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Period: 20th Century
Returnable Items Only
Impressionist Tuscan Cottage Landscape Painting with Flowers & Trees in Italy
Located in Preston, GB
Impressionist Tuscan Cottage Landscape Painting with Flowers & Trees in Italy, entitled “la Maison Rose”. A unique original painting by British Artist John Donaldson.
Art measures ...
Category
Land 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
Patrick Boudon. Inner Family. Post-war Expressionism. 1970s.
Located in Firenze, IT
Patrick Boudon.
Inner Family.
Post-war Expressionism.
1970s.
Patrick Boudon.
Art Informel. Ecole de Paris.
Technique: oil on cardboard.
This painting by Patrick Boudon from the 197...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Antique American Impressionist Framed Beach Scene Signed Elegant Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive American impressionist beach scene painting. Oil on board. Framed. Signed.
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Flower Shop
By Jean Rose
Located in Cambridge, GB
The Flower Shop Girl
by JEAN ROSE B. 1933
Oil on board, signed, 24 x 27 cm
Jean Rose was one of the first women students at Corsham, Bath and worked under some of the postwa...
Category
Post-Modern 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Guirand de Scevola (1871-1950) A Bouquet of anemones, signed pastel
Located in Paris, FR
Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scevola (1871-1950)
A Bouquet of anemones
Pastel on paper
Signed upper left
44.5 x 36.5 cm
Framed : 53.5 x 45.5 cm
Lucien Victor Guirand de Scévola was ...
Category
Art Deco 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Mid Century Modern American Abstract Figurative Surreal Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century abstracted figurative painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. No signature found. Great color and composition. Nicely framed in a period modernist molding.
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Maternite - Post Impressionist Figurative Interior Oil Painting - Henri Lebasque
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed figurative oil on canvas circa 1910 by French post impressionist painter Henri Lebasque. The work depicts a mother seated on a yellow change feeding her young baby.
Signature...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Parade" Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern American Scene WPA Regionalism
Located in New York, NY
"Parade" Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern American Scene WPA Regionalism
Gerrit Van Sinclair (1890 – 1955)
Parade
20 x 15 inches
Oil on board, c. 1940s
Signed lower right
Fram...
Category
American Realist 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The King, abstract expressionist painting by Cleveland School artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres
American, 1927-2013
The King of Diamonds Accepts Challenges, 1982
acrylic and ink on paper mounted on canvas
signed lower right, signed and titled verso
47.5 x 47.5 in...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic
"Hope : Between Earth and Heaven" Surrealist Acrylic on Canvas by Eugene Hawkins
Located in Pasadena, CA
In the "Fantasy/Metaphysical" series by American artist Eugene Hawkins, the convergence of surrealism and metaphysics unfolds as an exploration of existential themes common to all. C...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Abstract Expressionist Painting -- San Francisco Shore Birds
By Honora Berg
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Abstract Expressionist Painting of San Francisco Bay Shorebirds at Surf's Edge
1950's abstract expressionist painting of shorebirds at water's edge by San Francisco arti...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Rice Paper, Watercolor
Hot-Air Balloons Above the San Francisco Bridge- Oil on Canvas by Patrick Heughe
Located in Pasadena, CA
This painting by Patrick Heughe depicts a view of two hot-air balloons floating above the iconic San Francisco bridge. With meticulous attention to detail, Heughe captures the essenc...
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
L. S. F. vibrant abstract expressionist painting by Cleveland School artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres
American, 1927-2013
L. S. F., 1980
acrylic and ink on paper mounted on canvas
signed lower right, dated and titled verso
48 x 65 inches
48.75 x 65.75 inches, framed
R...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic
Portrait of Franklin Atwood Park, VP of Singer Mfg. Co.
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of Franklin Atwood Park, VP of Singer Mfg. Co.
