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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Period: 1920s
Color:  Gray
"Château under the Moon" 1929, 20th Century Oil on Canvas by Joaquín Peinado
Located in Madrid, ES
JOAQUÍN PEINADO Spanish, 1898 - 1975 CHÂTEAU UNDER THE MOON signed "Peinado ´29" (lower right) oil on canvas 13 x 16-1/4 inches (33 x 41 cm.) framed: 2...
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1920s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Boy in Striped Sweater Sits on a Tree Branch, Advertisement, Cream of Wheat, 1929
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Unsigned Advertisement, Cream of Wheat, 1929.
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1920s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

'None but the Brave, ' Liberty Magazine Cover, 1928
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1928 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 20.00" x 16.00" Signature: Signed Lower Left Liberty Magazine Cover 3/31/28
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1920s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Four Men Conversing, Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1927 Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Liberty Magazine Cover, September 24, 1927
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1920s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Boy Reading
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Unsigned
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1920s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

River Seine Banks by René THOMSEN
Located in Pasadena, CA
THOMSEN René Born in Paris in 1897 and died in 1976 in Paris. 20th century. French. Painter of figures, nudes, portraits, landscape, still life, flowers. Pupil of Louis ...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Lovers
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Lovers Painting on canvas / frame Charles Léandre Circa 1925 Signature lower right L 81 cms x h 115 cms
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1920s Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Portrait of Water Bearers, Africa - British 1920's Orientalist art oil painting
Located in London, GB
This superb vibrant Orientalist Post Impressionist oil painting is by noted British artist Gerald Spencer Pryse. It was painted about 1925 when Pryse was visiting Morocco and Norther...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Sheep Shearers, Tangiers - British 1920's Orientalist figurative oil painting
Located in London, GB
This superb vibrant Orientalist Post Impressionist oil painting is by noted British artist Gerald Spencer Pryse. It was painted about 1925 when Pryse was visiting Morocco and Norther...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

"Les Musiciens", 20th Century Oil on Canvas by Spanish Artist Celso Lagar
Located in Madrid, ES
CELSO LAGAR Spanish, 1891 - 1966 LES MUSICIENS signed "Lagar" (lower right) signed again, located & dated "Lagar / Paris 1928" (on the reverse) oil on canvas 23-3/4 x 28-3/4 inches ...
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1920s Fauvist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Pool of my Imagination"
By Charles Frederick Naegele
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautiful oil on canvas painting of a young nude woman sitting on a large rock in a enchanted grotto with two swans. The painting was executed in the 1920's and is in fine original condition. Unlined and housed in its original Stanford White hand carved wood gilt frame. Signed lower left. Provenance: Szynanski Gallery, Beverly Hills; Temple Steel Company, Chicago, Illinois; acquired from the above in 1980. Condition report: Stretcher bar mark center with corresponding light cracks. Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, as a child Naegele moved with his parents to Memphis, where by 1873 he was apprenticed to a tombstone carver at three dollars a week. He also earned money painting...
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1920s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Royal Academy Series-6, Pencil on Paper, Modern Artist Atul Bose "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Atul Bose - Royal Academy Series-6 Pencil on Paper, 15 x 11.2 inches (Unframed Size) 1924-26 (Delivered Unframed in as is condition) Atul Bose was a master artist whose creative journey spanned several decades and left an indelible mark on the Indian art scene. He was born in 1898 in a small village in Bengal and showed an early aptitude for art. Despite facing financial difficulties, he pursued his passion and enrolled in the Government School of Art in Calcutta. Bose's early works were influenced by the Bengal School of Art, which was a movement that sought to revive traditional Indian art forms. However, over time, Bose developed his own unique style that blended elements of Indian art with European modernism. He was particularly influenced by the works of artists like Paul Cezanne and Georges Braque. Bose spent two years, 1924-6, at the Royal Academy. He was heavily influenced there by the post-impressionist Walter Sickert. He refused an invitation to help decorate the pavilion at the British Empire Exhibition in 1924 with Mukul Dey...
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1920s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Pen, Conté, Pencil

