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Period: 1980s
Hidden Portraits XIII, Modern Acrylic on Canvas, Framed, Circa 1980s
Hidden Portraits XIII, Modern Acrylic on Canvas, Framed, Circa 1980s

Hidden Portraits XIII, Modern Acrylic on Canvas, Framed, Circa 1980s

Located in London, GB

'Hidden Portraits XIII', acrylic on canvas mounted on board, Florentine School (circa 1980s-90s). This gallery has acquired a number of paintings through an intermediary of an ageing...

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Modern 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Board

Hidden Portraits XVI, Acrylic on Canvas, Modern, Unsigned, Circa 1980s
Hidden Portraits XVI, Acrylic on Canvas, Modern, Unsigned, Circa 1980s

Hidden Portraits XVI, Acrylic on Canvas, Modern, Unsigned, Circa 1980s

Located in London, GB

'Hidden Portraits XVI', acrylic on canvas mounted on board, unsigned, Florentine School (circa 1980s-90s). This gallery has acquired a number of paintings through an intermediary of ...

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Modern 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Board

Surrealist Mineral Landscape Spanish Catalan Oil Canvas Painting Dalí Circle art
Surrealist Mineral Landscape Spanish Catalan Oil Canvas Painting Dalí Circle art

Surrealist Mineral Landscape Spanish Catalan Oil Canvas Painting Dalí Circle art

By Antoni Pitxot

Located in Sitges, Barcelona

Dalí Circle Surrealist Mineral Landscape, Spanish Catalan Oil Painting Artist: Antoni Pitxot Soler / Antoni Pichot Soler (Figueres, 1934 – 2015) Title: Surrealist Mineral Landscape Date: 1985 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 50 × 61 cm / 19.7 × 24 in Framing: Unframed Signature: Signed and dated lower right Condition: Very good overall condition. Stable canvas and paint layer. Rich surface texture, visible impasto and original brushwork. Description Powerful surrealist oil painting by Antoni Pitxot Soler, one of the most important Catalan artists connected to Salvador Dalí’s inner circle and a key figure in the visual universe of Cadaqués and Figueres. Painted in 1985, this work belongs to Pitxot’s mature period and presents one of his most recognizable subjects: a dreamlike mineral landscape built from stones, fragments, shells, fossil-like forms and metamorphic shapes. The composition seems suspended between landscape, archaeology and hallucination, where inert matter becomes almost alive. The painting is especially strong visually. The lower section is constructed through a dense accumulation of sculptural forms, painted with thick, expressive brushwork and a refined chromatic range of blues, ochres, pinks, whites, greys and earthy tones. Above them, a floating organic form...

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Surrealist 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Hidden Portraits XIV, Modern Acrylic on Canvas, Signed, Circa 1980s
Hidden Portraits XIV, Modern Acrylic on Canvas, Signed, Circa 1980s

Hidden Portraits XIV, Modern Acrylic on Canvas, Signed, Circa 1980s

Located in London, GB

'Hidden Portraits XIV', acrylic on canvas mounted on board, signed 'Giacomo', Florentine School (circa 1980s-90s). This gallery has acquired a number of paintings through an intermed...

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Modern 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Board

Las Ramblas Barcelona Flower Market Street Scene Painting Urban Impressionist
Las Ramblas Barcelona Flower Market Street Scene Painting Urban Impressionist

