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Medium: Tempera
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...
Category
1990s Byzantine Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Silver
Inevitable Day – Birth of the Atom oil and tempera painting by Julio De Diego
Located in Hudson, NY
Julio De Diego’s Atomic Series paintings made an extraordinary statement regarding the shock and fear that accompanied the dawn of the nuclear age. In the artist’s own words, “Scientists were working secretly to develop formidable powers taken from the mysterious depths of the earth - with the power to make the earth useless! Then, the EXPLOSION! . . . we entered the Atomic Age, and from there the neo-Atomic war begins. Explosions fell everywhere and man kept on fighting, discovering he could fight without flesh.”
To execute these works, De Diego developed a technique of using tempera underpainting before applying layer upon layer of pigmented oil glazes. The result is paintings with surfaces which were described as “bonelike” in quality. The forms seem to float freely, creating a three-dimensional visual effect. In the 1954 book The Modern Renaissance in American Art, author Ralph Pearson summarizes the series as “a fantastic interpretation of a weighty theme. Perhaps it is well to let fantasy and irony appear to lighten the devastating impact. By inverse action, they may in fact increase its weight.”
Bibliography
Art in America, April 1951, p.78
About this artists: Julio De Diego crafted a formidable persona within the artistic developments and political struggles of his time. The artist characterized his own work as “lyrical,” explaining, “through the years, the surrealists, the social-conscious painters and the others tried to adopt me, but I went my own way, good, bad or indifferent.” [1] His independence manifested early in life when de Diego left his parent’s home in Madrid, Spain, in adolescence following his father’s attempts to curtail his artistic aspirations. At the age of fifteen he held his first exhibition, set up within a gambling casino. He managed to acquire an apprenticeship in a studio producing scenery for Madrid’s operas, but moved from behind the curtains to the stage, trying his hand at acting and performing as an extra in the Ballet Russes’ Petrouchka with Nijinsky. He spent several years in the Spanish army, including a six-month stretch in the Rif War of 1920 in Northern Africa. His artistic career pushed ahead as he set off for Paris and became familiar with modernism’s forays into abstraction, surrealism, and cubism.
The artist arrived in the U.S. in 1924 and settled in Chicago two years later. He established himself with a commission for the decoration of two chapels in St. Gregory’s Church. He also worked in fashion illustration, designed magazine covers and developed a popular laundry bag for the Hotel Sherman. De Diego began exhibiting through the Art Institute of Chicago in 1929, and participated in the annual Chicago Artists Exhibitions, Annual American Exhibitions, and International Water Color Exhibitions. He held a solo exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago in the summer of 1935. Though the artist’s career was advancing, his family life had deteriorated. In 1932 his first marriage dissolved, and the couple’s young daughter Kiriki was sent to live with friend Paul Hoffman.
De Diego continued to develop his artistic vocabulary with a growing interest in Mexican art. He traveled throughout the country acquainting himself with the works of muralists such as Carlos Merida, and also began a collection of small native artifacts...
Category
1940s American Modern Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil, Tempera
Cuernavaca Procession 1935, Figurative Landscape
By Goldie Anita Powell Harding
Located in Soquel, CA
Early work of figures moving along the street in Cuernavaca to the Cathedral in Mexico by Goldie Anita Powell Harding (American, 1892-1974). Circa 1935. Tempera on Masonite. In a per...
Category
1930s American Impressionist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Tempera
$1,516 Sale Price
20% Off
German Contemporary Art by Frank Suplie - Großes Rapsbild, Ratzeburger See
Located in Paris, IDF
Egg tempera on canvas, Molding frame
Frank Suplie is a German artist born in 1950 lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He is a member of the Painters Association of the North German ...
Category
2010s Realist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Canvas
Pegasus and the Witches (after Shakespeare's Macbeth) 1974. 46x38cm
Located in Riga, LV
Vladimir Glushenkov (1948-2009)
(May 21, 1948, Riga - December 26, 2009, Riga) - painter, graphic artist, poet, translator.
Vladimir Glushkenkov was born in family with Russian-Poli...
