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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Period: 1980s
Color:  Beige
Variety
By Jeffrey Mangiat
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1988 Medium: Gouache and Acrylic on Paper Dimensions: 9.50" x 26.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Image of performers in front of the word "Variety." TV Guide, April 16, 1988.
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1980s Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic, Gouache

Modern Figurative Surrealism Watercolor Painting, Drawing California Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
"The Sadness of Mr. lapin After the Artist Left" Gary Hansmann (1947-2008) was active/lived in California. He is known for abstract, Surrealism figure painting. Gary William Hansmann was born Dec. 4, 1940, in San Diego to Ethel May Williams and Lester Hughes Hansmann. He grew up in Encinitas and served in the Army in the early 1960s. Gary Hansmann, San Diego artist, teacher and gallery owner, was known for his Surrealist nude and animal drawings and graphics. He spent time working in Paris and exhibiting his art throughout Europe, but San Diego was home until he moved to Washington state. His life partner was fellow artist, Jill Hosmer. Mr. Hansmann, a respected printmaker and prolific artist, created thousands of drawings, prints and paintings as well as hundreds of poems. His interest in bullfighting led to a book of poetry and illustrations on the subject, “La Corrida, The Run”, a collection of poetry & artwork written as he was preparing for his first bullfight. Prologue written by famous Mexican Matador Antonio Lomelin. The book is written in English and translated into Spanish on opposing pages and was published in 1983. Mr. Hansmann taught intaglio and monotype at the Academy of Fine Arts in San Diego from 1977 to 1980 and at the San Diego Museum of Art in 1980. He also gave lectures and demonstrations throughout the art community, including at the San Diego Art Guild in Del Mar and Artist Equity in San Diego. Although he attended Palomar College in San Marcos and studied lithography at the San Diego Academy of Fine Arts, Mr. Hansmann was mostly self-taught and self-educated. Mr. Hansmann had shows in several art-world capitals, including Paris; Lisbon, Portugal; Cologne, Germany; Brussels, Belgium; and New York. he had one-person exhibits at the Loft Gallery in Clarkston, the Lewis-Clark State College Center of Arts & History, the Carnegie Art Center in Walla Walla and the Valley Art Center in Clarkston. During his long, distinguished career as an artist he had numerous one-person exhibits all over the world and the United States. His group shows are too numerous to mention, but his one-person exhibits were in Koln, Germany; Bruxelles, Belgium; Paris, France; Viana do Castelo, Portugal; Lisbon, Portugal; Tecate, Mexico; and British Columbia, Canada; and many states at home. Palomar College, San Marcos, Calif. San Diego Academy of Fine Arts Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, N.Y. University of Southern California, Idyllwild (ISOMATA) University of San Diego San Diego Museum of Art James Copley Library, La Jolla, Calif. Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice, Italy Centre de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal Museo Taurino de la Communidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain Atelier Lacouriere et Frelaut, Paris, France Gordon Gilkey Collection Portland Art Museum, Portland, Or. Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay...
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1980s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Paper, India Ink, Watercolor

Ireland Seascape Landscape with Boats & Figures by Contemporary Irish Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Ireland Lake Seascape Landscape with Boats & Figures by Contemporary Irish Artist, Frank Fitzsimons Art measures 36 x 16 inches Frame measure 41 x 21...
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1980s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

"Apple tree" pastel cm. 45 x 35 ( frame cm. 60 x 70)
Located in Torino, IT
with frame is cm. 70 x 60 no frame cm. 45 x 35
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1980s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Pastel

"St. George and the Dragon" - Large Late 20th Century Framed Painting
Located in New Orleans, LA
You don't have to be a Catholic, or a medievalist, or a Catholic medievalist (Tolkien?) to appreciate this striking image of St. George taking on the dragon. In style it falls somewhere between Cubism and Guernica, to my eye. The limited color palette, with the bold red, gives it the energy of early 20th-century Russian poster...
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1980s Cubist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Mediterranean Landcape, oil painting on canvas by Françoise Juvin
Located in Montfort l’Amaury, FR
Françoise Juvin - Mediterranean Landscape Reference number FJ28 Framed with a natural oak floated frame. 23,5 x 34 cm frame included (18 x 26 cm without frame) This work is painted with oil on a canvas. It is signed in the bottom right. Françoise Juvin (1927-2010) is a French artist born in Nancy. She entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lyon in 1941 where she met several artists such as Jacques Truphémus...
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1980s French School Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Comeals in Istanbul, oil on paper by Françoise Juvin
Located in Montfort l’Amaury, FR
Françoise Juvin - Comeals in Istanbul, Turkey Reference number FJ148 Framed with a nice gold and silver wood frame with an aging effect. 30,5 x 36,5 c...
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1980s French School Figurative Paintings