Royal Academy Series-4, Conte on Paper, Modern Artist Atul Bose "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Atul Bose - Royal Academy Series-4 Conte on Paper, 15 x 11.2 inches (Unframed Size) 1924-26 (Delivered Unframed in as is condition) Atul Bose was a master artist whose creative journey spanned several decades and left an indelible mark on the Indian art scene. He was born in 1898 in a small village in Bengal and showed an early aptitude for art. Despite facing financial difficulties, he pursued his passion and enrolled in the Government School of Art in Calcutta. Bose's early works were influenced by the Bengal School of Art, which was a movement that sought to revive traditional Indian art forms. However, over time, Bose developed his own unique style that blended elements of Indian art with European modernism. He was particularly influenced by the works of artists like Paul Cezanne and Georges Braque. Bose spent two years, 1924-6, at the Royal Academy. He was heavily influenced there by the post-impressionist Walter Sickert. He refused an invitation to help decorate the pavilion at the British Empire Exhibition in 1924 with Mukul Dey...
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1920s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Pen, Conté

Royal Academy Series-7, Conte on Paper, Modern Artist Atul Bose "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Atul Bose - Royal Academy Series-6 Pencil on Paper, 15 x 11.2 inches (Unframed Size) 1924-26 (Delivered Unframed in as is condition) Atul Bose was a master artist whose creative journey spanned several decades and left an indelible mark on the Indian art scene. He was born in 1898 in a small village in Bengal and showed an early aptitude for art. Despite facing financial difficulties, he pursued his passion and enrolled in the Government School of Art in Calcutta. Bose's early works were influenced by the Bengal School of Art, which was a movement that sought to revive traditional Indian art forms. However, over time, Bose developed his own unique style that blended elements of Indian art with European modernism. He was particularly influenced by the works of artists like Paul Cezanne and Georges Braque. Bose spent two years, 1924-6, at the Royal Academy. He was heavily influenced there by the post-impressionist Walter Sickert. He refused an invitation to help decorate the pavilion at the British Empire Exhibition in 1924 with Mukul Dey...
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1920s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Conté, Ink, Pen, Pencil

Royal Academy Series-4, Conte on Paper, Modern Artist Atul Bose "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Atul Bose - Royal Academy Series-4 Conte on Paper, 15 x 11.2 inches (Unframed Size) 1924-26 (Delivered Unframed in as is condition) Atul Bose was a master artist whose creative journey spanned several decades and left an indelible mark on the Indian art scene. He was born in 1898 in a small village in Bengal and showed an early aptitude for art. Despite facing financial difficulties, he pursued his passion and enrolled in the Government School of Art in Calcutta. Bose's early works were influenced by the Bengal School of Art, which was a movement that sought to revive traditional Indian art forms. However, over time, Bose developed his own unique style that blended elements of Indian art with European modernism. He was particularly influenced by the works of artists like Paul Cezanne and Georges Braque. Bose spent two years, 1924-6, at the Royal Academy. He was heavily influenced there by the post-impressionist Walter Sickert. He refused an invitation to help decorate the pavilion at the British Empire Exhibition in 1924 with Mukul Dey...
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1920s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Pen, Conté

Jacques Lipchitz - Prometheus, Original Gouache Painting
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Lipchitz’s reputation for being a painterly Cubist sculptor is understood through his semi-abstract paintings like “Prometheus”. His use of monochrome gouache to create distorted figures from the negative spaces is distinctive. Jacques Lipchitz was a celebrated Lithuanian-born French sculptor best known for his Cubist works...
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1920s Cubist Figurative Paintings

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Gouache

Women to the pearl necklace - Oil on wood 64x53 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Signed " V. Marendaz " but this artist in unknown from the gallery. Dated 1928 Oil on wood without frame
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1920s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

'The Park' by M. Phidias (circa 1920s)
Located in London, GB
'The Park', oil on canvas, by M. Phidias (circa 1920s). Painted using this artist's trademark impasto, the effect is to add depth and texture to the exuberant display of hues and ref...
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1920s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

'Gazebo Under the Trees in Versailles' by M. Phidias
Located in London, GB
'Gazebo Under the Trees in Versailles', oil on canvas, by M. Phidias (1921). Painted using this artist's trademark impasto, the effect is to add depth and texture to the exuberant di...
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1920s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Confederate Soldiers' Cemetery, Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio Watercolor
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Confederate Soldiers' Cemetery, Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio, 1929 Watercolor on paper Signed and dated lowe...
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1920s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor

Paris, Cafe de la Paix. Oil on canvas, 60x73 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Paris, Cafe de la Paix. Period 1920-1940s. Oil on canvas, 60x73 cm Lucien Adrion (1889-1953) was a French painter known for his depictions of the countryside and bustling street sce...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

The Mischievous Boy
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting an extremely rare, early oil painting by English artist Ernest Procter. Ernest Procter was classically trained and extensively exhibited throughout his lifetime. Procter ...
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1920s Symbolist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

