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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Period: 1970s
Color:  Gray
Sir Henry
Located in Wien, 9
Ludwig Schwarzer formulates a highly independent work, bizarre in content and marked by perfection in craftsmanship. After realistic and later expressionist attempts, he found his ow...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Pose
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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1970s Conceptual Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

Impressionistic Street Scene with Figures in Aloupak Crimea by Russian Artist
By Anatoliy Lukash
Located in Preston, GB
Impressionistic Street Scene with Figures in Aloupak Crimea by Russian Artist. Anatoliy Lukash was born in 1956 and is based in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. He is a well-established pai...
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1970s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Canvas Painting - Profile Landscape 438.045
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Landscape 438.045 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Canvas Painting Profile Landscape 438.045 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collages and p...
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1970s Feminist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Canvas Painting - Profile Landscape 438.044
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Landscape 438.044 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Canvas Painting Profile Landscape 438.044 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collages and p...
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1970s Feminist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Canvas Painting - Profile Preliminary 427.009
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Preliminary 427.009 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Canvas Painting Profile Preliminary 427.009 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collages a...
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1970s Feminist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Canvas Painting - Profile Preliminary 427.019
Located in New York, NY
Profile Preliminary 427.019 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Canvas Painting Profile Preliminary 427.019 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collages and paintings ...
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1970s Feminist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic Canvas Painting Profile Compartmentalized 415.032
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Compartmentalized 415.032 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic on Canvas Painting Profile Compartmentalized 415.032 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings...
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1970s Feminist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Landscape - Oil Painting by Giorgio Zanini - 1973
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an artwork realized by Giorgio Zanini in 1973. Mixed colored oil on canvas. Hand signed and dated on the lower margin. Mint conditions (...
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Ljuba Petrović ( Serbian, 1928 ) Busy Winter Landscape Oil Painting Serbia 1973
Located in Meinisberg, CH
Ljuba Petrović (Serbian, 1928) Busy Winter Landscape • Oil on artist board / thick card • Alluminium frame ca. 35 x 77 cm • Visible image ca. 20.5 x 62.5 cm • Signed and dated lower right (19)73 • Good, untouched original condition Ljuba Petrović is a Serbian painter born in 1928 in Nis, ex Yugoslavia / now Serbia. Originally an agricultural worker, he later worked as a painter decorator and served as a town hall official in his native Nis. He went on to create frescos, wall paintings and small paintings, which after joining local exhibitions, he exhibited in 1973 in Geneva, Switzerland and in the eighties successfully in Paris, at the Salon International d'Art Naïf. Petrović is a typical representative of the Yugoslave naïve school of painting...
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1970s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

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Board, Oil

At the Beach - Tempera and Watercolor by Aldo Riso - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
At the beach is an artwork realized by Aldo Riso. Mixed colored tempera and watercolor painting. Titled on lower left. Frame included: 70.5 x 91.5 cm This beautiful mixed media...
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor, Tempera

Barcelona urbanscape Rambla de les Flors oil on burlap painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Joan Joseph Garí (1922) - Rambla de las flores Barcelona - Oil on burlap Oil measures 33x41 cm. Frameless. Painter born in Granollers in 1922. Trained in his hometown and at the Sch...
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1970s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Burlap

Character Study
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed 'NORMAN/ROCKWELL' bottom right; also dedicated 'My very best wishes/to/Sir Jay Chernis/Cordially/Norman Rockwell/November 3rd/1975' verso The present work belonged to Sir Jay...
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1970s Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Post Impressionist Tuscan Figurative Painting 20th century oil canvas
Located in Florence, IT
The painting (oil on canvas, 40 x 29,8 cm; with wood frame 61 x 51 cm) represents two lovers. It's signed M Maccari on the bottom right. Mino Maccari was a satirical artist and journ...
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1970s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Vesuvius, Naples - Mixed Media on Paper - 1970ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Vesuvius, Naples is an original painting realized in 1970ca. by Anonymous artist in the 1970s. Mixed media on paper In good conditions. The subject of this artwork is a colorful...
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media, Paint

