20th Century Figurative Paintings

Delos Palmer Jr. Tree in Winter Signed lower left Oil on Masonite 10 x 8 inches Delos Palmer, Jr. was born January 26, 1890 in New York City. His father was Dr. Delos Palmer, a socially prominent Park Avenue dentist. His mother was Jennifer Emma Banta. His parents were both born in NYC, where they married in 1880 and had five children. There had three sons and two daughters. He was the fourth born. They lived in a private townhouse at 48 West 50th Street, with a cook, a waitress, and a nurse to assist in his father's dental practice on the ground floor. They lived a privileged life and the children all went to the best private schools. He graduated high school in June of 1908. He studied at The Art Students League from 1911 to 1915 with the renowned American Impressionist, George Bellows. According to the artist, "Bellows was a good influence on me. He taught me how to paint what I see and what I feel!" In 1916 Palmer moved to the historic Holbein Studios at 139 West 55th Street. He worked there until 1920, when he moved to the more fashionable Greenwich Village, where he became a successful society portraitist. He was 27 years old during the Great War, so he was not selected for military service. In 1923 Palmer began to sell interior story illustrations to Metropolitan Magazine, The Saturday Evening Post, and Liberty. In 1924 he married Helen Smith Romme and moved to Stamford, CT, where they raised a daughter and two step-sons. The fateful market crash of 1929 ended Palmer's high society portrait business, but he soon found work through his contacts at Liberty magazine's MacFadden Publishing, which also produced several crime and detective magazines such as Master Detective and True Detective. He then began to paint pulp covers for Dime Mystery, Clues, Frontier Stories, Action Stories, Western Trails, All Star Adventure, Complete Western Book...

Flowers, Peonies, White Boris Lavrenko (Rostov, 1920 – St. Petersburg, 2001) Works by Boris Lavrenko can be found in various private collections in Europe, Japan, United States and in the following museums: Moscow, Tret’jakov Gallery Moscow, The Ministry of Culture Collection Moscow, Central Museum of the Soviet Army St. Petersburg, Russian State Museum St. Petersburg, History Museum St. Petersburg, Repin Institute Museum Novgorod, Fine Arts Museum Ostrov, Contemporary Art Museum Rostov, Fine Arts Museum Pskov, Koustodiev Gallery Kostroma, Contemporary Soviet Art...

Portrait of an Elegant Lady original pencil drawing on paper by Marjorie Schiele (1913-2008) *see notes below signed piece of paper is 8 x 6 inches In good condition, though with min...

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...

"Sunbathing Lady" by Maurice Mazeilie (French) watercolour painting on paper, unframed double sided painting: 4.25 x 6.75 inches A delightful original oil painting by the 20th cent...

"It Happened This Way" Surrealist Pop Art in Acrylic on Canvas Vibrant, expressive composition by T. Scott Stromberg (American, b. 1964). This piece is laden with symbolism and pers...

Portrait of a Lady, Black Dress and Pearl Necklace circa 1970's oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 36 x 24 inches provenance: private collection, England condition: good and sound condi...

Decorative oil painting. View of the most famous Berlin streets. Unter den Linden and Friedrichstr. The painting shows a very busy scene (after the r...

The Flower Garden by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below oil painting on canvas unframed measures: 28.5 inches high by 34.5 inches wide condition: overall very good and ...

5011 Vintage street art acrylic and gold paint on canvas Signed Sari 74

Maritime Scene signed by Édouard Righetti (1924-2001) dated 1958 mounted in a card frame oil painted on artist paper, beautifully painted. very good condition framed: 20.5 x 29.5 in...

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...

French Character Portrait French school, Mid 20th Century Gouache paint on unframed paper stamped Image : 25.5 x 19.5 inches Superbly decorative 1960's French portrait painting. I...

Pacific Grove looking to Big Sur Ocean by Matola Crashing waves and Cypress Trees and a woman in the sun on the Pacific Grove to Big Sur Coast. Painted in 1983 by California artist n...

Artist/ School: French School, circa 1950. The style is a combination of Fauvism and Modernism. Title: Seated Young Lady. Medium: oil painting on thick hessian canvas. Size: p...

Work on wood Wooden frame with red velvet 38.7 x 53 x 2 cm This artwork depicts an urban scene, capturing a quiet street lined with buildings with simple, geometric architecture. V...