"Under the Parasol", 20th Century Oil on Canvas Attributed to Laureano Barrau
Located in Madrid, ES
ATTRIBUTED TO LAUREANO BARRAU Spanish, 1863 - 1957 UNDER THE PARASOL unsigned oil on canvas 35-1/2 x 26 inches (90 x 66 cm.) framed: 44-1/4 x 35-1/2 in...
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1920s Naturalistic Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Moonlit River Scene", Early 20th Century Oil on Canvas by Luis Graner y Arrufi
By Luis Graner Y Arrufi
Located in Madrid, ES
LUIS GRANER Y ARRUFI Spanish, 1863 - 1929 MOONLIT RIVER SCENE signed and dated "L. Graner, 1925" (lower right) Oil on canvas 20-1/8 X 30 inches (51X 76 cm.) framed: 25-3/4 X 35-3/4 inches (65 X 90.5 cm.) PROVENANCE NEAL AUCTION COMPANY, New Orleans, LA, USA Private Collection, Barcelona Graner paints this work, Moonlit on the river, during his stay in the United States in the last stage of his artistic life, from 1910 to 1928, in full stage of maturity. This artwork reflects the constant search of the artist for the effects of light in his work. This persistent concern for light remains throughout his artistic life, which he learned in his Parisian stage under the influence of the painter Frances Platour. The silver light of the moon and the small lights at distance, which are tiny foci of artificial light, reflecting the river water, forming a chromatic range of greens, ocher and pearly that give a certain mystery to the composition, creating a modern approach to the landscape, by placing the two large trees at the edge of the river in the foreground Luís Graner y Arrufí, Spanish (1863–1929) was a Catalan painter in the Realistic style. He was born in Barcelona, and studied at the Escola de la Llotja from 1883, with Antoni Caba (color/composition) and Benet Mercadé (drawing). During his final year at school, he received a grant to study in Madrid, where he copied and learned from the Old Masters at the Museo del Prado. After that, supported by a fellowship, he moved to Paris and became a member of the Academie des Beaux-Arts. Later, he returned to Barcelona, but continued to travel to cities throughout Europe, including Berlin, Munich and Düsseldorf. Influenced by Richard Wagner's concept of "Gesamtkunstwerk" (Total Work of Art), he was motivated to create his own total art experience and organized the "Sala Mercè" (Mercy Hall) in Barcelona's Rambla District. The project involved contributors from every artistic discipline, including the new field of cinematography. The room was decorated by Antoni Gaudí. Other participants included Adrià Gual, Santiago Rusiñol, Ramon Casas...
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1920s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Interior of Alcazar of Seville", Early 20th Century oil on canvas by F. Liger
Located in Madrid, ES
FERNANDO LIGER HIDALGO Spanish , 1880 – 1945 "Interior of Alcazar of Seville" Signed & located "F. Liger, Sevilla " (lower left) Oil on canvas 2...
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1920s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

LA PRINCESSE LOINTAINE: LES FEMMES DE MILISSINDE
Located in Aventura, FL
Original on Gouache on paper. Hand signed on front; signed, titled, dated with dedication on verso. Stamped "Composition originale". Frame size 30.5 x 26.5 inches. Artwork is in e...
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1920s Art Deco Figurative Paintings

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Gouache

Marine - Tempera on Paper by Lucie Navier - 1927
Located in Roma, IT
Marine is a painting realized by Lucie Navier in the 1927. Tempera on paper. Mint conditions. Impressionistic work realized with a Realistic technique and representing a natural...
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1920s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Tempera

The Prospector at Dusk, Early 20th Century Cowboy w Donkey Figurative Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
A rare figurative for this well-listed California artist of a Nevada mining town landscape with prospector and burro by George Sanders Bickerstaff (American, 1893 - 1954), circa 1920. Signed lower right corner. Presented in patinated gilt-toned wood frame. Image size: 24"H x 30.5"W. Frame size: 32.5"H x 38"W. Bickerstaff was active/lived in California, Arkansas. George Bickerstaff is known for Landscape, coastal views, still life, western painting. Landscape painter. Born in Marianna, Arkansas on April 12, 1893. Bickerstaff was a self-taught artist except for a brief period at the Art Institute of Chicago. He led a peripatetic existence before moving to California in 1922. His early years were spent in San Diego, Los Angeles, and Van Nuys. He exhibited often in the latter with Paul Lauritz. A prolific oil painter of mountain and desert scenes, his landscapes often include eucalypti as well as rolling hills of California wildflowers...
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1920s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

