Skip to main content

Figurative Paintings

to
2
12
5
2
1
12
7
2
2
4
6
9
Overall Height
to
Overall Width
to
75
21
13
8
8
6
4
2
1
4
2
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
19
1
5
2
2
1
1
19
17
10
8
4
Figurative Paintings For Sale
Style: Abstract
Color:  Green
New Move
Located in Fresno, CA
"New Move 8" Oil on Canvas is a mix of blues and greens with chrome yellow accents. Frank Arnold is thought by many to be one of the foremost abstract figurative painters and sculpto...
Category

2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Transition 5
Located in Fresno, CA
"Transition 5" is an Oil on Canvas painting with a rusty-red figure on a soft qua pastel field.. Frank Arnold is thought by many to be one of the foremost abstract figurative painter...
Category

2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Ballast Folly
Located in Nashville, TN
Woman figure depicting climate change. About the artist: Lisa M. Shimko’s paintings reveal the influences of sundry research topics, old memories, and daydreaming. Growing up in York County, Pennsylvania, Shimko spent her childhood collecting rocks and exploring the terrains of forests and farms. Colors, forms, and textures from nature and the simple designs of Pennsylvania German folk art infused the foundation of her artistic aesthetic. In 1994, Shimko earned a BFA in painting with a minor in art therapy from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. The urban landscapes of the Northeast supplied a different kind of nature for her to explore—architecture, social issues, history, and all the music in between. Hilton Head...
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Green Morning - abstract expressionist cityscape gestural New York urban modern
Located in London, Chelsea
This contemporary painting by Chin H Shin is part of his ‘Urban Jungle’ series which focuses on capturing the vibrant character of New York City. The dynamic spirit of the brushwork ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Sad." Contemporary Acrylic Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Sad, showing Japanese script for sad. Walshe recently embarked on a series of Sad Rhino pictures. Highlighting his concern for the environment. A repeating theme in his work.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

LV, From the series Lous and The Yakuza. Mixed media fashion color photography
Located in Miami Beach, FL
LV, 2022 by Hunter & Gatti From the series Lous and The Yakuza Acrylic and oil wax on fine art paper 255 grs. Image size: 20.6 in H x 15.7 in W Unframed This is a project together w...
Category

2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wax, Acrylic, Archival Paper

Small Hand to Hand
Located in Montreal, Quebec
The themes visited in this show stem from a desire to extend the vocabulary of my painting while forming a metaphor for the chaos of contemporary life. The title, Escalade, has differing and complimentary functions in English and French. Continuing to paint, over a lengthening career, the medium poses more questions than answers. The title is a reference to my attempt to overcome these difficulties through the expansion of my painting language. The title also refers to the escalation of crises in the world at large. It is the larger picture in which I am a small person trying to make my way. In a concrete sense, the title also refers to a strategy I have taken in a number of these paintings. That is, to re-examine very small paintings...
Category

2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Hand to Hand
Located in Montreal, Quebec
The themes visited in this show stem from a desire to extend the vocabulary of my painting while forming a metaphor for the chaos of contemporary life. The title, Escalade, has differing and complimentary functions in English and French. Continuing to paint, over a lengthening career, the medium poses more questions than answers. The title is a reference to my attempt to overcome these difficulties through the expansion of my painting language. The title also refers to the escalation of crises in the world at large. It is the larger picture in which I am a small person trying to make my way. In a concrete sense, the title also refers to a strategy I have taken in a number of these paintings. That is, to re-examine very small paintings...
Category

2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden Reimagined in Jacmel, Haiti Folk Art Painting
By Dieudonne Vital
Located in Houston, TX
Colorful, tropical interpretation of the Garden of Eden in Jacmel, Haiti by Haitian artist Dieudonne Vital. The work features a pair of central figures...
Category

1980s Abstract Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Yucatan #5
Located in Quogue, NY
Colorful oil on canvas abstract expressionistic figurative painting.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Fresh
Located in Fresno, CA
“Fresh” is 60”x48” The impasto surface stages multiple shades of green enveloping the central figure. Frank Arnold’s paintings exhibit the highest quality materials for a truly archi...
Category

2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Fake Abstract (Jean Marc Nattier)
Located in Solana Beach, CA
Lino Lago's lush, provocative paintings are exploration of color and art history as with one clear sweep he brings a classic Baroque painting into the foreground like an untold secre...
Category

