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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Period: 1990s
Color:  Gray
Nude Figure Study, Standing Female Figure with Sage Green
Located in Soquel, CA
Nude Figure Study, Standing Female Figure with Sage Green Figure study of a nude model in studio by Los Gatos, California artist M.Z. Murphy (American, 20th century), c.1990. The f...
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1990s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

"windy summer day" Ukraine, River, Sunflowers, Summer Oil cm. 100 x 97 1998
Located in Torino, IT
Sunflowers, Countryside, River, Yellow, Sky, Clouds, Ukraine Georgij MOROZ (Dneprodzerzinsk, Ukraine, 1937 - St. Petersburg, 2015) MUSEUMS Moscow, Tret’jakov Gallery Moscow, USSR Ar...
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1990s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Original Acrylic Abstract Figurative Painting on Paper
Located in Columbus, OH
Simplified drawing that expertly captures the expression of the person. Inscribed 'Berlin' below signature Artist bio: Influenced by German Expressionism and graffiti elements, Keil...
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1990s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

Abstract Portrait acrylic painting on paper
Located in Columbus, OH
Simplified drawing that expertly captures the expression of the person. Inscribed 'Berlin' below signature Artist bio: Influenced by German Expressionism and graffiti elements, Keil...
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1990s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

'Barbershop Designs', Kumasi, Accra, Ghana, Jah Bless, African Hair Styles, Folk
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A whimsical and unique, Ghanaian barbershop haircut board signed, upper left, 'Joe Addai' (Ghanaian, 20th century), inscribed 'City Boy Artworks, Kumasi' and ...
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1990s Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Still life in the studio, oil painting by Pierre Coquet
Located in Montfort l’Amaury, FR
Still life in the studio, oil painting by Pierre Coquet Reference number F487 Framed with a natural oak floated frame 50 x 73 x 2 cm (55 x 78 x 3,5 cm frame included) This work is pa...
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1990s French School Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Contemporary British Abstract Original Painting Swirly Town Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Composition signed by Sally Vaughan (contemporary) dated 89' gouache painting on card, unframed measurements: 12 x 11 inches condition: very good provenance: from a large pr...
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1990s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Gouache

Contemporary British Abstract Original Painting Modernist Head Studies
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Composition by Sally Vaughan (contemporary) gouache painting on card, unframed measurements: 10 x 10 inches condition: very good provenance: from a large private collection ...
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1990s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Gouache

Contemporary British Abstract Original Painting Surrealist Figures Pyramids
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Composition by Sally Vaughan (contemporary) gouache painting on card, unframed measurements: 6 x 8 inches condition: very good provenance: from a large private collection o...
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1990s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Gouache

20th century Modern British , Henley Regatta, Rowing scene on the Thames UK
Located in Woodbury, CT
Choosing a contemporary English Impressionist figure painting inspired by Philip Wilson Steer, specifically capturing the Henley Regatta ...
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1990s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Ikebana Memories-2, Mixed Media on Paper "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Sanat Kar - Ikebana Memories-2 22 x 19 inches (unframed size) Mixed Media on Paper 1991 Style: Majority of Sanat Kar's works are surrealistic and have a curious dream-like appearan...
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1990s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media, Tempera

Rome - Drawing by Viktor T - 1997
Located in Roma, IT
Rome is an original artwork realized in 1997 by Viktor T.  Tempera and Watercolor on paper that offers a view of Rome on Castel Sant'Angelo and the Church San Pietro in Vatican. 40...
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1990s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Tempera, Watercolor

Untitled, Brush on Paper, Black, White Color by Paritosh Sen "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Paritosh Sen - Untitled ( Woman with the Cat) Brush on Paper 7 x 5.6 inches, 1992 ( Framed & Delivered ) A stunning work in colors on "red ,Blue Gold in Acrylic on Board , By teh Gr...
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1990s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper

Untitled, Pen & Ink on Paper, Black, White Color by Paritosh Sen "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Paritosh Sen - Untitled ( Woman at the Tube Well ) Pen & Ink on Paper 8.6 x 11 inches, 1992 ( Framed & Delivered ) A stunning work in colors on "red ,Blue Gold in Acrylic on Board ,...
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1990s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Pen

