1980s Figurative Paintings

Guest. 1981, author technique on plywood, 89x54,5 cm Mihailov Vyacheslav Sawich / Михаилов Вячеслав Саввич (1945) EDUCATION Painting Sculpture...

Close up of pair of soulful eyes. Muted tones of browns and blues in oil on paper, circa 1985. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Archival plasti...

Michel Gaspard is a French postwar and contemporary artist, born in 1947. Charming scene of child giving her mother flowers. The style reminds me of som...

Snow ,winter landscape, LEONID VAICHLIA (St. Petersburg, 1922) Works by Leonid Vaichlia can be found in various private collections in Europe, Japan, United States and in the follo...

This painting is one of the series of cubist cityscapes that the Peruvian artist Ernesto Gutierrez was experimenting with in the early part of his career. The entire composition is c...

During flowering. Cardboard, oil, 23x28 cm

Artist: Ilya Shenker, Russian/American, (1922 - ) Title: Ballet Dancer Year: 1987 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed Size: 55 x 42 inches Frame Size: 55.5 x 42 inches

Robin Winters (American, born 1950), Untitled (Red Face) from "Cherry Block Series" 1986, monotype, pencil signed and dated lower right, plate: 6"h x 8.5"w, overall (with frame): 22.25"h x 18.25"w. Provenance: Property from a Private Collection, San Francisco. Winters was invited to make monotypes at Experimental Workshop in San Francisco, (they printed Richard Bosman, Sam Francis, Claire Falkenstein, Deborah Oropallo and Kenneth Noland and many more greats). Winters chose to paint on wood blocks rather than the more usual metal plates in order to capture the organic quality of the natural material. He exploited a salient characteristic of the monoprint in Ghost Story by adding new painted elements onto the increasingly faint ghost images that result from successive impressions from a single block. In so doing he achieved the effect of transparent layers of color and shadow imagery. Winters's brightly-colored monotypes portray an array of figures and landscapes (and an occasional still-life) that, although can be seen in the context of a general trend away from abstraction that has marked the 1980s, defy strict stylistic categorization. They are neither realistic nor abstract, psychological self-examinations nor narrative fictions, but they contain elements of all of these approaches. Like Jonathan Borofsky, Winters derives much of his subject matter from dreams, believing that through his private fears and obsessions he can touch similar emotions in others. Although at first glance Winters's images look as if they could have been made by a child, closer attention reveals sly art historical references to Jackson Pollock and Pattern Painting (the drip and splatter backgrounds), Mark Rothko (the three-part horizontal compositions) and Minimalism (the gridded Cherry Block Series: Bread Beat). Robin Winters (born 1950 in Benicia, California) is an American conceptual, multi-disciplinary, artist and teacher based in New York. Winters is known for creating solo exhibitions containing an interactive durational performance component to his installations, sometimes lasting up to two months. Winters first emerged in the burgeoning Soho NYC art scene of the 1970s. An early practitioner of the Relational Aesthetics (social interaction as an art medium) Winters also created in works through sculpture, installation, performance, painting, drawing and prints. His art maintains a whimsical spirit, and he often returns to ongoing themes involving faces, boats, cars, bottles, hats and jesters or fools. Winters has incorporated such devices as blind dates, double dates, dinners, fortune telling, and free consultation in his performances. Throughout his career he has engaged in a wide variety of media, such as performance art, film, video, writing prose and poetry, photography, installation art, printmaking, drawing, painting, ceramic sculpture, bronze sculpture, and glassblowing. Winters was born in Benicia, California in 1950 to lawyer parents. As a child his hobby was collecting glass bottles found on the beach and under old buildings, which would later influence him as an artist. In 1968, Winters had his first durational performance, entitled Norman Thomas Travelling Museum. The artist drove a Volkswagen bus decorated in collage, many of the images relating to current events and politics. Inside was what the artist described as a “reliquary” containing many objects, including a bottle collection. Winters took the van to shopping centers and even as far as Mexico. That same year, Winters opted not to register for the military draft. Although he was deemed fit to serve, Winters refused. In 1975 the resulting legal proceedings finally came to a close after it was proven that the artist had been harassed by the local draft board. In his teens and early twenties, Winters became acquainted with several local artists who helped shape his aesthetic, most notably Manuel Neri and Robert Arneson. By the early 1970s, Winters was studying at the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) and had relocated to San Francisco. At this time Winters became friends with the Bay Area conceptual artists Terry Fox and Howard Fried, and participated in several of Fried's performance works. In 1972 Winters was accepted into the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York City. After coming to New York City, Winters helped support himself by working for various artists, among them the performance artist Joan Jonas and sculptor Donald Judd. In 1974, Winters performed The Secret Life