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Oil

View of Paris with buildings, oil painting by Françoise Juvin
Located in Montfort l’Amaury, FR
Françoise Juvin - View of Paris with buildings Reference number FJ74 Framed with a natural oak floated frame. 32,5 x 41 cm frame included (28x 37 cm without frame) This work is paint...
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1980s French School Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Seaside Landscape in Cannes, France, oil painting by Françoise Juvin
Located in Montfort l’Amaury, FR
Françoise Juvin - Seaside Landscape in Cannes, France Reference number FJ55 Framed with a natural oak floated frame. 24,5 x 29 cm frame included (19 x 23 cm without frame) This work is painted with oil on a paper that is mounted on a board and placed in a made to measure wood strectcher. It is signed in the bottom right. Françoise Juvin (1927-2010) is a French artist born in Nancy. She entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lyon in 1941 where she met several artists such as Jacques Truphémus...
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1980s French School Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Conceptual Pop Art Color Oil Monotype Painting Abstract Figure Robin Winters
Located in Surfside, FL
Robin Winters (American, born 1950), Untitled (Red Face) from "Cherry Block Series" 1986, monotype, pencil signed and dated lower right, plate: 6"h x 8.5"w, overall (with frame): 22.25"h x 18.25"w. Provenance: Property from a Private Collection, San Francisco. Winters was invited to make monotypes at Experimental Workshop in San Francisco, (they printed Richard Bosman, Sam Francis, Claire Falkenstein, Deborah Oropallo and Kenneth Noland and many more greats). Winters chose to paint on wood blocks rather than the more usual metal plates in order to capture the organic quality of the natural material. He exploited a salient characteristic of the monoprint in Ghost Story by adding new painted elements onto the increasingly faint ghost images that result from successive impressions from a single block. In so doing he achieved the effect of transparent layers of color and shadow imagery. Winters's brightly-colored monotypes portray an array of figures and landscapes (and an occasional still-life) that, although can be seen in the context of a general trend away from abstraction that has marked the 1980s, defy strict stylistic categorization. They are neither realistic nor abstract, psychological self-examinations nor narrative fictions, but they contain elements of all of these approaches. Like Jonathan Borofsky, Winters derives much of his subject matter from dreams, believing that through his private fears and obsessions he can touch similar emotions in others. Although at first glance Winters's images look as if they could have been made by a child, closer attention reveals sly art historical references to Jackson Pollock and Pattern Painting (the drip and splatter backgrounds), Mark Rothko (the three-part horizontal compositions) and Minimalism (the gridded Cherry Block Series: Bread Beat). Robin Winters (born 1950 in Benicia, California) is an American conceptual, multi-disciplinary, artist and teacher based in New York. Winters is known for creating solo exhibitions containing an interactive durational performance component to his installations, sometimes lasting up to two months. Winters first emerged in the burgeoning Soho NYC art scene of the 1970s. An early practitioner of the Relational Aesthetics (social interaction as an art medium) Winters also created in works through sculpture, installation, performance, painting, drawing and prints. His art maintains a whimsical spirit, and he often returns to ongoing themes involving faces, boats, cars, bottles, hats and jesters or fools. Winters has incorporated such devices as blind dates, double dates, dinners, fortune telling, and free consultation in his performances. Throughout his career he has engaged in a wide variety of media, such as performance art, film, video, writing prose and poetry, photography, installation art, printmaking, drawing, painting, ceramic sculpture, bronze sculpture, and glassblowing. Winters was born in Benicia, California in 1950 to lawyer parents. As a child his hobby was collecting glass bottles found on the beach and under old buildings, which would later influence him as an artist. In 1968, Winters had his first durational performance, entitled Norman Thomas Travelling Museum. The artist drove a Volkswagen bus decorated in collage, many of the images relating to current events and politics. Inside was what the artist described as a “reliquary” containing many objects, including a bottle collection. Winters took the van to shopping centers and even as far as Mexico. That same year, Winters opted not to register for the military draft. Although he was deemed fit to serve, Winters refused. In 1975 the resulting legal proceedings finally came to a close after it was proven that the artist had been harassed by the local draft board. In his teens and early twenties, Winters became acquainted with several local artists who helped shape his aesthetic, most notably Manuel Neri and Robert Arneson. By the early 1970s, Winters was studying at the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) and had relocated to San Francisco. At this time Winters became friends with the Bay Area conceptual artists Terry Fox and Howard Fried, and participated in several of Fried's performance works. In 1972 Winters was accepted into the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York City. After coming to New York City, Winters helped support himself by working for various artists, among them the performance artist Joan Jonas and sculptor