Joseph Maresca Encaustic Wax Oil Painting and Tile On Board Still Life w Fruit
Located in Surfside, FL
Joseph Maresca (American, b. 1946). Still life rendering on wood mounted tiles. Flowers, Plant and fruits. Green X Ray Oil and wax encaustic on tile Gallery label and hanging wire at back. Dimensions: Height: 12 inches / 30.48 cm Width: 12 inches / 30.48 cm This one is not signed but its companion piece is hand signed and dated in black pigment verso. I am selling them individually but they make a lovely pair. Joseph Maresca was born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1946, and currently resides in Rhinecliff, Rhinebeck, NY. He received his BFA in industrial design from Pratt Institute, and a master’s degree in arts education from New York University. His paintings and drawings have been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums, including the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Katonah Museum of Art, and even the White House—in honor of his design for an official White House tree ornament depicting Vanderbilt Mansion. Academically, Maresca has taught as an adjunct professor at New York University and at City University of New York, and has authored a book—WPA Buildings: Architecture and Art of the New Deal (2017)—about the influence of Works Project Administration architecture. The book examines the social impact on American cities of the imposing government buildings that were funded by the WPA to restore public confidence during the Great Depression. Maresca has been represented by Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson, NY and Michelle Rosenfeld Gallery in New York City. Education BFA Pratt Institute, New York, NY MFA NYU, New York, NY Solo Exhibitions 2010 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY 2006 Lascano Gallery, Gt. Barrington, MA 2004 Haddad Lascano Gallery, Gt. Barrington, MA 2002 Michelle Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY 1992 Zimmerman -Saturn Gallery, Nashville, TN OK Harris Gallery, Birmingham, MI 1991 OK Harris Gallery, New York, NY Zimmerman -Saturn Gallery, Nashville, TN OK Harris Gallery, Birmingham, MI 1990 Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York, NY 1987 Richard Green Gallery...
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1990s Figurative Paintings

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Wax, Encaustic, Oil

'Assemblées', Figures In Motion, Oil on Paper on Board.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Abstract impressionist oil on paper on board by French artist Chantal Payet. Signed and dated April '96 to the reverse. An interesting and challenging Abstract Impressionist work in...
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1990s Abstract Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Oil, Board

FLOWERS
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
oil on canvas, ready to hang I can do commissioned work of any technique, style and size, contact us without obligation
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1990s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Petite Marine Grise by Hugues Pissarro dit Pomié - Oil painting, Landscape
Located in London, GB
Petite Marine Grise by Hugues Pissarro dit Pomié (b. 1935) Oil on canvas 92 x 73 cm (36 ¼ x 28 ¾ inches) Signed lower right, Hugues Pissarro dit Pomié Titled, signed and dated on rev...
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1990s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The Barn. Contemporary Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Early work was impressionistic and hard abstract. Carola later developed a more mature way of working in a colourful exploration of the subject. Colour was her main interest and she...
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1990s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Charcoal, Oil, Gouache

Untitled
Located in Miami, FL
Beautiful watercolor painting by the artist Roberto Fabelo. Roberto Fabelo (born 1951 Camagüey, Cuba) is a contemporary painter, sculptor, and illustrator. Born in Guáimaro, Camagüey, Fabelo studied at The National Art School and at the Superior Art Institute of Havana. He was a professor and a jury member for very important national and international visual arts contests. The Cuban state awarded him a medal for National Culture and the Alejo Carpentier medal for his outstanding artistic career. Fabelo’s art consists of nude women, who often appear with bird-like features, including a beak and wings. He drew in textbooks and created figures out of the pictures already in the textbook. Another example of his art was watercolor markers used to draw on silk embroidered fabric. His work is exhibited at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Havana, and in the Cuban embassy in Mexico. His 2009 sculpture of a group of human-headed cockroaches can be found climbing one of the walls of the Havana Fine Arts Museum, entitled Survival. He also illustrated a 2007 edition of Gabriel García Márquez’s novel Cien años de...
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1990s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor, Laid Paper

Neige - Le Château d'Eau d'Arromanches by Hugues Pissarro dit Pomié
Located in London, GB
*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 20% VAT ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE Neige - Le Château d'Eau d'Arromanches by Hugues Pissarro dit Pomié (B. 1935) Oil on canvas 100 x 81 cm (39 ³/₈ x...
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1990s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Untitled, Mixed Media Paper Pasted on Board, Red, Blue by Paritosh Sen"In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Paritosh Sen - Untitled 22 x 20.9 inches (unframed size), 1992 Mixed Media Paper Pasted on Board ( Unframed & Delivered ) A stunning work in colors on "red ,Blue Gold in Acrylic on ...
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1990s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paste, Paper, Mixed Media, Board