of Bob-E or Bob-E Behind the Veil eight hours a day, five days a week for a month in his studio apartment. Behind a one-way mirror the audience could watch Winters play the character of Bob-E, whose goal was to make a monument for everyone in the world in the form of blue and yellow rubber top hats. By the end of the month the artist had constructed 262 hats. The following year, Winters was invited to take part in the Whitney Museum's 1975 Biennial Exhibition. Entitled W.B. Bearman Bags a Job or Diary of a Dreamer. Winters was traveling in 1975 and 1976, spending time in North Africa and in Europe. At a time when most young American artists were unaware of their European counterparts, Winters met and was influenced by such artists as Sigmar Polke and Marcel Broodthaers (with whom Winters worked on an installation) and also had a one-person exhibition, at the Konrad Fischer Gallery in Dusseldorf. Returning to New York in 1976, Winters teamed up with a group of artists to form Collaborative Projects (Colab), a rather anarchistic organization dedicated to artistic collaboration and the creation of art that questioned social values.. Also in 1976, Winters formed the partnership “X&Y” with fellow artist Coleen Fitzgibbon that would last two years. Together they performed a series of shows in the Netherlands, most notably a show entitled Take the Money and Run. Performed at De Appel in Amsterdam, the show involved the artists robbing their audience. The following day the audience was given an apology, as well as the opportunity to retrieve any valuables and participate in a lottery to win the artists’ services. They also made a Super 8 film in NY called Rich-Poor, in which they asked people on the streets their thoughts on the rich and poor. In 1980 Winters participated in The Real Estate Show and in Absurdities at ABC No Rio. That same year he and artists Peter Fend, Coleen Fitzgibbon, Peter Nadin, Jenny Holzer, and Richard Prince also formed The Offices of Fend, Fitzgibbon, Holzer, Nadin, Prince & Winters. This short-lived collective was based out of an office on lower Broadway and offered “Practical Esthetic Services Adaptable to Client Situation”, as stated on their business card. Their goal was to offer their art as “socially helpful work for hire”. In June of that year Winters participated in The Times Square Show, Colab's most well-known exhibition. The month-long show took place in a four floor building on West 41st Street and was densely packed with art. To cap off a busy year, Winters also became one of the first artists to join the Mary Boone Gallery, showing a successful solo exhibition in 1981. His work was shown in the New York/New Wave show in 1981 at MoMA PS1 along with Jean-Michel Basquiat, Roberta Bayley, William S. Burroughs, David Byrne, Sarah Charlesworth, Larry Clark, Crash (John Matos), Ronnie Cutrone, Brian Eno, Peter Fend, Nan Goldin, Keith Haring, Ray Johnson, Joseph Kosuth, Marcus Leatherdale, Christopher Makos, Robert Mapplethorpe, Elaine Mayes, Frank Moore, Kenny Scharf and others. In 1982, Winters had his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles at the Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery. At the Mo David Gallery in 1984, Winters created an installation piece that consisted of a floor of plaster tiles. Underneath each tile, hidden from view, was a drawing. He designed the stage sets for the musician Nico, and assisted French artist Orlan, American artist Stuart Sherman, and American poet Gregory Corso. Two years later Winters was invited to take part in Chambres d’Amis (In Ghent there is Always a Free Room for Albrecht Durer) in Ghent, Belgium. In it, 51 artists created installations in 50 different sites, mostly private homes. Winters chose the home of a local art historian. The artist made 90 drawings based on images found in the large collection of art books in the home's library. He made two copies of each drawing and placed the originals in the books themselves. One set of copies was exhibited in the sponsoring museum, Museum van Hedendaagse, as "The Ghent Drawings". The drawings were also on display at Winters’ solo exhibition at Luhring Augustine & Hodes Gallery in New York City in 1987. In 1986, Winters had a solo exhibition at Maurice Keitelman Gallery in Brussels, Belgium, and the following year a solo exhibition at the Centre Régional d'Art Contemporain Midi-Pyrénées in Toulouse, France. Also in 1986, Winters' Playroom was held at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Boston, Massachusetts. The exhibition was part of Think Tank, a retrospective of Winters' work which traveled to the Stedelijk Museum in the Netherlands, the Centre Regional d’Art Contemporain in France, and the Contemporary Arts Center in Ohio. Winters spent a month in 1989 working with students at the San Francisco Art Institute. Never having worked with ceramics, he spent the month making numerous ceramic pieces, which were then shown in the aptly named One Month in San Francisco. Other components of the piece included Winters’ childhood bottle collection and a video showing each piece in the show filmed briefly next to a ruler.[ Also that year, Robin served as a visiting artist at the Pilchuck Glass School, where he met artist John Drury, who was then working as the school's artist liaison. In the summer of 1990, Winters interviewed fellow artist Kiki Smith for her eponymous book, which was published later that year. That same year (1990), Winters was invited by the Val Saint Lambert glass factory in Belgium to create glassworks in their facility. Winters, artists John Drury and Tracy Glover...

