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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Style: Expressionist
Color:  Beige
Expressionist Figurative water color painting- Luckiness
Located in Beijing, CN
Expressionist Figurative water color painting by Zhang Chunyang Title: Luckiness Dimension: 29 x 36 cm Material: Gouache, Watercolor on Paper D...
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache, Handmade Paper

Reclining Expressionist Nude Female Figure with Yellow, Blue, and Magenta
Located in Soquel, CA
Brightly colored expressionist nude figurative painting of a reclining nude female with bold yellow, blue, and magenta accents by Linda Goodman (American...
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1970s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Graphite

Girl with a Flower
Located in Lawrence, NY
Gouache on Paper From the Estate of Samuel Esses and by descent Never afraid of trying new styles, curious and opinionated, constantly engaged with the world around him, Rolph Scarl...
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1940s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic, Gouache

Portrait of a Young Man
Located in Lawrence, NY
Gouache Estate of Samuel Esses Beautifully framed Never afraid of trying new styles, curious and opinionated, constantly engaged with the world around him, Rolph Scarlett more tha...
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1930s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Gouache

Israeli Judaica Rabbi Expressionist Gouachel Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
size includes frame Adolf Adler 1917 - 1996 Adolf Adi Adler was born in Romania in 1917. Attended the Art College of Kluj Romania in 1950. (in Satu Mare, original home city of the Satmar Hasidic group). In 1963, Adler was chief among a group of well known artists who immigrated to Israel. He was awarded the Nordau prize in 1978. He works have been auctioned at Sloan's Auction House in Maryland and Karrenbauer Auction House in Germany and today are represented in the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem. In 1984, a retrospective of his work was held in Rishon Le Zion. He died in 1996. Awards and Prizes 1993 Mordecai Ish-Shalom Prize, Artists House...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Contemporary Nature Forms Of Woman And Two Dog In Brown And Red Tones Painting
Located in ALCOY/ALCOI, ES
Title: «I love Stefie» Collection: Muses Description: Acrylic on canvas, figurative, nature, brown, modern "What kind of woman is she? Like an excerpt from a romantic novel, here it is. Fragile and beautiful, yet strong, brave, with refined taste, a lover of art and, above all, good manners. She inspires me! I want to be close to her, be a friend of the muse of my dreams." The artwork in question may be a portrait or depiction of a woman who embodies both fragility and strength, as well as beauty and refinement. The focus is on the woman's character and personality, rather than her physical appearance alone. The artwork may convey a sense of admiration or infatuation, with the artist or viewer expressing a desire to be close to the subject of the piece. The mention of good manners and a love of art suggests that the woman is sophisticated and cultured, with a refined and elegant sensibility. Overall, the artwork celebrates the beauty and complexity of women, with a focus on character and personality as well as physical appearance. Victoria Tsemka...
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Contemporary Abstract Figurative Expressionism Organic Forms On Pink Background
Located in ALCOY/ALCOI, ES
Title: «Amor de Cebracornio» Collection: Muses Description: Acrylic on canvas, figurative, nature, love, modern "The zebracorn is a symbol of madness and integrity at the same time. It is also a symbol of new and unnamed legends. Only a crazy girl can tame this mythical creature. The artwork symbolizes new pathways for imagination and the pure and gentle side of personality that exists in every woman: a combination of elegant sophistication that is hard to resist and a mysterious character. It is the charm that is inside every woman." The artwork in question features the zebracorn, a mythical creature that represents both madness and integrity. The artwork may be highly imaginative and fantastical, drawing on the viewer's sense of wonder and creativity. The zebracorn's symbolism of new and unnamed legends suggests that the artwork is intended to evoke a sense of mystery and intrigue. The image of a crazy girl taming the creature may symbolize the power of the human imagination to overcome even the wildest and most uncontrollable forces in the world. The artwork is described as representing the pure and gentle side of personality that exists in every woman, with a combination of elegance and mystery that is both alluring and enigmatic. Overall, the artwork celebrates the power of imagination and the strength and beauty of women. Victoria Tsemka...
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"Swimmers" Vibrant Expressionist Figurative Scene
Located in Austin, TX
Pep Suari 14.75" x 40" Acrylic on Board
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic, Board

