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Period: 1980s
Children playing in the park Barcelona Spain oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
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...
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Post-Impressionist 1980s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Goyesque man oil on canvas painting portrait
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
José Puyet Padilla (1922-2004) - Goyesque man - Oil on canvas Oil measures 100x79 cm. Frameless. Slight paint chips Puyet was born in Malaga, Spain. He was the grandson of Professor...
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Romantic 1980s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Still Life with Window in the Background-Oil on Canvas by A. Avanessian-1980
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life with Window in the Background is an original mixed media painting on paper realized by Alfonso Avanessian in 1980. The piece is han...
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Modern 1980s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Freedom Wagon
Located in Buffalo, NY
James C. Litz is a self-taught artist who has a "primitive-naive" style of oil and acrylic paintings that features colorful and humorous characters and scenes. His paintings have a very child-like quality to them and you can see the artist's active imagination at work transforming everyday life into art. In 1994, the fine arts magazine Sunstorm, described him as having a "natural wit and style". Permanent displays: The National and International Vietnam Veterans War Art Museum, Chicago, IL; the American Folk Art Museum, NYC; the President Bush Library, Houston, TX; Museé D'Art Naïf de l'lle De France; the International Folk Art Museum, La Jolla, CA; and the James Fennimore Coopers Museum, Cooperstown, NY. Private Collections: Jackie Gleason (deceased); Roy Rogers (deceased); the Flamenco guitarist Carlos Montoya (deceased); opera singer Patrice Munsel, cellist Lynn Harrell, and Bill Cosby.
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1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Wood

Low Down Blues, Large Colorful Modern Oil Painting by Earl Linderman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Low Down Blues Earl Linderman, American (1931–2023) Date: circa 1989 Oil on canvas, signed lower left and titled on verso Size: 59.5 x 47.5 in. (151.13 x 120.65 cm)
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Modern 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

'Seated Figures', Oil on Linen, By Robert Bonaparte
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This 26" x 26" oil on linen painting was completed in 1980 by Robert Bonaparte. The canvas predominantly features a vibrant red ground, which occupies most of the composition. Three ...
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Abstract 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Hippie Original oil acrylic on canvas painting realism Spain Sitges 70s
Located in Barcelona, 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 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

Acrylic, Canvas

THE NEW WINE FESTIVAL- Elio Ferrara- Italian Figurative Oil on canvas Painting
Located in Napoli, IT
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 ...
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Italian School 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Tramonto all'imbarco " Olio su cartone cm.
Located in Torino, IT
Suggestivo porto al tramonto Boris Lavrenko (Rostov, 1920 – St. Petersburg, 2001) Works by Boris Lavrenko can be found in various private collections in Europe, Japan, United Stat...
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Post-Impressionist 1980s Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Cardboard

Halloween Madness, 1981
Located in New York, NY
In his work, “Halloween Madness, 1981,” Alec Montroy paints costumed figures on Halloween night parading past city storefronts.
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Pointillist 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Lovely Impressionist Painting "Uncle Robert's Shed" by Andrew Rosane
Located in New York, NY
Andrew Rosane (American, b. 20th century) Uncle Robert's Shed, 1989 Oil on masonite 10 x 15 in. Framed: 13 3/4 x 19 x 1 1/2 in. Artist insignia and date lower left, inscribed verso ...
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American Impressionist 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Modern Impressionist Over sized Ballet Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-1476 Ballet Painting, large scale of oil on canvas of classical dancers, signed by Sari lower right Displayed in a wood frame with metal trim.Marks on the frame
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Impressionist 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Eclipse/Portrait of Ethel & Julius Rosenberg, Mixed Media on Canvas by Lee Jaffe
Located in Long Island City, NY
Lee Jaffe, American (1950 - ) - Eclipse/Portrait of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, Year: 1983, Medium: Silver, Gold Leaf, Copper Wire, and Oil on Canvas, Size: 129 x 153 in. (327.66...
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Contemporary 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Oil