'Caulking the Seams', American Impressionist School Oil, Sailing Boat, Schooner
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
An early twentieth-century, American School oil showing a view of a sailor caulking the seams of a substantial wooden sailing ship with a view beyond towards red-tiled houses beneath...
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1920s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Old Time Football in the 1920s - Football 1920s - Classic Football
Located in Miami, FL
You Got to be a Football Hero to Get Along with a Beautiful Girl. Masterfully composed and dynamic illustration that show a player getting punched in the jaw. During this period, there were no face...
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1920s Academic Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Portrait of Dorothy Thompson (The Wild Rose) - Female Artist
Located in Miami, FL
A charming portrait of a beautiful blue-eyed girl in a pink dress holding flowers in her hand. It's based on Renaissance portraits where the subject is pushed to the foreground and i...
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1920s Academic Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Spiritual paintings, oriental idols painting by Hovsep Pushman.
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
Title: Little God (La Petite Dieu). This painting was displayed March 27th - April 7th , 1928 artist exhibition at Grand Central Art Gallery, New York. Also published exhibition ca...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Hans Bertle (1880 1945) Geburt des Todes, 1924 (Cain and Abel) - Symbolist Oil
By Hans Bertle
Located in Meinisberg, CH
Hans Bertle (Austrian, 1880-1943) Geburt des Todes - Kain und Abel (Birth of Death - Cain und Abel) • Symbolistic painting • Oil on canvas, ca. 62 x 72 cm • Original Frame, ca. 87 ...
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1920s Symbolist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Sunlight and Shade, " Edward Dufner, Lady with a Hat, American Impressionism
Located in New York, NY
Edward Dufner (1872 - 1957) Sunlight and Shade, circa 1920 Oil on artist board 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches Signed upper right With a long-time career as an art teacher and painter of both 'light' and 'dark', Edward Dufner was one of the first students of the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy to earn an Albright Scholarship to study painting in New York. In Buffalo, he had exchanged odd job work for drawing lessons from architect Charles Sumner. He also earned money as an illustrator of a German-language newspaper, and in 1890 took lessons from George Bridgman at the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy. In 1893, using his scholarship, Dufner moved to Manhattan and enrolled at the Art Students League where he studied with Henry Siddons Mowbray, figure painter and muralist. He also did illustration work for Life, Harper's and Scribner's magazines. Five years later, in 1898, Dufner went to Paris where he studied at the Academy Julian with Jean-Paul Laurens and privately with James McNeill Whistler. Verification of this relationship, which has been debated by art scholars, comes from researcher Nancy Turk who located at the Smithsonian Institution two 1927 interviews given by Dufner. Turk wrote that Dufner "talks in detail about Whistler, about how he prepared his canvasas and about numerous pieces he painted. . . A great read, the interview puts to bed" the ongoing confusion about whether or not he studied with Whistler. During his time in France, Dufner summered in the south at Le Pouleu with artists Richard Emil Miller...
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1920s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

East Indian (Impressionist Figure)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Marian D. Harris (1904-1988). East Indian, 1925. Oil on artist's board, 9 x 12 inches; 12 x 15 inches in wood frame. Signed lower right. Annotated on verso by Harris. Signed, titled ...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Panel, Oil

Edwardian Ecclesiastical Gouache Design for Tripytch Above Altar c1920 Art Deco
Located in London, GB
Anonymous Design for Triptych Above Altar British, c. 1920s Gouache 38×28.5cm Christ Pantocrator stands in the middle of the design, surrounded by the four evangelists (Saints Matthew...
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1920s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Gouache

Spring Scattering Stars, Nude allegory scattering stars from a crescent moon
Located in Miami, FL
Spring Scattering Stars is a 1927 Neoclassical painting by American artist Edwin Blashfield. It depicts a nude female allegory of spring on a w...
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1920s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