Original painting on canvas. Hand signed, dated and titled on verso by the artist. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. All reasonable offers w...

A Modern realist “trompe l’oeil” egg tempera painting by American female artist Catherine Catanzaro Koenig depicting a person curled up titled “Prayer Rug #2″. Catherine C. Koenig was born Caterina Catanzaro in 1921 and grew up on the West side of Buffalo, NY. She graduated from Lafayette High School Buffalo in 1939. She exhibited a talent for drawing and painting early on and attended Albright Art School, where she graduated with an Associate's Degree in 1942. Her professional career as an artist began in the 1940s when she started to exhibit her work. From 1946-1956, she taught drawing and painting at the Art Institute of Buffalo. She married Buffalo artist...

An original painting of Wilt Chamberlain of the Los Angeles Lakes and New York Knicks Willis Reed by famed New York Daily News Sports Artist, Bill Gal...

Winter landscape. 1984, canvas, oil, 60x80 cm Slepyshev Anatoly Stepanovich (1932 - 2016) - Soviet and Russian painter, sculptor, graphic artist. Anatoly Slepyshev was a distinguished Russian artist and a recognised master who had a great talent and a distinctly recognisable style that cannot be confused with anyone. The most characteristic feature of his paintings is a swirl, maelstrom of colourful formations, vigorously, rapidly, almost frantically put on canvas in a burst of sudden emotion, of spontaneous sensuality. The artist brilliantly managed to blend the subjects of the Russian hinterland, simple village life with horse-driven carriages, small humble churches and familiar landscapes with refined, pompous images of French Rococo, the atmosphere inherent in the works of Jean-Antoine Watteau. This liberal, highly personal interpretation of the sophisticated French motifs of the XVIII century, processed by means of dashing Russian folklore, sometimes even containing vulgar, staggering elements, is very typical for many works by Slepyshev. Solo exhibitions 1967 Exhibition of watercolors by Anatoly Slepyshev. Central House of Artist, Moscow 1970 Anatoly Slepyshev. Drawing. Central House of architect, Moscow 1971 Anatoly Slepyshev. Print workshop, Moscow 1976 Exhibition in the flat of art historian Leonid Bazhanov, Moscow 1981 Anatoly Slepyshev. Painting. House of scientists of the Scientific Center of the USSR Academy, Troitsk 1982–1983 Ausstelung Anatoli Slepyschev, Nicolai Grizjuk. Kleine Galerie Hoger Sweda, Berlin, Germany 1983 Anatoly Slepyshev. Puskin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow 1984 Anatoly Slepyshev. Historical-Architectural and Art Museum of the New Jerusalem, Istra 1987 Anatoly Slepyshev. Exhibition of one picture. Dramatic theatre named after M. Ermolova, Moscow Anatoly Slepyshev. Drawing. Central House of Artist, Moscow 1989 Anatoly Slepyshev. Painting. AZLK Palace, Moscow Anatoly Slepyshev. MARS Gallery, Moscow Anatoly Slepyshev. Drawing. Moscow Gallery, Moscow Anatoly Slepyshev. Painting. Vadim Sidur...

