1980s Figurative Paintings

Seascape Painting of Waves Crashing against the Rocks at Pacific Grove, Monterey in California by 20th Century Post War Irish Artist, Tobias Everet Spence A...

5002 Vintage Impressionist ballet couple oil on canvas .Un framed Signed Robert Yarmola

Technical Data of the Artwork Title: Life by the Pier Artist: Rosendo González Carbonell Medium: Oil on panel Dimensions: 8.3 x 10.2 ...

Artist: Cundo Bermudez, Cuban (1914 - 2008) Title: Woman with Headdress and Necklace Year: 1985 Medium: Acrylic on Paper, signed and dated Size: 15 x 11...

"The Sauna" is an original oil painting on canvas signed by the artist Alicia Czechowski. It depicts six nude female figures lounging in a sauna. These figures have a wide variety of...

3943 Vintage French rural family farm scene Signed lower right Set in a wood frame Image size 15.5x19.5"

Pacific Coastal Seascape in Oil on Canvas Dynamic seascape by Evelyn Webb Meck (American, 1915-2011). Waves are crashing in around large rocks that a...

PEDRO BARRIOS "CARDS" MIXED MEDIA, SIGNED CUBAN-AMERICAN, C.1980 23.5 X 19 INCHES Born in 1947 in Cuba, Pedro Barrios was a staff illustrator for Women’s Wear Daily and illustrat...

Bold French gouache fashion sketch of a flowing wrap dress in deep red with floral detailing. Signed lower right. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold bor...

Judy Rifka (American, b. 1945) Roman Nose 1982 Oil on canvas Dimensions: 30 x 24 inches (76.2 x 61.0 cm) Hand signed on stretcher: Judy Rifka Provenance: Brooke Alexander Galle...

Original Post-War Oil Painting of Mulroy Bay Donegal Ireland by Irish Artist Denis Thornton (1937-1999) Art measures 22 x 16 inches Frame measures 27 x...

ADAM NIEMCZYC (born in 1914) Painter, graphic artist, poet, novelist. He practiced easel, mural painting and book illustration. Since 1958 he participated in numerous exhibitions in ...

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...

Bolero Mallorquin original expressionist watercolor painting. Spanish painter maximum representative of the art of Mallorca at the end of the 20th century. Costumbrista work. With d...

Winter Sunset with Snow - Pink, Orange & Purple Sky in the English Countryside by British Landscape Artist, Stephen Hawkins (1964-) Art measures 12 x 10 inches Frame measures 16 x...

Oil on wooden panel realized by Alessio Paternesi (1937-2023). Hand signed. Very good condition.

From the series dedicated to Timeless Women by Salvador Aulestia, this is definitely a museum-grade artwork, exceptionally granted to celebrate yellow, a color well present in the Ca...

Oil on masonite realized by Giovanni Gromo in 1980s. Hand signed. Good condition.

Oil on wooden panel realized by Alessio Paternesi (1937-2023). Hand signed. Very good condition.

Fantasy Animals is an original contemporary artwork realized by Claudio Bissattini in 1980s. Mixed colored acrylic on canvas. Hand signed on the l...

Joyce Kozloff Topkapi Pullman, 1985 Watercolor and acrylic on paper (bears original gallery labels: Barbara Gladstone Gallery, Gallery Camino Real, Boston University Art Gallery) Sig...

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...

La Vigilia di Natale - Oil on canvas Elio Ferrara, Italy, 1980s Elio Ferrara was born in Naples, Italy on October 19, 1945. He studied at the Artistic Lyceum and also the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples. Both his father and his grandfather were painters, so from a very young age, he was exposed to the artistic and cultural life of his city. He also accompanied his father on several of his study trips throughout Europe. In 1962, he became actively involved in the painting of stage scenery...

Acrylic on canvas painting of fishermen on the docks by Provincetown artist, William Maynard. Circa 1985. Signed lower right. The painting is housed ...

Oil on canvas realized by Lillo Bartoloni in 1986. Hand signed and dated on rear. Very good condition.

Oil on canvas realized by Lillo Bartoloni in 1988. Hand signed, dated and titled on rear. Very good condition.

"In Front Of The Fire" - Original 1981 Oil on Canvas Modern figurative portrait of a nude woman by American painter Patricia Gren Hayes (American, 1932). The woman is laying back in...

Vintage Latin American School Figurative Abstract of a Lady in a Red Landscape. Intriguing and moody piece by California-based Latin American artist, Ricardo de Silva (American/Brazil, 20th C). This piece features a dark red abstracted background. On the left side of the piece, the outline of a building is visible providing the sense of a cityscape. Diagonal lines cross at the base of the woman's body and then fade backward into space. The red tones of the background are accentuated by large swaths of blue-toned blacks. The woman fades into this background, her pale face being the eye-catching center of the painting. Behind her, another figure rendered in simple shapes is just visible. Signed "de silva 86" in bottom left corner Acquired with a collection of the artist's work. Canvas size: 20"H x 16"W From a collection of Ricardo de Silva's work and memorabilia. DeSilva was born in Brazil and grew up in Los Angeles. He was a gallery owner, first in Santa Barbara in the 1960's and 70's, then in San Jose in the 1980's. He was dedicated to promoting the work of talented upcoming artists, including Kogyo and Hasui Kiyochika, Robert Frame, Jim Stuckenberg...

Bikash Bhattacharjee - Untitled AP - 31/32 Lithograph on Paper 11 x 10.5 inches, 1985 ( Unframed & Delivered ) Style : Bikash Bhattacharya is credited with bringing realism back to...