Fruits, maïs et raisins
Located in LE HAVRE, FR
Arthur VAN HECKE (1924-2003) Fruits, maïs et raisins Oil on canvas Size: 81 x 100cm Signed lower right Painting in perfect condition, sold unframed. Origin: - Artist's studio - Mar...
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1990s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Dutch Girl Contemporary Portrait of a Child
By Kiki Lamers
Located in Brookville, NY
Woman artist Kiki Lamers portrait of a Young Girl is Signed and dated with title on the reverse the painting "Dutch Girl" by Kiki Lamers is framed in a silv...
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1990s Dutch School Figurative Paintings

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Oil

'Jazz Figures', San Francisco Bay Area Woman Artist, Post-Impressionist
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed, verso, 'Carole Hand' (American, 20th century), dated March, 1998, and titled, 'AEC, ST, C.O.D.'. A large mixed-media figural collage and painting comprising jazz musicians, possibly members of the Art Ensemble of Chicago. This San Francisco Bay area...
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1990s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas, Paper

Mourning woman oil on board painting impressionist
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Joan Vives Maristany (XX) - Woman in mourning - Oil on panel Oil measures 25x13.5 cm. Frameless.
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1990s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Board, Oil

Port Lligat Cadaques Spain oil on canvas painting spanish seascape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Francisco Carbonell Massabe (1928) - Port Lligat Cadaques - Oil on canvas Oil measures 65x81 cm. Frameless.
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1990s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Blue grey Yankel Contemporary painting figurative art blue colour portrait
Located in Paris, FR
Gouache on paper Unique work Hand-signed lower right by the artist
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1990s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

San Fermin Pamplona Spain oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Juan Soler (1951) - San Fermin - Oil on canvas Canvas measures 46x55 cm. Frameless. He was born in 1951. Under the direction of the master Pedro Bermejo, he began his artistic career, quickly highlighting and observing in his works an unusual mastery of drawing. A very mature painter who has known how to stop time in all his works. His themes are preferably costumbristas although in his work the usual thing is to see eight century themes, with horse carriages, hats, umbrellas and still lifes. Observing his work reminds us, by the subject, of Maestro Palmero...
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1990s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Floating Woman - Paint by Sergio Barletta - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Floating Woman is a painting artwork, realized by Sergio Barletta in 1974. Tempera and white lead on cardboard. Hand-signed on the lower margin. Good conditions with foxing on t...
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1990s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Tempera, Cardboard

Totem - Paint by Sergio Barletta - 1991
Located in Roma, IT
Totem is a painting artwork, realized by Sergio Barletta in 1991. Tempera and Watercolor on Cardboard. Hand-signed on the lower margin. Good conditions. Sergio Barletta (1934) ...
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1990s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor, Tempera

Landscape with castle oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Frame size 78x87 cm. Rafael Griera Calderón was born incidentally in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in 1934. After residing in Olot from 1942 to 19...
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1990s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Goteborg Sweden oil on board painting seascape urbanscape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Ramón Moscardó (1953) - Goteborg Sweden - Oil on panel Oil measures 23x33 cm. Frame measures 37x48 cm. Ramón Moscardó studied at the Sant Jordi School of Fine Arts and La Lonja Scho...
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1990s Fauvist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Ritratto di un Uomo Comune - Oil Paint by Salvatore Travascio - 1991
Located in Roma, IT
Oil painting on canvas, the frame is an integral part of the painting. Signed on the back Very good condition
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1990s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Lilacs on the table in the garden" Oil cm. 140 x 125
Located in Torino, IT
Lilac, garden, flowers, violet,Ukraine Very important work Georgij MOROZ (Dneprodzerzinsk, Ucraina, 1937 - St. Petersburg, 2015) 1937: he was born in Dneprodzerzinsk, Ucraina. 1949-56: he began artistic studies in Dneprodzerzinsk and later he attended the School of Fine Arts in Kiev. 1956-62: he attended the Academy of Fine Art of Saint Petersburg. 1960: he began his activity taking part in many exhibitions in Russia and abroad. 1973: member of the Union of the Artists. 1980: exhibitions in Austria, Hungary, Japan...
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1990s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Marine Landscape - Tempera by Gian Barresi - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Marine landscape is an artwork realized by Gian Barresi in 1990s. Tempera on paper. 50x70 cm not framed. Handsigned on the lower left margin. Good Conditions
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1990s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Tempera