“Clowns, Jugglers and Acrobats” by Edward Marecak, 1986 Abstract Circus Art
Located in Denver, CO
Bursting with color and kinetic energy, “Clowns, Jugglers and Acrobats” is a dynamic 1986 original painting by celebrated Colorado modernist Edward Marecak. Known for his bold visual...
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Abstract Expressionist 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Park with lake oil painting european art seascape urbanscape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Rafael Duran Benet (1931-2015) - Park with lake - Oil on cardboard paid to canvas Oil measurements 50x65 cm. Frame measurements 66x81 cm. Rafael Duran Benet (Terrassa, 1931 - Barc...
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Post-Impressionist 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas, Cardboard

Ready for Easter, Contemporary Oil Painting on Canvas by Leandro Velasco
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Leandro Velasco, Colombian (1933 - ) Title: Ready for Easter Year: c. 1985 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed verso Size: 64 x 32 in. (162.56 x 81.28 cm)
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Contemporary 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Four is a Crowd, Girls of Canby Hall Book Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
The Girls of Canby Hall Series by Emily Chase, published by Scholastic (1984–1989), is a collection of young adult novels, based around the lives of a group of students at a New England boarding School.
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1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

"Grande vague à Rothéneuf" - Brittany, France, original oil on canvas
Located in Montfort l’Amaury, FR
"Grande vague à Rothéneuf" - Brittany, France Oil on canvas signed lower right, 50 x 65 x 2,5 cm, titled and dated on the back, 1986 Framed with a natural oak floating frame (55 x 70...
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French School 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

European urbanscape and river original oil on cardboard painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Frameless. Josep Marfa Guarro (1928-2014) Josep Marfa Guarro was a Catalan painter specialized in landscape painting. Among Josep Marfa Guarro's work are numerous watercolors and ...
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Impressionist 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

Cozy Corner Bar 1983 Framed Watercolor Painting
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Artist Name: Sam Karres Title: Cozy Corner Bar Wyandotte MI PAINTED 9-7-83 Year: 1983 Medium Type: Watercolor on Paper Paper Size-Width Size-Height: 15'' x 23" Signed, titled, and ...
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American Impressionist 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Mardi Gras: Commedia Dell'Arte
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting a lifetime masterpiece painting by American artist Palmer Schoppe (1912-2001.) Mardi Gras: Commedia Dell’Arte, is an original oil on can...
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Realist 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Still life with open books – Original Oil on Canvas – 26 x 21.7 in
Located in Montfort l’Amaury, FR
"A contemplative homage to Morandi, where form, silence, and substance merge in quiet harmony." Pierre Coquet (1926–2021) Nature morte aux livres ouverts Oil on canvas, 66 x 55 x 2 ...
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French School 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Laid Paper

Small Provencal landscape, oil painting by Françoise Juvin
Located in Montfort l’Amaury, FR
Françoise Juvin - Small Provencal landscape Reference number FJ123 Framed with a natural oak floated frame. 19,5 x 31 cm frame included (14 x 25 cm wit...
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French School 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Post Conceptual Digital Artist Oil Painting Screenprint Diptych Joseph Nechvatal
Located in Surfside, FL
Joseph Nechvatal The Oedipal God of Oil Paint and Destruction, Diptych Oil and screenprint on two canvases, 1985, both signed 'Joseph Nechvatal', titled and dated on the reverse, with label from Brooke Alexander, NY. Joseph James Nechvatal (born 15 January 1951) is a post-conceptual digital artist and art theoretician who creates computer-assisted paintings and computer animations, often using custom-created computer viruses. Joseph Nechvatal was born in Chicago. He studied fine art and philosophy at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Cornell University and Columbia University, where he studied with Arthur Danto while serving as the archivist to the minimalist composer La Monte Young. From 1979, he exhibited his work in New York City, primarily at Galerie Richard, Brooke Alexander Gallery and Universal Concepts Unlimited. He has also solo exhibited in Berlin, Paris, Chicago, Cologne, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Aalst, Belgium, Youngstown, Senouillac, Lund, Toulouse, Turin, Arles and Munich. His work in the early 1980s chiefly consisted of post minimalist gray graphite drawings that were often photo mechanically enlarged. During that period he was associated with the artist group Colab and helped establish the non-profit cultural space ABC No Rio. In 1983 he co-founded the avant-garde electronic art music audio project Tellus Audio Cassette...
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Conceptual 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Screen