Donald Judd. In 1974, Winters performed The Secret Life of Bob-E or Bob-E Behind the Veil eight hours a day, five days a week for a month in his studio apartment. Behind a one-way mirror the audience could watch Winters play the character of Bob-E, whose goal was to make a monument for everyone in the world in the form of blue and yellow rubber top hats. By the end of the month the artist had constructed 262 hats. The following year, Winters was invited to take part in the Whitney Museum's 1975 Biennial Exhibition. Entitled W.B. Bearman Bags a Job or Diary of a Dreamer. Winters was traveling in 1975 and 1976, spending time in North Africa and in Europe. At a time when most young American artists were unaware of their European counterparts, Winters met and was influenced by such artists as Sigmar Polke and Marcel Broodthaers (with whom Winters worked on an installation) and also had a one-person exhibition, at the Konrad Fischer Gallery in Dusseldorf. Returning to New York in 1976, Winters teamed up with a group of artists to form Collaborative Projects (Colab), a rather anarchistic organization dedicated to artistic collaboration and the creation of art that questioned social values.. Also in 1976, Winters formed the partnership “X&Y” with fellow artist Coleen Fitzgibbon that would last two years. Together they performed a series of shows in the Netherlands, most notably a show entitled Take the Money and Run. Performed at De Appel in Amsterdam, the show involved the artists robbing their audience. The following day the audience was given an apology, as well as the opportunity to retrieve any valuables and participate in a lottery to win the artists’ services. They also made a Super 8 film in NY called Rich-Poor, in which they asked people on the streets their thoughts on the rich and poor. In 1980 Winters participated in The Real Estate Show and in Absurdities at ABC No Rio. That same year he and artists Peter Fend, Coleen Fitzgibbon, Peter Nadin, Jenny Holzer, and Richard Prince also formed The Offices of Fend, Fitzgibbon, Holzer, Nadin, Prince & Winters. This short-lived collective was based out of an office on lower Broadway and offered “Practical Esthetic Services Adaptable to Client Situation”, as stated on their business card. Their goal was to offer their art as “socially helpful work for hire”. In June of that year Winters participated in The Times Square Show, Colab's most well-known exhibition. The month-long show took place in a four floor building on West 41st Street and was densely packed with art. To cap off a busy year, Winters also became one of the first artists to join the Mary Boone Gallery, showing a successful solo exhibition in 1981. His work was shown in the New York/New Wave show in 1981 at MoMA PS1 along with Jean-Michel Basquiat, Roberta Bayley, William S. Burroughs, David Byrne, Sarah Charlesworth, Larry Clark, Crash (John Matos), Ronnie Cutrone, Brian Eno, Peter Fend, Nan Goldin, Keith Haring, Ray Johnson, Joseph Kosuth, Marcus Leatherdale, Christopher Makos, Robert Mapplethorpe, Elaine Mayes, Frank Moore, Kenny Scharf and others. In 1982, Winters had his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles at the Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery. At the Mo David Gallery in 1984, Winters created an installation piece that consisted of a floor of plaster tiles. Underneath each tile, hidden from view, was a drawing. He designed the stage sets for the musician Nico, and assisted French artist Orlan, American artist Stuart Sherman, and American poet Gregory Corso. Two years later Winters was invited to take part in Chambres d’Amis (In Ghent there is Always a Free Room for Albrecht Durer) in Ghent, Belgium. In it, 51 artists created installations in 50 different sites, mostly private homes. Winters chose the home of a local art historian. The artist made 90 drawings based on images found in the large collection of art books in the home's library. He made two copies of each drawing and placed the originals in the books themselves. One set of copies was exhibited in the sponsoring museum, Museum van Hedendaagse, as "The Ghent Drawings". The drawings were also on display at Winters’ solo exhibition at Luhring Augustine & Hodes Gallery in New York City in 1987. In 1986, Winters had a solo exhibition at Maurice Keitelman Gallery in Brussels, Belgium, and the following year a solo exhibition at the Centre Régional d'Art Contemporain Midi-Pyrénées in Toulouse, France. Also in 1986, Winters' Playroom was held at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Boston, Massachusetts. The exhibition was part of Think Tank, a retrospective of Winters' work which traveled to the Stedelijk Museum in the Netherlands, the Centre Regional d’Art Contemporain in France, and the Contemporary Arts Center in Ohio. Winters spent a month in 1989 working with students at the San Francisco Art Institute. Never having worked with ceramics, he spent the month making numerous ceramic pieces, which were then shown in the aptly named One Month in San Francisco. Other components of the piece included Winters’ childhood bottle collection and a video showing each piece in the show filmed briefly next to a ruler.[ Also that year, Robin served as a visiting artist at the Pilchuck Glass School, where he met artist John Drury, who was then working as the school's artist liaison. In the summer of 1990, Winters interviewed fellow artist Kiki Smith for her eponymous book, which was published later that year. That same year (1990), Winters was invited by the Val Saint Lambert glass factory in Belgium to create glassworks in their facility. Winters, artists John Drury and Tracy Glover...
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1980s Pop Art Figurative Paintings