Category
1970s Expressionist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Cardboard
$1,652 Sale Price
20% Off
Nohbody's Wine (Kyclops)
Located in Dallas, TX
About Barnaby Fitzgerald’s work, the scholar Frederick Turner writes, “Fitzgerald’s outrageously gorgeous paintings are a guilty pleasure - yet the guilt is unnecessary, for they do ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Panel
Rebecca at the Well
Located in New York, NY
Provenance:
Dr. James Henry Lancashire, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts, by 1925; probably by descent to:
Private Collection, Cumberland Foreside, Maine, until 2018
This unpublished panel is a characteristic work of the Master of the Apollo and Daphne Legend, an anonymous Florentine painter in the circle of Bartolommeo di Giovanni, Domenico Ghirlandaio, and Sandro Botticelli. The artistic personality of the Master of the Apollo and Daphne Legend was independently recognized by Everett Fahy and Federico Zeri at roughly the same moment in time. Fahy originally dubbed this artist the Master of the Ryerson Panels but later adopted Zeri’s name for the artist, which derives from his eponymous works from the Samuel H. Kress collection (Figs. 1-2). Fahy posited that the artist was most likely a pupil of Ghirlandaio active from roughly 1480 to 1510, and that he may be identifiable with one of Ghirlandaio’s documented pupils to whom no works have been securely attributed, such as Niccolò Cieco, Jacopo dell’Indaco, or Baldino Baldinetti. The present painting was first attributed to this master by Everett Fahy in 1989, who became aware of its existence only after publishing his definitive studies on the artist.
The surviving body of work by the Master of the Apollo and Daphne Legend is largely composed of series of panels treating the same theme. In addition to the works illustrating the legend of Apollo and Daphne, there are also series on the themes of Susanna and the Elders and the story of Saint Joseph, among others. The subject of the present panel is drawn from Genesis 24, the story of Isaac. It is possible that our painting relates to another work by the artist depicting the Sacrifice of Isaac formerly in the collection of E. A. McGuire in Dublin, Ireland (Fig. 3), and that these two panels were originally part of a decorative scheme based on the story of Isaac.
Although the Master’s paintings of this type have traditionally been considered painted fronts of wedding chests, known as cassoni, the scale of these paintings and the fact that they are often part of a series indicates that they are more likely spalliera panels—paintings set into furniture or the wainscoting of a room. The biblical episode depicted in this painting centers on the theme of marriage, which suggests that this work was likely commissioned for the domestic interior of a newly married couple. The Master has transcribed into paint even the minute details of this Old Testament story, in which Abraham sends a servant to travel by camel to the land of his father and seek out a wife for his son Isaac. The servant is here shown at the well...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Old Masters Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Tempera, Wood Panel
Rabbit Hunters
By Roger Medearis
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Rabbit Hunters, egg tempera on Masonite, 12 x 9 inches, 1947, signed and dated lower left, signed, titled and dated verso “Rabbit Hunters Egg Tempera Roger Medearis 1947,” exhibited at Medearis' solo show at Kende Galleries, New York, in 1949 (Medearis’ record book, a copy of which is held by Vose Galleries in Boston, MA, indicates this is painting “No. 23” and that is was completed in 1947 and sold via Kende Galleries (at Gimbel Brothers...
Category
1940s American Modern Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Board
Playing with the cruciferous flower
Located in Zofingen, AG
Some time ago Evgeniy Monahov chatted with a good friend about which of the Hermitage Leonardos he like best - the Benois Madonna or the Litta Madonna....
Category
2010s Realist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Tempera, Wood Panel
The Archangel Michael (after the one by Rubliev in the Tretyakov Gallery-Moscow)
Located in Segovia, ES
The Archangel Michael (after the one by Rubliev in the Tretyakov Gallery-Moscow). This icon is an original work by the Viennese iconographer Oliver Samsinger.
According to the artis...
Category
2010s Byzantine Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
"Woman Listening" Honore Sharrer, Magical Realism Landscape with Flora & Figure
By Honore Sharrer
Located in New York, NY
Honore Sharrer (1920 - 2009)
Woman Listening
Signed lower right
Caseine on paper
15 x 20 inches
Provenance:
Forum Gallery, New York
Private Collection
...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Casein
$8,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Georgian Contemporary Art by Manana Eloshvili - Still Life with Flowers
Located in Paris, IDF
Tempera on canvas
Manana Eloshvili is a Georgian artist born in 1962 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. Since 1999, she is a member of the Georgian Artists Union. At the begin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Tempera
Costume - Original Mixed Media on Paper by Alkis Matheos - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Costume is an original painting in mixed media, tempera and watercolor on paper, realized by the Greek-French artist Alkis Matheos.
Very good conditions.
Signed by artist's stamp....
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Tempera, Watercolor
Peace in the Glimmer
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Born in Hollywood and raised in the urban sprawls of Los Angeles, Julio’s artistic aesthetic was shaped early on by the platinum light and expansive concrete horizons of southern Cal...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Panel
"Strong Arm" Figurative Abstract
Located in Soquel, CA
Bright figurative abstract with rich layers of texture and color by Chaz Cole (American, 20th Century). Irregular perimeter. Signed and dated "Chaz Cole" lower right. Signed and date...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Tempera, Cardboard
A Letter Home
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Born in Hollywood and raised in the urban sprawls of Los Angeles, Julio’s artistic aesthetic was shaped early on by the platinum light and expansive concrete horizons of southern Cal...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Panel
The Sanctuary
Located in Washington, DC
Painting by Noche Crist (1909 - 2004). Work is titled "The Sanctuary" and signed.
