20th century modernist oil painting on canvas . Signed with artists monogram and Dated 1991.
This large and impressive painting evokes a range of emotions and interpretations. With...
Category
1990s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Surrealist Large Painting Royal College of Art LGBTQ+ Female Birds Eating Men
By Isabel Rock
Located in Norfolk, GB
Isabel Rock is a creator of contemporary fairy tales. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, her work is an explosion of strange occurrences while a surreal narrative take...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Pen
"Antique Toys" Priscilla Roberts, Magic Realism, Surrealism, Still Life
Located in New York, NY
Priscilla Roberts
Antique Toys
Signed lower left; identified through gallery label affixed to backing
Oil on board
20 x 24 inches
Provenance:
Grand Central Galleries, New York
Pris...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
The Love Letter
Located in Washington, DC
Signed and dated '1884' lower right
Category
1880s Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Venezuelan Surrealism Architectural Oil Painting Emerio Lunar Latin American Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Provenance: Galeria Durban Cesar Segnini, Caracas Venezuela.
Emerio Dario Lunar was born on January 27, 1940 in Cabimas, Zulia state. Self-taught ...
Category
1980s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait Painting Oil on Canvas by Joseph Badger
Located in Rome, IT
Joseph Badger (c. 1707–1765) was a portrait artist in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 18th century.
This amazing painting depicting a young boy with a bird.
oil on canvas cm 93 x73...
Category
18th Century Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ark
Located in Bayonne, NJ
A small but very intricate painting by a Ukrainian artist, Vachagan Narazyan. This oil on linen painting was acquired from Tamara Tumasian gallery in Kharkiv in 2008. It is in excell...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tower Number 11
Located in Bayonne, NJ
This oil on linen framed painting is an example of an authentic stylistic composition created by Vachagan Narazyan. The painting was acquired from the gallery that represented the ar...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Metaphysical scene with Daisy
Located in Atlanta, GA
Item is in excellent condition and has only been displayed in a gallery setting.
This specific work has the following story:
Model dancer: Kristina Tavarovskaya
In this metaphysical...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Surrealist scene oil on canvas painting surrealism
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Oil on canvas.
Signed Aress.
Oil mesures 33x24 cm.
Frame mesures 48x39 cm.
Category
1990s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Untitled, Tinga tinga, African art, Figurative art, Surrealism
Located in Milano, IT
Mohamed Charinda
Senza Titolo
2000s
Acrylic on Canvas
Canvas measurements: 92.5 x 76.5 cm
Frame size: 90 x 74.5 x 3 cm
Signed lower left "Charinda"; Signature on verso inverted "Cha...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled, Tanzania, African Art, Figurative Art, Surrealism
Located in Milano, IT
Acrylic on canvas by Mikidadi Bush, signed and dated on the front.
Bush's work deals with themes related to animist culture, creating visions that combine dreamlike and ordinary atmo...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Kyle Andrew Szpyrka - Honesty, Drawing 2014
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Paths series was born out of a trip I took one summer to LA. The trip itself was more of an escape from my life in New York. At the time I was at a crossroads. Having just gone t...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
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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