The Guardians of Circles and Source - Striking Vibrant Expressionist Stylish
Located in Cullinan, ZA
TItle: The Guardians of Circles and Source Striking Vibrant Expressionist Stylish This work portrays the circles of life... ebb and flow, feelings of liberty or constraint, movement and rest. Graffiti, spray-paint, acrylics, mark making and pencils where used with colors red, periwinkle purple, burgundy, hues of blue, orange, yellow, teal, turquoise and black - layer upon layer of shapes and forms to create this unique and bold artwork! This work is part of a series. It is part of a story... It portrays the absolute qualities within all of us! Sealed with high quality varnish. Not mounted. Framing on request. Ships in a tube. While creating this artwork, she let her attention rest on reflecting, going inwards, finding solace and freedom. There are hidden treasures – go find them in the detail - make them your own story... the abundance of color, to unite with our interconnectedness! And the Guardians that are always there to support and love. This work is created on top quality, heavy duty canvas. It is unmounted and will be shipped in a roll. If the collector chooses to do so, the artist can have it stretched on wooden bars or framed in a style that suits the décor of the place that it will be displayed at. (Cost is for the collector. Keep in mind that the South African Rand exchange rate is favorable and makes it most cost effective to have it framed here. Shipment cost...
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Acrylic

The Scream
Located in Wareham, GB
The Scream is a mixed media painting on archival paper. The work is unframed and would be shipped in a tube. Alternatively for UK customers the work can be ...
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil Pastel, Oil, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Pencil

“white model “Oil cm 73 x 92 1980
Located in Torino, IT
woman, withe, Italian painter Edgardo CORBELLI (Turin, 1918 - 1989) From the traditional composition of the 1930s, the painting of Corbelli leads to technical and expressive results...
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1970s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Cats and a Woman
Located in Austin, TX
By Pep Suari 39" x 39" Acrylic on Canvas
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Upright Bass, Expressionist Portrait of Musician by Philadelphia Artist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Upright Bass" is a painting by Philadelphia born Expressionist painter Bernard Harmon. The 40" x 34" oil on board group portrait of a musician is painted...
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1960s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Board, Oil

CRAZY FACE
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Original hand painting, acrylic on canvas on board
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Winter Shadows 31, Eleanor Woolley, Original Night Time Painting, Affordable Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Winter Shadows 31 [October 2021] original Oil Paint on Canvas Image size: H:15 cm x W:15 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:15 cm x W:15 cm x D:3cm Sold Unframed Please note t...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

'Young Man in Repose' by Podlach - Large Figurative Nude Young Man Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
"Man in Repose" is a captivating painting by Betsy Podlach that effortlessly captures a serene and tranquil moment. The artwork portrays a nude, young, and handsome man with closed e...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Untitled Original Figurative Young Women With Black Robe Chinese Art Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
Artist Duan Z. Born in 1955 in Yunnan, renowned Chinese Opera Figure Painter, Educator, Playwright and Producer. Mr. Duan serves as Director of Chinese...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Pigment