"Ribbon" Extra-Large Contemporary Landscape Painting By American Martin Hoffman
Located in Frederiksberg C, DK
Introducing "Ribbon," an extraordinary painting from the "Jersey Meadow Series" by Martin Hoffman in the 1970s. From the 1970s onwards, Hoffman's career showcased a masterful combination of beautiful painting techniques and challenging subject matter. This contemporary painting depicts an abandoned landscape with a hypnotic blue plastic ribbon at its center. Hoffman's landscape creates an almost mesmerizing effect, where the subject matter of destruction and decay is presented poetically. The warm shades of grey with hints of blue, brown, and purple create a limited yet powerful palette that enhances the melancholic beauty of the painting. The painting measures 151cm x 202cm / 59.5in x 79.5in and is signed 'Martin Hoffman' on the reverse side of the canvas. It is titled 'Ribbon' and is dated '73.' Additionally, the artist specifies that the painting is part of the 'Jersey Meadow Series.' It is ready to hang and comes with a silver-painted frame. The condition of the painting is great, with hardly any signs of wear. The frame has a few scratches but is otherwise in good condition. Artist Bio: Martin Hoffman was a versatile artist and illustrator, mostly known for his paintings. He was a self-taught painter and a gifted drummer who had worked as an art director for the Miami News, Graphic Arts Inc., and Steiner & Wall Advertising. In 1973, Martin Hoffman landed his first solo exhibition at the OK Harris...
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Seascape with Flock of Ducks
Located in Soquel, CA
Tranquil seascape with a large flock of migrating Redhead ducks in flight by California artist Dan Findlay (American, 20th Century). Signed "Dan Findlay" lower right. Presented in a ...
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1970s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

Sun Flower - Oil Painting by Claude Deschamps - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Sun Flower is a painting realized by Claude Decamps in the 1970s Oil painting on cardboard canvas. Hand-signed on the lower. Good conditions. The ar...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

WATTS TOWER
By Gloria Stuart
Located in Santa Monica, CA
GLORIA STUART (1910 – 2010) WATTS TOWERS, 1971 Oil on canvas, signed lower right, 24” x 50 ½”. Gloria Stuart, an Academy Award nominated actress was also a painter, illustrator and printmaker. She most recently portrayed Rose in the blockbuster film “Titanic”. She was a Santa Monica native. In 2013 The Los Angeles Museum of Art, LACMA exhibited a nearly identical painting looking from the south, the same size and frame. Last 5 photos show the example at LACMA. One shows theirs in a distant room with a major Thomas Hart Benton painting in the foreground A VERY IMPORTANT MULTI-LEVELED DOCUMENT OF LOS ANGELES AND HOLLYWOOD CULTURAL HSTORYi The following is from her obituary in the Los Angeles Times upon her death in September 2010 at the age of 100 Gloria Stuart, a 1930s Hollywood leading lady who earned an Academy Award nomination for her first significant role in nearly 60 years — as Old Rose, the centenarian survivor of the Titanic in James Cameron’s 1997 Oscar-winning film — has died. She was 100. .......She devoted much of her time to designing and printing artists’ books (handmade, letter-press printed books in limited editions, with her own artwork and writing). Her work is in the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and other museums. Stuart, a founding member of the Screen Actors Guild who later became an accomplished painter and fine printer, died Sunday night at her West Los Angeles home, said her daughter, writer Sylvia Thompson. Stuart had been diagnosed with lung cancer five years ago. “She also was a breast cancer survivor,” Thompson said, “but she just paid no attention to illness. She was a very strong woman and had other fish to fry.” In July the actress was honored at an “Academy Centennial Celebration With Gloria Stuart” at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. “She was a charming and beautiful leading lady in the ‘30s, and I never understood why her career didn’t go further at that time,” film historian and critic Leonard Maltin, who interviewed Stuart on stage at the event, told The Times on Monday. As for Stuart’s high-profile comeback in “Titanic”: “She was thrilled by the attention that that performance brought her and really wanted to win that Oscar. I thought she hit just the right notes in that performance. She was wry and engaging.” As a glamorous blond actress under contract to Universal Studios and 20th Century Fox in the 1930s, Stuart appeared opposite Claude Rains in James Whale’s “The Invisible Man” and with Warner Baxter in John Ford’s “The Prisoner of Shark Island.” She also appeared with Eddie Cantor in “Roman Scandals,” with Dick Powell in Busby Berkeley’s “Gold Diggers of 1935” and with James Cagney in “Here Comes the Navy.” And she played romantic leads in two Shirley Temple movies, “Poor Little Rich Girl” and “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.” But mostly she played what Stuart later dismissed as “stupid parts with nothing to do” — “girl reporter, girl detective, girl nurse” — and “it became increasingly evident to me I wasn’t going to get to be a big star like Katharine Hepburn and Loretta Young.” After making 42 feature films between 1932 and 1939, Stuart’s latest studio contract, with 20th Century Fox, was not renewed. She appeared in only four films in the 1940s and retired from the screen in 1946. By 1974, “the blond lovely of the talkies” had become an entry in one of Richard Lamparski’s “Whatever Happened to” books. Writer-director Cameron’s $200-million “Titanic” changed that. Stuart played Rose Calvert, the 100-year-old Titanic survivor who shows up after modern-day treasure hunters searching through the wreckage of the sunken ship find a charcoal drawing of her wearing a priceless blue diamond necklace. Stuart’s performance as Old Rose frames the 1997 romantic- drama that starred Leonardo DiCaprio as lower-class artist Jack Dawson...
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1970s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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1970s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Lithograph