2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

No Diving: large contemporary abstract painting in green, yellow &orange
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
**Please send zip code for precise shipping costs and timeline. I will work with you to get the best possible rates and speediest shipping.** Excellent delivery rates within the Grea...
Category

2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil, Felt Pen

Bright & Colorful French Abstract Oil Painting Amazing Shapes & Colors
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Composition French School, circa 1970's oil painting on board, unframed size: 18 x 21.5 inches condition: overall good and sound provenance: from a private collection in Par...
Category

20th Century Abstract Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

French Contemporary Art by Sandra Detourbet - Le Temps
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink on canvas & handmade paper Sandra Detourbet is a French artist born in 1967 who works & lives in Ivry-sur-Seine, near Paris. She is graduated in ...
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Ink, Handmade Paper

Oil on Canvas “Renew”
Located in Fresno, CA
Frank Arnold is thought by many to be one of the foremost abstract figurative painters and sculptors of our time. He is a living master whose work is considered to be both personal a...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Eduardo Infante, Adventure, 2017
Located in New York, NY
This is an abstract oil on paper. The background is a soft green, punctuated by shapes in bright yellow, pale blue and black lines spreading out across the right hand side of the pie...
Category

2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media, Oil

Oil on Canvas “Understander 8” by abstract-figurative artist, Frank Arnold
Located in Fresno, CA
Frank Arnold is thought by many to be one of the foremost abstract figurative painters and sculptors of our time. He is a living master whose work is considered to be both personal a...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Eduardo Infante, Blonde She Hulk, 2017
Located in New York, NY
This pastel on paper, depicts a female figure in green, wearing a pink flower on her head. The shape of her hair and lips are sketched in pinks. The shape of her body seems to blend...
Category

2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media

Bathed In Gold: Contemporary Figurative Expressionist Oil Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Whether it be dawn or dusk there’s a very special time of day when the world seems to turn a little more slowly. In Bathed in Gold Francesca Owen has pe...
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Observations in Passing
Located in New Orleans, LA
"I have been painting seriously for somewhere around 35 years, but have only ever sold regionally - most recently, through my gallery on Magazine Street in New Orleans. Through 1stDi...
Category

2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil Crayon, Oil, Acrylic

Related Items
Artists Studio Abstract
Located in Soquel, CA
Dynamic abstract figurative painting by Doris Ann Warner (American, 1925-2010). Signed "Warner" lower right. Unframed. Image size: 30"H x 24"W. Doris Warner first achieved recognit...
Category

1960s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Flower Monster" by Aromas Artist Frank Romero
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant abstract composition by Aromas, California, Monterey Bay Area abstract expressionist artist Frank Thomas Romero (American, b-1985). Signed ...
Category

Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Oil, Cardboard

New York City Street Art: Literally - Hot Pink Umbrella - Like Rothko
Located in Miami, FL
New York City is renowned as a center of world-class Museums and tastemaker Art Galleries. However, some of the greatest art is street art mad...
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Archival Ink, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Vintage Abstract Expressionism -- Crow's Night Call
Located in Soquel, CA
Dynamic abstract expressionist painting with crow titled, "Night call" by Kristin Cohen (American, b. 1963), circa 1980. Kristin is a California abstract expressionist artist she studied at Humbolt State University and with Michael Dee Cookinham...
Category

1980s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Parisian Mornings" Abstract Figure in Haute Couture Gown Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
Exploring the purity of the feminine form and the drama of French haute couture, artist Cindy Shaoul creates a dialogue between the figurative and the abstract. Her spirited composit...
Category