Still Life Oil Painting Betsy Podlach American Post Feminist Modernist Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Betsy Podlach (American, born 1964.) Still life with Tin Cup, 1996 17.5 X 16.5 inches. Framed it measures 18.25 X 17.25 Betsy Podlach graduated from Harvard, cum laude, (she studied at Harvard with Alfred Decreido and William Reimann as well as Carlos Fuentes continuing her studies at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture, Ms. Podlach was awarded an art fellowship and residency at The International School of Art in Umbria, Italy. Betsy Podlach is an American painter who considers the Italian Venetians and the american abstract expressionist painters her mentors. The two painters she is most inspired by are Titian and Jackson Pollock, Both use the picture plane and abstraction and space, light, movement and form to communicate a physicality built entirely on the principals of painting, in the “classical” sense of a flat plane and lines, color, shape, space and light applied to that flat surface to create magic – light, space, form, emotion, force, movement, the physical and the spiritual. She describes her work as a figurative version of abstract expressionism. She was influenced by many of the abstract expressionists from the NY school...
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1990s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Woman on the beach of Valencia Spain oil on board painting impressionist
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Joan Vives Maristany (XX) - Woman on the beach Valencia - Oil on panel Oil measures 24x26 cm. Frameless.
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1990s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

La Plage d'Arromanches, Oil on Canvas by H. Claude Pissarro - seascape
Located in London, GB
La Plage d'Arromanches, Oil on canvas by H. Claude Pissarro Oil on canvas 130 x 195 cm (51 ¹/₈ x 76 ³/₄ inches) Signed, titled and dated on the reverse Executed in May 1992 This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from the artist. Artist biography Hugues Claude Pissarro, also known professionally as H. Claude Pissarro, is the grandson of the Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro and son of Paulémile Pissarro. Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine and enveloped in an artistic environment, he inevitably spent his childhood and youth with brushes in hand. Carrying on the family tradition established by Camille Pissarro, H. Claude’s father frequently took his son on painting excursions, often accompanied by his numerous artistic friends which proved formative for him. Initially taught by his father, Hugues first exhibited his work at the age of fourteen. He subsequently studied art in Paris at prestigious establishments, in particular the École Normale Supérieure, a unique French institution dedicated to the pursuit of achievement and excellence to which only the academic elite have access. He also studied art restoration under Henri Linard, head of the laboratory at the Musée du Louvre. It was inevitable that this educational background would lead him to become a professor of art for much of his professional life and in 1963 he accepted an official invitation to teach art in Monaco. Throughout his teaching career he remained a prolific artist, exhibiting on several occasions in Paris and London. As with many of his family predecessors the scope of his work and talent is wide-ranging: from engraver, lithographer, publisher and landscape painter to portraitist. He was even commissioned in 1959 to paint a portrait of President...
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1990s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

March (From the Vergulina series)
Located in Aberdeen Dyce, GB
Sergii Druziaka and Sergii Litvinov. ART tandem "March"
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1990s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor

Luis Miguel Valdés ¨Torre Fuerte¨, 1998, Acrylic, 78.7x78.7 in
Located in Miami, FL
"Luis Miguel Valdes (Cuba, 1949) 'Strong Tower', 1998 acrylic, marbel dust on canvas 78.8 x 78.8 in. (200 x 200 cm.) ID: VAL- "
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1990s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

La Gloriette
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
The artwork size is 19.5" x 25.5", with watercolor and ink on paper. Signed lower right.
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1990s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor

Lookers
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
Oil on canvas and the canvas size is 31"H by 27"W.
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1990s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Garden Splendor and wonder abstract and visual Stimulation Sculptural Painting
Located in Soquel, CA
Garden Splendor and wonder abstract and visual Stimulation Abstract Garden Splendor by New York and California artist Ross Martin Fink (American, B-1935). An in depth abstract and Ga...
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1990s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Coffee, Oil, Watercolor, Gouache

Untitled, Mixed Media on Paper Pasted Board by Artist Paritosh Sen "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Paritosh Sen - Untitled - 7 x 10.5 inches (unframed size) Mixed Media on Paper Pasted Board, 1991 ( UNFRAMED & DOOR DELIVERED ) An illustrator and a painter, Paritosh Sen is one ...
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1990s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media, Board