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Monoprint, Monotype

Landscape, Village in French Provence, oil painting by Françoise Juvin
Located in Montfort l’Amaury, FR
Françoise Juvin - Village in French Provence Reference number FJ19 Framed with a natural oak floated frame. 24 x 32 cm frame included (18 x 26 cm without frame) This work is painted with oil on a paper that is mounted on a board and placed in a made to measure wood strectcher. It is signed in the bottom right. Françoise Juvin (1927-2010) is a French artist born in Nancy. She entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lyon in 1941 where she met several artists such as Jacques Truphémus...
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1980s French School Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Malcah Zeldis Folk Art Gouache Painting Outsider Circus Trapeze Horse Acrobats
Located in Surfside, FL
MALCAH ZELDIS Circus, Trapeze Artists, Horse rider and Acrobats gouache on paper Hand signed and dated bottom right. titled in pencil on paper verso. Fr...
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1980s Folk Art Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

COMPANEROS
By Carlos Manuel Salazar Ramirez
Located in Los Angeles, CA
CARLOS MANUEL SALAZAR RAMIREZ "COMPANEROS" ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, SIGNED COSTA RICA, DATED 1989 16 X 24 INCHES Carlos Manuel Salazar Ramírez Born 1954 Ramírez is a artist born i...
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1980s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Figures at work or Play Abstraction Watercolor and Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Figures at work or Play Abstraction Watercolor and Acrylic on Paper My favorite of the Collection. A bold figurative painting by California-based artist, Ricardo de Silva (Brazilian...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor

Landscape in Italy, oil painting by Françoise Juvin
Located in Montfort l’Amaury, FR
Françoise Juvin - Landscape in Italy Reference number FJ178 Framed with a natural oak floated frame. 25,5 x 31 cm frame included (21 x 26 cm without fr...
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1980s French School Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Autumn Landscape, oil painting by Françoise Juvin
Located in Montfort l’Amaury, FR
Françoise Juvin - Autumn Landscape Reference number FJ16 Framed with an black color wooden floated frame. 23,5 x 34 cm frame included (18 x 26 cm without frame) This work is painted with oil on a paper that is mounted on a board and placed in a made to measure wood strectcher. It is signed in the bottom right. Françoise Juvin (1927-2010) is a French artist born in Nancy. She entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lyon in 1941 where she met several artists such as Jacques Truphémus...
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1980s French School Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Still life with a yellow tablecloth, oil painting by Pierre Coquet
Located in Montfort l’Amaury, FR
Pierre Coquet - Still life with a yellow tablecloth Reference number F380 The painting is not framed but it could be with a natural oak floated or black ...
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1980s Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Sea landscape around Cannes, oil painting by Françoise Juvin
Located in Montfort l’Amaury, FR
Françoise Juvin - Sea landscape around Cannes Reference number FJ125 Framed with a natural oak floated frame. 22,5 x 32 cm frame included (17 x 26 cm w...
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1980s French School Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Portrait of a Man Drinking Beer in Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of a Man Drinking Beer in Acrylic on Paper Whimsical portrait by Ricardo de Silva (Brazilian, 20th Century). A piece of burlap is applied...
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1980s Abstract Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Burlap, Paper, Acrylic