Figurative Nude with Swan Circular Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
"Leda" Circular Oil on Canvas Figurative Nude with Swan Detailed painting of Nude and Swan by Jose Garcia Arroyo. Jose is form Northwestern Mexico and sett...
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1970s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

'Green Village Market, Bleecker Street', Manhattan, New York, Grisaille Diptych
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A very large American School diptych showing this vintage Greenwich Village landmark with various pedestrians passing by as an assistant arranges the produce...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Visiting the Sick, Modernist Israeli Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Avant-Garde Subject: Figures Medium: Oil Surface: Canvas Country: Israel Dimensions: 13.25" x 16.25" Dimensions w/Frame: 21.5" x 24.5" Avraham Ofek (August 14, 1935 – January 13, 1990) was an Israeli sculptor, muralist, painter and printmaker. Avraham Ofek was born in Burgas, Bulgaria. He immigrated to Israel in 1949, and he lived in Ein Hamifratz, a kibbutz near Haifa. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, as well as in Spain and in London, and later taught art in Jerusalem before being appointed head of the Art Department at the University of Haifa. He was one of the founders of the Leviathan group. He represented Israel at the Venice Biennale in 1972. Avraham Ofek's early paintings of landscape were at both lyrical and rugged; later in his career the landscape was undefined and receded into the background. Near the end of his life, the landscape of Jerusalem became an important motif, reflecting loss and despair. Many of Ofek's landscapes convey a sense of alienation and solitude, as well as nostalgia for the city of his birth, Sofia. His murals can be seen across Israel, notably at Kfar Uria and the Central Post Office Building (Jerusalem). His sculpture "The Binding of Isaac" is on view at the entrance to Safra Square. In 1989 the Jerusalem Print...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Flowers With Butterflies - Oil Painting by Claude Decamps - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Flowers With Butterflies is a painting realized by Claude Decamps in the 1970s Oil painting on cardboard canvas. Hand-signed on the lower. Good condi...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

"Wait" Snow, Winter, Oil cm. 50 x 33 1971
Located in Torino, IT
Horses, Countryside, Winter,snow,horse, sled LEONID VAICHLIA (St. Petersburg, 1922) Works by Leonid Vaichlia can be found in various private collections in Europe, Japan, United S...
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1970s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Figures on a frozen lake with castle, fishing boats, skaters, horses and a storm
Located in Woodbury, CT
Dutch Style scene of people on a frozen lake. Oils on canvas which has been laid down onto aboard. Framed in a Vintage American gold frame. Possibly an Italian painter working ...
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1970s Victorian Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Baigneuse a Trouville - Cubist Oil, Nudes in Landscape by Camille Hilaire
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on canvas of figures in a landscape by French cubist painter Camile Hilaire. The piece beautifully depicts three nude bathers - two blonde and one brunette - resting on th...
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1970s Cubist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

A Forgotten Flying Machine - Oil on Canvas - Romanian French Surrealism
Located in London, GB
JULES PERAHIM 1914-2008 Bucharest 1914-2008 Paris (Romanian) Title: A Forgotten Flying Machine Une machine volante oubliée, 1978 Technique: Signed, Da...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Flowers - Oil Paint by Carlo Corsetti - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Flowers is an original modern artwork realized by Carlo Corsetti in the 1970s. Mixed colored oil painting on canvas. Includes frame (fair conditions): 70 x 5 x 58 cm Hand signed o...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

By the bath. watercolor on paper, 48, 5x58, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
By the bath. watercolor on paper, 48,5x58,5 cm Zeberins Indrikis Born 1882. 30. 08 – 1969. 18. 05 Latvian painter, book illustrator, cartoon illus...
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1970s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Au Lac. Large Naive Acrylic on Board.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Large Naïve acrylic on board attributed to a French artist named Le Bris as the work was bought with another painting signed by the artist. The painting is presented in a gilt wooden baton frame. Naïve art is often seen as outsider art that is by someone without formal (or little) training or degree. While this was true before the twentieth century, there are now academies for naïve art. Naïve art is now a fully recognized art genre, represented in art galleries worldwide. The characteristics of naïve art have a challenging relationship to the formal qualities of painting, especially as they tend not to respect the three rules of the perspective (such as defined by the Progressive Painters of the Renaissance): 1. Decrease of the size of objects proportionally with distance, 2. Muting of colours with distance, 3. Decrease of the precision of details with distance. The results are: Effects of perspective are geometrically erroneous (distinctive aspect of the works, like the drawing of a child...
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1970s Outsider Art Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic, Panel

Indonesian Atmosphere - Original Batik - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Indonesian Atmosphere is an original artwork realized in 1970s by Anonymous balinese artist. Batik on paper. The state of preservation of the artwork is good except for some foxin...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Ink, Paper

Spring in the forest. 1978, oil on cardboard, 50x35 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Spring in the forest. 1978, oil on cardboard, 50x35 cm Landscape with trees at spring Valiahmetov Amir Hasnulovitch (1927 07 01 Kazan - 2014 Moscow) He graduated a Art Institut of M...
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1970s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Cardboard

Up the Avenue, Geometrical Ovoid Abstract Acrylic & Collage Cityscape
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Up the Avenue, 1979 Acrylic and collage on paper Signed and dated lower right 15 x 11 inches A surrealist mid-century figural abstract...
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1970s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic, Mixed Media

Vestales
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
The Vestal Virgins (Vestals). Oil on canvas. Signed lower left. Certificate is available
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1970s Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Ablaze, Ovoid Faces Looking Through Geometrical Windows
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Ablaze, 1973-79 Acrylic and collage on scintilla Signed and dated lower left 30 x 22 inches A surrealist mid-century figural abstract...
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1970s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

'Cowboy Joe', Bay Area Abstraction Oil, Woman Artist, Smithsonian, SFAA, Western
By Lida Giambastiani
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Giambastiani' for Lida Marian Casentini Giambastiani (American, 1911-1973) and painted circa 1965. We are pleased to offer a large and powerful oil painting that...
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1970s Abstract Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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1970s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Lithograph

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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1970s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Lithograph

Quadratic, Mid-Century Ovoid Figural Abstract Acrylic & Collage with faces
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Quadratic, 1979 Acrylic and collage on textured paper Signed and dated lower right 30 x 22 inches 31.5 x 23.5 inches, framed A surreal...
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1970s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

Coronel Retirado y Su Amante Esposa (Cuban Artist)
By Felipe Orlando
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Felipe Orlando (Cuban-Mexican, 1911-2001). Coronel Retirado y su Amante Esposa, ca. 1970. Ink and gouache on paper with heavily built up layers of textured ground. Measures 13 1/4 x 18 3/8 inches. Signed lower left. Original label affixed on verso. Excellent condition. Unframed. An anthropologist as well as a painter and engraver, Orlando, whose full name was Felipe Orlando Garcia Murciano, studied at the University of Havana and at the painting workshop of Jorge Arche and Víctor Manuel. He was a founding member of the Asociación de Pintores y Escultores de Cuba (APEC) and a professor at the Universidad de las Américas and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, both in Mexico City. His style is influenced by the Afro-Cuban movement and pre-columbian art...
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1970s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Ink, Gouache

Polyptych - Acrylic Painting by James B. Paget - 1975
Located in Roma, IT
Polyptych. 9-Panel Acrylic Paintings. Based on 'The Book of Genesis' by James B Paget. Created in 1975. 11 sample pictures of the paintings are attached. The first sample pictu...
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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1970s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Lithograph

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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1970s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Lithograph

Female figure woman oil on canvas painting portrait
By Joan Palet
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Joan Palet (1911 - 1996) - Female figure - Oil on canvas Oil measures 46x38 cm. Frame measures 70x62 cm. Joan Palet was born in Barcelona on March 28, 1911 in a family of sculptors ...
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1970s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Landscape with mountains, south of France. Oil on cardboard on canvas, 38x53 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Landscape with mountains, south of France. Oil on cardboard on canvas, 38x53 cm
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1970s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

Solitude
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas Golden wooden frame 66.5 x 56.6 x 3.5 cm
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1970s Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Oregon Trail, Vintage 1970s Western Figural Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Evocative oil painting of pioneers traveling by wagon train across the vast western plains by California artist Harry Roerade (American 1908-1987), circa 1...
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1970s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Dancers Resting - Mid-Late 20th Century Impressionist of Ballet by Frank Hill
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Frank Hill is a professional artist living and working in North Norfolk. He studied art at Waltham Forest School of Art and later at St Martins School of Art. Frank’s professional c...
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1970s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media, Board, Oil, Charcoal