Polish French Jewish Artist Oil Painting Girl with Doll, School of Paris Judaica
Located in Surfside, FL
Framed 27 X 24 inches Sight 18 X 15 inches Walter Spitzer (Polish/French, 1927 - ) born in Cieszyn, Poland. A Polish Jewish Holocaust survivor, he made his first drawings in a concentration camp. Walter Spitzer has lived and worked since WWII in France, where he studied at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris. Walter Spitzer has achieved great renown as a painter and printmaker. Whether in his paintings of Biblical subjects or in lithographs of Shtetl scenes, His humanity was inspired by the writings of Sartre, Montherlant and Kazantzakis, Walter Spitzer is occupied with two great, interlinked themes: man’s inhumanity to man, and the humanity of man. He will surely be recognized in the future as one of the great witnesses to the twentieth-century experience. Walter Spitzer was born in Chieszyn, Poland, the son of a Jewish liqueur producer, and attended the German school there. He began to draw and paint at an early age. In 1939 the Spitzer family was forcibly removed by the Germans to the town of Strzemieszyce, which was turned into a ghetto in 1942. When the ghetto was liquidated in June 1943 Spitzer’s mother was shot, and the sixteen-year-old Walter was deported to Blechhammer, a subcamp of Auschwitz. There he painted portraits of Wehrmacht soldiers and fellow inmates in exchange for food. He was one of the few to survive the evacuation march from Auschwitz to Buchenwald, where to begin with, in late February 1945, he was held in the Little Camp. To enable him to make drawings documenting life in the camp, the Communists organized his transfer to the main camp. While on a death march in early April he made his escape in the vicinity of Jena and was soon in the hands of the Americans. Spitzer served as an interpreter with an American army unit, and at the same time executed numerous drawings depicting the world of the camps. In June 1945 the Americans took him to Paris, where – following the advice of his father, who had died in 1940 – he began to study art at the École des Beaux-Arts in Par the following year. After completing his training as an artist he produced paintings expressing a critical view of the society of his day. In 1955, in commemoration of the camps and the death marches, he executed a cycle of nine etchings in an edition of thirty, which he gave to various museums in Israel and in France. In the 1960s he established himself as an illustrator of exclusive editions of works by such authors as André Malraux, Jean-Paul Sartre, Joseph Kessel and Nikos Kazantzakis. The Six-Day War prompted him to begin painting subjects from Jewish and Biblical history; At age 19, he was asked to make the scenery for the Edouard VII Theater in Paris, which was showing The Dibbuk of Ansky. In 1947 the same theater asked him to make the scenery for the Hill of Life ( Max Zveig). Spitzer has been a member of the Salon d'Automne since 1952. He was the last remaining survivor of the Montparnasse Ecole de Paris. A group of Jewish expats that included Issachar Ber Ryback, Abel Pann, Abraham Mintchine, Isaac Antcher, Alexandre Altmann, Henri Epstein, Mane Katz, Marcel Janco, Gregoire Michonze...
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1960s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Coffee Peloton Series XVIII, Eliza Southwood, Original Coffee Painting, Cycling
Located in Deddington, GB
Coffee Peloton Series XVIII by Eliza Southwood [2021] original Coffee on paper Image size: H:41.5 cm x W:59 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:41.5 cm x W:59 cm x D:0.1cm Sold ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Coffee

Pont Neuf Paris Misty River Seine Scene, French Expressionist Signed Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, signed and dated 1970's Title: Pont Neuf, Paris Medium: signed oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 9.5 x 13 inches Provenance: private collec...
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20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Culture 3
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
People believe money is power in my society - because the leaders steal money to oppress and suffer the poor. But I realize the opposite of this is the purpose of living. We are al...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

Colourful Abstract Portrait, French Expressionist Original Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
AKOS BIRO (HUNGARIAN 1911-2002) watercolour / gouache size: 11 x 7.5 inches Beautifully colourful, original painting by the very popular and highly regarded Hungarian/ French painte...
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Late 20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil Pastel, Gouache

"Mental Capacity" Mixed Media, Fictional Image of African American, Iconic Color
Located in Detroit, MI
"Mental Capacity" is a fictional experience whereby an African American man from the 1970s discovers his artistic side. It is generally known that most people are either left brain o...
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Resin, Paper, Acrylic

Tour de France, original 31x40 expressionist figurative landscape
Located in Spring Lake, NJ
Lithuanian born artist Serge Ovcaruk has used his palette knife to create a figurative sporting landscape that layers the many secrets, hopes and heartac...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

Untitled, Boy Eating Watermelon
Located in Miami, FL
The work looks much better in person with snappy bright colors that form a complex abstract composition of interconnected shapes. Hand-signed by artist, sticker label, The Work is Signed lower left - Provenance: Forum Gallery, New York - Label on verso Swann Gallery...
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1960s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