Las Ramblas Barcelona Flower Market Street Scene Painting Urban Impressionist

Located in Sitges, Barcelona

Scenes of Las Ramblas in Barcelona remain among the most recognizable urban subjects in European painting and are highly sought after by collectors and interior designers worldwide. Artist Jordi Junyent Title Rambla de las Flores, Barcelona Date 1988 Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 50 × 61 cm 19.7 × 24 in Signature Signed “Junyent” lower left and dated 1988. Frame Unframed Condition Very good condition. Canvas firm and well stretched. Stable paint layer with bright colors. No visible restorations. Atmospheric urban painting depicting Las Ramblas flower market in Barcelona, one of the most recognizable and vibrant locations in the city. The composition captures the scene after rainfall, with reflective pavement, flower stalls and strolling figures creating depth and movement. The wet street surface reflects light and silhouettes, enhancing the lively Mediterranean atmosphere. Executed with a confident and expressive brushstroke, the artist uses a palette dominated by cool greys, greens and blues contrasted with vivid reds from the flower displays. The simplified figures and loose handling of paint emphasize the mood of the place rather than strict detail, a characteristic approach of post-impressionist urban painting. Scenes of Barcelona’s Las Ramblas are particularly sought after in the international decorative art market due to their strong visual identity and association with one of Europe’s most iconic boulevards. An attractive and highly decorative cityscape, ideal for collectors of European urban painting or for interior design settings seeking a vibrant Mediterranean atmosphere. Jordi Junyent was a Spanish painter active in the late twentieth century whose work focused primarily on urban scenes and Mediterranean city views. His paintings often depict recognizable locations such as the streets of Barcelona, rendered with a loose brushstroke and an emphasis on atmosphere, light and color. Working within a post-impressionist tradition, Junyent developed compositions that balance figurative clarity with painterly spontaneity, making his works appealing within the European decorative art market. Barcelona Las Ramblas Barcelona street scene Flower market painting...

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Modern 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Tin Cans Oil Painting, Framed Still Life, French School, Circa 1980
Tin Cans Oil Painting, Framed Still Life, French School, Circa 1980

Tin Cans Oil Painting, Framed Still Life, French School, Circa 1980

By Pierre Coquet

Located in Montfort l’Amaury, FR

Pierre Coquet - Tin cans Reference number F455 Framed with a natural oak floated frame 35 x 40 cm frame included (30 x 35 cm without frame) This work is painted with oil on a paper t...

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French School 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Paternity Realist Painting, Oil and Acrylic on Canvas, 1980s, Unframed
Paternity Realist Painting, Oil and Acrylic on Canvas, 1980s, Unframed

Paternity Realist Painting, Oil and Acrylic on Canvas, 1980s, Unframed

By José Luis Fuentetaja

Located in Sitges, Barcelona

Frameless. Is born in Madrid on the 21st july 1951. After attending primary school, he starts to grow an enormous tendency for drawing. At the age of 14 he begins to work in advertising and attends to the Vallecas school of arts. At the age of 14 he travels to Switzerland and in Geneve he gets intensly into painting and decides to dedicate himself only to it. When he returns to Spain he enrolls Arts Studies, and at the begining of summer '66, he visits Sitges, where he'll come back year after year and where ultimately he'll set his home. At this time he starts selling his painting in the flea market in Madrid and later in Sitges, setting himself on the street, thus completing his studies and making it economically. While he's in Madrid he recives lessons by Pedro Mozas at Bellas Artes and starts to learn profoundly about painting. In 1969 he starts painting portraits in the streets. In Sitges he creates, with other friends, a great artistic atmosphere in the Paseo de la Ribera, by the sea, that today still exists. He starts travelling through Europe, visiting and painting in Paris, London and Amsterdam. In the middle of this bohemian epoque, he moves to the Cannary Islands during the winters for 5 years in a row, he moves in the Parque de Santa Catalina "Las Palmas de Gran Canaria" where he works and meet all sorts of people in the streets, which later would mark his pictoric line. He becomes friend with Sidney Nagley in 1969, who organizes his first exhibition in Toronto, Canada. Afterwards he'll leave his studies and start painting exclusively in his studio. He gathers his first exhibition in the Ateneu of Barcelona in 1970. He befriends with the art critic of La Vanguardia, Fernando Gutierrez and the Count of Caralt orders him a set of illustration for a new edition of Garcia Lorcas Romancero Gitano. His first exhibition in a commercial gallery is done in the Majestic Gallery in Barcelona with a gorgeous collection of nudity drawings. He achieves huge success and for some years he affords his painting thanks to those drawings. During a period in Madrid, Mr Ponce de León, a consul in the Ministry of Exterior Affairs grants him with bachelor degree to study in the prestigious Academia de España in Rome. However, he can't accept it due to militar service obligations. Some days later, before joining the ranks he opens in the Cuatre Gats (Palma de Mallorca) with hiperrealist pieces that already then he presented as the first painter in that city, that later would become a fashion in 1973. After this period he meets José Maria Gudiol who advises positively. Since then, the intense work and the fight for daily improvement that has become the trademark of his life. The seek of styles and situations, the journeys through Europe always aware of all the tendencies that have in the art line that we can see nowadays. At his more than fifty years given to paint, his individual exhibitions beat the 100, his artwork is highly appreciated and valued in the complex market of art. In October 1982 hi makes his first exhibition in Tarragona. In the catalogue, writing of the unforgettable Fernando Gutierrez, he says "Fuentetaja is an artist of character and exceptional upbringing with a masterly knowledge of technique and resourses, and personality completely uncommon to the dimension of his sensitivity, as the richness of his deep and bloomed liricism. A judgement as accurate as foreseeing for the future outstanding of the artist, in where his paint soared through different phases mantaining an unquestionable quality. Lines, cubist, expressionist and hiperrealist till his current realism, in the middle of his creative maturity. Jose Luis Fuentetaja...