Painting is casein paint and plaster on board.
Catalogue of an exhibition in 2008 at the Katzen...
Category
1990s Outsider Art Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mirror, Plaster, Casein, Wood Panel
$2,800
The Shepherd, English Victorian 19th Century Egg Tempera
Located in London, GB
Sir William Blake Richmond KCB, RA, PPRBSA
1842 - 1921
The Shepherd
Egg tempera on wooden panel, signed with initials bottom left
Image size: 8 ¼ x 5 ½ inches
Period gilt oak frame
A newly discovered work by the artist.
Sir William Blake Richmond KCB, RA, PPRBSA was an English portrait painter, sculptor and a designer of stained glass and mosaic. He is best known for his portrait work and decorative mosaics in St Paul's Cathedral in London.
He was the son of the portraitist George Richmond RA and studied at the Royal Academy Schools in the early 1860s. Influenced by his father and by Sir John Everett Millais, he is best known for his mosaic decorations below the dome and in the apse of St Paul's Cathedral in London.
His father, George Richmond, was one of 'the Ancients' who were a group of artists who formed around the visionary artist and poet William Blake. Samuel Palmer was an other of the ancients and a close friend of the family.
Our painting could have been inspired by George Richmond’s engraving 'The Shepherd', 1827, but in our panel the shepherd is turned round facing away, and is playing a flute instead of resting on a staff. But the sheep and other elements are there.
It is also suggestive of Welby Sherman's engraving after Samuel Palmer of the same name and date, but here the shepherd is sitting but like ours turned away. William Blake's is an altogether happier image given the figure is playing to his sheep.
Our painting is playing with some of the same ideas and feels like the same sort of period, and the ‘fresco’ like chalk ground is interesting, as is the pen and ink finishing on the tempera. All three are strongly influenced by Blake's illustrations to Thornton's 'Virgil'. The shepherd and his flock are clearly based on Thenot and his sheep in the Frontispiece to Thornton.
Blake Richmond wrote:"If there be the least value in my pictures, it is due to such lovely early impressions derived from the sweet poetic work of many of my father's contemporaries, Calvert, Blake and others, whose shadows are substance still to me" [Sir William Blake Richmond, letter to his father, 50 years after the death of William Blake, from Stirling op. cit p. 28].
Richmond was given private art lessons by John Ruskin before attending the Royal Academy for three years. After that he spent a number of years in Italy, where an encounter with a shepherd called Beppino, 'a splendid speciman of a Sabine Shepherd', could also have gave him the inspiration for the painting we show here. Richmond recalls how he met Beppino on the hillside, and was invited to share the shade of the shepherd's capanna, a wooden hut. 'What a place! In an instant of time I was back into the age of kings, and I knew Romulus had lived and am sure that he lived in a hut exactly like this one'.
That night Richmond dined at Beppino's hut 'on roast kid, hard bread dipped in Roman wine, goat's cream and white ricotta'. The shepherd had such an impression on Richmond that he sought him out on a return visit to Italy some years later, but was saddened to hear that Beppino 'had joined his fore-fathers in the shades'.
He was moved to write the following, which perfectly expresses the mood of this painting and his tribute to a fleeting companion:
'Little events of this kind unite past times with present, create and emphasis continuity of human instincts, which seem to defy time and make travel so intensely interesting and invigorating to a citizen of this world. One need not go to the palace, far otherwise, or to cities and towns to discover the kernal of enduring civilisations. One finds it, if one wills to do so, in the backbone of the world, an ancient peasantry who have watched and still watch the progress of the stars'.
Richmond was influential in the early stages of the Arts and Crafts Movement in his selection of bold colours and materials for the mosaics in St. Paul's Cathedral and in his collaboration with James Powell and Sons...
Category
1860s Victorian Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Egg Tempera
Colorful Surreal Abstract Expressionist Painting of a Macabre Group of Clowns
Located in Houston, TX
Surreal abstract expressionist painting of a group of clowns in the style of Belgian painter James Ensor. Combining the macabre with the playful, the work features distorted clowns a...
Category
1990s Surrealist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
At the Winery - Hungarian Art
Located in London, GB
This original painting is hand signed by the artist "Scheiber H" in the lower left corner,
and dated "1940" below the signature.
Exhibited: Hugo Scheiber - Bela Kadar, Galerie Le Mi...
Category
1940s Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Gouache
Interior of a dacha - Tempera by L. and R. Brailowsky - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Interior of a Dacha is an original painting in tempera on paper realized by Leonid and Rimma Brailowsky.
Hand-signed on the lower right.
The state of preservation of the artwork i...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Tempera
"Jack-in-the-Pulpit" (2024) By Fred Wessel, Egg Tempera on Gold Leaf Painting
By Fred Wessel
Located in Denver, CO
Fred Wessel's "Jack-In-The-Pulpit" is a stunning egg tempera painting on gold leaf. Created in 2023, this piece features two stems of Aresaema Triphyllum, resting in an ornate gold l...