Spirit with Horns - Abstracted Figurative Composition in Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful abstracted surreal figure of a spirit by Michael Eggleston (American, 20th Century). This piece is bold and lively, with bright colors and rich blacks. This horned spirit i...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Paper, India Ink

The Goddess Kali Appears to a Hunter - Balinese Ubud Painting Mask Dance
Located in Soquel, CA
Incredibly detailed depiction of the goddess Kali appearing before a hunter by Konci (Balinese, 20th Century). Overflowing with details and imagery, this piece depicts the goddess Kali in the forest along with other godlike figures. A hunter is kneeling before them, wearing a quiver, and with hands folded in prayer. Kali is depicted in a traditional Balinese style, but with a multitude of faces engulfed in flames. The jungle background is full of swirling plants. Signed "Konci" in the lower right corner. Cloth wrapped around wood panel. Unframed. Image size: 35"H x 25.5"W This carved, wooden mask represents the mythical creature known in Bali as Banaspati Raja, meaning “King of the Forest,” also called the Barong Ket. Lion-like masks such as this one are the most common type, but Barong can take on the features of a number of different animals, including wild boar, dog, deer, and tiger, individually or in composite form. In Balinese society, all Barong masks...
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1970s Tribal Figurative Paintings

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Cotton Canvas, Acrylic, Wood Panel

'Old Fishing Boat', Italian Tuscan School
Located in London, GB
'Old Fishing Boat', oil on canvas, Italian Tuscan School, (1972). Glimmering reflections on the water outline the hull of an old fishing boat in the port...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Impressionist English 20th century Windmill landscapes and sailboat in Norfolk
Located in Woodbury, CT
English Impressionist windmill landscape, with sail boats, in Norfolk UK Keith Arthur Johnson was born at South Pickenham, Swaffham, Norfolk in 1931, son of James Arthur Johnson (9 February 1895-1982), a farmer, and his wife Florence May née Wiles (9 May 1900-1996), who married in the Freebridge Lynn district of Norfolk in 1927 and in 1939 were living at Manor Farm, Tottenhill, Downham, Norfolk. Keith painted from an early age and after attending Fakenham Grammar School, he attended Norwich School of Art from 1946, where apart from general studies, he specialized in fabric design which heightened his color awareness and composition sense. His studies were interrupted by National Service in the RAF after which studied for teacher training at Liverpool School of Art obtaining a National Diploma in Design and an Art Teachers Diploma, also studying various printing methods and Art History attached to Liverpool University. Keith returned to Norwich School of Art for more studies, including life classes and portrait painting and from 1951 went to Lowestoft Art School to lecture in Design classes and teach fabric design, including weaving. Whilst at Lowestoft he met fellow lecturers, Tom Hudson (1922-1997), Jeffery Camp...
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1970s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Colorful Purple, Pink, & Green Modern Portrait of Man Playing Billiards or Pool
By Gerald Garston
Located in Houston, TX
Colorful modern figurative portrait of a man playing billiards or pool by Connecticut artist Gerald Garston. The work features a man in a blue bowler ha...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Impressionist English 20th century still life of White and yellow flowers
Located in Woodbury, CT
Impressionist English 20th century still life of off white and White flowers Keith Arthur Johnson was born at South Pickenham, Swaffham, Norfolk in 1931, son of James Arthur Johnson...
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1970s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Act. 1978. Canvas, oil, 66x86 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Act. 1978. Canvas, oil, 66x86 cm In this painting viewer can see beautiful young woman depicted nude. Woman is lying on soft orange surface and smiling. There is few sun rays on her knee. Painting nude figure artist wanted this work to feel timeless. Information about artist...
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1970s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Rome from the Pincio - Painting by Mario Evangelisti - 1973
Located in Roma, IT
Rome from the Pincio is an orginal modern artwork realized in 1973 by the Italian artist Mario Evangelisti. Mixed colore oil painting on canvas. Ha...
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1970s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

In the Studio, Large Painting by John Winslow
Located in Long Island City, NY
A large (48 x 48 inch) painting of a scene in the art studio by American artist John Winslow (1938 - ).
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1970s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Figurative Paintings for Sale

Figurative art, as opposed to abstract art, retains features from the observable world in its representational depictions of subject matter. Most commonly, figurative paintings reference and explore the human body, but they can also include landscapes, architecture, plants and animals — all portrayed with realism.

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