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Realist 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Crucifixion - Oil Paint by Benito Troleses - 1988
Crucifixion - Oil Paint by Benito Troleses - 1988

Crucifixion - Oil Paint by Benito Troleses - 1988

By Benito Trolese

Located in Roma, IT

Oil on canvas realized by Benito Trolese (1937-2017) in 1988. Hand signed and dated. Titled on rear. Includes a contemporary wooden frame cm. 41x51. Benito Trolese is an Italian p...

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Contemporary 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Silence
Silence

Silence

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist: Cornelius van Fulpen– American (1905 - 1987) Title: Silence Year: 1984 Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 19.5 x 23.75 inches Framed size: 25.5 x 29.75 inches Signature: Signed, da...

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American Impressionist 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Harlequin in a Landscape
Harlequin in a Landscape

Harlequin in a Landscape

Located in Wilton Manors, FL

Karlo Kacharava (1964-1994). Harlequin in a Landscape, ca. 1985. Enamel paint and marker on gloss paper, sheet measures 19.5 x 15.25 inches. Signed lower left. Unframed. Wit...

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Neo-Expressionist 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Enamel

An 1890s Sunday in the Park, by Lorraine
An 1890s Sunday in the Park, by Lorraine

An 1890s Sunday in the Park, by Lorraine

Located in San Francisco, CA

You might need a pick-me-up of charming nostalgia about now. The bunting-draped red, white and blue gazebo. The American flag fluttering against clear sunny skies. And for an extra s...

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Folk Art 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Paint

Woman Hippie Oil Painting on Canvas, Realism, Spain, 1970s, Signed
Woman Hippie Oil Painting on Canvas, Realism, Spain, 1970s, Signed

Woman Hippie Oil Painting on Canvas, Realism, Spain, 1970s, Signed

By José Luis Fuentetaja

Located in Sitges, Barcelona

Frame size 52x44 Is born in Madrid on the 21st july 1951. After attending primary school, he starts to grow an enormous tendency for drawing. At the age of 14 he begins to work in ...