Hilly landscape in the South of France, oil painting by Françoise Juvin
Located in Montfort l’Amaury, FR
Françoise Juvin - Hilly landscape in the South of France Reference number FJ88 Framed with a natural oak floated frame. 29 x 37 cm frame included (24 x 32 cm without frame) This work...
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1980s French School Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Boats in the bay of Cannes, Landscape, oil painting on canvas by Françoise Juvin
Located in Montfort l’Amaury, FR
Françoise Juvin - Boats in the bay of Cannes, South of France Reference number FJ62 Framed with a natural oak floated frame. 23,5 x 34 cm frame included (18 x 26 cm without frame) This work is painted with oil on a board. It is signed in the bottom right. Françoise Juvin (1927-2010) is a French artist born in Nancy. She entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lyon in 1941 where she met several artists such as Jacques Truphémus...
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1980s French School Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Small Provencal landscape, oil painting by Françoise Juvin
Located in Montfort l’Amaury, FR
Françoise Juvin - Small Provencal landscape Reference number FJ123 Framed with a natural oak floated frame. 19,5 x 31 cm frame included (14 x 25 cm wit...
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1980s French School Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Still life with cherries, oil painting on canvas by Pierre Coquet
Located in Montfort l’Amaury, FR
Pierre Coquet - Still life with cherries Reference number F373 The painting is not framed but it could be with a painted black oak floater fra...
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1980s French School Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Vintage San Francisco Watercolor Landscape -- Lombard Street in Springtime
Located in Soquel, CA
Vintage San Francisco Watercolor Landscape -- Lombard Street in Springtime Wonderful vintage watercolor of San Francisco's famous "Crookedest Street in the world" Lombard Street during springtime with cable car in background by listed artist Chinese/American artist Sun Ying, (Chinese/American, 1919-2016) circa 1970. Signed lower right corner with artist's chop. Presented with new mat. Condition: Good. Unframed. Image size: 15"H x 14.88"W. Sun Ying 孙瑛 ( 1919-2016 ) known as (Sun Dashi 大石) was born on November 8 into a poor family, in Gaotang Xian, Shandong Province, in China. In 1949, based in Taipei, he devoted himself entirely to painting and influenced the world of art by creating several painting societies as the Chinese Association of Ink Painting . Taiwan awarded him the Golden Cup Award. In the 1960s and 1970s He exhibited his works in Australia, Brazil, Germany, Malaysia and United States. He went to live in the United States in 1974. After visiting his family in 1984, he returned to China. In 1988, along with Qi Baishi...
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1980s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Jonathan Winters Screenprint Canvas Painting Airplane Hollywood Hang Ups Pop Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Overall 21 X 27 image is 17.25 X 23.5 This is a mixed media print on canvas by beloved comedian and artist Jonathan Winters. This one depicts old biplane airplanes and parachutes Artist: Jonathan Winters Medium: Mixed media print on canvas; hand embellished Signature: Signed by the artist in gold paint pen, lower right from A/P edition of 25 signed in gold paint pen; original plates have been destroyed Condition: Excellent Jonathan Harshman Winters III (November 11, 1925 – April 11, 2013) was an American comedian, actor, author, and artist. Beginning in 1960, Winters recorded many classic comedy albums for the Verve Records label. He also had records released every decade for over 50 years, receiving 11 Grammy nominations, including eight for Best Comedy Album, during his career. From these nominations, he won the Grammy Award for Best Album for Children for his contribution to an adaptation of The Little Prince in 1975 and the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Comedy Album for Crank(y) Calls in 1996. With a career spanning more than six decades, Winters also appeared in hundreds of television shows and films, including eccentric characters on The Steve Allen Show, The Garry Moore Show, The Wacky World of Jonathan Winters (1972–74), Mork & Mindy, Hee Haw, and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. He also voiced Grandpa Smurf on The Smurfs TV series from 1986 to the show's conclusion in 1989. Over twenty years later, Winters was introduced to a new generation through voicing Papa Smurf in The Smurfs (2011) and The Smurfs 2 (2013). Winters died nine days after recording his dialogue for The Smurfs 2; the film was dedicated in his memory. In 1991, Winters won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for playing Gunny Davis in the short-lived sitcom Davis Rules. 1999 saw Winters become the 2nd recipient of the prestigious Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. In 2002, he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for his performance as Q.T. Marlens on Life with Bonnie. Winters was presented with a Pioneer TV Land Award by Robin Williams in 2008. Winters also spent time painting and presenting his artwork, including Surrealist silkscreens and sketches, in many gallery shows. He authored several books. His book of short stories, titled Winters' Tales (1988), made the bestseller lists. Winters was born in Dayton, Ohio, to Alice Kilgore Rodgers, who later became a radio personality, and her husband Jonathan Harshman Winters II, an insurance agent who later became an investment broker. He was a descendant of Valentine Winters, founder of the Winters National Bank in Dayton, Ohio (now part of JPMorgan Chase). Of English and Scotch-Irish ancestry. Winters had described his father as an alcoholic who had trouble holding a job. His grandfather, a frustrated comedian, owned the Winters National Bank, which failed as the family's fortunes collapsed during the Great Depression. During his senior year at Springfield High School, Winters quit school to join the U.S. Marine Corps at age 17 and served two and a half years in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Upon his return, he attended Kenyon College. He later studied cartooning at Dayton Art Institute. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Winters acted in The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966), had a weekly CBS show called The Jonathan Winters Show from 1967 to 1969, and appeared in Viva Max! (1970).[3] Additionally, he was a regular (along with Woody Allen and Jo Anne Worley) on the Saturday morning children's television program, Hot Dog in the early 1970s. Winters received eleven Grammy nominations during his career, including eight for the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album; he won the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Comedy Album for Crank(y) Calls in 1996. In 1999, he was awarded the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, becoming the second recipient. In 2004, Comedy Central Presents: 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time ranked Winters as the #18 greatest stand-up comedian. Winters lived near Santa Barbara, California, and was often seen browsing or "hamming" for the crowd at the antique and gun shows on the Ventura County fairgrounds. He often entertained the tellers and other employees whenever he visited his local bank to make a deposit or withdrawal. Additionally, he spent his time painting and attended many gallery showings, even presenting his art in one-man shows. With his round, rubber-faced mastery of impressions (including ones of John Wayne, Cary Grant, Groucho Marx, James Cagney, and others) and improvisational comedy, Winters became a staple of late-night television with a career spanning more than six decades. He named James Thurber...
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1980s Pop Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Screen