Honfleur Harbour French School, 20th century signed oil on canvas, framed signed verso framed: 20.5 x 23.5 inches canvas: 15 x 18 inches provenance: private collection, France condit...

Diana Kurz Red Chair, 1962 Signed, titled, dated on verso Oil on canvas 53 x 41 1/2 inches Diana Kurz (born 1936) is an Austrian-born feminist painter. In 1938, Diana Kurz's family...

The couple  is an artwork attribuited to Edgar Stoebel (1909-2001).  81 x 54 cm; no frame. Oil painting on canvas. Good conditions! 

René GRUAU (1909-2004) "The Red Kiss" or "Rouge Baiser" Oil on canvas Signed with the monogram lower left Painted in 1989 DIMENSIONS : – 31 7/8 x 39 3/8 in. ...

Landscape is a modern artwork realized in the mid-20th Century by Giovanni Meroli (1890-1960). Mixed colored oil on canvas. Hand signed on the lower margin. Includes frame: 77 x 9...

Portrait of a Lady by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back oil painting on board, unframed measures: 9.75 high by 6 inches wide condition: o...

Mother & Child at a Beach on the West Coast of Ireland by 20th Century Irish Artist, Manson Blair. Presented in a high quality vintage gold frame with gre...

Enigmatic Portrait of a Veiled Figure French/ Japanese? Inscribed verso circa 1970's oil on canvas over mixed media surface, framed Framed: 52 x 26 inches Canvas: 51 x 35 inches Prov...

Signed figures in interior oil on canvas circa 1925 by sought after French impressionist painter Edouard Leon Cortes. This charming and nostalgic work depicts a family in a typical Breton kitchen scene. A lady is seated at the table while another slices a loaf of bread for a young girl. The view from the large window shows cottages in the distance and the last light of the day on the horizon as night falls. The light of an overhead oil burner illuminates the room. Signature: Signed lower left Dimensions: Framed: 30"x25" Unframed: 26"x21" Provenance: This work has been examined and authenticated by Mme. Nicole Verdier and will appear in Tome IV of the catalogue raisonne. An accompanying certificate from Mme. Verdier is available upon request at a charge of 960 EUR. Private French collection Edouard Leon Cortes, the son of the painter Antonio Cortès, was sent to the front during World War I to sketch enemy positions. In civilian life, his base was in Lagny in the former studio of Cavallo-Peduzzi. Although he travelled extensively in France. Notably in Normandy, Brittany, the Champagne region and Savoy...

Paris, rue des Solitaires, oil painting by Pierre Coquet Reference number F489 The painting is framed with a natural oak floated frame. 65 x 50 cm (70 x 55 cm frame included) This work is painted with oil on a paper that is laid on a board and placed in a made to measure wood strectcher. It is signed in the low right Paris is one of Pierre most important subjects. Pierre's Paris is always depicted in a grey atmosphere. Buildings are stylized but the city is recognizable with its typical grey galvanised steel and orange terracota chimneys. The composition here is a little atypical, as there is a certain symmetry between the top and bottom of the painting. You could almost turn it upside down, there's a kind of mirror effect. The support for the painting is a cardboard box salvaged from the art school where he taught (Corvisart-Paris). The students used it to protect their tables. Pierre kept them and painted on them, and we can see little drawings or annotations made by students who had fun scribbling on them. Provenance : Workshop of the artist (stamped and numbered on the back) About Pierre : Pierre Coquet (1926-2021) is a French painter who was born in Limas near Lyon, France. He entered the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Lyon in 1942 and followed the teaching of Antoine Chartres, Henri Vielly and René Chancrin...

Glücksburg Castle near Flensburg is an original modern artwork realized in the first half of 20th Century Oil on hardboard. Hand signed "H. Th. Nöbbe" on the lower margin. Include...

Portrait of a Young Lady French Modernist artist, circa 1960's period signed oil on board, unframed Board: 21.5 x 15 inches Provenance: private collection, France Condition: very goo...

Bright, ocean-like, tropical colors in this abstract with fish in the style of Henri Matisse by D.S. Silver. One of a group of works, by D.S. Silver...