Category
2010s Realist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
School of Stoics
Located in Mokena, IL
The School of Stoics brings the viewer into an airy evening discussion at an agora overlooking the Aegean Sea. Amidst the silent water and grained marble, a group of stoics debate logic, reason, and nature. Agreement and disagreement prevail in the noble gestures of their bodies. Soon you see an individual's gaze directed towards you, raising their hand, calling you to join the conversation.
Technical:
53” x 39”. Tempera on panel with 24k gold water-gilded frame. Painting and frame produced by artists Justas and Vilius Varpucanskis. This piece utilizes the "rules of craftsmanship" as outlined in Cenino Cennini's Il Libro dell'Arte. 21st century contemporary artwork that employs techniques, philosophy, and visual language of the Italian High Renaissance...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Renaissance Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Madame in the Blossom Garden - Tempera on Paper by Lucie Navier - 1931
By Lucie Navier
Located in Roma, IT
Madame in the blossom garden is an original painting realized by Lucie Navier in the 1931.
Original tempera on paper.
Very good conditions.
Colorful composition representing a f...
Category
1930s Modern Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
"The Constellation Sagittarius" (2018) By Fred Wessel, Egg Tempera Painting
By Fred Wessel
Located in Denver, CO
Fred Wessel's "The Constellation Sagittarius" is a stunning egg tempera painting on gold leaf. Created in 2018, this piece depicts a young woman, holding an arrow and looking in the ...
Category
2010s Realist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Silver, Gold Leaf
Krishna, Mythology, Acrylic, Tempera, Green, Yellow by Indian Artist "In Stock"
By Aditya Basak
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Aditya Basak - Untitled - 36 x 30 inches (unframed size)
Acrylic & Tempera on Canvas
** This work will be shipped in a roll form.
"Through the medium of the fantasy, Basak probes...
Category
2010s Conceptual Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Tempera
Giant At Sea, Asian Inspired Painting with Samurai, Ink, egg-tempera, gold leaf
Located in Dallas, TX
"Giant At Sea" is an Asian Inspired Painting with a colorful Samurai and sailing boats in the ocean, with lots of white waves. The piece is created using ink, egg-tempera, and a gold...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Ganesha, Tempera on Board by Lalu Prasad Shaw "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Lalu Prasad Shaw
Ganesha
Tempera on Board
26 x 20 Inches
2016
Style : Known widely for his highly stylized portraits of Bengali women and couples, Lalu Prasad Shaw’s works lay the...
Category
2010s Modern Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Tempera, Board
"Modesty" (2016) By Fred Wessel, Egg Tempera Painting on Gold Leaf
By Fred Wessel
Located in Denver, CO
Fred Wessel's "Modesty" is a stunning egg tempera painting on gold leaf. Created in 2016, this piece depicts a young woman in a simple patterned gown, looking down and embracing hers...
Category
2010s Realist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Persian Illuminated Miniature with Three Hunters on Horseback in a Landscape
Located in Milwaukee, WI
The present illuminated folio page contains a fine miniature depicting three figures hunting while on horseback, an image meant to accompany a historic epic. During the medieval period, hunting was an important pastime of male nobility throughout the Islamic world. The Quran itself explicitly endorses hunting and the use of animals to aid in capturing prey: "Lawful to you are foodstuffs that are good to eat and any game that, at your wish, is captured by beasts of prey which train as you do dogs, according to the method that Allah has taught you, after you have spoken the name of Allah over it." (Q 6:4) Muslim princes and nobles enjoyed the chase of the prey via horseback, using bow and arrow, crossbows, and blowpipes to capture their prey Horseback riding itself trained young men in the necessary skills for armed combat and warfare, developing their speed and strength.
12 x 8.25 inches, artwork
19.75 x 15.88 inches, frame
accompanied on the back with an image of the verso
framed to conservation standards with a 100% rag silk-lined mat in a gold gilded frame
A Persian miniature is a small Persian painting on paper, whether a book illustration or a separate work of art intended to be kept in an album of such works called a muraqqa. The techniques are broadly comparable to the Western and Byzantine traditions of miniatures in illuminated manuscripts. Although there is an equally well-established Persian tradition of wall-painting, the survival rate and state of preservation of miniatures is better, and miniatures are much the best-known form of Persian painting in the West, and many of the most important examples are in Western, or Turkish, museums. Miniature painting became a significant genre in Persian art in the 13th century, receiving Chinese influence after the Mongol conquests, and the highest point in the tradition was reached in the 15th and 16th centuries. The tradition continued, under some Western influence, after this, and has many modern exponents. The Persian miniature was the dominant influence on other Islamic miniature traditions, principally the Ottoman miniature...