‘Self Portrait And Red Lips’Contemporary Figurative By Betsy Podlach
Located in Carmel, CA
Betsy - 'Self-Portrait with Red lips. 2021 Some of Betsy's paintings were printed on apparel at Marni 2019 Milan Fashion Show. THE NEW YORK TIMES: "IN BETSY’S SENSUAL PORTRAITS, I...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Fishermen push their boat out to sea" - Horizontal painting in cool colors.
Located in Miami, FL
Fishermen is a very common theme in Filcer's paintings. He was fascinated by both the ocean and the fishermen around the world.
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Handmade Paper, Screen

Figure on Sandy Beach Boat & Dog, French Expressionist Original Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
AKOS BIRO (HUNGARIAN 1911-2002) watercolour/ gouache painting size: 7.5 x 11 inches Beautifully colourful, original painting by the very popular and highly regarded Hungarian/ Frenc...
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Late 20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil Pastel, Gouache

Seated Woman - Original oil painting
Located in Paris, FR
Bengt Lindström Seated woman Original oil painting Unsigned On paper applied on wood panel 107 x 77 cm (c. 42 x 31 in) Presented in black wood frame 123 x 93 cm (c. 49 x 37 in) Ver...
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Late 20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Sunset over the Sea, French Expressionist Original Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
AKOS BIRO (HUNGARIAN 1911-2002) watercolour/gouache size: 7.75 x 11 inches Beautifully colourful, original painting by the very popular and highly regarded Hungarian/ French painter...
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Late 20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil Pastel, Gouache

Colourful Provence Sky, French Expressionist Original Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
AKOS BIRO (HUNGARIAN 1911-2002) watercolour, signed board size: 6.5 x 9.75 inches Beautifully colourful, original painting by the very popular and highly regarded Hungarian/ French...
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Late 20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Gouache, Oil Pastel

Rare, 20th Century painting by Robert Colquhoun from his 'transition' period
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Robert Colquhoun (Scottish, 1914 – 1962) The three graces Oil on board Signed ‘Colquhoun’ (lower right) Executed circa 1942 / 43 10 x 14 in. (25.4 x 3...
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20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Polish Born Boston Expressionist Oil Painting WPA Artist Colorful Modern Woman
Located in Surfside, FL
Portrait of a modernist lady or a harlequin. Emigrating to Boston in 1913 from Lublin, Poland with his Russian-Jewish parents, Presser was admitted in 1921 at age 12 to the Boston M...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Robert Andrew Parker Watercolor "Seated Figure #2" Partially Nude Female
Located in Detroit, MI
"Seated Figure #2" is distinctly vibrant and sexual with a feminine-mystique glow in this stunning example of Robert Parker's Expressionist watercolor. The blue, pink and black creates a brilliant exploding power that engages the viewer immediately leading to the gorgeously rendered partially nude...
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Late 20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

French Contemporary Art by Sandra Detourbet - Sapho
Located in Paris, IDF
Gouache on canvas & handmade paper Sandra Detourbet is a French artist born in 1967 who works & lives in Ivry-sur-Seine, near Paris. She is graduated in 1997 from ENSAD in Paris, Ar...
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Gouache, Handmade Paper

French Contemporary Art by Sandra Detourbet - Promise Indécise
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink on canvas & handmade paper Sandra Detourbet is a French artist born in 1967 who works & lives in Ivry-sur-Seine, near Paris. She is graduated in 1997 from ENSAD in Paris, Art-Sp...
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Handmade Paper, Ink

Woman with Flowers III, Oil Painting by Juan Garcia Ripolles
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Juan Garcia Ripolles, Spanish (1932 - ) Title: Woman with Flowers III Year: 1970 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Size: 18 in. x 10.5 in. (45.72 cm x 26.67 cm)
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1970s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

"Mexican Landscape Water Scene with Figures and Boat" Expressionistic Style
Located in New York, NY
A strong modernist oil painting depicted in the Mid Century by Russian painter Michael Baxte. Mostly known for his abstracted figures on canvas or street scenes, this piece is a wond...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

La Toilette No. 60.
Located in New York, NY
Lithograph printed on tan wove newsprint-type paper. Signed in pencil and in the stone. 15 3/4 x 12 3/4". Sheet Size: Image Size 8 1/4 x 6 3/4". Rudolf Bauer (1889-1953) e...
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1920s Brücke Figurative Paintings