This is a perfect example of Salvador Aulestia's Apotist expression. The arrangement of the subjects on the surface gives them the meaning corresponding to their position by analogy ...

Fishermen's happiness. Cardboard, tempera, 21x29 cm

At the Masters

Artist: Jaimendes, Brazilian (1939 - ) Title: Grinding Sugar Cane Year: circa 1983 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.l. Size: 21.5 in. x 25.5 in. (54.61 cm x ...

Artist: Fernando Farulli, Italian (1923 - 1997) Title: Il Suicida Year: circa 1980 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Size: 59 in. x 71 in. (149.86 cm x 180.34 cm)

Three figures. Oil on canvas 65x60,5 cm Aleksandr Rodin (1922-2001) Painter Born in a family of farmers. Wife Rasma Lace - art scholar. Studied at the...

Original painting on canvas. Hand signed and dated on front by the artist. Custom framed with hand painted fillet. Canvas size 10 x 14 in. Framed size approx 19.25 x 23.5 in. Art...

Acrylic on canvas Elena Borstein currently lives and works in New York City and the Adirondack Mountains. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, She received her B.S. Degree from Skidmore C...

Moloch. 1989. Paper, etching, 53.5x38 cm

Artist: Branko Bahunek, Croatian (1935 - ) Title: Cancan Year: 1989 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed Size: 18 in. x 15 in. (45.72 cm x 38.1 cm)

First furrow. 1980. Oil on canvas, 73x54 cm Aleksandr Rodin (1922-2001) Painter Born in a family of farmers. Wife Rasma Lace - art scholar. Studied at...

Benjamin Eisenstat (1915-2001) Oil on board, 1981 Measures: 10 1/4" H x 14" W, frame 14 1/2" H x 18 1/2" W. “New York City” in excellent condition. Signed lower right and also on the...

Self-portrait. Oil on canvas, 100x70 cm Similar work is published in the encyclopedia „Māksla un arhitektūra biogrāfijās”, Vol. 1 , - P.: „Latvijas enciklopēdija”, 1995 - G. Tidomane, on page 135. Biruta...

Blind. 1989, canvas, oil, 66x70 cm Biruta Delle (born 1944.17.I) studied in Latvia Art academy (1964 – 67) and one of her most important pedagogue’s was ...

Great Italian painting from 80s. Mixed media framework on canvas depicting allegory of the judgment of soldiers in war signed Vittorini C. in the lower center (see photo). Exceptiona...

Unique. Acquired directly from the artist. Free shipment worldwide. Arman explores reality. He strives to transform and sublimate artefacts into works of art. Everyday objects bec...

An original oil painting by American female artist Jackie Felix titled Cinderella from the artists Argentina Series.

Joe Magrane Pitching for the St Louis Cardinals - Figurative Sports Painting Action-packed illustration of left-handed pitcher Joe Magrane by Greg ...

1951 Born in Tel Aviv, Israel Since graduating from the Fine Art Academy in Florence, Italy and his return to Israel, Griffit presents a fascinating and unique journey from etchings...

Vogue Magazine Fashion Illustration (Stephen Sprouse) Antonio's mature style is on full display with a few quick strokes of the brush he is exemplifying the epitome of style and clas...

an early work by artist on canvas Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with bou...

New York art Critic Malcolm Preston wrote of Ceravolo's painting "The Bather" after viewing it in a solo exhibition. "Painted in a soft-focus manner, featuring a low intensity, gray,...

This painting was created by American artist Lowell Blair Nesbitt. His most well known series, and perhaps his most beautiful and poetic, are the more than four hundred works he crea...