Stately portrait of Franklin Atwood Park by Arthur Trevethin Nowell (British, 1862-1940). Park is sitting for a classical por...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Latin American Cuban Painting by Julio Antonio Devoroción (Devotion), 1992
Located in Washington, DC
Major painting by Cuban/American artist Julio Antonio (b. 1950). Painting is acrylic on canvas and titled "Devoroción". Painting is signed and dated 1992. Measures: 70" W x 78" H. ...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The Challenge, abstract expressionist painting by Cleveland School artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres
American, 1927-2013
The Challenge, c. 1982
acrylic and ink on paper mounted on canvas
signed lower right, signed and titled verso
60 x 41.5 inches
Richard Andres was...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic
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...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
La Route by Maurice de Vlaminck - Landscape painting
Located in London, GB
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La Route by Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958)
Oil on canvas
64.8 x 81 cm (25 ¹/₂ x 31 ⁷/₈ inches)
Signed lower left, Vlam...
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled abstract expressionist mid-century painting by Cleveland School artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres
American, 1927-2013
Untitled, c. 1950
oil on masonite
8 x 10 inches
Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled abstract expressionist oil painting by Cleveland School artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres
American, 1927-2013
Untitled, c. 1980
acrylic and ink on paper mounted on canvas
signed lower right
24 x 20 inches
25 x 21 inches, framed
Richard Andres was born in B...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic
Untitled abstract expressionist oil painting by Cleveland School artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres
American, 1927-2013
Untitled, c. 1980
acrylic and ink on paper mounted on canvas
30 x 34 inches
Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927. A graduate of th...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic
Fragment, abstract expressionist mid-century painting, Cleveland School artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres
American, 1927-2013
oil on canvas
signed and titled verso
19.5 x 24 inches
20 x 25 inches, framed
Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927. A graduate of ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled abstract expressionist oil painting by Cleveland School artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres
American, 1927-2013
Untitled, c. 1980
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 th...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic
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...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic
Surrealist acrylic on board painting surrealism picasso style
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Gustavo Úbeda (1930-1994) - Surrealism - Acrylic panel
Acrylic measurements 80x100 cm.
Frameless.
The painting by Gustavo Úbeda Romero (Herencia, 1930 – Sao Paulo, 1994) comes from ...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Untitled abstract expressionist oil painting by Cleveland School artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
RICHARD ANDRES
American, 1927–2013
Untitled, c. 1950
oil on canvas
signed lower left
10 x 7 inches
Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927. A graduate of the Clevelan...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Simka Simkhovitch WPA W/C Painting Gouache American Modernist Bouquet of Flowers
Located in Surfside, FL
Simka Simkhovitch (Russian/American 1893 - 1949)
This came with a small grouping from the artist's family, some were hand signed some were not.
These were studies for larger paintings.
This is a miniature watercolor and gouache vibrant, colorful bouquet of flowers in a vase.
Simka Simkhovitch (Симха Файбусович Симхович) (aka Simka Faibusovich Simkhovich) (Novozybkov, Russia May 21, 1885 O.S./June 2, 1885 N.S.—Greenwich, Connecticut February 25, 1949) was a Ukrainian-Russian Jewish artist and immigrant to the United States. He painted theater scenery in his early career and then had several showings in galleries in New York City. Winning Works Progress Administration (WPA) commissions in the 1930s, he completed murals for the post offices in Jackson, Mississippi and Beaufort, North Carolina. His works are in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Born outside Kyiv (Petrograd Ukraine) into a Jewish family who owned a small department store. During a severe case of measles when he was seven, Simcha Simchovitch sketched the views outside his window and decided to become an artist, over his father's objections. Beginning in 1905, he studied at the Grekov Odessa Art School and upon completion of his studies in 1911 received a recommendation to be admitted to the Imperial Academy of Arts. Though he enrolled to begin classes in architecture, painting, and sculpture at the Imperial Academy, he was dropped from the school roster in December because of the quota on the number of Jewish students and drafted into the army. Simchovitch served as a private in the 175th Infantry Regiment Baturyn [ru] until his demobilization in 1912. Re-enrolling in the Imperial Academy, he audited classes.