Category
19th Century Other Art Style Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Tempera, Laid Paper
Alfred Émile Léopold Stevens Period Watercolour Picture Portrait
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful painting in gouache technique depicting a distinguished young lady.
The noblewoman presents a pose of rare elegance, with one hand resting on a planter and the other holdin...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Paper
Thai Illuminated Manuscript Leaves, 19th C.
Located in Astoria, NY
Thai Illuminated Manuscript Leaves, 19th century, ink and tempera on paper, five folded leaves together in a giltwood frame. Image: 51.5" H x 16.25" W; frame: 67.5" H x 36.5" W. Prov...
Category
19th Century Other Art Style Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Tempera
"Birth of Christ" after a Russian icon of the 15th century. Oliver Samsinger
Located in Segovia, ES
"Birth of Christ", after a Russian icon of the 15th century.
Tempera and gold leaves on gesso, wooden board. Dimensions: (H) 68 x (W) 52 x (D) 4 cm.
This icon sums up the events of the birth of Christ. At the top left the three wise men from the Orient approach on horses.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Oliver...
Category
1990s Byzantine Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Baptism of Christ
Located in New York, NY
Provenance:
Achillito Chiesa, Milan
Luigi Albrighi, Florence, by 1 July 1955
with Marcello and Carlo Sestieri, Rome, 1969
Private Collection, Connecticut
Exhibited:
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, Massachusetts (on loan, 2012)
Literature:
Carlo Volpe, “Alcune restituzioni al Maestro dei Santi Quirico e Giulitta,” in Quaderni di Emblema 2: Miscellanea di Bonsanti, Fahy, Francisci, Gardner, Mortari, Sestieri, Volpe, Zeri, Bergamo, 1973, pp. 19-20, fig. 18, as by the Master of Saints Quiricus and Julitta (now identified as Borghese di Piero).
This fine predella panel depicting the Baptism...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Old Masters Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Wood Panel
White Buildings for H.C.
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original tempera on paper painting by emerging contemporary artist Anthony Leone, currently featured in the artist's solo exhibition Grape Farm.
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
The Magician oil and tempera painting by Julio de Diego
Located in Hudson, NY
Julio De Diego’s Atomic Series paintings made an extraordinary statement regarding the shock and fear that accompanied the dawn of the nuclear age. In the artist’s own words, “Scientists were working secretly to develop formidable powers taken from the mysterious depths of the earth - with the power to make the earth useless! Then, the EXPLOSION! . . . we entered the Atomic Age, and from there the neo-Atomic war begins. Explosions fell everywhere and man kept on fighting, discovering he could fight without flesh.”
To execute these works, De Diego developed a technique of using tempera underpainting before applying layer upon layer of pigmented oil glazes. The result is paintings with surfaces which were described as “bonelike” in quality. The forms seem to float freely, creating a three-dimensional visual effect. In the 1954 book The Modern Renaissance in American Art, author Ralph Pearson summarizes the series as “a fantastic interpretation of a weighty theme. Perhaps it is well to let fantasy and irony appear to lighten the devastating impact. By inverse action, they may in fact increase its weight.”
Exhibited
1964 Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas
This work retains its original frame which measures 54" x 42" x 2"
About this artist: Julio De Diego crafted a formidable persona within the artistic developments and political struggles of his time. The artist characterized his own work as “lyrical,” explaining, “through the years, the surrealists, the social-conscious painters and the others tried to adopt me, but I went my own way, good, bad or indifferent.” [1] His independence manifested early in life when de Diego left his parent’s home in Madrid, Spain, in adolescence following his father’s attempts to curtail his artistic aspirations. At the age of fifteen he held his first exhibition, set up within a gambling casino. He managed to acquire an apprenticeship in a studio producing scenery for Madrid’s operas, but moved from behind the curtains to the stage, trying his hand at acting and performing as an extra in the Ballet Russes’ Petrouchka with Nijinsky. He spent several years in the Spanish army, including a six-month stretch in the Rif War of 1920 in Northern Africa. His artistic career pushed ahead as he set off for Paris and became familiar with modernism’s forays into abstraction, surrealism, and cubism.
The artist arrived in the U.S. in 1924 and settled in Chicago two years later. He established himself with a commission for the decoration of two chapels in St. Gregory’s Church. He also worked in fashion illustration, designed magazine covers and developed a popular laundry bag for the Hotel Sherman. De Diego began exhibiting through the Art Institute of Chicago in 1929, and participated in the annual Chicago Artists Exhibitions, Annual American Exhibitions, and International Water Color Exhibitions. He held a solo exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago in the summer of 1935. Though the artist’s career was advancing, his family life had deteriorated. In 1932 his first marriage dissolved, and the couple’s young daughter Kiriki was sent to live with friend Paul Hoffman.