"Sunny landscape" Green, spring, oil cm 100 x 100
Located in Torino, IT
Sun, Light, Trees, Green, Spring, Yellow, River, Georgij MOROZ (Dneprodzerzinsk, Ukraine, 1937 - St. Petersburg, 2015) MUSEUMS Moscow, Tret’jakov Gallery Moscow, USSR Artists Collect...
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1980s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Malcah Zeldis Folk Art Gouache Moses Bible Painting Self Taught Outsider Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
MALCAH ZELDIS (American-Israeli, b. 1931) Moses and the burning bush, 1982, gouache on paper, Hand signed and dated lower middle. Paper 9''h, 11-3/4''w...
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1980s Folk Art Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Desert - Drawing by David Euler - 1987
Located in Roma, IT
In this color charcoal drawing two nomad-like figures are standing in the middle of an abstract background that looks like a sand-storm during a ...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Malcah Zeldis Folk Art Gouache Painting Outsider Circus Trapeze Artist Acrobats
Located in Surfside, FL
MALCAH ZELDIS Circus, Trapeze Artists and Acrobats gouache on paper Hand signed and dated bottom right. titled in pencil on paper verso. Framed to 15 X ...
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1980s Folk Art Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Oil Painting / Photorealism / Figurative Art / Human Figure /Museum
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams was a painter, art educator, and writer. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1952, he received a B.S. in 1976 and an M.A. in 1983 from Buffalo State College. Adams’s work is includ...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Malcah Zeldis Folk Art Gouache Painting Outsider Circus Trapeze Horse Acrobats
Located in Surfside, FL
MALCAH ZELDIS Circus, Trapeze Artists, Horse rider and Acrobats gouache on paper Hand signed and dated bottom right. titled in pencil on paper verso. Fr...
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1980s Folk Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Vintage Nude Study -- Reclining Male
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful vintage reclining male nude study by Patricia E. Gillfillan (American, 1924-2016), c.1980s. From a collection of her works. Unsigned. Unframed...
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1980s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

“Mother and Daughter”
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on canvas painting by the American contemporary artist, Nadine Campbell Hoskins. Signed lower right. Circa 1985. Condition is excellent. Overall framed measurements are 16.75 by 14.5 inches. Provenance: Steel Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida. Nadine Campbell Hoskins, born in 1912 was a self-taught artist and Coral Gables jet-setter who was a staple of Miami Herald social columns in the 1960s and '70s. She began her career at the Lowe Art Museum's clothesline sales. New artists could hang paintings on clotheslines. Her paintings are in [Lowe's] permanent collection. Hoskins had a studio at Douglas Entrance -- the historic Gables building that's now a luxury office...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Barbeque Study I" - Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Interior courtyard scene by Santa Cruz, California artist Betsy J. Miller (American, b. 1956). This piece is a part of the artist's series of "Site Portraits." An square doorway in a...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

"That Day in Pompeii", 1982
Located in Washington, DC
Acrylic on canvas painting by Joe Shannon (b.1933). Titled "That Day in Pompeii". Signed and dated in lower left. Gallery label on reverse. New York Time...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Nouveau Riche, Art Deco Drawing by Andre de Krayewski
Located in Long Island City, NY
Nouveau Riche by Andre de Krayewski, Polish (1933) Date: 1989 Pastel on Paper, signed and dated lower right Size: 23 x 16.5 in. (58.42 x 41.91 cm) Frame ...
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1980s Art Deco Figurative Paintings

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Archival Paper, Oil Pastel

Your Move, Art Deco Drawing by Andre de Krayewski
Located in Long Island City, NY
Your Move by Andre de Krayewski, Polish (1933) Date: 1989 Pastel on Paper, signed and dated lower right Size: 16.5 x 23 in. (41.91 x 58.42 cm) Frame Size: 24 x 30 inches
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1980s Art Deco Figurative Paintings

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Oil Pastel, Archival Paper

Vintage Reclining Nude Figurative
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous oil-on-canvas of a reclining nude female figure by Monterey California-area artist Patricia Gillfillan (American, 1924-2016). Signed "Gillfillan" lower left. Unframed. Size,...
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1980s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Figure Multiple
Located in Long Island City, NY
Make an offer on the fabulous Figure Multiple painting by Giancarlo Impiglia, Italian/American (1940). Date: 1989 Oil on Canvas, signed, dated, and title...
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1980s Art Deco Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Dice, Art Deco Drawing by Andre de Krayewski
Located in Long Island City, NY
Dice by Andre de Krayewski, Polish (1933) Date: circa 1980 Pastel on paper, signed lower right Size: 21 x 15 in. (53.34 x 38.1 cm) Frame Size: 28 x 23 inches
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1980s Art Deco Figurative Paintings