Simka Simkhovitch exhibited paintings and sculptures in 1918 as part of an exhibition of Jewish artists and in 1919 placed 1st in the competition "The Great Russian Revolution" with a painting called "Russian Revolution" which was hung in the State Museum of Revolution. In 1922, Simkha Simkhovitch exhibited at the International Book Fair in Florence (Italian: Fiera Internazionale del Libro di Firenze). In 1924, Simkhovitch came to the United States to make illustrations for Soviet textbooks and decided to immigrate instead. Initially he supported himself by doing commercial art and a few portrait commissions. In 1927, he was hired to paint a screen for a scene in the play "The Command to Love" by Fritz Gottwald and Rudolph Lothar which was playing at the Longacre Theatre on Broadway. Art dealers began clamoring for the screen and Simkhovitch began a career as a screen painter for the theater. Catching the attention of the screenwriter, Ernest Pascal, he worked as an illustrator for Pascal, who then introduced him to gallery owner, Marie Sterner. Simkhovitch's works appeared at the Marie Sterner Gallery beginning with a 1927 exhibit and were repeated the following year. Simkhovitch had an exhibit in 1929 at Sterner's on circus paintings. In 1931, he held a showing of works at the Helen Hackett Gallery, in New York City and later that same year he was one of the featured artists of a special exhibit in San Francisco at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park. The exhibit was coordinated by Marie Sterner and included four watercolors, including one titled "Nudes". He is of the generation of Russian Soviet artists such as Isaac Pailes, Serge Charchoune, Marc Chagall, Chana Orloff, Isaac Ilyich Levitan, and Ossip Zadkine.
In 1936, Simkhovitch was selected to complete the mural for the WPA Post office project in Jackson, Mississippi. The mural was hung in the post office and courthouse in 1938 depicted a plantation theme. Painted on the wall behind the judge’s bench, “Pursuits of Life in Mississippi”, a depiction of black workers engaged in manual labor amid scenes of white professionals and socialites, was eventually covered over in later years during renovations due to its stereotypical African American imagery. Simka painted what he thought was typical of Jackson. His impression of pre-civil rights Mississippi was evidently Greek Revival column houses, weeping willow trees, working class families, and the oppression of African Americans. He painted African American men picking cotton, while a white man took account of the harvest and a white judge advised a white family, calling it Pursuits of Life in Mississippi.
Though clearly endorsed by the government and initially generally well-received, the mural soon raised concerns with locals as the climate toward racial segregation began to change. The main concern was whether depictions that show African Americans in subjugated societal roles should be featured in a courtroom. The following year, his painting "Holiday" won praise at an exhibition in Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1940, Simkhovitch's second WPA post office project was completed when four murals, "The Cape Lookout Lighthouse and the Orville W. Mail Boat", "The Wreck of the Crissie Wright", "Sand Ponies" and "Canada Geese" were installed in Beaufort, North Carolina. The works were commissioned in 1938 and did not generate the controversy that the Jackson mural had. The main mural is "The Wreck of the Crissie Wright" and depicts a shipwreck which had occurred in Beaufort in 1866. "The Cape Lookout Lighthouse and the Orville W. Mail Boat" depicted the lighthouse built in 1859 and the mail boat that was running mail during the time which Simkhovitch was there. The boat ran mail for the area until 1957. "Sand Ponies" shows the wild horses common to the North Carolina barrier islands and "Canada Geese" showed the importance of hunting and fishing in the area. All four murals were restored in the 1990s by Elisabeth Speight, daughter of two other WPA muralists, Francis Speight...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board, Watercolor
Antique English Oil Painting 'The Knight Errant' Pre-Raphaelite Nude & Knight
By John Everett Millais
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Knight Errant
English School, circa 1900
after the painting by John Everett Millais (1829-1896)
oil painting on board, framed
board: 13 x 10 i...
Category
Pre-Raphaelite 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Abstract portrait with antique frame, 1950s/60s
Located in Washington, DC
Painting by Donald Purdy (1924 - 2016).
Oil on masonite
Measures 25"L x 23"W.
Work is behind glass and comes with exceptional antique frame.
Acquired from the Schoneman Gallery in NY...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Two Brothers by Valérie de Sarrieu - Oil on canvas painting, landscape, pastel
Located in Paris, FR
Two Brothers is a unique oil on canvas painting by contemporary artist Valérie de Sarrieu, dimensions are 83 cm × 116 cm (32.7 × 45.7 in).
The artwork is signed, sold unframed and c...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Queen , 1947, by French Transgender Artist JM Poulain
Located in Paris, FR
By French famous Transgender artist, Michel Marie Poulain (Born Paris December 5, 1906. Died 1991) this rare oil on canvas it represents the Queen and he...