Untitled, Mixed Media on Paper Pasted Board by Artist Paritosh Sen "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Paritosh Sen - Untitled - 8 x 10 inches (unframed size) Mixed Media on Paper Pasted Board, 1991 ( UNFRAMED & DOOR DELIVERED ) An illustrator and a painter, Paritosh Sen is one of...
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1990s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media, Board

Untitled (holding apple) - pensive, female, figurative, realism, oil on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This beautiful, moving and realistic portrait by Toronto based artist Nazy Sakhavarz is characteristic of her work. She often paints on a large scale and her preferred colour palette...
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1990s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

BLONDE WITH ART DECO NECKLACE
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Biography from the niece of the artist from during his lifetime. Paintings acquired from the artist.s estate. Max Turner 1925 - 2019 Max Lamar Turner Painter, Sculptor, Teacher and Author. Max Turner was born in Omaha, Nebraska on July 28, 1925. His father was Lance Howard Turner and his mother Mary Irene Turner. In 1927, his family moved to Bingham Canyon, Utah where Max's father extracted copper from a creek that he had diverted to pass through his garage. The town was located in a narrow canyon on the eastern face of the Oquirrh Mountains. In 1938, when Max was 13, his family moved to Midvale, Utah. After completing high school, Max went to work laying rail until he was inducted into the U.S. Navy to serve during W.W. II. There he took an aptitude test and was initially assigned to the medical corp., later transferring to the dental unit. Max was stationed at Port Hueneme, Ventura County, California through the end of the war. When he was discharged in 1946, he remained in Southern California, living in the Los Angeles area. He met a man named Larry Torres and they formed a partnership to do silk screen work primarily for the Colby Poster Printing Company. This lasted about 10 years until the Colby building caught fire and burned down. In 1958, Max began working for Slade Novelty company that made doll parts using a product called plastisol. A year later, Max began producing plastic parts through his own business. One day, a couple of kids brought in a shrunken skull they had made and asked Max if he could reproduce it. Max said he could and he looked around for a business to work with for this task. He ultimately decided he could create his own machine shop to make molds. As a result, Max purchased a lathe, drill press, grinder and other tools to create his own machine shop and went into business making molds. He built a clientele and in 1973, he moved his machine shop to Glendale, California. Painter, Sculptor, Teacher and Author: Max recalls the day when his interest in art took a new direction. He happened to be in a paint store to purchase some supplies when he saw a card posted on a wall that read, "Come paint with Connie Marlo". Max had been interested in art since his youth and he was frequently impressed with paintings displayed by local artists at various community events. Consequently, he decided to go to Connie's Saturday morning art class at a studio on North La Brea Avenue (between Sunset and Hollywood) in Los Angeles. But, as fate would have it, he immediately took a detour from this class when he found a piece of paper on the floor of the studio referencing another art class dealing with compositions, patterns, rhythms and color harmony. The instructor's name was Hal Reed, a former art student of the Russian/American Master, Nicolai Fechin. Hal owned the building (previously the Will Foster Studio) and had founded the Art League of Los Angeles. When Max found Hal, he asked Hal if he could join his class. Hal said "No, the class was full" but he said Max could monitor the class in the back of the classroom. Max took him up on the offer and began observing the weekly class. During the class, Hal told his students that they should practice what they were learning by going to "live model" classes. Max began attending these classes where he learned how to draw figures. After a few months, Hal and Max became good friends. Hal was so impressed with Max's work that he offered Max the opportunity to teach at another location that Hal was opening in the San Fernando Valley. Max accepted the offer and began teaching his own art class. For Max, it was a quick jump from learning to teaching. Max then found that several of his students had to commute to his art class from the west end of the "Valley". To better serve this group of students, Max decided to relocate to another studio in Calabasas. Max continued teaching, and at this time he was producing very impressive portraits, both oil paintings and charcoal drawings from live models (Max never worked from photos). Max demonstrated real talent, and the style of his drawings and paintings were being compared to those of Nicolai Fechin. And, like Fechin, Max also had an interest in sculpting. One day, Max decided to design and cast a bronze owl sculpture to put in his Calabasas Fine Art Gallery. Later, someone approached Max when he was at the foundry and asked him about his success selling the owl sculpture. The individual who asked this question was convinced that there was a broader market for these sculptures and he ordered a dozen of the owl sculptures from Max. This encouraged Max to do more castings. Some of the new castings were antique sculptures he found and reproduced. As this new business grew, he decided to establish his own foundry, employing up to 15 workers. The business continued for many years, up until the