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Realist 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Three Sisters: large abstract expressionist figural painting & breast feeding
Three Sisters: large abstract expressionist figural painting & breast feeding

Three Sisters: large abstract expressionist figural painting & breast feeding

Located in Bryn Mawr, PA

FREE DELIVERY to certain areas along the Mid-Atlantic corridor between NJ and VA -- contact me to ask if your area qualifies. Ellen Powell Tiberino, matriarch of the Tiberino artist dynasty that includes her artist-husband Joseph and three artist-children (Raphael, Gabriel, and Ellen), often looked to Black women and girls as subjects, in the contexts of motherhood, pregnancy, and childhood, as well as subjects drawn from her neighborhood communities. Her work is expressionistic and passionate with dramatic gestures and dark colorism in her figures, but it is also intimate and highly personal. At this point in her career, Tiberino had been struggling with cancer, and as a result, her palette became brighter and more colorful than her former dark palette. "Three Sisters" includes Ellen Powell Tiberino’s self-portrait in the front of the composition, nursing an infant. Tiberino’s two sisters, Joyce and Anne, sit behind her. Tiberino likely paints from memory or imagination here, since her four children were well beyond nursing age when she created this painting. "Three Sisters" is likely among the last large-scale canvases Tiberino completed, opting to work on a smaller scale and while seated as her illness progressed. Tiberino ultimately lost her battle in 1992. "Three Sisters" comes from a private Main Line, PA collection, acquired directly from the artist immediately upon its completion. Framed in original wood strip frame. It is in excellent condition. Tiberino graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1959, where she was awarded a prestigious Cresson scholarship to study in Europe. After returning to the US, she lived and worked in New York until she married fellow artist (Joseph) and returned to her hometown of Philadelphia where she continued to create oil paintings, oil pastels drawings, sculptures, murals, and mosaics. In Philadelphia, she was part of social and professional circles that included Moe Brooker, Barbara Bullock, Walter Edmonds, Charles Pridgen, Leroy Johnson, John Simpson, James Dupree...

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Abstract 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Impressionist Mediterranean Harbor Painting Port de la Selva Costa Brava Fishing
Impressionist Mediterranean Harbor Painting Port de la Selva Costa Brava Fishing

Impressionist Mediterranean Harbor Painting Port de la Selva Costa Brava Fishing

Located in Sitges, Barcelona

Impressionist Mediterranean Harbor Painting Port de la Selva Costa Brava Fishing Boats Oil Canvas Artist: Lazarotti Title: Port de la Selva Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 60 × 73 cm (23.6 × 28.7 in) Signature: Signed lower right Inscription: Titled on reverse Frame: Unframed Condition: Very good condition. Stable paint surface with original impasto visible Origin: Spain Atmospheric Mediterranean harbor scene depicting Port de la Selva on the Costa Brava, one of the most picturesque fishing villages in northeastern Spain near Cap de Creus. The composition presents a lively shoreline animated by traditional fishing boats resting along the beach and floating gently across reflective harbor waters. Whitewashed architecture rises against the mountainous backdrop, creating a luminous contrast with the turquoise sea and expansive sky. Executed with confident impressionist brushwork, the painting captures shifting reflections and coastal light through layered strokes of blue, rose, ochre and soft green tonal transitions. The surface retains visible impasto that enhances depth and movement across the water. Mediterranean harbor paintings of this type are especially sought after for their decorative clarity, collector accessibility and strong interior presence, particularly within coastal and modern European painting collections. The inscription “Port de la Selva” on the reverse confirms the exact Catalan location represented. This work belongs to the Mediterranean impressionist...

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Modern 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Colorful Juggler Surreal Painting on Canvas, Signed, 14x11"
Colorful Juggler Surreal Painting on Canvas, Signed, 14x11"

Colorful Juggler Surreal Painting on Canvas, Signed, 14x11"

Located in Douglas Manor, NY

#5-3339 Figurative Surreal on canvas applied to a board, signed by Martino, set in a black wood frame.Image size 13.75 H x 10.50 W

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1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Untitled (Orange in a Broken Glass) - Oil Paint - 1985
Untitled (Orange in a Broken Glass) - Oil Paint - 1985

Untitled (Orange in a Broken Glass) - Oil Paint - 1985

Located in Roma, IT

A surreal and imaginative composition featuring a paper boat carrying animals and toy-like figures. Bright colors and playful symbolism evoke childhood wonder, while the reflective s...