Category
Feminist 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Emancipation" Painting 25" x 20" inch (1997) by Ibrahim Abd Elmalak
Located in Culver City, CA
"Emancipation" Painting 25" x 20" inch (1997) by Ibrahim Abd Elmalak
Emancipation, 1997
Ink & Acrylic on Paper.
Signed & dated
The selection of Abd Elmalak’s drawings is reflectiv...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic
At the Bend - Abstracted Russian Landscape Yuri Gusev
By Yuri Gusev
Located in Soquel, CA
Impressionist landscape of a river at the edge of the woods by Yuri Gusev (Russian, b. 1928). There is a kneeling figure between the trees in the foreground. Presented in a pink-hued...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
HMS Glasgow returning from Falklands - Shipping Scene Warship & other Vessels
Located in Preston, GB
HMS Glasgow returning from the Falkland Islands - Shipping Scene Warship & other Vessels by British Artist Norman Elford GRA (1931 - 2007)
Art measures 29 x 20 inches
Frame measur...
Category
Realist 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Portrait Boy" Oil Painting 14.5" x 20" inch (1930) by Shaaban Zaki
By Shaaban Zaki
Located in Culver City, CA
"Portrait Boy" Oil Painting 14.5" x 20" inch (1930) by Shaaban Zaki
signed & dated
Shaaban Zaki came from a lower-middle-class family who was mostly government employees, but he wa...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"El Sayyad" Pastel on Paper Painting 12" x 8" inch by Inji Efflatoun
Located in Culver City, CA
"El Sayyad" Pastel on Paper Painting 12" x 8" inch by Inji Efflatoun
circa 1960
Signed
Inji Eflatoun pursued free studies in art. Since 1942, she has participated in the exhibitio...
Category
Post-War 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Pastel
Modernist Mid century Swedish tram and figure scene in Fauvist colors
Located in Woodbury, CT
Acquiring a mid-20th-century Fauvist painting by Wilhelm Henning is an opportunity to own a piece of art that captures the vibrant spirit and expressive color palette of the Fauvist ...
Category
Fauvist 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
20th Century French Modernist Gouache Painting Pink Roses In White Jug
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
by Paul-Louis Bolot (French 1918-2003)
signed
original gouache painting on thick paper/ card
unframed
condition: very good and sound; the edges have a few curls and scuffs/ edge tear...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Colliers Magazine 1947 American Scene Social Realism Modern Families in the Snow
Located in New York, NY
Colliers Magazine 1947 American Scene Social Realism Modern Families in the Snow
Katherine Wiggins (American 20th Century)
"The Shrimp"
20 x 24 inches
Egg tempera on masonite. c. 1...
Category
American Realist 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Masonite
Flower Caryatid - Blue Woman Shaped Painting
Located in Washington, DC
Important one of a kind work by Noche Crist (1909 - 2004). Shaped painting titled " Flower Caryatid", acrylic paint, wood, plaster and mirror. Noche ...
Category
Outsider Art 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mirror, Plaster, Wood, Acrylic
"Still Life of Tomatoes" Oil Painting 10" x 14" inch by Mohammed Ismail
Located in Culver City, CA
"Still Life of Tomatoes" Oil Painting 10" x 14" inch by Mohammed Ismail
1967
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Mohammed Ismail (1936-1993)
Dr. Mohamed Ismail was born in 1936 in Zagazig in Egyp...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
Untitled
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Untitled" is a painting by Rodolfo Morales. The painting is signed lower right, "Rodolfo Morales". The framed piece measures 37 3/4 x 39 7/8 x 2 1/4 in.
Rodolfo Morales was a Mexican painter...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Intermission (Ballerina) /// Impressionism Degas French Ballet Renoir Figurative
By Pal Fried
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Pál Fried (Hungarian, 1893-1976)
Title: "Intermission (Ballerina)"
*Signed by Fried lower left
Circa: 1940
Medium: Original Oil Painting on Canvas
Framing: Recently framed in a gold Louis XV style frame
Framed size: 39" x 33"
Canvas size: 30" x 24"
Condition: In excellent condition
Notes:
Provenance: private collection - Port Orange, FL; acquired from Herbert Arnot Gallery, New York, NY in the early 1970's. Titled by Fried on verso. The artist's copyright stamp and various reference number on verso.