Artist: Michael Knigin, American (1942 - 2011) Title: So Concerned Year: 1992 Medium: Acrylic on canvas on board, signed and dated l.r. Size: 46 x 46 inches

MALCAH ZELDIS (American-Israeli, b. 1931), ''David and Saul'', 1982, Gouache on paper Hand signed and dated lower right, titled in pencil on paper verso...

Artist: J. Benito Zamora, Mexican (1951 - ) Title: El Llano en Llamar Year: 1986 Medium: Acrylic and Watercolor on paper, signed l.r. Size: 22 in. x 30 i...

Born in Montpellier on April 27, 1950. Self-taught, very early influenced by the school landscaping 19th century, the work of Jean-Michel Noquet is made of spaces mariners, bridges a...

Artist: Mary Fish Title: Transmutations: A Study of Systems Substitution Year: 1980 Medium: Ink and Tempera on Paper, signed Size: 33.5 x 56 in. (85.09 x 142.24 cm)

Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the...

Unique painting of three figures painted on paper bags. The work is signed and dated by the artist in the bottom corner. It is framed in a black frame with a white matte background. ...

Herbert Siebner (1925-2004) was a German-born Canadian painter whose work is characterized by its expressive use of color and texture, and its exploration of themes of war, exile, an...

Women In A Dreamy Setting (Playa Amarillo) Artist signed and title, floater frame with gold and beige wood. Ethereal oil on canvas figural painting, titled ...

An original oil painting by American female artist Jackie Felix titled Sing it Cindy, or High C.

A pair of original mixed media paintings by American contemporary artist Bruce Adams from the artist's technology series. "Sometime around 1981 I was at my mother-in-law’s house r...

A Modern realist “trompe l’oeil” egg tempera painting by American female artist Catherine Catanzaro Koenig depicting a person curled up titled “Prayer Rug #1″. Catherine C. Koenig was born Caterina Catanzaro in 1921 and grew up on the West side of Buffalo, NY. She graduated from Lafayette High School Buffalo in 1939. She exhibited a talent for drawing and painting early on and attended Albright Art School, where she graduated with an Associate's Degree in 1942. Her professional career as an artist began in the 1940s when she started to exhibit her work. From 1946-1956, she taught drawing and painting at the Art Institute of Buffalo. She married Buffalo artist...

MALCAH ZELDIS Circus, Trapeze Artists and Acrobats gouache on paper Hand signed and dated bottom right. titled in pencil on paper verso. Framed to 15 X ...

Seascape is a modern artwork realized by Michele Ricciuti in 1980. Mixed colored oil painting on canvas. Hand signed on the lower margin. Signature and date on the back.

Helmut Verch (1923-2002) was born in Berlin in 1923 and worked as a painter and graphic artist. In the 1940s, after his release from Russian captivity, he received artistic training ...

Born in Montpellier on April 27, 1950. Self-taught, very early influenced by the school landscaping 19th century, the work of Jean-Michel Noquet is made of spaces mariners, bridges a...

Acrylic on linen

"Beaumont landscape" An other Sheila Querre's blue landscape, very much in Romantic Style. Dimension art cm: 65 H x 92 W x 2 D Dimension art inches: 25.6 H x 36.2 W x 2.3 D The c...

Ron Hoover surrealist painting titled "The Collector" done in a pointillism style in 1987. This work was exhibited at the Palm Spring Desert Museum in 1990. Signed and dated by artis...

Unique hand embellished with acrylic paint and marker on serigraph. Hand signed and dated by Ronnie Cutrone. Custom framed as pictured. Black color. Frame to fit style. Artwo...

Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Maze, 1982 Acrylic on cardboard Signed and dated upper right 7 x 9.5 inches A surrealist mid-century figural abstract painting. Clar...

"Ohne Titel (Untitled, 1987)" is an Original Oil on Paper. The work is pencil-signed and dated by the artist. The image size is 21 x 15 in. and the full size is 23 x 17 in. The piece...

Crash Pleased to See You, 1989 Signed and dated lower left Watercolor and ink on paper 30 x 20 1/2 inches A contemporary of Keith Haring and a modern-day master of this present day ...