Pelé Brazilian, footballer, Soccer Star, Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Bob Peak is one of the true giants of post-war American Illustration. He is a virtuoso artist, with a heightened level of skill and talent that very few living artists today possess...
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American Impressionist 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Pastel, Gouache

Cello- 21st Century Contemporary Dutch Stille Painting of a Music Instrument
By Rein Pol
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Rein Pol Cello 93 x 120 cm ( Frame is included 107 x 134 cm) Oil on wood panel, 1987 Looking at Rein Pol's work, it is first and foremost striking that the artist's subjects are very diverse. However, he was mainly known for his paintings 'with trains'. If you look further, you will see that Rein Pol has many sources of inspiration about which he can tell 'stories in paint'. On the website of the Classical Academy in Groningen there is a beautiful teacher portrait of Rein Pol, the first part of this text comes from that site: The fact that Rein Pol made paintings with trains in them gave him the stigma of being a train painter. The 'Blue Angel' is just one of many, often autobiographical, subjects in his paintings. This also applies to nature, landscape, persons and objects from his immediate environment, in which transience is an underlying theme. “As a child I was always drawing. The profession of art teacher appealed to me. It never occurred to me that I could become a painter.' At the Minerva Academy, teachers such as Ger Siks and Matthijs Röling impressed him. Their influence is still noticeable in his paintings: the atmospheric of Röling and the alienating of Siks. After the academy Rein briefly taught at a secondary school. "Not an unqualified success! So when I was asked to come and teach at Minerva, I seized the opportunity with both hands. I have learned a lot myself from teaching academy students.' A violin on fire, a train soaring to heaven, Romance at its best! The passion is in the details, the feathers of a dead bird, the drops on a misty mirror. And that passion is what Romanticism is all about. Rein Pol has been working professionally as a painter since 1976. He always has a keen eye for the expressiveness of the apparently insignificant detail. Every theme that Pol paints is depicted in a clear, harmonious composition with great attention to light, texture, spatial and color effects. The paintings are not intended as an exact copy of the reality around us, but as a representation of our own reality! Hans van Seventer previously wrote: “The subjects of Rein Pol's paintings move between the ordinary and the absurd. He paints musical instruments as well as a bottle containing the fetus of a pig. Sometimes the smell of manure rises from his landscapes, then again a Groningen bum toils along the steep banks of a Norwegian fjord. His self-portraits form a collection in themselves: in the mirror of the bathroom, in a glass display case surrounded by 'gohst of the past', or simply with a jar of pickles as a sign of his dignity”. With his work Pol is counted among the Northern Figuratives. Rein Pol exhibits a lot in the Netherlands. Abroad he exhibited in Germany, Norway, Poland, Switzerland and Indonesia. With the so-called Zwiggelte Group in France, the United States, Canada and Australia. Much of the painter's work is included in private collections. His paintings are also in the possession of, among others, the Drents Museum in Assen, the Smallingerland Museum in Drachten, the Free University of Amsterdam, the ING Collection and the Philips Collection...
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Contemporary 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden Reimagined in Jacmel, Haiti Folk Art Painting
By Dieudonne Vital
Located in Houston, TX
Colorful, tropical interpretation of the Garden of Eden in Jacmel, Haiti by Haitian artist Dieudonne Vital. The work features a pair of central figures...
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Abstract 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Floral Vintage Oil Painting of Wild Red Poppies in Field in English Countryside
Located in Preston, GB
Floral Vintage Oil Painting of Wild Red Poppies in a Field in the English Countryside, by 20th Century British Artist. Art measures 16 x 12 inches Frame measures 22 x 18 inches ...
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Contemporary 1980s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Protest Revolt and Uprising illustration
Located in Miami, FL
This work is a quintessential protest statement piece depicting an angry mob brandishing powerful fits in the air in gestures of revolt Signed lower right. Daniel Maffia has done a ...
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American Modern 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Gouache