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Archival Paper, Oil Pastel

UNTITLED (MASKED FIGURE)
Located in Aventura, FL
Original conte crayon on paper. Dated "12.13.84" central quadrant. Provenance: Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York. Artwork size 12.5 x 9.5 inches....
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Crayon

Boats. 1980. Canvas, oil, 70x70 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Boats. 1980. Canvas, oil, 70x70 cm Contrasting landscape with boats in cubistic style in red and yellow tones
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1980s Cubist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

French Fashion Sketch - Ballerina Dress
Located in Houston, TX
Delightful gouache fashion sketch of a ballerina style dress in a deep forest green. Fabric swatch attached upper right. Signed lower left. Original ...
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1980s Figurative Paintings

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Gouache, Paper

Ireland Seascape Landscape with Boats & Figures by Contemporary Irish Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Ireland Lake Seascape Landscape with Boats & Figures by Contemporary Irish Artist, Frank Fitzsimons Art measures 20 x 16 inches Frame measure 27 x 2...
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1980s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The Market - Oil on Canvas by L. De Mitri - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
The Market is an artwork realized in the half of XX century by Leonzio De Mitri. Original oil painting on canvas The artwork is hand-signed on the lower right. Good conditions. ...
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1980s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Dacha in winter" oil cm. 61 x 80 1980 skis, white, russia
Located in Torino, IT
White, snow, skiing, winter, russia, dacha GLEB SAVINOV (Charkev, 1915 – St. Petersburg, 2000) Works by Gleb Savinov can be found in various private collections in Europe, Japan, ...
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1980s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Black Leaf From Matisse's Swimming Pool
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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1980s Folk Art Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

"Jackson Pollock, " Red Grooms, New York School Pop Art Portrait
Located in New York, NY
Red Grooms (American, b. 1937) Jackson Pollock, 1986 Pastel on paperboard 9 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches Signed and dated lower right Provenance: Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York Charles Rog...
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1980s Pop Art Figurative Paintings

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Board, Pastel

"Sashenka" Oil cm. 40 x 50 1981 Woman, Russia, snow
Located in Torino, IT
Woman, Russia, snow,Portraits Levitin, Anatoly Pavlovich or Levitine, Russian, 20th century, Born 1922, in Petrograd (now St Petersburg). Painter. Figures, nudes, genre scenes. Socialist Realism...
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1980s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Cardboard

"ASTM Lightfastness Rating", Contemporary Miniature Mixed Media Composition
Located in Soquel, CA
Gesso and paper mixed media composition by Dick Crispo (American, b. 1945). Titled "ASTM Lightfastness Rating" at the bottom. Signed and dated "D. Crispo 87" in the upper right corner. Presented in a cream mat with foamcore backing. No frame. Paper size: 7"H x 5"W Dick Crispo, born in New York City on January 13, 1945, has resided on the Monterey Peninsula since 1955. An award winning artist, Crispo has studied at the Carmel Art Institute under John Cunningham and Sam Colburn...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Gesso, Paper, Magazine Paper

Judy Rifka, Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting Hockey Players. Brooke Alexander
Located in Surfside, FL
Judy Rifka (American, b. 1945) Oil on linen painting Titled: "Ice Hockey IV 1990" featuring A depiction of hockey players with ice skating rink backdro...
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1980s Pop Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

"Egg Series I: Red Vise" 51-Screens Serigraph
By Joe Price
Located in Soquel, CA
Soft and elegant 51-screen serigraph by Joe Price (American, b. 1935). This piece has the appearance of an oil painting, due to the uncharacteristically high number of screens used i...
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1980s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Screen, Oil, Postcard

'Young Woman in a Turban', American Academy in Rome, Italy, Notre Dame, FRSA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Faintly signed lower right, 'D. Mayernik' for David Mayernik (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1985. A period, Post-Impressionist style study of a woman in a turban looking proudly upwards. A warm and engaging piece by a bravura hand. Artist, design architect, author and educator David Mayernik studied fresco painting with restorer Leonetto Tintori and has painted frescoes for the TASIS campus in Lugano, churches in Ticino and Tuscany, and the Palio...
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1980s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Illustration Board, Oil

Men at Work II: Figurative Oil Painting of Construction Workers in Steel Frame
Located in Hudson, NY
Realistic figurative oil painting on canvas of men working at a construction site Neutral palette with pops of mulberry and sky blue Men at Work II, painted by Allan Skriloff, ca. 1980's 42 x 54 x 3 inches with a custom steel frame Excellent condition, ready to hang as is Skriloff shines a glorified light on the muscles of men in hard hats that sweat and contort aboard an oil rig, elevating blue worker brawniness to an other-worldly status. This figurative painting highlights the beauty found in the every day. Scenes one might overlook are given careful attention by the artist's trained eye. Tanned skin and muscles glistening with sweat radiate in the summer sun while shadows on the construction site and men's faces contrast in the background. The piece is complemented with a custom thin steel floater frame, is in excellent condition, and ready to hang as is. About "Men at Work:" While on a trip to Australia, I was in Alice Spring. Where I took an excursion to Palm Valley. My tour guide mentioned there was gas fields in a remote section of the Outback. I said I'd love to go there and he replied, "no worries, Mate - we'll get you there.” He happened to be a pilot and we flew in his prop plane...
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1980s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Spring"Garden, flowers, spring, gardener, lilac Oil cm. 37 x 24 1985
Located in Torino, IT
Garden, flowers, spring, gardener, lilac,Green, Landscape, Russia,Soviet Realism, Shipment is included in the price everywhere ALEKSEJ (Chuchunovka, Brjansk, 1925 ) Works by the ...
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1980s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Modern Figurative Surrealism Watercolor, Drawing - "You Must Die For Yours"
Located in Surfside, FL
On heavy Arches deckle edged paper. This combines text or poetry in calligraphy on the side. Gary Hansmann (1947-2008) was active/lived in California. He is known for abstract, Surrealism figure painting. Gary William Hansmann was born Dec. 4, 1940, in San Diego to Ethel May Williams and Lester Hughes Hansmann. He grew up in Encinitas and served in the Army in the early 1960s. Gary Hansmann, San Diego artist, teacher and gallery owner, was known for his Surrealist nude and animal drawings and graphics. He spent time working in Paris and exhibiting his art throughout Europe, but San Diego was home until he moved to Washington state. His life partner was fellow artist, Jill Hosmer. Mr. Hansmann, a respected printmaker and prolific artist, created thousands of drawings, prints and paintings as well as hundreds of poems. His interest in bullfighting led to a book of poetry and illustrations on the subject, “La Corrida, The Run”, a collection of poetry & artwork written as he was preparing for his first bullfight. Prologue written by famous Mexican Matador Antonio Lomelin. The book is written in English and translated into Spanish on opposing pages and was published in 1983. Mr. Hansmann taught intaglio and monotype at the Academy of Fine Arts in San Diego from 1977 to 1980 and at the San Diego Museum of Art in 1980. He also gave lectures and demonstrations throughout the art community, including at the San Diego Art Guild in Del Mar and Artist Equity in San Diego. Although he attended Palomar College in San Marcos and studied lithography at the San Diego Academy of Fine Arts, Mr. Hansmann was mostly self-taught and self-educated. Mr. Hansmann had shows in several art-world capitals, including Paris; Lisbon, Portugal; Cologne, Germany; Brussels, Belgium; and New York. he had one-person exhibits at the Loft Gallery in Clarkston, the Lewis-Clark State College Center of Arts & History, the Carnegie Art Center in Walla Walla and the Valley Art Center in Clarkston. During his long, distinguished career as an artist he had numerous one-person exhibits all over the world and the United States. His group shows are too numerous to mention, but his one-person exhibits were in Koln, Germany; Bruxelles, Belgium; Paris, France; Viana do Castelo, Portugal; Lisbon, Portugal; Tecate, Mexico; and British Columbia, Canada; and many states at home. Palomar College, San Marcos, Calif. San Diego Academy of Fine Arts Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, N.Y. University of Southern California, Idyllwild (ISOMATA) University of San Diego San Diego Museum of Art James Copley Library, La Jolla, Calif. Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice, Italy Centre de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal Museo Taurino de la Communidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain Atelier Lacouriere et Frelaut, Paris, France Gordon Gilkey...
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1980s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Paper, India Ink, Watercolor

"Children" Little girl, child, red, blue, reading cm. 31 x 24 1980
Located in Torino, IT
Little girl, child, red, blue, reading we send the work anywhere Shipping included OLGA BOGAEVSKAJA (Moscow, 1916 – St. Petersburg, 2000) Works by Olga Bogaevskaja can be found in v...
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1980s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor

'Dove of Peace', Large Oil, New Figurative Movement, Italian Modernism, Biennale
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'V.M. Di Carlo' for Vittorio Maria Di Carlo (Italian, 1939-2015) and painted circa 1980. Born in San Marco, Maria Vittorio Di Carlo...
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1980s Modern 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.

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.

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