De Diego continued to develop his artistic vocabulary with a growing interest in Mexican art. He traveled throughout the country acquainting himself with the works of muralists such as Carlos Merida, and also began a collection of small native artifacts...
Category
1940s American Modern Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil, Tempera
"The Constellation Delphinus" (2020) By Fred Wessel, Egg Tempera Painting
By Fred Wessel
Located in Denver, CO
Fred Wessel's "The Constellation Delphinus" is an egg tempera painting with gold and silver leaf created in 2019 depicting a female with a gold leaf background.
About the artist:
...
Category
2010s Realist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf, Silver
Scandinavian Family Portrait, Artist 18th Century, Scandinavian School
Located in Knokke, BE
Scandinavian Family Portrait
Artist 18th century
18th Century
Scandinavian School
Signature: Not signed
Medium: Miniature
Dimensions: Image size ...
Category
18th Century Medieval Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera
Persian Illuminated Miniature with Four Figures Playing Polo in a Landscape
Located in Milwaukee, WI
The present illuminated folio page contains a fine miniature depicting four figures playing polo. Polo, also called 'chagun,' was the sport of kings and princes of central Asia and Iran, and the sport probably originated there in the 6th century BCE. Polo matches appear in a large number of early Persian texts, including in the writings of the 10th century epic writer Abu l-Qasim al-Firdawsi: He describes numerous polo matches in his famous 'Shahnameh' (The Persian Book of Kings). This particular illumination also is closely related to an example held at the Smithsonian Museum of Asian Art: a folio from 'Guy u Chawgan' (The ball and the polo-mallet) which shows a polo game with the dervish and the shah.
12 x 8.25 inches, artwork
19.75 x 15.88 inches, frame
accompanied on the back with an image of the verso
framed to conservation standards with a 100% rag silk-lined mat in a gold gilded frame
A Persian miniature is a small Persian painting on paper, whether a book illustration or a separate work of art intended to be kept in an album of such works called a muraqqa. The techniques are broadly comparable to the Western and Byzantine traditions of miniatures in illuminated manuscripts. Although there is an equally well-established Persian tradition of wall-painting, the survival rate and state of preservation of miniatures is better, and miniatures are much the best-known form of Persian painting in the West, and many of the most important examples are in Western, or Turkish, museums. Miniature painting became a significant genre in Persian art in the 13th century, receiving Chinese influence after the Mongol conquests, and the highest point in the tradition was reached in the 15th and 16th centuries. The tradition continued, under some Western influence, after this, and has many modern exponents. The Persian miniature was the dominant influence on other Islamic miniature traditions, principally the Ottoman miniature...
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19th Century Other Art Style Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Tempera, Laid Paper
15th Century By Maestro della Pala Sforzesca Ecce Homo Tempera on Panel
Located in Milano, Lombardia
15th Century Maestro della Pala Sforzesca
Title: Ecce Homo
Medium: Tempera on Panel
Dimensions: without frame 64.9 x 53.2 – with frame 82 x 70 x 5 cm
Beautiful "cassetta" frame in e...
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15th Century and Earlier Old Masters Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Tempera
La Piscine de mon Rêve Landscape Tempera Painting on Linen Canvas In Stock
By Paul Delmée
Located in Utrecht, NL
La Piscine de mon Rêve Swimming Pool of my Dream Landscape Tempera Painting on Linen Canvas In Stock
Paul Delmée (Brussels, 1944) received his education at the Academie des Beaux Art...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Tempera
Woman With Baskets - Original Mixed Media by Sergio Barletta - 1995
Located in Roma, IT
Woman With Baskets is an original painting artwork in mixed media -ink, tempera and watercolor- realized by Sergio Barletta in 1995.
Hand-signed and...
Category
1990s Contemporary Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Ink, Tempera, Watercolor
French Contemporary Art by Claudie Baran - Art is dead - Nature takes over
Located in Paris, IDF
Tempera,Ink on canvas
Framed - 132 x 99 x 4 cm
Category
2010s Contemporary Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Tempera, Ink
Woman on Porch Feed Her Cats at Early Morning Light , Mid Century
By Joe Bowler
Located in Miami, FL
A milk truck is seen caressed in the golden light of early morning as a woman bends down to feed her cat. The artist depicts a precious moment as an older woman reaching down to pick...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Casein
"The Majestic Flowering Artichoke" (2025) Egg Tempera Painting on Panel
By Fred Wessel
Located in Denver, CO
About the artist:
A two week trip that I took to Italy in 1984, had a profound and prolonged influence on my work. At that time I was involved in making a series of aquarium images...
Category
2010s Realist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Siamese Cat with Kittens by Orovida Pissarro - Egg tempura painting
Located in London, GB
Siamese Cat with Kittens by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Egg tempera on linen
39 x 48 cm (15³/₈ x 18⁷/₈ inches)
Signed lower right Orovida and dated lower left 1934
Provenance
J Ankri, 8th October 1967
Literature
K L Erickson, Orovida Pissarro: Painter and Print-Maker with A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, (doctoral thesis), Oxford, 1992, Appendices, no. 51, p. 56 (illustrated)
Exhibition
London, The Leicester Galleries, Paintings by Orovida, February 1935, no. 6
Women’s International Art Club, 20th February - 13th March 1937, no. 273
London, Redfern Gallery, Ten Years of Work by Orovida, 5th-28th May 1938, no. 7
London, The Royal Society of British Artists, Summer Exhibition, 1947, no. 281 (possibly the etching)
London, O’Hana Gallery, Paintings, Drawings and Coloured Etchings: Orovida, 3rd-18th October 1957, no. 13
Artist biography
Orovida Camille Pissarro, Lucien and Esther Pissarro’s only child, was the first woman in the Pissarro family as well as the first of her generation to become an artist. Born in Epping, England in 1893, she lived and worked predominantly in London where she became a prominent member of several British arts clubs and societies.
She first learned to paint in the Impressionist style of her father, but after a brief period of formal study with Walter Sickert in 1913 she renounced formal art schooling. Throughout her career, Orovida always remained outside of any mainstream British art movements. Much to Lucien's disappointment she soon turned away from naturalistic painting and developed her own unusual style combining elements of Japanese, Chinese, Persian and Indian art. Her rejection of Impressionism, which for the Pissarro family had become a way of life, together with the simultaneous decision to drop her famous last name and simply use Orovida as a ‘nom de peintre’, reflected a deep desire for independence and distance from the weight of the family legacy.
Orovida's most distinctive and notable works were produced from the period of 1919 to 1939 using her own homemade egg tempera applied in thin, delicate washes to silk, linen or paper and sometimes embellished with brocade borders. These elegant and richly decorative works generally depict Eastern, Asian and African subjects, such as Mongolian horse...
Category
1930s Modern Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Egg Tempera
German Contemporary Art by Frank Suplie - Wacholderwald und Heide, Schmarbeck
Located in Paris, IDF
Egg tempera on canvas, Shadow joint frame
Frank Suplie is a German artist born in 1950 lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He is a member of the Painters Association of the North Ge...
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2010s Realist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Canvas
City Scene with Faces casein tempera on canvas by Vaclav Vytlacil
Located in Hudson, NY
Modernist painting by Vaclav Vytlacil of "City Scene with Faces". Signed and dated "Vytlacil 32" lower right.
Provenance: Estate of the artist #1584; Martin Diamond Fine Art
Exhibi...
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1930s Abstract Expressionist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Casein, Canvas
Pizza Shark 2 v 2
Located in New York, NY
Renelio Marin is a visual artist with a diverse range of influences and styles. Born in Cuba, he received his graduate degree from the San Alejandro School of Fine Arts in Havana in ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil, Tempera, Permanent Marker
Medicinal Plants, Papaver Somiferum L. (Opium)
By Peggy Kliafa
Located in New York, NY
MEDICINAL PLANTS, PAPAVER SOMNIFERUM L. (OPIUM), 2013
Tempera on paper
49,5 x 38,5 cm
Born in 1967 in Trikala, she grew up in Athens, Greece, where s...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Archival Paper
German Contemporary Art by Frank Suplie - Eutin/Ostholstein, Schlossallee
Located in Paris, IDF
Frank Suplie is a German artist born in 1950 lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He is a member of the Painters Association of the North German Realists s...
Category
2010s Realist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Canvas
St. Atomic oil and tempera painting by Julio de Diego
Located in Hudson, NY
Julio De Diego’s Atomic Series paintings made an extraordinary statement regarding the shock and fear that accompanied the dawn of the nuclear age. In the artist’s own words, “Scientists were working secretly to develop formidable powers taken from the mysterious depths of the earth - with the power to make the earth useless! Then, the EXPLOSION! . . . we entered the Atomic Age, and from there the neo-Atomic war begins. Explosions fell everywhere and man kept on fighting, discovering he could fight without flesh.”
To execute these works, De Diego developed a technique of using tempera underpainting before applying layer upon layer of pigmented oil glazes. The result is paintings with surfaces which were described as “bonelike” in quality. The forms seem to float freely, creating a three-dimensional visual effect. In the 1954 book The Modern Renaissance in American Art, author Ralph Pearson summarizes the series as “a fantastic interpretation of a weighty theme. Perhaps it is well to let fantasy and irony appear to lighten the devastating impact. By inverse action, they may in fact increase its weight.”
Exhibited
1950 University of Illinois at Urbana "Contemporary American Painting"
1964 Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas
This work retains its original frame which measures 54" x 36" x 2".
About this artist: Julio De Diego crafted a formidable persona within the artistic developments and political struggles of his time. The artist characterized his own work as “lyrical,” explaining, “through the years, the surrealists, the social-conscious painters and the others tried to adopt me, but I went my own way, good, bad or indifferent.” [1] His independence manifested early in life when de Diego left his parent’s home in Madrid, Spain, in adolescence following his father’s attempts to curtail his artistic aspirations. At the age of fifteen he held his first exhibition, set up within a gambling casino. He managed to acquire an apprenticeship in a studio producing scenery for Madrid’s operas, but moved from behind the curtains to the stage, trying his hand at acting and performing as an extra in the Ballet Russes’ Petrouchka with Nijinsky. He spent several years in the Spanish army, including a six-month stretch in the Rif War of 1920 in Northern Africa. His artistic career pushed ahead as he set off for Paris and became familiar with modernism’s forays into abstraction, surrealism, and cubism.
The artist arrived in the U.S. in 1924 and settled in Chicago two years later. He established himself with a commission for the decoration of two chapels in St. Gregory’s Church. He also worked in fashion illustration, designed magazine covers and developed a popular laundry bag for the Hotel Sherman. De Diego began exhibiting through the Art Institute of Chicago in 1929, and participated in the annual Chicago Artists Exhibitions, Annual American Exhibitions, and International Water Color Exhibitions. He held a solo exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago in the summer of 1935. Though the artist’s career was advancing, his family life had deteriorated. In 1932 his first marriage dissolved, and the couple’s young daughter Kiriki was sent to live with friend Paul Hoffman.
De Diego continued to develop his artistic vocabulary with a growing interest in Mexican art. He traveled throughout the country acquainting himself with the works of muralists such as Carlos Merida, and also began a collection of small native artifacts...
Category
1940s American Modern Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil, Tempera
Pushkin's Fairy Tales Princess - Fantasy Art - Art Nouveau
Located in Miami, FL
Italian Illustrator Gianni Benvenuti depicts a Pushkin's Fairy Tales Princess in a winter landscape of stylized trees with exaggerated curves and twisting branches. The princess is d...
Category
1960s Art Nouveau Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Illustration Board
The Fog
Located in Zofingen, AG
Some time ago Evgeniy bet with his good friend that he could paint a painting where about half of it would be pure white primer but painting will look finished anyway. So this story ...
Category
2010s Realist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Tempera, Wood Panel
$14,439
Prospector firing Rifle ( Happiness is a Warm Gun ) Gay Art
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
Tempera mixed with gum arabic and alcohol on Renaissance Panel ( composite wood panel )
Robert Riggs was a gay man. Being gay in American during the 1940's time was something not to flaunt in public. Rigg's had to communicate his underlying feelings in more symbolic ways.
Throughout Riggs' oeuvre, one sees continuous references to strong hunked out manly men and vulnerable boys. It is a core element of is iconography and is described in a powerful graphic style.
In “Prospector firing Rifle,” there is a Dick Pic. Riggs is clearly making a sexual statement about the moment of climax. The long, straight rifle explodes and is captured at the moment of its peak climax. Meanwhile, the two bags of gold clearly resemble the other part of the male anatomy. Riggs was a thoughtful and meticulous visual thinker, and nothing in any of Riggs’s compositions was haphazardly placed. In tribute to the artist’s suppressed feelings, I have given this work a second title “Happiness is a Warm Gun...
Category
1940s Academic Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
"Clematis Blossom" (2025), Egg Tempera Painting on Panel
By Fred Wessel
Located in Denver, CO
Fred Wessel's "Clematis Blossom" is an egg tempera painting with gold leaf and lapis gems on a panel. This piece measures 12.5 x 12.25 inches framed and is ready to hang.
About the ...
Category
2010s Realist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
"Angel Trumpets, Morning Dew" (2025) Egg Tempera Painting on Panel
By Fred Wessel
Located in Denver, CO
Fred Wessel's "Angel Trumpets, Morning Dew" measures 22.5 x 21.25 inches in its elegant frame and is ready to hang.
About the artist:
A two week trip that I took to Italy in 1984,...
Category
2010s Realist Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Safe!
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Tempera on Board
Illustration of a baseball player's dusty crash to a field base as seen out of the corner of a television set.
Category
20th Century Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Board
$9,500
St. Gerome - Holy Turk
Located in Dallas, TX
A professor of painting at Southern Methodist University since 1984, Barnaby Fitzgerald spent his childhood in Italy where he earned a printmaking degree in Urbino. He received a BFA...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Birch, Egg Tempera
Art Deco Woman in Classical Robes set in Stylized Landscape
Located in Miami, FL
Woman in Surreal Landscape Illustration
Published: Woman's Home Companion December 1939, "How to Pray"
By Ralph Sadler Meadowcroft
Work is Unframed
Category
1930s Art Deco Tempera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
$44,000 Sale Price
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