Biography:
Pál Fried was born in Budapest in 1893. He received his art education at the Académie hongroise des arts (Hungarian Academy of Arts) where he was a pupil of Hugo Pohl who became one of his major influences. While under Pohl's direction, he executed many portraits of female nudes and Orientalist works. Later he studied in Paris at the Académie Julian, where he was the pupil of Claude Monet and Lucien Simone. In Paris, he was greatly influenced by the French Impressionists, especially Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Edgar Degas. This inspired him to prepare many paintings of ballerinas...
Category
Art Deco 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oil
"Alpine Village III" Pastel on Paper Painting 10" x 12" in by Inji Efflatoun
Located in Culver City, CA
"Alpine Village III" Pastel on Paper Painting 10" x 12" in by Inji Efflatoun
signed & dated
Inji Eflatoun pursued free studies in art. Since 1942, she has participated in the exhib...
Category
Post-War 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Antique Historical Painting - First Thanksgiving, Plymouth - Jennie Brownscombe
Located in Baltimore, MD
Jennie Augusta Brownscombe was born in a log cabin in Honesdale, Pa in 1850. She went past her modest roots to attend Cooper Union and the National Academy in New York. By 1890, ...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Venus" Painting 31.5" x 27.5" inch by Gosha Ostretsov
Located in Culver City, CA
"Venus" Painting 31.5" x 27.5" inch by Gosha Ostretsov
Acrylic & enamel on canvas
Born in 1967, in Moscow
Lived in Paris for ten years (1988 - 1998), now lives and works in Moscow....
Category
Pop Art 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Magic Realist Surrealist Latin American Naive Fantasy Painting
By German Ramon Duron Lanza
Located in Surfside, FL
Magic realist fantasy painting in the manner of Ernst Fuchs and Arik Brauer.
Naïve art is any form of visual art that is created by a person who lacks the formal education and training that a professional artist undergoes (in anatomy, art history, technique, perspective, ways of seeing). Unlike folk art, naïve art does not necessarily evince a distinct cultural context or tradition. Naïve art is recognized, and often imitated, for its childlike simplicity and frankness. Paintings of this kind typically have a flat rendering style with a rudimentary expression of perspective.
One particularly influential painter of "naïve art" was Henri Rousseau (1844–1910), a French Post-Impressionist who was discovered by Pablo Picasso.
Naïve art is often seen as outsider art that is by someone without formal (or little) training or degree. While this was true before the twentieth century, there are now academies for naïve art. Naïve art is now a fully recognized art genre, represented in art galleries worldwide.
Museums devoted to naïve art now exist in Kecskemét, Hungary; Riga, Latvia; Jaen, Spain; Rio de Janeiro, Brasil; Vicq France and Paris. "Primitive art" is another term often applied to art by those without formal training, but is historically more often applied to work from certain cultures that have been judged socially or technologically "primitive" by Western academia, such as Native American, sub saharan African or Pacific Island art (see Tribal art). This is distinguished from the self-conscious, "primitive" inspired movement primitivism. Another term related to (but not completely synonymous with) naïve art is folk art.
There also exist the terms "naïvism" and "primitivism" which are usually applied to professional painters working in the style of naïve art (like Paul Gauguin, Mikhail Larionov, Paul Klee).
At all events, naive art can be regarded as having occupied an "official" position in the annals of twentieth-century art since - at the very latest - the publication of the Der Blaue Reiter, an almanac in 1912. Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, who brought out the almanac, presented 6 reproductions of paintings by le Douanier' Rousseau (Henri Rousseau), comparing them with other pictorial examples. However, most experts agree that the year that naive art was "discovered" was 1885, when the painter Paul Signac became aware of the talents of Henri Rousseau and set about organizing exhibitions of his work in a number of prestigious galleries.
The Earth Group (Grupa Zemlja) were Croatian artists, architects and intellectuals active in Zagreb from 1929 to 1935. The group included the painters Krsto Hegedušić, Edo Kovačević, Omer Mujadžić, Kamilo Ružička, Ivan Tabaković, and Oton Postružnik, the sculptors Antun Augustinčić, Frano Kršinić, and the architect Drago Ibler.
