Pastel Figurative Paintings

Domingo Alvarez (Spain 1942) - sailor fisherman in his boat - Pastel Size 33x41 cm. Unframed.

Pierre Carro (1952) - Spanish Dancers - Pastel Drawing measurements 45x34 cm. Frame measurements 93x79 cm.

Rafael Duran Benet (1931-2015) - Sit woman - Pastel Drawing measurements 62x42 cm. Frame measurements 82x62 cm. Rafael Duran Benet (Terrassa, 1931 - Barcelona, 2015) is a Catalan painter...

Girl with a book

"Rue St. Marguerite" Montreal Street Scene in Watercolor, Pastel, and India Ink Vibrant drawing of Montreal, Canada, by Richard D. Wilson (Canadian, 1920-1994). A street scene of 1960s Montreal, complete with cars, people walking and crisscrossing telephone and power lines...

'On the Path', pastel and ink on art paper, by Suzanne Tourte (circa 1950s). Executed with a lively palette of colour, this is a surprisingly sophisticated modern work of art which belies its rather naive style. Flowered fields, green grassy patches, a curved path and blue skies all figure in this engaging landscape with two figures. Newly framed and glazed in anti-reflective glass, this work is in good overall condition. Signed: 'S X Tourte' in the lower right hand. Please enjoy the many photos accompanying the listing. Upon request, a video may be provided. About the Artist: Suzanne Tourte (1904-1979) was a French painter, engraver, medalist, fresco artist, lithographer and illustrator. She was also an excellent vocalist. She studied at the school of Beaux-Arts in Reims while continuing her musical studies at the Conservatoire de la Ville. She chose painting as a profession and returned to Paris to continue her studies. She was friends with artists Yves Brayer and Robert Humblot...

Wonderful figurative study in abstract expressionist style titled "Ralph" by California artist Evan D. Thomas (American, b. 1957), circa 1990. Signed ...

Oil paint and pastel on paper Signed by the artist

Eric Hallström (1893-1946) Swedish Party Time pastel on paper signed Eric Hallström image dimensions approx 19.29 x 23.22 inches (49 x 59 cm) frame 26.37 x 30.70 inches (67 x 78 cm...

Mid 20th Century Italian Futurist, Novecento Italiano, work on paper, signed bottom right and with dedication top right (see photos). The subject is bathers enjoying the delights of a spa and sauna with colourful tiling to the background. The classical figures languorously positioned in repose but the central 'white' figure in stark contrast. The play on colours gives the work a vibrancy. The drawing is possibly a preparatory sketch for a larger work or mural. A vibrant, exciting and colourful work incorporating the styles of Futurism and the Novecento Italiano movement and with the influences or artists such as Anselmo Bucci, Adami, Jean Helion, Maryan, Achille Funi and Ugo Guidi. Anselmo Bucci was born in 1887 in Fossombrone in the district of Pesaro. Even though he studied Classics, right from a tender age he showed a talent for drawing and, when his parents moved near to Florence, he was taught by the artist Francesco Salvini. In 1904 the family settled in Monza and so the boy was able to study for a year at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, but he did not follow up this educational experience and in 1906 he left Italy for Paris where he came into contact with the Parisian avant-garde, met fellow Italian artists such as Severini and Modigliani, and made friends with Picasso, Utrillo and Apollinaire. In 1907 he showed a painting at the Salon, but these Parisian years were most important for his love of engraving techniques – etching and dry point that enabled him to fully develop his themes characterised by movement. On the outbreak of war in 1915 he returned to Italy and he enlisted in the same battalion as several Futurist artists such as Martinetti, Boccioni, Sant’Elia and Carlo Erba. In 1914 he won the silver medal at the Mostra dell’Incisione (Exhibition of Engravings) at Florence. In 1917 in Paris he published pictures of war scenes entitled “Croquis du Front Italien”. In 1919 he printed twelve lithographs entitled “Finis Austriae” again showing events from the war. At the end of the war he lived between Milan and Paris and he dedicated his time completely to his art with personal exhibitions, exhibiting at all the most important Italian and French shows, in Belgium, Holland and England. In 1922, he established the group “Movimento del Novecento”, (Novecento Italiano), (20th century Movement) a joint venture with the artists Sironi, Funi, Oppi, Malerba, Dudreville and Marussig. Their aim was to return to figurative art in contrast with the growing extremism of the Avant-gardists. In 1925 he worked on the illustration of the first edition of Kipling’s The Jungle Book producing eight dry point plates. In the early 30’s he lived in Bucci, Trieste, where he worked on the furnishing of the steamships for the Trieste Navigazione Libera, at the same time he continued to work on many book illustrations. During the second European war he adapted to being a war artist recording the events of the war as he had done previously. Indeed the engravings depicting battles of the Marines and the Air Force belong to this period. In 1945, following the bombing of his house in Milan, he returned to Monza to his father’s home where he remained until his death. Futurism was an Italian art movement of the early twentieth century that aimed to capture in art the dynamism and energy of the modern world. Futurism was launched by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in 1909. On 20 February he published his Manifesto of Futurism on the front page of the Paris newspaper Le Figaro. Among modernist movements futurism was exceptionally vehement in its denunciation of the past. This was because in Italy the weight of past culture was felt as particularly oppressive. In the Manifesto, Marinetti asserted that ‘we will free Italy from her innumerable museums which cover her like countless cemeteries’. What the futurists proposed instead was an art that celebrated the modern world of industry and technology: We declare…a new beauty, the beauty of speed. A racing motor car…is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace. (A celebrated ancient Greek sculpture in the Louvre museum in Paris.) Futurist painting used elements of neo-impressionism and cubism to create compositions that expressed the idea of the dynamism, the energy and movement, of modern life. Chief artists associated with futurism were Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Gino Severini. After the brutality of the first world war, many artists rejected the avant-garde notions of futurism and other pre-war movements, by using more traditional and reassuring approaches, a phenomenon described as the ‘return to order’. Novecento Italiano was founded by Anselmo Bucci (1887–1955), Leonardo Dudreville (1885–1975), Achille Funi, Gian Emilio Malerba (1880–1926), Pietro Marussig, Ubaldo Oppi, and Mario Sironi. Motivated by a post-war "call to order", they were brought together by Lino Pesaro, a gallery owner interested in modern art, and Margherita Sarfatti, a writer and art critic who worked on Italian dictator Benito Mussolini's newspaper, The People of Italy (Il Popolo d'Italia). Sarfatti was also Mussolini's mistress. The movement was officially launched in 1923 at an exhibition in Milan, with Mussolini as one of the speakers. The group was represented at the Venice Biennale of 1924 in a gallery of its own, with the exception of Oppi, who exhibited in a separate gallery. Oppi's defection caused him to be ejected from the group, which subsequently split and was reformed. The new Novecento Italiano staged its first group exhibition in Milan in 1926. Several of the artists were war veterans; Sarfatti had lost a son in the war. The group wished to take on the Italian establishment and create an art associated with the rhetoric of fascism. The artists supported the fascist regime and their work became associated with the state propaganda department, although Mussolini reprimanded Sarfatti for using his name and the name of fascism to promote Novecento. The name of the movement (which means 1900s) was a deliberate reference to great periods of Italian art in the past, the Quattrocento and Cinquecento (1400s and 1500s). The group rejected European avant garde art and wished to revive the tradition of large format history painting in the classical manner. It lacked a precise artistic programme and included artists of different styles and temperament, for example, Carrà and Marini. It aimed to promote a renewed yet traditional Italian art. Sironi said, “if we look at the painters of the second half of the 19th century, we find that only the revolutionary were great and that the greatest were the most revolutionary”; the artists of Novecento Italiano “would not imitate the world created by God but would be inspired by it”. Despite official patronage, Novecento art did not always have an easy ride in Fascist Italy. Mussolini was personally uninterested in art and divided official support among various groups so as to keep artists on the side of the regime. Opening the exhibition of Novecento art in 1923 he declared that “it is far from my idea to encourage anything like a state art. Art belongs to the domain of the individual. The state has only one duty: not to undermine art, to provide humane conditions for artists, to encourage them from the artistic and national point of view." The movement was in competition with other pro-Fascist movements, especially Futurism and the regionalist Strapaese movement. Novecento Italiano also met outright opposition. Achille Starace, the General Secretary of the Fascist Party, attacked it in the Fascist daily press and there was virulent criticism of its “un-Italian" qualities by artists and critics. In the 1930s, a group of professors and students at the Accademia di Brera established an opposition group to Novecento Italiano. Among them was the director of the academy Aldo Carpi, and students Afro, Aldo Badoli, Aldo Bergolli, Renato Birolli, Bruno Cassinari, Cherchi, Alfredo Chighine, Grosso, Renato Guttuso, Dino Lanaro, Giuseppe Migneco, Mantica, Ennio Morlotti, Aligi Sassu, Ernesto Treccani, Italo Valenti, and Emilio Vedova (and later Giuseppe Ajmone...

Original Pastel Drawing of River Mountain in the English Countryside by 20th Century British Artist, Wendy Reeves. Art measures 22 x 14 inches Frame me...

Portrait of the daughter of Francois Boucher, Marie-Emilie Baudouin, holding a basket of flowers. Pastel on Parchment. The work is related to an oval portrait painting...

Picnic. 1999, paper, pastel, 28.5x33 cm Colorful abstract composition in fauvist style with figures

Natalia Bessonova (1963) - Hourglass. 2000. Paper, pastel, 36x37 cm Colorful abstract composition with figures and hourglass in fauvist style

Artist : Ryan Wilks Title: Quarantine Medium: India ink, chalk pastel, graphite on canvas. Year: 2020 Size: 60W" x 72H" Description : This response to Covid...

Jules Schyl (Sweden, 1893-1977) Title: Ballet Dancers A Ballet Dancer painting is a rare find for an artist mostly known for his oeuvre with Cubism and Expressionist paintings. The current painting has many similarities with Degas sketches...

SALE ONE WEEK ONLY "Grid No.8" is a multi-material canvas work that is part of his series on creating discontinuous storyboards that reflect the the way an innocent mind is forced to process the confusing, muddled, and discordant images of media and society. The piece was painted in acrylic, watercolor, and pastel on canvas and is 78 in by 90 in. Sun Wang is from Chengdu, China. He is currently based in Detroit, Michigan after receiving his M.F.A from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2019. He is currently in a residency at Carrie Able Gallery in Williamsburg, New York. He was chosen as one of the 10 Artist Fellows for Playground Detroit...

oil on linen on mounted board outsider pastel on archival paper *ABOUT Stephen Basso Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking f...

Born in the South of France in 1926 and raised by very strict parents, Jean Sanglar was prohibited from playing with same age mates. Truly talented, as a young boy he drew frequentl...

A whimsical pastel featuring a Mother with her Child on her lap that just pulled a goldfish from it's bowl. A charming large work that is exquisitely framed. Peggy Dodds Williams ...

with frame is cm. 70 x 60 no frame cm. 45 x 35

Almazan Realistic Still Life watercolor Painting MIQUEL was an artist focused on the art of realism. His structured works on his great mastery of drawing, are romantic and translate...

Life with a cat, 2023, 78x54 cm

In crowd, 2023, 78x54 cm

Women, 2023, 78x54 cm

Catch a deer, 2023, 78x54 cm

Chicken, 2023, 78x54 cm

Life with a cat, 2023, 78x54 cm

Almazan Realistic Still Life watercolor Painting. virtual frame MIQUEL was an artist focused on the art of realism. His structured works on his great mastery of drawing, are romanti...

Lisa Fricker's "Shocked!" is an original, handmade pastel painting that depicts an abstract portrait of a man, it measures 6 x 6 inches. This painting is framed and ready to hang.

Anna Sobkowiak is a painter and 2D animator living and working in Poznan, Poland. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Pra...

"Lake Crescent" by Bruce A. Gomez (US based) is an original pastel featuring a mountain lake with mountains reflected in the lake waters. Artist Statement I've been working in pas...

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"7" Abstract Painting 47" x 39" inch by Yevhenii Shapovalov ATT: SHIPS ROLLED IN TUBE ABOUT: Yevhenii Shapovalov is a highly talented Ukrainian painter and graphic known for his d...

"Paramount" by Bruce A. Gomez (US based) is an original pastel featuring a brightly lit city street at night. Artist Statement I've been working in pastel full-time for the last t...

"November Spire" by Bruce A. Gomez (US based) is an original pastel featuring a church spire. Artist Statement I've been working in pastel full-time for the last twenty-nine years...

Daggi Wallace's "Not All That Glitters I" is an original, handmade mixed media painting that depicts a female's model face with gold leaf drips. Born and raised in Berlin, Germany ...

Daggi Wallace's "Not All That Glitters II" is an original, handmade mixed media painting that depicts a female's model face with gold leaf drips. Born and raised in Berlin, Germany...

Daggi Wallace's "Not All That Glitters III" is an original, handmade mixed media painting that depicts a female's model face with gold leaf drips. Born and raised in Berlin, German...

"Sasha’s Marshall Basin" by Bruce A. Gomez (US based) is an original pastel featuring a mountain landscape with aspen trees changing color in the foreground. Artist Statement I've...

Daggi Wallace's "Silence Of The Lambs IX" is an original, handmade mixed media painting that depicts a female's model face in a monochromatic palette. Born and raised in Berlin, Ge...

Daggi Wallace's "Silence Of The Lambs XI" is an original, handmade mixed media painting that depicts a female's model face overlaid with circular shapes. Born and raised in Berlin,...

"Vatican Iris Study" by Bruce A. Gomez (US based) is an original pastel featuring a purple iris in full bloom. Artist Statement I've been working in pastel full-time for the last t...

"玫 Rose" by Bruce A. Gomez (US based) is an original pastel featuring a white rose in full bloom, dappled in sunlight. Artist Statement I've been working in pastel full-time for t...

"Mather Point" by Bruce A. Gomez (US based) is an original pastel featuring sandstone cliffs in the Grand Canyon in Arizona. Artist Statement I've been working in pastel full-time...

"From Dvorak to Botanic Gardens" by Bruce A. Gomez (US based) is an original pastel featuring trees backlit with sunlight. Artist Statement I've been working in pastel full-time f...

Elena Degenhardt's "Ocean II" is a poignant representation of the relentless and eternal spirit of the sea. Crafted in 2022, this exquisite original artwork measures 4 x 6 inches, re...

Elena Degenhardt's "Waves Mountain High I" is a poignant representation of the relentless and eternal spirit of the sea. Crafted in 2022, this exquisite original artwork measures 6 x...

Elena Degenhardt's "Ocean IV" is a poignant representation of the relentless and eternal spirit of the sea. Crafted in 2022, this exquisite original artwork measures 4 x 6 inches, re...

Elena Degenhardt's "Waves Mountain High II" is a poignant representation of the relentless and eternal spirit of the sea. Crafted in 2022, this exquisite original artwork measures 6 ...

Elena Degenhardt's "Plein Air Wave Fragmentations VI" is a poignant representation of the relentless and eternal spirit of the sea. Crafted in 2022, this exquisite original artwork m...

Elena Degenhardt's "Plein Air Wave Fragmentations V" is a poignant representation of the relentless and eternal spirit of the sea. Crafted in 2022, this exquisite original artwork me...

Elena Degenhardt's "Ocean III" is a poignant representation of the relentless and eternal spirit of the sea. Crafted in 2022, this exquisite original artwork measures 4 x 6 inches, r...

Almazan Realistic Still Life watercolor Painting. . frame MIQUEL was an artist focused on the art of realism. His structured works on his great mastery of drawing, are romantic and ...

There is Only So Much Letting Go You Can Ask Someone to Do (2024) by Rebecca Johnson Flashe, dry pigment, acrylic, pastel and watercolor on 40x30" canvas with custom whitewash-stain...

The Wizard (2024) by Rebecca Johnson Flashe, dry pigment, acrylic, pastel and watercolor on 14x11" canvas, custom Kona-stained wood frame. Neo-folk style owl with moth and decorativ...

Flair (2024) by Rebecca Johnson Flashe, dry pigment, acrylic, pastel and watercolor on 14x11" canvas, custom Kona-stained wood frame. Neo-folk style doves and star with decorative b...

Kate Smith was born in Manchester, England in 1947 and was educated in England, New Zealand and Durban, South Africa. Kate has resided in Australia since 1980. Kate found herself dr...