'Agay, le château et le Sémaphore'. Oil on canvas. Signed.
Located in Paris, FR
'Agay, le château et le Sémaphore'. Oil on canvas. +/- 1922 Signed lower right Measurements : 60 x 73 cm. This painting will be recorded in the second volume of the Catalogue Raisonn...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Snowy Village - Post Impressionist Oil, Winter Landscape by Victor Charreton
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
A wonderful oil on board circa 1920 by sought after French post impressionist painter Victor Charreton, who was known as the painter of colours. The piece depicts a figure walking th...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Santa in the Wind
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Sight Size 28.00" x 24.00;" Framed 36.00" x 31.00" Collier's Magazine Cover,Christmas Edition, December 24th 1921
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1920s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Early 20th Century French Landscape -- Home On The Coast Brittany
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful Brittany, France coastal landscape depicting a cottage and a lone farmer by A. Henry (French, 20th Century),circa 1920. Signed "A. Henry" lower right. Unframed. Image, 16"H...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Moored Boats - Martigues - Impressionist Landscape Oil by Georges Lapchine
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on board landscape circa 1920 by Russian impressionist painter Georges Lapchin. The work depicts moored boats at a port in Martigues in the South of France. It is a bright...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Midsummers Night Dream Large oil painting as a Mural in blues
Located in Brookville, NY
This unsigned ( typical of Edwin Blashfield) canvas depicts a scene from Midsummers Night Dream. Blashfields best known for his Murals, genre, figure and marine paintings. To date his record at auction is for a work even larger than this painting, depicting a battle scene in Missouri "Trumpets of Missouri" which sold for 150,000. Edwin Blashfield died in 1936. Of him it was written: "Along with William Morris Hunt...
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1920s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

20th Century Painting of a Hungarian Winter Wonderland Forest River Snow Scene
Located in Preston, GB
Early 20th Century Painting of a Hungarian Winter Wonderland Forest River Snow Scene. Art measures 23.5 x 19.5 inches Frame measures 30 x 26 inches Laszlo Neogrady was a Hungarian painter best known for his naturalistic depictions of rustic landscape scenes, often featuring peasants and snow-covered forests. Neogrady notably made extensive use of impasto paint and atmospheric colours, achieving a sense of pictorial depth and light in his work. Born in 1896 in Budapest, Hungary as the son of painter Antal Neogrady, he went on to study at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts under the celebrated portrait artist Ede Ballo. Today, Neogrady’s works are found in the collections of the Iowa State...
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1920s Land Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Cotton Canvas, Varnish

A Cloudy Day, English Impressionist River Landscape with figure and cottage
Located in Woodbury, CT
A Cloudy Day, English Impressionist River Landscape with figure and cottage, circa 1922. Alexander Fuller Maitland painted coastal subjects and marines. Exhibited thirteen works, in...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Chevaux, 1928 - huile sur toile, 54x73 cm.
By Peter Pálffy
Located in Nice, FR
Huile sur panneau par Peter Pàlffy, représentant des chevaux. Dimensions avec le cadre: 77x99 cm Peter Pallfy est un peintre autrichien du XX siècle que a...
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1920s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Carrot Top
Located in Lawrence, NY
Margery Ryerson was a pupil of Charles Hawthorne at the Cape School of Art in Provincetown, MA and with Robert Henri at the Art Students League in New York. For a twenty-year perio...
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1920s Ashcan School Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Jewish Family Wintery Swiss Town
Located in London, GB
JAKOB STEINHARDT 1887-1968 Zerków, Germany 1887-1968 Nahariya, Israel (German/Israeli) Title: Jewish Family Wintery Swiss Town, circa 1920/30 Technique: Hand Signed Double-sided ...
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1920s Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Study for Irish Liberty
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Unsigned The present work is a study for the cover of the March 18, 1922 cover of The Saturday Evening Post.
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1920s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The Chef and the Wedding Cake, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil Painting Signature: Signed Lower Left Satuday Evening Post Cover, May 30, 1925.
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1920s Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Cream of Wheat Ad
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Unsigned "Energy To Meet The Languid Moods Of Spring" Cream of Wheat Ad
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1920s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Girl in Pink Robe Sitting on a Bed
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Unsigned “She Needs You So!” Magazine advertisement: Cream of Wheat hot cereal, 1927;
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1920s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The Exquisite Perdita
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Right
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1920s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The Snoring Brother
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left Cover Illustration: March 5, 1921 of The Country Gentleman.
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1920s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Harlequin. 1923, oil on canvas, 40x53 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Harlequin. 1923, oil on canvas, 40x53 cm Jekabs Bine (1895 11 04 Riga – 1955 24 10 Riga) painter, glass artist, teacher and writer of art critics. His ar...
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1920s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Rhythms. Stage. 1927, paper, watercolor, 41x28 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Rhythms. Stage. 1927, paper, watercolor, 41x28 cm Women figures, watercolor on paper. Adolfs Zardins (1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latv...
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1920s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

House Enchanted
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed on the Back House Enchanted
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1920s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Woman in Red
Located in Buffalo, NY
Alexander O. Levy was a painter, illustrator, printmaker and designer who was born in 1881 in Bonn, Germany. He died in 1946 in Buffalo, New York. At age three, he was brought to ...
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1920s Ashcan School Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Figurative Paintings for Sale

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