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Lithograph

"Labour, " an Acrylic on Paper signed by Samuel B. Kpentenkple
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Labour" is an acrylic painting on paper signed lower center by the artist, Samuel B. Kpetenkple. It depicts a woman in white patterned robes and a white head scarf carrying a bundle of sticks on her head. 15" x 8 5/8" art 22 1/4" x 16" framed Artist Statement: "As often said there are some few "indigenous and naturals" who seem to have been born with brushes and pallet knifes in their hands. Nii Kpetenkple Samuel is one of such gifted and talented Artist; Painting to me, is one of the eloquent media for expressing myself about all the corners of the world and all that it holds; Of course it is not by accident, that i went into Painting. Nii Kpetenkple was born and bred in a coastal town, a suburb of Accra called NUNGUA, it's only 10 miles away from Accra. I am now in my late twenties. Nii Kpetenkple, had his training as an Artist at one of the secondary schools in Accra - Ghana. Later I had my tertiary training at Ultimate school of Art, (u.s.a) Ghana. I enjoy sketching, swimming, reading and music that keeps me working always. My childhood experiences with fishermen in their fishing expedition, fish mongers, market women, local houses or structures and meaningful Ghanaian symbols with abstract figures made me one of the expert in that area. As an Artist, art enables me to see nature as eternal, grasp a fragment of the Almighty's plan, even a bit of land scape, few pieces of fruits or a human form. Throughout my period of contemplation and years of uninterrupted close contact with nature, vast truths flashed upon my mental horizon, to which i gave expression in my paintings. I had no doubt that, i had discovored a new realm in the world of painting and would carry on to a fuller completion with what many gurus of the Art industry like Picasso, Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Cezanne, Van gogh, Gauguin, Ablade Grover, Amon Kotei...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

Giulia (The Good Mother)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Oil on Canvas
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

C'est le Passe que Nous Attendons
Located in Long Island City, NY
An oil painting by Theo Tobiasse from 1967. An expressionist-style textural painting of intensely dark and vivid color palette. Inspired from the artist's personal experiences of the...
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1960s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Aptekareva (girl portrait oil painting abstract figurative pink glasses flowers
Located in Quebec, Quebec
Lucas Bononi was educated at Academy of Art University, San Francisco (2012 - 16) and Grand Central Atelier, New York (2017 - 2018). His work explores the mystery of ontology through...
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

"Angela" Oil cm. 100 x 70 1979
Located in Torino, IT
Woman reclining, pink we send the work anywhere Edgardo CORBELLI (Turin, 1918 - 1989) From the traditional composition of the 1930s, the painting of Corbelli leads to technical and ...
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1970s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Ballets Russes
Located in Miami, FL
Her work with signs, symbols and esoteric spirituality reflects her passion for the ancient past and represents a symbolic return to the ground from which we emerged. Her work create...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

'Woman Sleeping', Large Modernist Figural Oil, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Portland
By Julio Lavallen
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Lavallen', dated 1987 and titled verso 'Mujer Dormida' (Woman Sleeping). A large figural oil painting of a young woman shown reclining on a sofa. Julio Lavallen...
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1980s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Cancer Dentist
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original oil on MDF by contemporary conceptual painter Rob Lynch. This work was part of a recent pop up exhibition The Dreamer Who Dreams, which was curated to raise money for Th...
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Fiberboard