A term applied to Yugoslav (Croatian) naive painters working in or around the village of Hlebine, near the Hungarian border, from about 1930. Some of the best known naive artists are Dragan Gaži, Ivan Generalić, Josip Generalić, Krsto Hegedušić, Mijo Kovačić, Ivan Lacković-Croata, Franjo Mraz, Ivan Večenaj and Mirko Virius.
Camille Bombois (1883–1970) Ferdinand Cheval, known as 'le facteur Cheval' (1836–1924)
Henry Darger (1892–1973) L. S. Lowry (1887–1976) Grandma Moses, Anna Mary Robertson (1860–1961) Nikifor (1895–1968) Poland, Horace Pippin (1888–1946) Jon Serl (1894-1993) United States
Alfred Wallis (1855–1942) Scottie Wilson (1890–1972) Gesner Abelard (b. 1922) Jan Balet (1913–2009) Michel Delacroix (b. 1933) France Howard Finster (1916–2001) Ivan Rabuzin (1921–2008)
Spontaneous Art Museum in Brussels
Art en Marge Museum in Brussels
MADmusée in Liege
International Museum of Naive Art of Brazil in Cosme Velho, Rio de Janeiro
Gallery Jacques Ardies in São Paulo
Musée international d'art naïf de Magog in Magog
Croatian Museum of Naïve Art in Zagreb
Gallery of Croatian Naïve Art...
Category
Folk Art 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Latin American Modern Surreal Painting, 1950
Located in Washington, DC
Wonderful Surreal Latin American painting. Painting is oil on masonite board with original frame. Appears to be unsigned. Condition is excelle...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Los Esponsales Opus Pictorico N*5, Otelo
Located in Houston, TX
Antonio De Ignacio (1944 - )
Spanish artist. His works are widely represented in the multiple private and commercial galleries.
“Los Esponsales Opus Pictórico
N* 5, Otelo”
Oi...
Category
Other Art Style 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
" lilac" Spring, Flowers, Violet, Pink , Impressionistcm. 70 x 64
Located in Torino, IT
Lilac,Spring,Flowers,Violet,Pink,Russia,impressionist
Published in a monographic catalogue
Georgij MOROZ (Dneprodzerzinsk, Ucraina, 1937 - St. Petersburg, 2015)
1937: he was born ...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Lilacs on the table in the garden" Oil cm. 140 x 125
Located in Torino, IT
Lilac, garden, flowers, violet,Ukraine
Very important work
Georgij MOROZ (Dneprodzerzinsk, Ucraina, 1937 - St. Petersburg, 2015)
1937: he was born in Dneprodzerzinsk, Ucraina.
1949-56: he began artistic studies in Dneprodzerzinsk and later he attended the School of Fine Arts in Kiev.
1956-62: he attended the Academy of Fine Art of Saint Petersburg.
1960: he began his activity taking part in many exhibitions in Russia and abroad.
1973: member of the Union of the Artists.
1980: exhibitions in Austria, Hungary, Japan...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vizzotto Alberti (Venetian painter) - 20th century figure painting - Lancers
Located in Varmo, IT
Enrico Vizzotto Alberti (Oderzo 1880 - Padua 1976) - The 7th regiment of Milan lancers.
25.5 x 35 cm without frame, 51.5 x 57 cm with frame.
Ancient...
Category
Art Nouveau 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
English River landscape, with Swans on the Thames at Temple Lock near London UK
Located in Woodbury, CT
English River landscape, with Church and River at Sunset, Abingdon on the Thames. England
Wonderful scene of Abingdon on the Thames by one of Englands best known landscape painters....
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Fall of Icarus
Located in London, GB
Gouache on paper, signed (lower left) and titled (lower right), 68cm x 88cm, (88cm x 108cm framed). The work is framed behind museum quality non-reflective UV glass.
A realist pain...
Category
Post-War 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Richard E Howard (1912 - 1996) Massachusetts.
Located in New York, NY
Richard E Howard (1912 - 1996) Massachusetts.
Medium: Gouache / Paper
Frame Size: 19.5" x 19"
Size: 13" x 13 "
Condition:great, no visible damage
Provenance: ...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
France beach acrylic painting seascape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Acrylic on paper laid board.
Frameless.
Category
Fauvist 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Laid Paper, Board, Acrylic
20th Century German Modernist Oil Painting Blue Shades Window Abstract
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
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 studie...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil