20th Century Figurative Paintings

Buddha Samantabhadra (Shakti) is deep blue in color, symbolizing the sky or emptiness of mind. Samantabhadra or buddha's consort is white in color, symbolizing the aspect of the cla...

David Sherwin Parker is an American artist who showed his artistic talent in childhood. He is known for creating classic paintings and prints with various subjects like western lands...

Abstract Composition by Sally Vaughan (contemporary) gouache painting on card, unframed measurements: 5.75 x 8 inches condition: very good provenance: from a large private collection...

Flowers and pixel design. Sealed on the back with design studio name and number 268 We offer a small number of these original illustration designs by this design studio based in Alc...

Roberta De La Vega, Three Sisters and a Kittie Cat, Oil on Canvas, signed and dated 1981 Originally framed Excellent condition of use Roberta De La Vega (...

A beautiful oil painting by French artist Louis Valtat. Featuring a colorful display of a flower bouquet of dahlias.

Sz: 8"H x 4 7/8"W w/ easel-back c1950s Hand-made by Alexander Warren Montel (1921-2002)

Signed lower right, 'Di Gesu' for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and created circa 1950. Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art Cen...

Aaron Fink (American, b. 1955) Hand signed and dated 1986, verso. The large canvas size measures approx: 72" x 66". This painting is part of the artist's "Images of Gambling" series, amongst his best figural work. Aaron Fink was born in Boston in 1955. He received his MFA from Yale University and his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. His work has been exhibited widely throughout the U.S., Europe and Japan and Australia, and is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, NY, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, among many others. He lives and works in the Boston area. He has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Muskegon Museum of Art, Michigan, the Rockford Art Museum, Illinois, and Colorado State University, Fort Collins. Figurative abstract expressionist art. In 2002 a monograph on Fink’s work, Out of the Ordinary, was published, with text by Eleanor Heartney. In 1983 Fink met the collector John Powers, who remained a strong supporter of his work until his death in 1999. Fink’s work is represented in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Hara Museum, Tokyo, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, among many others. Fink currently divides his time between Boston and Rockport, Massachusetts. He was included in the show The Expressive Voice: Selections from the Permanent Collection at the Danforth Museum of Art. An exhibition of Boston Expressionism, a school that embraced a distinctive blend of visionary painting, dark humor, religious mysticism, and social commentary. Historical roots of this movement can be traced to European Symbolism and German Expressionism, but artists living and working in the Boston area from the 1930’s through the 1950’s, were particularly inspired by Chaim Soutine and Max Beckmann. Artists included; Aaron Fink, Bernard Chaet, David Aronson, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Hyman Bloom, Jack Levine, Jackson Pollock, Jason Berger, Karl Zerbe, Lawrence Kupferman, Michael Mazur, Sigmund Abeles and Willem de Kooning. He was included in the show 40 Years of Printmaking: From the Center Street Studio Archives, along other great figural artists Gabor Peterdi, John Walker, Lester Johnson and Nell Blaine. S E L E C T E D C O L L E C T I O N S Art Institute of Chicago Bank of America Boston Public Library Bouwfonds Nederlandse Gemeenten, The Netherlands Brooklyn Museum of Art Castelli Collection, New York Chase Manhattan Bank Chemical Bank Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford, CT Citizens Bank, Boston Coopers & Lybrand Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA Danish House of Parliament Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park Lincoln, MA Farnsworth Museum, Maine Fidelity Investments, Boston Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA G.E. Corporation Goldman Sachs & Company IBM, New York Indianapolis Museum of Art Library of Congress Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Museum of Modern Art, New York National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC New York Public Library Philadelphia Museum of Art Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine United States Department of State University of Massachusetts, Amherst Awards Residency, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, CO, 1998, 1996 National Endowment for the Arts, 1987, 1982 Artist Fellowship, Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, 1984 American Academy in Rome, Prix de Rome – Alternate in Painting, 1979 Yale University, Ford Foundation Special Project Grant, Fall 1979 Skowhegan Scholarship Award, conferred by the Maryland Institute College of Art, Spring 1976 SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS Contemporary Responses to Modernism: A New England Perspective, University of Southern Maine Color and Line: Expressive Tradition in Boston, Endicott College, Beverly, MA, Beautiful Decay, Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA MICA Then and Now, Ethan Cohen Gallery, Beacon, NY Bon Appetit, Concord Art Association Celebrating Ten Years, Galerie D’Avignon, Montreal, Canada New England Impressions: Exploring the Woodcut, Concord Art, Concord, MA Go Figure: The Figure in Contemporary Art – A Response to Art History, Painting in Boston: 1950-2000, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA Working Sources: The Painter and the Photographic Image, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA The Unique Print: Six Innovative Approaches to the Monotype, Starr Gallery, Newton, MA Selections from Atelier Mourlot, Hankyu Department Store, Tokyo, Japan Yale Collects Yale, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, 1993 70’s and 80’s: Printmaking Now, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 1986-1987 Skowhegan Alumni, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, and Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, Public and Private: American Prints Today, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY Contemporary Miami Collectors, Metropolitan Museum, Coral Gables, FL, 1984 The American Artist as Printmaker, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, 1983-84 Jon Abbott, Aaron Fink, Tom Lieber, Chris Wool...

Punchy reds and zestful hot pinks convey a sense of intense motion and engine heat. The art is as much as color-field painting as a narrative work. It was a commissioned illustration for Sports Illustrated...

Artist: Elisabeth Hahn (German 1924-2021) Elisabeth Hahn was born in Dortmund, Germany, where she began her artistic studies. In 1953, she moved to Paris. She continued her studies ...

Monogrammed lower left, 'VSR' for Virginia Sevier Rogers (American, 1916-2015) and stamped, verso, with certification of authenticity. Born in Fort Collins, Colorado., Virginia Sevi...

Abstract Composition French School, circa 1970's indistinctly signed and dated oil painting board, unframed overall size: 18 x 21.5 inches condition: overall good and sound provenanc...

'Feria en Huancayo (Market in Huancayo)' is an original oil painting signed by the Peruvian-American painter Ernesto Gutierrez. The painting is an excellent example of the work that ...

Artist/ School: by Claude Lagouche (French 1943-2020), see provenance details below. Claude Lagouche was born January 2, 1943 in Naves, died January ...

Cajori was an important second generation abstract expressionist painter. In 1952, he founded, along with Fred Mitchell, Lois Dodd and Angelo Ippolito, t...

French Character Portrait French school, Mid 20th Century Gouache paint on unframed paper Image : 25.5 x 19.5 inches (frame not included in purchase) Superbly decorative 1960's Fre...

Gorgeous oil and watercolor on paper by abstract expressionist artist Adine Stix. Beautiful shades of pink, purples, cobalt blue with s hint of orange cover the paper to create the h...

Rostom, the waiting, 26x22 inches, acrylic on canvas.

Untitled red figurative abstract painting with various nude figures holding various objects by Portland, Oregon artist Brendan McKeon. The canvas is not currently framed.

Medium: Gouache on Paper Signature: Signed Lower Left A well-crafted, stylish, and eye-catching cover painting by the renowned pin up calendar artist and commercial illustrator Fritz Willis. This was used as a cover for a Shipstads & Johnson Ice Follies...

Two abstract women by Houston artist Linda Delaney in the 20th century titled, "Why Not Ask For More". Currently unframed.

Born in the South of France in 1926 and raised by very strict parents, Jean Sanglar was prohibited from playing with same age mates. Truly talented, as a young boy he drew frequentl...

Date: 1955 Medium: Gouache on Board Dimensions: 24.00" x 18.50" Signature: Signed Lower Right Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, February 5, 1955. The Post ...

Hand signed by the artist on verso. Hand Painted Unique Silkscreen on Canvas. Artwork is in excellent condition. Canvas is not stretched. Certificate of authenticity included. All...

Original painting on canvas. Hand signed and dated on front by the artist. Stretched. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. All reasonable offer...

Issac Mizrahi fashion illustrationon Arches paper signed in ink lower right Circa 1990's Image 29.5" H x 21.25" Frame: 31.5" H x 23.75" W x 1.5" D. Th...

Seductive Woman, Surrealist Impressionist Oil Painting, Signed By British artist, Kate Orr, late 20th Century Inscribed into the paint by the artist on the lower right hand corner Si...

Artist: Richard Karwoski, American (1938 - 1993) Title: Carousel Year: circa 1975 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Size: 44 in. x 60 in. (111.76 cm x 152.4 cm)

Artist: Jose Canes (aka Dore) [Spanish, 1931 - ] Title: Woman in Red Medium: Acrylic and Pastel on Paper, signed "Dore" l.r. Year: circa 1980 Size: 19.5 x 25.5 inches

"Olympic Star", Large Scale Hard Edge Surfer Figurative by Erle Loran Vibrant hard edge painting of a surfer "Olympic Star," a bold and bright figurative piece by Erle Loran (Ameri...

Artist: Jose Canes (aka Dore) Title: Woman in Pink with Flowers Medium: Acrylic and Pastel on Paper, signed "Dore" l.r. Year: circa 1980 Size: 19.5 x 25.5 inches

An original oil on canvas painting by American modern female artist Jackie Felix.

The Three Philadelphians, Large-Scale Modern Figurative Cityscape Bold color creates tension and arrests the eye of the viewer in Dick Crispo's "Porto Rican Trilogy." (Puerto Rican). Saturated colors are achieved through layering and painterly application. Among the three figures is Roberto Clemente...

A Canadian flag flies from the top of a pole that swoops into the center of a taffy pink sky in this unique painting by artistic polymath Charles Pachter. In this painting, the arti...

Geraniums is a painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist. This piece is a part of a flower series, defined by their distinct bright colors, satiny, silky, vibr...