From the estate of Jerry Opper & Ruth Friedman Opper Black Floor c. 1940-1950's Gouache on Paper 15" x 18" Unframed *Custom framing available for additional charge. Please expect framing time between 3-5 weeks. From the estate of Ruth Friedmann Opper & Jerry Opper. Ruth was the daughter of Bauhaus artist, Gustav Friedmann. San Francisco Abstract Expression A free-spirited wave of creative energy swept through the San Francisco art community after World War II. Challenging accepted modes of painting, Abstract Expressionists produced highly experimental works that jolted the public out of its postwar complacency. Abstract Expressionism resulted from a broad collective impulse rather than the inspiration of a small band of New York artists. Documenting the interchanges between the East and West Coasts, she cites areas of mutual influence and shows the impact of San Francisco on the New York School, including artists such as Mark Rothko and Ad Reinhardt. San Francisco's Beat poets...

This artwork titled "Forest Bright, Humbolt" is an oil painting on masonite board by noted American artist Juan Archuleta, b.1948. It is signed at the l...

The painting is signed Sykes and dated 1960 lower right. It has "Maltby Sykes, 1911- for Leon" written on the stretcher verso It is a Surrealist Folk Art figure of an African woman oil painting...

"Naiades" French Modernist artist, circa 1950's The work is faintly monogrammed to the lower corner though hard to tell. There is a name verso but illegible - possibly the artist or ...

Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Hospitalities Long Past, 1941 Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower right 37 x 27 inches "Looking into store front windows has always i...

Signed figures in cityscape oil on canvas circa 1940 by sought after French impressionist painter Jules Rene Herve. The piece depicts a view of a crowded stall selling paintings besi...

The painting depicts a vibrant, sunlit coastal village in Rockport Massachusetts, set in the 20th Century, exuding a cheerful and nostalgic mood...

Original mid-century modern oil on canvas board painting of a woman with birds by the well known Russian/American artist Nahum Tschacbasov. Signed and ...

Nude Figure by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back pencil drawing on artist paper, unframed measures: 10 high by 8 inches wide condition: o...

The Costa Rican artist Francisco Zuniga (1912-1998) took, for a short while, drawing lessons at the Art School of San Jos, before he worked from 1928 to 1934 in his father's business...

Julien-Auguste HERVÉ (1854-1932) Toothache, circa 1900 Oil on canvas Signed "JULIEN HERVE" and dated lower right 61.5 x 50 cm Born in 1854 in Basse-Indre, Loire-Atlantique, Julien-A...

A whimsical modern figurative piece depicting a reclining woman with a black cat on a bright blue background by California artist Richard "Don" Klopfer (1920-2009). Signed on verso a...

5139 Portrait of a Rabbi in the city doing errands Framed Image size 15,5x19.5"

Nicolás Raurich Petre - Costa Brava - Oil on board Oil mesures 14x23 cm. Frame mesures 31x40 cm.

The Triumph of Bacchus, a large oil painting by Ferdinand Leeke Oil-on-canvas, German, 1918 Frame: height 175cm, width 227cm, depth 10cm Canvas: height...

Flower market in front of the Madeleine in Paris. Oil on canvas, 54x65 cm In this fascinating painting by artist Constantin Kluge You can view Paris. This city is famous with many t...

Acrylic on paper laid board. Frameless.

Lausanne signed by Regine David (female French artist, 1910-2018) oil painting on canvas, unframed measures: 18 x 13 inches condition: the painting is in very sound and presentable c...

Pierre Coquet - Still life with cherries Reference number F373 The painting is not framed but it could be with a painted black oak floater fra...

Presenting a magnificent early oil painting by American artist Robert McIntosh(1916-2010.) The Professor, is an original oil on paper, laid on panel, estate stamped, painted in 1935, currently unframed with an image dimension of 20 x 16 inches, beautiful original condition, acquired directly from the personal collection of the artist. This is among the earliest work of Robert McIntosh, painted in a master level classical style. Please contact our West Hollywood gallery...

Oil on canvas by Edouard Goerg (1893-1969), France, 1958. Life is always the same. Acquired in 2017 from the personal collection of Edouard Goerg. Measurements : with frame : 62.5x53.4 cm - 24.6x21 inches, without frame : 55x46 cm - 21.7x18.1 inches, format 10F. Signed "E.Goerg" (see photo). Preserved by the painter, then by his family since his death in 1969, this painting appeared in 2017. Entitled "Always life begins again", it is a crepuscular work. Testamentary one could say, so much the statement which is made there is definitive. The fact that he kept it until his death tends to consolidate this vision. Far from the empty looks and death faces of the rebellious era of sarcastic expressionism, the terrifying and compassionate testimony of the Spanish war, and the post-WWII flower women, we are dealing here with a a form of reasonable abdication, but honest. This idea that although everything changes, nothing changes. Changed times, actors, ideas, the same comedy occupies the society. Having given up the idea of ​​changing the latter, Goerg accepts the fact that the only alternative is to stay there or get lost. But stay afloat with his values, completely independent, whatever the cost is. This work is similar to La Vie Recommence of 1935, reproduced on page 54 of Gaston Diehl's book devoted to the painter (Éditions de Clermont, 1947). On the latter, the artist depicts his vision of life, from birth to death, made of hope, fear, cruelty, resignation and fatality. 23 years later, Toujours La Vie Recommence shows us the road traveled by the painter. It is no longer a matter of denunciation, but ultimately of acceptance of reality and the difficulty of staying there yourself. The admirer of Hieronymus Bosch gives us an inspired composition. The hand of God, the only expression of physical beauty in this work, comes down from heaven to give life. Symbolically, it holds an egg that dispenses the element from which the human protagonists find their birth, and in which they move and tangle more than they impose. Beautiful allegory of society. Four characters, two women and two men evolve in this societal marigot. The man in the foreground, ruddy face, evolves with ease. His body is supple, flexible, adaptable. The woman on the left observes him with admiration. Obviously, this man is in his place and causes rapture. The right man with massive shoulders and wrapped, shows a physical maladjustment to the activity he is doing. He struggles to stay afloat, his face expresses effort, even exhaustion. But he assumes. He does with what he has, with what he is. The other woman shows him the greatest indifference. What is not the case of the demonic archangel (recurrent in the works of Bosch) with the stunted body, who leads the dance and holds this character, we understand the painter, under his control as to have fun. As this character cannot change bodies, Goerg cannot change values. He does it with. Had he not said to the critic Roger Brielle: "Independents, sensitive and just men, that's what we must strive to stay in this world in disarray". Goerg will have come to narrative expressionism to give us a balance sheet allegory of his deep self and his condition. Édouard Goerg is one of the major artists of his generation. Coming from a Champagne family, he was born in Sidney, Australia, in 1893, during a professional stay of his father. After passing through London, he arrives in Paris at the age of seven. At twenty, between 1913 and 1914, he studieds painting at the Académie Ranson with Maurice Denis and Paul Sérusier. He travels to Italy and India. Mobilized in 1914, he is sent to Artois, then to Argonne. From 1920, he exhibits at the Salon des Independants, then at the Salon d'Automne where he joins with Laboureur. At Berthe Weil, in 1924, he participates in the exhibitions of the Gromaire group, a prelude to a series of exhibitions in Paris (Berthe Weill, Bernheim Jeune), as in Brussels (Le Centaure). Goerg illustrates books including Table of the beyond by F.Boutet. In 1928, he meets Paul Guillaume who exhibits his works in Boston and the Art Institute of Chicago. He continues to show his works, satires of the bourgeois manners, at Bernheim Jeune, then at Lucie Krogh. In 1934, he travels to Belgium and Holland where he paints surrealist paintings that will be exhibited at Jeanne Castel. In 1935-1936, he meets Aragon, who opened the doors of the houses of the cultures created by the Association of Writers and Revolutionary Artists. The Spanish war and the Second World War mark it deeply. He must protect his daughter and his Jewish women...

A charming oil study of a harbour with moored fishing boats. Unsigned. Well presented in a gilt composition frame with a laurel and berry running pattern. On canvas.

Expressive Abstract Landscape Painting of Ireland by Contemporary Irish Artist, Frank Fitzsimons Art measures 30 x 16 inches Frame measure 35 x 21 ...

This artwork "Market Scene" 1968 is an oil painting on canvas by noted Haitian artist Petion Savain, 1906-1973. It is signed and dated at the lower right...

Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...

"On Guard" Vintage Abstract Expressionist Heavy Impasto Figure Abstract expressionist figurative composition of a man in a button down shirt with a brimmed hat by California artist ...

Nude Female by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back pencil drawing on artist paper, unframed measures: 8 high by 10 inches wide condition: o...

Trawler boat off the Norfolk Coast - Vintage Oil Painting by British Artist Art measures 12 x 16 inches Frame measures. 13 x 17 inches A striking maritime scene rendered with bo...

Nicely painted early American impressionist view of Brooklyn and the Hudson River by Martin Petersen (1866 - 1956). Oil on board. Framed. Signed verso.