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Surrealist 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Faces at the Beach, Large Art Deco Painting by Jessica Rice
Faces at the Beach, Large Art Deco Painting by Jessica Rice

Faces at the Beach, Large Art Deco Painting by Jessica Rice

By Jessica Rice

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Jessica Rice, Belgian (1941 - ) Title: Faces at the Beach Year: 1988 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.l. Size 48 x 72 in. (121.92 x 182.88 cm) Frame Size: 53 in. x 77 in. (1...

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Contemporary 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Duet #2, Large Art Deco Painting by Erik Freyman
Duet #2, Large Art Deco Painting by Erik Freyman

Duet #2, Large Art Deco Painting by Erik Freyman

By Erik Freyman

Located in Long Island City, NY

"Duet #2" is an original painting on canvas measuring 48 x 36 inches by Erik Freyman. The artist is best known for his 80's style which draws heavily on Art Deco and Cubism. Frey...

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Art Deco 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Le Pont Neuf - Post Impressionist Figures Landscape Oil - Hugues Claude Pissarro
Le Pont Neuf - Post Impressionist Figures Landscape Oil - Hugues Claude Pissarro

Le Pont Neuf - Post Impressionist Figures Landscape Oil - Hugues Claude Pissarro

By Hugues Claude Pissarro

Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire

Signed pontillist style oil on canvas figures in cityscape circa 1980 by French post impressionist artist Hugues Claude Pissarro. The piece depicts a view of the top of the Pont Neuf...

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Post-Impressionist 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Color Field in Red, White, and Black - Vintage Latin American School, Signed
Color Field in Red, White, and Black - Vintage Latin American School, Signed

Color Field in Red, White, and Black - Vintage Latin American School, Signed

By Ricardo de Silva

Located in Soquel, CA

Color Field in Red, White, and Black - Vintage Latin American School, Signed Bold abstract painting by Latin American California-based artist, Ricardo de Silva (American/Brazil, 20t...

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Abstract Expressionist 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic, Pencil

Hidden Portraits XIX, Acrylic on Canvas, Modern, Framed, 1980s
Hidden Portraits XIX, Acrylic on Canvas, Modern, Framed, 1980s

Hidden Portraits XIX, Acrylic on Canvas, Modern, Framed, 1980s

Located in London, GB

'Hidden Portraits XIX', acrylic on canvas mounted on board, Florentine School (circa 1980s-90s). This gallery has acquired a number of paintings through an intermediary of an ageing ...

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Modern 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Board

"St. George and the Dragon" - Large Late 20th Century Framed Painting
"St. George and the Dragon" - Large Late 20th Century Framed Painting

"St. George and the Dragon" - Large Late 20th Century Framed Painting

Located in New Orleans, LA

You don't have to be a Catholic, or a medievalist, or a Catholic medievalist (Tolkien?) to appreciate this striking image of St. George taking on the dragon. In style it falls somewhere between Cubism and Guernica, to my eye. The limited color palette, with the bold red, gives it the energy of early 20th-century Russian poster...

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Cubist 1980s Figurative Paintings

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Oil

"Mele Verdi " Olio cm. 67 x 63  1988
"Mele Verdi " Olio cm. 67 x 63  1988

"Mele Verdi " Olio cm. 67 x 63 1988

By Maya KOPITZEVA

Located in Torino, IT

Natura morta verde,mele Maya KOPITZEVA (Gagra, Georgia 1924 – San Pietroburgo 2005) Maya Kuzminichna Kopitzeva nasce nel 1924 in Georgia, ma già l’anno successivo la famiglia si tra...

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Post-Impressionist 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Gouache Watercolor Painting, Nantucket Harbor Boats American Deaf Modernist Art
Gouache Watercolor Painting, Nantucket Harbor Boats American Deaf Modernist Art

Gouache Watercolor Painting, Nantucket Harbor Boats American Deaf Modernist Art

By Robert Freiman

Located in Surfside, FL

Abstract harbor scene with boats, in bold, vivid colors on heavy mould made paper. Hand signed and dated, 1980 22 X 30 not frame Robert Freiman, deaf from birth, was born in March 1917 in New York City. He attended an oral program near his home and later transferred to the Lexington School for the Deaf when he was six. Early in his childhood, his love for drawing, painting and studying became apparent, and as an adult, he continued his studies in New York at the National Academy of Design, Pratt Institute, the Art Students League and the Parsons School of Design. In Paris, France he studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. Bob Freiman was especially focused on painting portraits and figures in motion in various mediums, especially the mixed-media combination of watercolor, acrylic and pen. Among his subjects were acrobats, ballet dancers, cyclists and other athletes. He as well focused on abstracts for a time, discovering new media in his works with quick brushwork and expressive movements. In the latter part of his career, his style became abstract and surreal with images of metaphysical landscapes with architectural elements such as arches, towers, pyramids and castles floating in the air. The famed art critic Pierre Rouve wrote: “It is therefore refreshing to see them revitalized by the colourist wealth and virile handwriting of Robert Freiman, probably the best American water-colorist since John Marin. He worked in Provincetown and Nantucket and regularly exhibited there. He showed at Doll & Richards gallery of Boston alongside John Chetcuti, Lloyd Goodrich, Tod Lindenmuth, William Meyerowitz, Dwight Shepler...

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Expressionist 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper

"Studio interior with black cat" Oil cm. 76 x 66 1983 Oil
"Studio interior with black cat" Oil cm. 76 x 66 1983 Oil

"Studio interior with black cat" Oil cm. 76 x 66 1983 Oil

By Gleb Savinov

Located in Torino, IT

Black Cat,Cat,yellow Gleb SAVINOV (Kharkiv prov., Ua 1915 – St. Petersburg 2000) Gleb Alexandrovich Savinov was born in Ukraine and spent part of his childhood in Saratov. His father, Alexander Ivanovich Savinov (1881–1942), a talented painter, draftsman and teacher, was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1922 they moved from Saratov to Petrograd. In 1928-1930 Savinov started working in the studio of his father while still attending school. In 1934, after graduating from high school he enrolled at the painting department of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, where he studied with, among many others, Alexander Osmerkin. In 1940 Savinov graduated and married his classmate and talented artist Olga Bogaevskaya. This happy family and creative union lasted sixty years. Since that year Gleb Savinov participated in art exhibitions with portraits, historical and genre paintings, landscapes, interior scenes, still lives. He served during the Great War and in 1944 he was admitted to the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists. In 1945-1947 he taught in the Repin Institute, then from 1949 to 1979 in the Vera Mukhina...

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Impressionist 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Bagatelle Young Girl With Dog
Bagatelle Young Girl With Dog

Bagatelle Young Girl With Dog

By Claude Fossoux

Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL

Bagatelle, French Impressionist. Claude Fossoux was born 1946 in Paris of a Savoyard father and a Parisian mother. After school, Claude obtained a grant to study at the Ecole Nationa...

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Post-Impressionist 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil

Large Museum Scale Surrealist Composition Dalí Circle Catalan Oil Painting art
Large Museum Scale Surrealist Composition Dalí Circle Catalan Oil Painting art

Large Museum Scale Surrealist Composition Dalí Circle Catalan Oil Painting art

By Antoni Pitxot

Located in Sitges, Barcelona

Large Museum Scale Surrealist Composition Dalí Circle Catalan Painting 1987 Artist: Antoni Pitxot Birth–death: Figueres, 1934–2015 Title: Battle of Constantine Series Date: 1987 Technique: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 100 × 100 cm (39.4 × 39.4 in) Signature: Signed and dated “pitxot 87” lower right Condition: Excellent overall condition Frame: Unframed Provenance: Private collection, Barcelona DESCRIPTION Important large-scale surrealist oil painting executed in 1987 by Antoni Pitxot, one of the closest artistic collaborators of Salvador Dalí and a central figure within the visual universe of the Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueres. This powerful 100 × 100 cm composition belongs to Pitxot’s Battle of Constantine series, one of the artist’s most ambitious narrative cycles. In this work, his unmistakable geological figuration becomes a theatrical surrealist battlefield, where mineral forms, latent human presences, fossil memory and Mediterranean landscape merge into a monumental symbolic construction. Pitxot’s mature paintings are instantly recognizable for their transformation of stones into anthropomorphic figures and metaphysical architectures. Rather than depicting a conventional landscape, the artist creates a stage of petrified forms, suspended between archaeology, sculpture, mythology and dream imagery. The work is especially strong for its museum-scale square format, its dramatic vertical construction and its direct connection with the Dalí circle. Large paintings by Pitxot with this level of compositional complexity are considerably less common than his smaller cabinet-format works and are particularly attractive for collectors of Spanish surrealism, Catalan modernism, European surrealism and artists connected to Salvador Dalí. A major statement piece with exceptional wall presence, ideal for an important private collection, curated interior or collector focused on late twentieth-century European surrealism. ARTIST BIO Antoni Pitxot (Figueres, 1934 – Cadaqués, 2015) was a Catalan painter and one of the most significant artists associated with Salvador Dalí’s late artistic environment. Born into the historic Pichot family, closely linked to the artistic life of Cadaqués, Pitxot studied drawing in San Sebastián under Juan Núñez, who had also been Dalí’s teacher. During the 1950s and early 1960s he exhibited in Barcelona, Madrid, Bilbao and Lisbon before settling permanently in Cadaqués in 1966. From that moment, he developed his mature and highly distinctive pictorial language based on the rock formations of Cap de Creus. Pitxot collected stones from the coast, arranged them in his studio as sculptural constructions, and then transformed them into oil paintings populated by anthropomorphic mineral figures. His friendship and artistic collaboration with Salvador Dalí became central to his career. Dalí dedicated a permanent gallery to Pitxot’s work inside the Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueres. After Dalí’s death...

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Surrealist 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Shells - Paint by Gino Guida - 1980s
Shells - Paint by Gino Guida - 1980s

Shells - Paint by Gino Guida - 1980s

By Gino Guida

Located in Roma, IT

Oil on plywood realized by Gino Guida in 1980s. Hand signed lower right. Hand signed and titled on rear. Very good condition.

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Contemporary 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Plywood, Oil

“Down da Road”
“Down da Road”

“Down da Road”

Located in Southampton, NY

Original acrylic on wooden panel by the well known American folk art artist, Black Joe Jackson. Circa 1985. Condition is excellent. Titled along the right side and titled along the...

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Folk Art 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Board, Acrylic

Marina Large Pink Oil Painting With Woman and Sail Boats
Marina Large Pink Oil Painting With Woman and Sail Boats

Marina Large Pink Oil Painting With Woman and Sail Boats

By Felix Mas

Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL

Marina large pink oil painting with woman and sail boats. Artist signed, dated and titled, floater frame. Ethereal oil on canvas figural painting, titled Playa Amarillo (Yellow Beach...

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Realist 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil

20th century abstract expressionist oil painting by Cleveland School artist
20th century abstract expressionist oil painting by Cleveland School artist

20th century abstract expressionist oil painting by Cleveland School artist

By Richard Andres

Located in Beachwood, OH

Richard Andres American, 1927-2013 acrylic and ink on paper mounted on canvas 12 x 10 inches Note: Small dent in canvas. See pictures for details. Richard Andres was born in Buffal...

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Abstract Expressionist 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Ink, Acrylic