In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler: Visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painting...

The roofs of Tukums Paper, watercolor, 47x62 cm Dzidra Bauma (1930) Dzidra Bauma works in watercolor technique. She paint figural compositions, portraits, landscapes, flowers and s...

While McNeil was a pioneer of the New York Abstract Expressionism movement, later in his life his work became more figurative, he focused on dancers and discos, like this piece. Alth...

Antonio Monasterio - Woman in a Dream. no.1 Technique: Mixed media on paper (pastels, wax, and pen) Dimensions: Approximately 45 x 55 cm Period: 1970s This work presents an enigmatic...

A. Rio Barcelona .Original gouache paper painting . AGUSTIN RIO ( Barceona 1923 – Barcelona 1997) Formed in Llotja i al Cercle Artístic de Sant Lluc He appeared individually in 195...

Vintage Oil Painting of Cottage by a River in the Mountains of South Africa, by South African Artist, Marthinus la Grange (1920-1999) Art measures 18 x 12 inches Frame measures 23...

Morning Bath - Abstract Expressionism in Oil on Board Colorful abstract figurative of couple in the morning by Kristin Cohen (American, b. 1963). Two brightly colored figures are sh...

Bay Area Figurative Nude Study - Oil On Canvas Bay area figurative male nude study by unknown artist named Sumrall (american, 20th C). A male figure poses nude, facing to the left o...

La Festa del Vino Nuovo - Oil on canvas Elio Ferrara, Italy, 1980s Elio Ferrara was born in Naples in 1945, he attended the Academy of Fine Arts and then worked as a set designer at ...

Remote Cottage in a Tree Lined River Landscape in Ireland in the Summer Time by Modern 20th Century Irish Artist, Frank Fitzsimons Art measures 24 x 20...

Flecks of Gold - Abstract Composition in Acrylic on Paper A bold abstract painting by California-based artist Ricardo de Silva (American/Brazil, 20th C). Unsigned, but was acquire...

Vintage Mid Century Modern Figurative -- Seated Samurai Original Oil on Canvas A quiet mood of this warrior is captured by listed California artist Molly E. Brubaker (American, 1922...

Lush Tree Lined Towpath on the River Lagan in Northern Ireland by 20th Century Irish Artist, Jim Matthews Art measures 30 x 20 inches Frame measures 36 x 26 inches This unique orig...

Ignacio Gil Sala (1913-2003) - Barcelona - Oil on canvas Oil measures 38x46 cm. Frameless. Ignacio Gil Sala, was a painter, bohemian character, adventurous and intrepid traveler who knew how to capture his eyes to that world with his painting. After starting his artistic training at the age of nine, Gil Sala entered the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona, ​​where he had as teachers Felix Mestres and Vicente Borrás. Already in 1930, being still almost an apprentice, he obtained the bronze medal of the School, and in 1936 he won by contest a scholarship to make a study trip through Spain. Those were the difficult moments of the outbreak of the Civil War and thanks to the help of the sculptor Mariano Benlliure...

Provenance: Galeria Durban Cesar Segnini, Caracas Venezuela. Emerio Dario Lunar was born on January 27, 1940 in Cabimas, Zulia state. Self-taught in painting, makes primary educati...

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)

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...

Modern Green, White & Black Abstract Geometric Kimono Collagraph, Masterplate #1 Unique mixed media work created from a Master plate for collagraph printmaking, featuring a bold and...

David Bowie - New York - Urban Landscape in Acrylic on Textured Paper Abstracted cityscape by California-based artist, Ricardo de Silva (American/Brazi...

Amazing surrealist painting by Italian artist Nuccio Fontanella (1936-2005). Ink and watercolor on cold pressed illustration board. Image measures 13 x 18 inches; 20 x 25 inches framed...

We are proud to present for the first time in more than thirty years, the original painting of American artist Peter Korling. Peter Korling was classically trained at the Chicago In...

Woman in the Morning Sun - Large Scale Portrait in Oil on Canvas Modern portrait of a woman by American painter, Patricia Gren Hayes (b. 1932). The portrait is close-up and off-cent...

Oil on canvas realized by Giorgio Scalco in 1983. Hand signed and dated. Titled on rear. Includes a wooden frame cm. 45x70. Very good condition.

"Rosemary" Berkeley Figurative School by Patricia Gren Hayes 1980 A large scale portrait of a blond woman by Patricia Gren Hayes (b. 1932). The model is in front of a window, with h...

Original Post-War Oil Painting of Stormy Day in Kerry Ireland by Irish Artist Denis Thornton (1937-1999) Art measures 24 x 18 inches Frame measures 30 ...

Oil on wooden table realized by Luciano Schifano (1943) in 1988. Hand signed, titled and dated on rear. Good condition.

Oil on wooden table realized by Luciano Schifano (1943) in 1980s. Hand signed and titled. Good condition.

Oil on wooden table realized by Luciano Schifano (1943) in 1987. Hand signed, titled and dated. Very Good condition.

Oil on wooden table realized by Luciano Schifano (1943) in 1987. Hand signed and titled. Good condition.

The scene flows with a mix of people out and very much milling about against a backdrop of high rises half hidden in mist. There’s the dandy sporting a red fedora, a white-helmeted b...

Gobardhan Ash - Untitled Gouache on Paper 14.75 x 9.5 inches ( Framed & Delivered ) In this hauntingly expressive piece, Gobardhan Ash captures ghostly human forms through a subdued...