Yellow Clown
Located in New York, NY
Bernard Lorjou has painting this subject "Harlequins" many times in watercolors, drawing , oil paintings and later on in the late 60's in acrylic, both on canvas, paper and some on m...
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1950s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Spanish Dancers
Located in San Francisco, CA
Beautiful oil painting of Spanish dancers by Eduardo Pisano Circa 1950S-1960s Oil on canvas The painting measures 18" W x 24" H The frame measures 24.75"...
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1960s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Girl & Rooster Enamel Glazed Ceramic Plaque Israeli Artist Awret Naive Folk Art
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a rare ceramic plaque painted with enamel glaze by famed Israeli German artist Irene Awret is signed Awret Safed on the verso. the actual glazed ceramic is 10X15 inches. Irène Awret was born to a Jewish family in Berlin called Spicker, the youngest of three children. Her mother died in 1927, when Irène was six years old. In 1937 she was forced to stop high school, due to the Nazi race laws. Because she could not continue her regular studies, her father sent her to study drawing, painting and art restoration with a Jewish painter. Among his students were a large number of German Jews who knew they would have to leave Germany within a short time and would require a profession to enable them to support themselves. When the situation grew worse, following the Kristallnacht (the first major attack on German and Austrian Jews in November 1938), her uncle decided to move to Belgium. In 1939 the situation became even worse - her father was fired from his job and the family were forced to leave their home. As a result, Awret's father tried to send her and her sister to Belgium, with the help of smugglers. The first smuggler proved to be a double agent and they were sent back from Aachen to Berlin. Two weeks later they made a second, successful, attempt to sneak across the border. Awret worked for a Dutch Jewish family as a maid. As she had her room and board there, she was able to save enough money to study art part-time at Brussels' Académie Royal des Beaux-Arts. A few months later Awret's father joined her and her financial situation became easier. She left her job and studied full-time, helping support herself with restoration work when it was available and by painting portraits to order. Later, Awret found a hiding place on a farm in Waterloo with a Jewish family who were connected with the underground. In January 1943 she had to return to Brussels, living with a false identity card which stated she was a married woman with two children. Awret succeeded in renting an attic without informing the police where she was - she told her landlady that she had been forced to flee her husband because he beat her. While there, she supported herself by restoring wooden sculptures. A Jewish informer gave her up to the Gestapo, accompanying the two Gestapo men who arrested her. Awret was able to take a bag containing food and drawing materials. She was detained in the Gestapo cellars in Brussels where she drew. Because there was nothing there to draw, she sketched her own hand (view this work). Awret was interrogated in order to reveal the hiding place of her father who was still in Brussels. The National Socialist regime was determined to persecute him, even though he had fought for Germany in World War I and been permanently disabled. They stepped up their torture and brought Awret before Hartmann, the head of the Gestapo in Brussels. When Hartmann saw her block of drawings, he asked her where she had studied art and halted the interrogation. Awret was placed in a narrow cell and then transferred to Malines camp, which the Belgian's called Mechelen. Malines was a transit camp to Auschwitz, regularly sending 2000 people at a time. Although she arrived just before Transport No. 20, Irène Awret avoided being included. Instead she was put to work in the leather workshop, decorating broaches. While she was there, Hartmann visited the camp and spotted her: "I could have discovered where your father is hiding," he told her. When her artistic talents became known, she was transferred to the Mahlerstube (artist's workshop) where she worked producing graphics for the Germans until the end of the war. When Carol (Karel) Deutsch (whose works are now on view at Yad Vashem) was sent from Mechelen to his death with his wife, he left young Irene his paintbox. Irene also recalls seeing the great painter Felix Nussbaum and his wife being pushed into a boxcar bound for the gas, and tells of the aftermath of the famous 20th Train incident, when a young Jewish doctor armed only with a pistol and helped by two unarmed friends with a lantern ambushed one of Mechelen's Auschwitz-bound trains carrying 1,618 Jews, most of whom had fled Eastern Europe for Belgium. Awret's job enabled her to paint and draw - mainly in pencil, but also in watercolors and oils. In the artists' workshop she met a Jewish refugee from Poland - Azriel Awret...
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1950s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Enamel

Still Life with Chess
Located in Kansas City, MO
Title: Still Life with Chess Materials : Oil on Canvas Date : 1960's Dimensions : 42 1/2 x 31 in. In the late 1960's, Daniel Brennan had a day job loading boxcars for Railway Express. During nights, he would go to a coffee house (Lawrence Gallery and Coffee House, at 43rd and Main St., KCMO), to sit and draw before heading home to paint. The gallery owners, Anne and Sidney Lawrence...
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1960s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Paint, 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.

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.

Browse an extensive collection of figurative paintings on 1stDibs.

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