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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Period: 20th Century
Color:  Silver
Christ, the Great High Priest. Greek-Italian style Icon with silver oklad
Located in Segovia, ES
Christ, the Great High Priest. Greek-Italian style Icon with silver filigreed oklad. Egg tempera, over gesso on wood with a silver cover, "oklad", with pol...
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1990s Byzantine Figurative Paintings

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Silver

Art Nouveau Woman on Beach in Green Dress Romantic Story "Le Retour"
Located in Miami, FL
In this painting, Art Nouveau French illustrator Georges Lepape depicts a high moment of personal drama. He exquisitely renders a beautiful yet solitary woman sitting on the beach...
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1910s Art Nouveau Figurative Paintings

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Silver

Long John Silver
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil Painting Signature: Signed Lower Right
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1950s Figurative Paintings

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Oil

"The Rustlers of Silver River, " Story Illustration for Country Gentleman
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right See Here Rollins 1929 Story, The Rustlers of Silver River by Zane Grey. Country Gentleman Magazine, Jan...
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1930s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Mid Century Modern Silver & Earthtone Abstract Expressionist - Corban Lepell
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous mid century modernist abstract combining earth-tones and subtlest metallic silver background by Corban LePell (American, b. 1933), 1955. Signed ...
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

Beauties Series: Beauty and the Bird
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original acrylic on paper expressionist painting by American contemporary female artist Jackie Felix. This painting from Felix's Beauty Series was exhibited in the artist's solo ...
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1980s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Silver Leaf

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"Shaman" Mixed Media Figurative Painting Oil onLinen Contemporary Art In-Stock
Located in Queretaro, Queretaro
This 210 cm by 220 cm mixed media large-scale painting is one of Lazard's most iconic paintings. Alex Lazard, one of Mexico's most noted contemporary artist today, plays with the material load that he uses in this piece. Using asphalt, marble powder, and oil paint, "This is my representation of time... of the navigation of time in humans and how it never stops being there. This magical painting shows a spiritual, dreamy scenery where Lazard portraits what he sees in the world of "Shaman"... fishes swimming downwards, flying in the background, and the owl flying...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Linen, Mixed Media, Oil

Zumbi dos Palmares
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Halo presents an amazing cast of historical black figures, most of whom were legendary and mythic characters in their time, but have been nearly lost to the vagaries and biases of history as seen through a white lens. With Halo, Greenfield brings the stories of Black folk-saints, martyrs, freedom-fighters, survivors, magicians, and visionaries back into view. Many of the figures are from the 1400-1800s, a timeframe that corresponds with Europeans beginning to use racial distinction as a tool to justify slavery. Greenfield honors their simultaneously disturbing and astounding lives by bestowing them with halos, traditionally seen as reverential symbols of adoration and respect. “I am reimagining what a saint is,” Greenfield says. “Maybe in studying their stories, they can inform us on better ways to live.” Thought to have been a descendent of central African royalty...
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2010s Byzantine Figurative Paintings

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Gold Leaf

18th century oil sketches for a Baroque interior - a pair
Located in London, GB
A FEAST OF THE GODS WITH VENUS AND BACCHUS Collections: With Appleby Brothers, London, June 1957; Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London, 1961; John and Eileen Harris, acquired from the above, to 2015. Literature: Jacob Simon and Ellis Hillman, English Baroque Sketches: The Painted Interior in the Age of Thornhill, 1974, cat. no.12 (as by Louis Laguerre); Elizabeth Einberg (ed.), Manners and Morals: Hogarth and British Painting, 1700-1760, exh. cat., London (Tate Gallery), 1987, cat. no.10 (as by Louis Laguerre); Tabitha Barber and Tim Bachelor, British Baroque: Power and Illusion, exh. cat., London (Tate Britain), 2020. Exhibited: Twickenham, Marble Hill House, English Baroque Sketches: The Painted Interior in the Age of Thornhill, 1974, no.12 (as by Louis Laguerre); London, Tate Gallery, Manners and Morals: Hogarth and British Painting, 1700-1760, 1987, no.10 (as by Louis Laguerre); London, Tate Britain, British Baroque: Power and Illusion, cat. no 92, 2020. CUPID AND PSYCHE BEFORE JUPITER Collections: With Appleby Brothers, London, June 1957; Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London, 1961; Anthony Hobson, acquired from the above, to 2015. These recently re-united paintings are the most ambitious surviving baroque ceiling sketches made in Britain in the early eighteenth century. From the Restoration until the rise of Palladianism in the 1720s decorative history painting formed the preeminent artistic discipline in Britain. It was a field dominated by Continental artists including the Italian Antonio Verrio and the Frenchmen Louis Laguerre and Louis Chéron...
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Early 18th Century Baroque Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

VAN BIESBROECK Jules. Snake charmer. Oil on panel. Signed.
Located in Paris, FR
Algerian women in an interior. Oil on panel. Signed. This work will be recorded in the catalogue raisonné of the work of the artist currently in preparation. Jules Van Biesbroeck...
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1920s Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Contemporary Oil of Antique, Rustic Porcelain Christian/Catholic Virgin Mary
Located in Fort Worth, TX
Mother Mary, 2017 John Hartley discovered his life's passion while growing up in Piqua, Ohio. Encouraged to develop his talents in an academic environme...
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2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas, Acrylic

Gerhard Cohn Roemers German 1900-1965 Venice Ponte Del Rialto Italy Oil Painting
By Gerhard Cohn Roemers
Located in Meinisberg, CH
Gerhard Cohn Roemers (German, 1900 - 1965) Venice - Ponte Del Rialto • Oil on canvas, ca. 40 x 65 cm • Frame, ca. 57 x 82 cm • Signed and titled lower right corner Worldwide shipp...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Paul Collomb, Paris, Eiffel Tower, Invalides, The Beautiful View, Oil on Canvas
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas by Paul Collomb (1921-2010), France, 1960s. The beautiful view. Measurements : with frame: 54.5x41.2 cm - 21.5x16.2 inches, without frame: 46x33 cm - 18.1x13 inches, fo...
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1960s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Small Humming Bird- Purple - Oil painting by English Artist Jamel Akib
Located in Battle, East Sussex
Jamel Akib Born in Leigh-on-sea, Essex in 1965 to English and Malaysian parents, Jamel moved to North Borneo at the age of five. At thirteen he returned to England to pursue his edu...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Morning Surf" Gouache Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Judd Mercer's (US based) "Morning Surf" is an gouache painting that depicts the shore of a rocky beach, the waves gently crashing at it's edge in the calm of morning Bio/artist stat...
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2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Gouache

20th century oil painting entitled The Unknown Corner
Located in London, GB
Collections: Robert Isaacson; James Draper, New York, 2014. Exhibited: Cambridge, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Beggarstaffs: William Nicholson and James Pr...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Telluride in Fall, " Gouache Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Judd Mercer's (US based) "Telluride in Fall" is an original, handmade gouache painting that depicts a flowing stream cutting through a landscape of trees with their fall plumage of y...
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2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Gouache

"Bathers" Oil Painting 39" x 35" inch by Anastasiia Danilenko
Located in Culver City, CA
"Bathers" Oil Painting 39" x 35" inch by Anastasiia Danilenko Anastasiia Danilenko is an artist and graphic designer. But the area of her occupation is painting and such a traditio...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

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"Fly By" Surrealist Naturalistic Painting with Children
Located in Houston, TX
Surrealist painting of children hunting. One child is holding up a rabbit showing the others. Along the bottom of the piece are more dead bodies of different animals. In the backgrou...
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1980s Naturalistic Figurative Paintings

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Silver

Untitled
Located in Buffalo, NY
A three panel oil and metallic silver painting by American contemporary female artist Jackie Felix. Each panel measures 60" (h) x 40" (w)
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1980s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Silver Leaf

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.

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