late 1990's when Max got tired of the foundry business and sold it. Max, who was now in his 70's, decided to move on to his next venture as an artist, dedicating himself to doing the actual sculpting of original art. He loved the creativity of sculpting and he had his sculptures cast at local foundries, ironically the same ones that used to be his competition. Max was now fully engaged in his new artistic direction and, over time, he produced a large body of work. He created very impressive sculptures, including about 100 full-size sculptures. He sold some of these to high-end clientele, the Foundry at SLS Las Vegas, and to Hollywood studios. Even though Max now seemed to be totally in his element, he somehow also found time to continue to teach painting classes at the California Art Institute in Westlake Village in Los Angeles. At the institute, he specialized in figure work. Max continued to draw, paint and teach, but he says he stopped sculpting when he turned 90. Max produced four books showcasing his drawings and paintings. The first is "Faces, The Drawings of Max Turner", copyright 2000, that showcases nearly 100 of his portrait drawings. Within the "Acknowledgements" section, he lists Hal Reed and Joseph Nordmann, two former students of Nicolai Fechin. In 2006, Max produced his second book titled "Figures and Faces", reflecting not only portraits but also figure drawings and paintings. It is a wonderful book of Max's work, but it is currently difficult to find. The third book is titled "Faces 2, The Paintings and Drawings of Max Turner", copyright 2009, which includes 75 portrait paintings and drawings. In the "Preface" of this book, Max describes growing up in a small and isolated mining town during the Great Depression. He states that as a kid, he had little exposure of any culture or view of what the rest of the world was like. His neighbor was the trash collector and Max would sometimes go through his truck looking for anything of value. Among other things, he found magazines like Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping and Red Book, with covers that frequently showed drawings or paintings of faces. Max states that these images were the very first source of inspiration for him. He says that he began looking more carefully at people's faces and if they had character, he would draw them. By drawing them, Max says that he was making them part of his world, his world of "Faces". In 2018, Max published his newest book showcasing his drawings and paintings. It is titled "Max Turner's Figure Sketches". This softbound book includes 76 pages and over 120 drawings and paintings. In the Introduction, Max explains "I have found that when approaching the figure, one should begin with the gesture. After having captured the essence or feeling of the pose, one can then proceed to build on it." The figure sketches in this wonderful book reflect a Master's work that consistently captures the "gesture"-showing the emotion, movement and expression. Two more books are on the horizon for Max, both dealing with his passion for sculpting. His first, "The Sculpture of Max Turner" is a compilation of his commercial and noncommercial pieces throughout his career. The second, "Terra Cotta Sculpture by Max Turner" is a complete collection of figures done at the California Art Institute. These much anticipated books should be out later in 2018. Max now considers himself primarily a sculptor. But others in the art world are more than impressed with his drawings and paintings as well. His portraits are often described as having a Fechin-esque appearance, referring to the style of Nicolai Fechin. When Max observed those first art classes given by Hal Reed, it should be noted that Hal had previously been a student of the Russian/American Master Nicolai Fechin in the early to mid-1950's. In fact, Hal was a student in the last art class that Fechin taught before he unexpectedly died in 1955. Hal was so strongly influenced by Fechin that he later produced two 30-minute art instruction videos as part his Art Video Productions wherein he specifically described Fechin techniques that he learned in Fechin's class. The Fechin style and techniques were in play when Max later met Hal. Over the years, many of Max's art students, art collectors, gallery owners, as well as the Director of the Monterey Museum of Art have commented on the Fechin-esque qualities of Max's wonderful charcoal drawings and paintings. So, while Max may consider himself primarily a sculptor, his drawings and paintings are also impressive and very much sought after. When Nicolai Fechin died in 1955, three of the nine students in his last art class became life-long friends. Max subsequently became friends with not only Hal Reed, but also with prior Fechin students Joseph Nordmann and Albert Londraville...
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1990s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Oil Painting / Photorealism / Figurative Art / Human Figure /Museum
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams was a painter, art educator, and writer. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1952, he received a B.S. in 1976 and an M.A. in 1983 from Buffalo State College. Adams’s work is includ...
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1990s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Untitled, Watercolor Acrylic on Paper by Master Indian Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Prokash Karmakar – Untitled – 17 x 22 inches (unframed size) Watercolor Acrylic on Paper, 1991 Style : Legendary master artist Lt. Prokash Karmakar from Bengal was solely responsi...
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1990s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor

Untitled, Watercolor Acrylic on Paper by Master Indian Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Prokash Karmakar – Untitled – 18 x 12.5 inches (unframed size) Watercolor, Acrylic on Paper, 1991 Style : Legendary master artist Lt. Prokash Karmakar from Bengal was solely respo...
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1990s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor

Tunisian Landscape - Oil Painting by Alexander Sergeev - 1994
Located in Roma, IT
Tunisin Landscape is an original oil painting realized by Alexander Sergeev in 1994. Hand signed and dated on the lower right margin. Mixed colored oil painting on canvas. The ar...
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1990s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Oil Painting / Photorealism / Figurative Art / Human Figure /Museum
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams was a painter, art educator, and writer. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1952, he received a B.S. in 1976 and an M.A. in 1983 from Buffalo State College. Adams’s work is included in numerous private and museum collections, among them the Burchfield-Penney Art Center, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University, and the UB Anderson Gallery (all of which are located in Western New York...
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1990s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Oil Painting /Portrait/ Figurative Art / Human Figure /Museum
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams was a painter, art educator, and writer. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1952, he received a B.S. in 1976 and an M.A. in 1983 from Buffalo State College. Adams’s work is includ...
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1990s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

"Lilac in the light" Flowers, Lilac cm. 71 x 65 oil
Located in Torino, IT
Flowers,Garden ,Lilac ,Purple,Spring Russian art Georgij MOROZ (Dneprodzerzinsk, Ucraina, 1937 - St. Petersburg, 2015) MUSEUMS Moscow, Tret’jakov Gallery Moscow, USSR Artists Collec...
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1990s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Composition with jars and fruit. Realistic Oil painting still-life Bright colors
Located in Segovia, ES
Composition with jars and fruit. Realistic Oil painting still-life Bright colors. Oil on panel by Spanish artist Álvaro Toledo. Measurements in centimeters: 44 x 71 x 1 cm / Framed...
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1990s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Panel

"Little girl in the garden" Flowers, garden, children, 80 x 90
Located in Torino, IT
Flowers, garden, children, turquoise,green, spring No frame 80 x 90 cm Framed cm. 94 x 100 GLEB SAVINOV (Charkev, 1915 – St. Petersburg, 2000) Works by Gleb Savinov can be found...
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1990s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Large John Hultberg SF Bay Area Artist Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
John Hultberg Oil on canvas Panorama of pictures. 1998 Hand signed lower right, J. Hultberg ‘98. Artist, date, and title written on verso. Canvas 25.5”H x 35”W, Frame 26”H x 35.5”W. Oil painting depicting a mosaic of photographs overlooking an abstract geometric landscape. John Hultberg (1922 – 2005) was an American Abstract expressionist and Abstract realist painter. Early in his career he was related to the Bay Area Figurative Movement; he was also a lecturer and playwright. John Hultberg was born in 1922 in Berkeley, California. Hultberg attended Fresno State College, graduating in 1943. During World War II, he was a Navy lieutenant. After the war, his education at the California School of Fine Arts (CSFA) (now the San Francisco Art Institute) was funded by the G.I. Bill. His teachers included Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still and he was a classmate of Richard Diebenkorn, who was also a mentor, James Budd Dixon, Walter Kuhlman, Frank Lobdell, and George Stillman, which whom he created a portfolio of 17 lithographs. This 1948 portfolio, titled Drawings, has been acknowledged as a landmark in Abstract Expressionist printmaking. The group has been referred to as "The Sausalito Six," because most, lived in Sausalito, north of San Francisco. Many of the "First Generation" artists in this West Coast movement were avid fans of Abstract Expressionism, and worked in that manner, until several of them abandoned non-objective painting in favor of working with the figure. Among these First Generation Bay Area Figurative School artists were: David Park, Richard Diebenkorn, Rex Ashlock, Elmer Bischoff, Glenn Wessels, Wayne Thiebaud, Raimonds Staprans, and James Weeks. The "Bridge Generation" included the artists: Henrietta Berk, Nathan Oliveira, Theophilus Brown, Paul Wonner, Roland Petersen, John Hultberg, and Frank Lobdell. He was also a contemporary of Clay Spohn and David Park. Hultberg studied at the Art Students League of New York beginning in 1952. Hultberg was first married to Hilary Blech. In 1961 Hultberg met fellow artist Lynne Mapp Drexler...
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1990s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

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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.

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