The Couple - Paint by Giovanna Picciau - 1987
Located in Roma, IT
The couple is a work of art realized by Giovanna Picciau (1977, Turin) in 1987.  Oil on Canvas. Cm. 90x100.  Very good conditions!
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Modern 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

The Ballerina And The Angel - Original Surrealist On Board
Located in Soquel, CA
The Ballerina And The Angel - Original Surrealist On Board Dramatic and dynamic fantasy scene by Russell R. Tripp (American, 1942-2025). This piece depicts a ballerina sitting in the bottom left corner against stone pillars, wearing a deep red leotard, white leggings and pink ballerina shoes...
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Surrealist 1980s Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Cottages by the Sea in Ireland Vintage Oil Painting by 20th Century Irish Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Cottages by the Sea in Ireland Vintage Oil Painting by 20th Century Irish Artist, Louis Humphrey. Humphrey was born in 1955 in Belfast, Nort...
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Realist 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

The Dinner Party
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board Cover Illustration for the New York Times Best Seller, The Dinner Party written by Howard Fast, published by Dell Books
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1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Untitled abstract expressionist oil painting by Cleveland School artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres American, 1927-2013 acrylic and ink on paper mounted on canvas 12 x 10 inches Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927. A graduate of the Cleveland Instit...
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Abstract Expressionist 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Ink, Acrylic

Motion Pictures
Located in West Hollywood, CA
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...
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Modern 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Woman in the Morning Sun - Large Scale Portrait in Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
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...
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American Modern 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Harvesting Cotton - Original Oil Painting - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Harvesting Cotton is an original contemporary artwork realized in 1981. Mixed colored oil on canvas Hand signed and dated by the artist on the lower margin Included a brown wooden...
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Contemporary 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Anxiety
Located in Dallas, TX
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...
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Surrealist 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

“The Passing”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on linen canvas painting by the contemporary American realist artist, Claire Klarewicz-Okser. Signed lower right by the artist and dated 1987. Titled on label verso. ...
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American Realist 1980s Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Portrait of an Artist on Interview Magazine Back Page 1989 Modernism Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of an Artist on Interview Magazine Back Page 1989 Modernism Watercolor Possibly a portrait of Maria Helena Vieira da Silva Portuguese artist. Portrait of a woman on Andy Worhol's Interview Magazine back page and painted over in watercolor and acrylic by Ricardo (Richard) de Silva (De Silva) (Brazil/American, 20th C). Possibly a portrait of Maria Helena Vieira da Silva. 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 1980-2000s. He was dedicated to promoting the work of talented upcoming artists, including Kogyo and Hasui Kiyochika, Robert Frame, Jim Stuckenberg, Alice Robertson Carr, Deborah Eve Alastra, Russell Kelly, and Diana Mark. Maria Helena Vieira da Silva was a Portuguese abstract...
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Modern 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor

Mal Muchacho (Bad Boy)
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Armando Villagran, Mexican (1945 -1995) Title: Mal Muchacho (Bad Boy) Year: 1987 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.l. Size: 47 x 39 inches [119.38 x 99.06 cm] Frame: 49 x 41 in...
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Surrealist 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Pink Ball & Hook (Photorealist Oil Painting of Industrial Equipment on Blue)
Located in Hudson, NY
Vertical photo-realist painting on canvas of pale pink ball with steel colored hook on a bright sky blue background 72 x 36 x 1.5 inches oil on canvas, thin wood stripping signed "Richards" on bottom right corner in yellow paint wire is installed on the back for easy hanging This precisely detailed photo-realist painting was made by Joseph E. Richards in 1981. The artist painted this piece when he was 60 years old during a successful career painting trains, cargo ships, and industrial machinery. Richards served in the US Navy during WWII and went on to study at the American Academy of Art in Chicago and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia before showing with Ivan Karp of O.K. Harris Gallery in NYC. The artist moved upstate to Hillsdale, NY for the later years of his life. This painting captures one of Richards' most beloved subjects, close up views of industrial equipment against a vivid blue sky. With a photo-realist approach to the subject, Richard was able to capture detailed changes in light and shadow, shape and form. The pale pink colored ball and steel colored hook, down to each screw and bolt, is completed with extreme focus and precision. One could easily confuse this painting with a photograph since it was completed with a very smooth application of paint, with no texture built upon the surface. It is not until you examine the painting up close, do you realize the artist's calculated brushwork. The painting is framed with natural wood stripping. The work is lightweight and easy to hang with wire installed on the back.The artist's signature is located on the front and back of the canvas. About the artist: Joseph Richards’ precisely painted canvases of giant cranes, cargo booms, propellers and train engines are fueled with a fascination like that of a six-year old boy. Working directly from photographs, Richards unites light and color together as one element, evident in the reflective surfaces of steel. The otherwise mundane signs of corrosive wear are magnified; rust stains glow on the canvas and yellow painted pulleys radiate like beacons against a bright, blue sky. Richards finds beauty in their dramatic color, resilient texture, definitive form and functionality. Richards paints sections of these objects in grand scale, with canvases up to 6 feet long and eye-popping color, calling attention to their massive proportions and exceptional strength. Richards had solo exhibits in New York City, Scottsdale AZ, and Washington DC, and his work is found in private and corporate collections here and abroad, e.g., the Tucson Museum of Fine Arts, Mobil Oil, Lankenau Hospital in Philadelphia, and E. Jean Belloni in Geneva, Switzerland. Resume: Born in 1921 in Des Moines, Iowa, Joseph Richards left for Chicago after high school to pursue a career in art. After serving in the U.S. Navy from 1942 – 1945, he went on to study at the American Academy of Art in Chicago and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. He eventually settled with his wife, Betty, in New York City. In 1969, longtime dealer Ivan Karp opened The OK Harris Gallery on West Broadway in Manhattan’s SoHo. Karp was at the forefront of the Photorealism movement, showing artists such as Duane Hanson and Manny Farber...
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Photorealist 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Bay Area Figurative Nude Study - Oil On Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
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...
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American Modern 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars

Modern American Lion and The Female Slayer Figurative , Lion oil on Canvas
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5014 Large American Modernist oil on canvas of a woman and a large lion Unframed Signed Lisa Hasina 87
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1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Modern American Figurative Gypsy Woman Oil Painting Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-3238a Gypsey figurative oil painting on artist board set in a vintage gilt frame
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1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Transection w/ Architectural Forms, Geometrical Figurative Abstract Acrylic
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Transection with Architectural Forms, c. 1980s Acrylic and graphite on board 12 x 20 inches A surrealist mid-century figural abstract ...
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American Modern 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Graphite

Waiting for Godot - The Message, Mixed media painting by Donald Bradford
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Donald Bradford Title: Waiting for Godot, The Message 1 Year: 1986 Medium: Mixed media on panel, signed verso Size: 19.5 x 15.5 in. (49.53 x 39.37 ...
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Contemporary 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Snake, Large-Scale Visionary Abstract with Mystical Creatures by Barbara Carlson
By Barbara Carlson
Located in Soquel, CA
Snake, Large-Scale Visionary Abstract with Mystical Creatures by Barbara B. Carlson Large scale abstract with Central America mythological motifs by Barbara B. Carlson an Orinda, Ca...
Category

Neo-Expressionist 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Tempera, Laid Paper

Awakening
Located in West Hollywood, CA
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...
Category

Modern 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

The Lake - Oil Paint attr. to Tom Sander - 1989
Located in Roma, IT
The Lake is an oil painting realized in 1989 and attributed to Tom Sander. Mixed colored oil painting on canvas. Includes frame: 66 x 5 x 90 cm
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Contemporary 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Plywood, Oil

Precencia Magica de una Serpiente - Acrylic on Canvas by H. Bermudez - 1985
By Henry Bermudez
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed and dated lower right. Henry Bermudez's production is usually characterized by a strong interest in the visual representations of cultures and mythologies. Bermudez real...
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Contemporary 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Paternity oil acrylic on canvas painting realism Spain Sitges 70s
Located in Barcelona, 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

Pouring Coffee, Modern Oil Painting on Canvas by Jaimendes
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jaimendes, Brazilian (1939 - ) Title: Pouring Coffee Year: 1983 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated l.r. Size: 16 in. x 13 in. (40.64 cm x 33.02 cm)
Category

Folk Art 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Nu de dos
Located in LE HAVRE, FR
André LEMAITRE (1909-1995) Nu de dos, 1980 Oil on canvas Size : 73 x 60 cm Signed lower right Tille and dated on reserve Painting in very good condition. Gilded frame offered. Size...
Category

Modern 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The City at Twilight: Twin Towers II, signed painting, Gruenebaum Gallery label
Located in New York, NY
Sonia Gechtoff The City at Twilight: Twin Towers II, 1985 Acrylic and pencil on paper (held in original frame with Gruenebaum Gallery, NY label) Signed and dated on the front; also b...
Category

Abstract Expressionist 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Pencil, Graphite

Tranquil Irish Coastal Scene with Green Fields, Rocky Shore & Expansive Sky
Located in Preston, GB
Tranquil Irish Coastal Scene with Green Fields, Rocky Shore & Expansive Sky. Vintage Original Oil Painting by 20th Century Irish Artist, Louis Humphrey. Humphrey was born in 1955 in ...
Category

Realist 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Woman And Black Shoes
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Woman and black shoes, Heavy oil impasto on canvas. Elisabeth Sabala Abelló (Barcelona, 1956). She studied industrial design at the School of Arts and Crafts in Barcelona ​​and has a degree in Fine Arts, a specialty in painting, from the Central University of the same city. Sabala is a convinced figurative who has given all the prominence of her work to the representation of the human being in its most trivial aspects. At a time when the artistic landscape extols abstract and conceptual art focused on the great universal themes, Sabala continues to focus on the small defects that bring us closer to the collective and the human. The artistic progression of Sabala takes place, at first, from a bleak period to another vitalist and, later, from the representation of isolated characters (In the super, Reading the stories of the paintings) to the recreation of great concentrations of its peculiar individuals characterized in an endless number of situations (The Great Dance, The Girls of the Choir). Sabala's work is vital and touching, as well as scathing and satirical: it confronts its characters in the most varied situations, capturing, at the same time, the viewer's attention with an unusual juxtaposition of colors that do not seek chromatic harmony, but expression and movement through matter. In 1980 he won the first prize of a painting of the City of Castelldefels, and the following year he debuted individually in the Caixa Catalunya room, in Barcelona. In 1984, she was selected for the XXIII Joan Miró Drawing...
Category

Modern 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil

Rickshaw, Calcutta Original Watercolor by Ursula Gill
Located in Soquel, CA
Rickshaw, Calcutta Original Watercolor by Ursula Gill Soft pastel like Watercolor of Calcutta streets and a rickshaw and driver by Ursula Gill (American, 20th C). Ursula Gill, Mary...
Category

Abstract Impressionist 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Judy Rifka, Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting Hockey Players. Brooke Alexander
Located in Surfside, FL
Judy Rifka (American, b. 1945) Oil on linen painting Titled: "Ice Hockey IV 1990" featuring A depiction of hockey players with ice skating rink backdrop. Hand signed verso: "Rifka...
Category

Pop Art 1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Italian Modern Surreal Figural Acrylic Painting "Head Over Heals In Love"
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3772 Acrylic surreal figural painting on artist board by Brunelli
Category

1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

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