2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil

Carnegie Hill, original 28x29 abstract expressionist New York City landscape
Located in Spring Lake, NJ
With her love for the abstract expressionist style of art, fine art artist Sonia Grineva created this sensational, multi-dimensional interpretation of the bustling, colorful, Manhat...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Flora, Of All Flowers. Contemporary Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
This painting is a gently glowing Expressionist still life. The shades Francesca Owen has used are naturalistic and warm. Now more than ever there's a p...
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Large Scale Gestural Figurative Abstract Expressionist Surrealist Oil Painting
By Matthew Carone
Located in Surfside, FL
Artist: Matt Carone, signed lower right Dated: 1995 Dimensions: 80.25"H x 56.25"L In a fine wooden black and gold gilded frame. Provenance: Freitas Revilla Gallery. Matt Carone (1930-) South Florida artist and gallerist. The Italian- American New Jersey native took up painting in the 1940s after Hans Hoffman asked him to model in a class in which Nicolas Carone, Matt's brother was a student. He has never stopped painting since that seminal experience in Abstract Expressionism. His work reveals a dynamic gestural vocabulary that’s confident, rich in color and texture, and charged with emotion. Matthew Carone opened his famous, influential gallery on Las Olas Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale in 1959, and in the following decades, he built a roster that included such artists as Wolf Kahn, Leon Kroll, Wifredo Lam, and the great Chilean surrealist Roberto Matta. Meanwhile, Carone quietly continued his own work as a painter, urged on by Matta on his many visits to the area. His works range from pure abstract expressionist painting to figurative expressionism to an almost Surrealist calligraphic abstraction. Carone lived with and posed for Hans Hoffman, and was friends with Roberto Matta, Conrad Marca-Relli, Paul Jenkins, Franz Kline and Wolf Kahn. His paintings, according to Palm Beach Post art critic Gary Schwan, “reveal a spontaneity that recalls the automatic writing of the surrealists. The figures radiate motion, tension and sexual heat in contained spatial constructions.” This painting depicts nude figures reminiscent of the nudes in the famous Pablo Picasso painting Demoiselle D'avignon. His later paintings, perhaps closer to Jackson Pollock or Cy Twombly than Matta’s animated stick figures and skeletal machines, step toward the path of patterned abstraction without venturing onto it. Like Pollock, whose lyrical loops carried the private rhythms of an artist enamored of dance, and Twombly, whose staccato, sketchy lines reflect a different temperament, Carone’s inspirations flow directly from a subconscious informed by a lifetime of association with some of the century’s most important artists and their works. Not only is Carone identified with the pioneer generation of Abstract Expressionists, but also critics have seen affinities with Surrealism in his work, as well as development parallel to those of the CoBrA group.” Earlier paintings by Carone, an accomplished musician and violinist, often suggest ensembles of musical instruments, particularly those with strings. Like the drip paintings of Pollock, these works, with their powerful sense of movement and lyrical compositions, sometimes seem like musical passages captured on canvas or paper. SELECT ONE PERSON SHOWS Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL Palazzo Panni Museum, Arco di Trento, Italy Fox-Martin Gallery, Housatonic, MA Lurie Galleries, Boca Raton, FL ArtSpace/Virginia Miller Galleries, Coral Gables (Miami), Florida Georgetown College, Georgetown, Kentucky Schramm Galleries, Fort Lauderdale, Florida Granville Galleries, Coral Gables, Florida Coral Ridge Yacht Club, Fort Lauderdale, Florida Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida The Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, Florida Gallery 99, Bay Harbour Island, Florida Mercer University, Macon, Georgia P.N.Y.K. Gallery, Kent, Connecticut Simons Rock College of Bard, Great Barrington, Massachusetts Freites-Revilla Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida GROUP SHOWS Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Florida Schramm Galleries, Fort Lauderdale, Florida Roko Gallery, New York, New York Loft Gallery, Coral Gables Florida Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Florida Brandeis Art Festival, Palm Beach, Florida Drawing Exhibition, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida Ute Stebich Gallery, Lenox, Massachusetts Florida Pavilion, New York World's Fair, 1965 The Lantern Gallery, Ann Arbor, Michigan The Little Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Tampa Bay Art...
Category

1990s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Dreaming In The Garden
Located in Brecon, Powys
There’s something restorative in being outside in the fresh air. It enables one to recharge and relax. Even if one has no outside space of ones own to dream in art makes it possible. Francesca Owen...
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Vintage Abstract Expressionism -- Pink Figural
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract figure in pink by by San Francisco, California area artist Daniel David Fuentes (American, 1978-2016), (AKA, Xavier Lundt) (American, 20th Century). From a collection of hi...
Category

1990s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Cardboard, Oil

Woman With Air Guitar and Musicians Figurative Abstract
Located in Soquel, CA
Modernist abstract figurative oil painting of a woman with musicians by San Francisco artist Michael William Eggleston (American, 20th century). Signed with monogram "MWE" and dated ...
Category

Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Colorful Portrait Painting on Board by Peter Keil
Located in Hudson, NY
This modern abstract painting by Peter Keil is on a smooth masonite board with a painted grey background, black abstract portrait with many colors. Here you certainly see the Picasso...
Category

Late 20th Century Abstract Figurative Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Acrylic, Board

Previously Available Items
Georgian Contemporary Art by Rusiko Chikvaidze - About Ecology
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas, ''I offer art collectors series about the world we live in simultaneously with reality, they can live in these colorful, interesting, modern and dynamic world filled ...
Category

2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Ballast (Marigold, Tuna)
Located in Nashville, TN
Woman figure depicting climate change. About the artist: Lisa M. Shimko’s paintings reveal the influences of sundry research topics, old memories, and daydreaming. Growing up in York County, Pennsylvania, Shimko spent her childhood collecting rocks and exploring the terrains of forests and farms. Colors, forms, and textures from nature and the simple designs of Pennsylvania German folk art infused the foundation of her artistic aesthetic. In 1994, Shimko earned a BFA in painting with a minor in art therapy from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. The urban landscapes of the Northeast supplied a different kind of nature for her to explore—architecture, social issues, history, and all the music in between. Hilton Head...
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Bathed In Gold: Contemporary Figurative Expressionist Oil Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Whether it be dawn or dusk there’s a very special time of day when the world seems to turn a little more slowly. In Bathed in Gold Francesca Owen has pe...
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Restful. Contemporary Expressionist Oil Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Restful brings both warm and cool tones together in this painting. The eye is drawn on a journey into the interior of a landscape suffused with luminescent light. It’s a painting tha...
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

"Free Fall" Oil Painting 39" x 35" inch by Anastasiia Danilenko
Located in Culver City, CA
"Free Fall" Oil Painting 39" x 35" inch by Anastasiia Danilenko Anastasiia Danilenko is an artist and graphic designer. But the area of her occ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Three Fates Give Advice, Semi-Abstract in Lime Green, Orange, Fuchsia, Blue
Located in Denver, CO
The Three Fates Give Advice, vintage 1968 semi abstract painting by 20th century Denver artist, Edward Marecak (1919-1993). Painted in vibrant colors of lime green, neon orange, ora...
Category

1960s Abstract Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Heads with Orange Drawing
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I think of my paintings primarily as landscapes. Recently, these landscapes appear to be more manufactured than organic. At first glance the subjects seem to be monumental forms such...
Category

2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Aqueduct
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I think of my paintings primarily as landscapes. Recently, these landscapes appear to be more manufactured than organic. At first glance the subjects seem to be monumental forms such...
Category

2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Golden Bond by Gaetan de Seguin -Contemporary Abstract Figurative painting
Located in DE
Gaetan de Seguin paints figurative works, with an abstract character. The various colors highlight that not one person is the same, and his artworks celebrate this individuality in ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Undone
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I think of my paintings primarily as landscapes. Recently, these landscapes appear to be more manufactured than organic. At first glance the subjects seem to be monumental forms such...
Category

2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Reservoir Triptych
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I think of my paintings primarily as landscapes. Recently, these landscapes appear to be more manufactured than organic. At first glance the subjects seem to be monumental forms such...
Category

2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Red Shoes On A Wild Winters Day, Contemporary Oil Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Bright strong work with thick oil paint form the artist's 2018 India series Signed
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Figurative Paintings for Sale

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

While the oldest figurative art dates back tens of thousands of years to cave wall paintings, figurative works made from observation became especially prominent in the early Renaissance. Artists like Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and other Renaissance masters created naturalistic representations of their subjects.

Pablo Picasso is lauded for laying the foundation for modern figurative art in the 1920s. Although abstracted, this work held a strong connection to representing people and other subjects. Other famous figurative artists include Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud. Figurative art in the 20th century would span such diverse genres as Expressionism, Pop art and Surrealism.

Today, a number of figural artists — such as Sedrick Huckaby, Daisy Patton and Eileen Cooper — are making art that uses the human body as its subject.

Because figurative art represents subjects from the real world, natural colors are common in these paintings. A piece of figurative art can be an exciting starting point for setting a tone and creating a color palette in a room.

Browse an extensive collection of figurative paintings on 1stDibs.

Recently Viewed

View All