Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Swiss artist Edith Konrad paints figurative abstract compositions with mixed media on canvas. She layers her expression of her emotional response to the subjects with dynamic texture...

ink on rice paper

Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork. Signed lower right Vaclav Vytlacil (1892-1984) He was born to Czechoslovakian parents in 1892 in New York City. Living in C...

"Empowered Modesty," created by French artist Natalya Mougenot, is a compelling addition to her series dedicated to exploring themes related to women. The piece emphasizes the streng...

Body in the Field #10, 2023 oil on canvas 15 3/4 H x 11 13/16 W in. 40 H x 30 W cm Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body through the prism of the fra...

90.-Philip with his cats. 130 x. 130 cm original acrylic painting Born in Badalona (Barcelona). Photographer and advertising film director. Founding partner of the advertising produ...

This contemporary abstract expressionist painting with a touch of impressionism, created by French artist Natalya Mougenot, is titled "To Dream or Not to Dream". It stands as a strik...

acrylic on panel 14 x 11 in (35.56 x 27.94 cm)

Bay Area Abstract Expressionist Fauvist Oil on Paper Honora Berg Berkeley 1959 San Francisco Bay area abstract expressionist painting by Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985).A brilliant fauvist example of the melting pot of colors Honora Berg creates. Splashes of red over hues of blue with bright canary yellow swirls and patches. Estate stamp on verso "Estate of Honora Berg - Miller Fine Art" Unframed. 30"H x 22"W. Larry Miller 1958-2003, Larry was a specialist in bay area abstract artists and purchased numerous bay area artists estates. He purchased the entirety of the Honora Berg Estate and we purchased many of those works directly form Larry. Honora Berg, an Abstract Expressionist and Bay Area Figurative School artist, studied at the San Francisco Art Institute with David Park, Elmer Bischoff and James Budd Dixon...

Black music, 174x157 cm, oil on canvas

Big time Tom Waits, 180x125 cm, acrylic on canvas

City flowers, 100x160 cm, acrylic on canvas

I want to fly , 80x90 cm, oil on canvas

Dedication , 70x50 cm, oil on canvas

Evening mood , 60x60cm, oil on canvas

Red Valley

The Expulsion of Danae, 148x200 cm, oil on canvas

Stone Faces - Abstract Portrait in Acrylic on Textured Paper Abstract portrait by California-based artist Ricardo de Silva (Brazilian, 20th Century). Two faces are merged, overlappi...

"Nothing lasts forever, even our pains too" Folklore is a profound work from the Life in Circles series, delving into the richness of African proverbs, myths, riddles, and nighttime ...

“Algedomic” beautifully embodies the bittersweet coexistence of pleasure and pain, illustrating the delicate balance between joy and sorrow that defines our experiences. The vibrant ...

Dynamic and expressive Figurative, abstract expressionist composition by California artist "Aska" (20th Century). Colors swirl together in a controlled but chaotic manner. Patches of...

Superb period work from the 1960's era - very close in every respect to the later works by Pablo Picasso. The artwork is not signed but we believe it to be of French authorship. Pr...

Untitled figure on red and green acrylic on board. Professionally framed in floating black glossy frame. Painting is signed in front and back (back is now covered with paper after framing) Mike Rivero has been painting since an early age. His family moved to Spain from Cuba and later to the United States. Mike currently calls San Pedro California home. Inside the studio with Mike Rivero has been quite an experience; Mike not only enjoys painting, but is also a personable artist who enjoys sharing the knowledge of art that he has acquired over the years. Mike was born with a natural affinity to be an artist, continuing to paint over time, and later studying with private mentors. Mike is inspired by the Bay Area...

Title: The Blue Picnic Blanket Figurative Contemplate Male Masculine Gentle Kind Colorful Flowers Blossom Pink Blue THE BLUE PICNIC BLANKET celebrates the quiet times, happy mome...

Body in the Field #12, 2023 oil on canvas 15 3/4 H x 11 13/16 W in. 40 H x 30 W cm Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body through the prism of the fra...

Body in the Field #13, 2023 oil on canvas 15 3/4 H x 11 13/16 W in. 40 H x 30 W cm Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body through the prism of the fra...

Jouska is an introspective artwork that explores the universal experience of replaying and reimagining past conversations, searching for control over moments that are inherently unco...

Swiss artist Edith Konrad paints figurative abstract compositions with mixed media on canvas. She layers her expression of her emotional response to the subjects with dynamic texture...

Body in the Field #5, 2023 oil on canvas 55 1/8 H x 39 3/8 W in. 140 H x 100 W cm Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body through the prism of the frag...

pastel on paper

Abstract expressionist painting depicting a figurative girl in full party mode by Bay Area figurative artist Carol Bowie (American, 20th C). The figure is made up of multicolored ab...

This piece is an abstract composition done with mixed media, oil and acrylic paints on linen. The artist explores an incredible world filled with color and expressive brush strokes. ...

shipped in roll Kseniya Rai is an artist whose work is devoted to the pursuit of inner peace and positive energy in an ever-changing world. Through her art, she seeks to convey a se...

Alek Gerber, Couple on a swing, acrylic on canvas, thick layers of paint, figurative work,Tenderness, Israeli artist, Israeli art, bright colors

Incredible modern art, created from combining laser kinetics with sound to create powerful patterns.

Dan McCaw's (US based) "Waiting" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an abstracted figure in an interior setting. Artist Statement: Born: 1942 A solid foundation o...

23.-Woman over green 100 x 130 cm acrylic painting Born in Badalona (Barcelona). Photographer and advertising film director. Founding partner of the advertising production company ...

Born of his love of the Indian subcontinent Paul Wadsworth created this series of paintings. The canvasses are lavishly painted and imbued with the myriad of colours one associates w...

Red, White, and Purple - Abstract Figurative Composition in Acrylic on Paper A bold abstract painting by California-based artist, Ricardo de Silva (American/Brazil, 20th C). Recurri...

pastel on paper

Title: Sakura Hanami Vibrant Portrait Flowers Abundance Exclusive Blossom Connected Soulful Bird Blue Pink This large and exclusive portrait acts as an invitation to join her in t...

This artwork makes part of my new period in my artistic expression. This painting dedicated to "Women" series is a special one since it is all about my strong deep personal transfor...

Richard Andres (American, 1927-2013) Interior, 1976 acrylic on canvas signed lower right, signed and titled verso 50 x 59.5 inches Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1950, he was immediately drafted and served for two years in the army as a mural painter. He received his Master of Arts from Kent State in 1961. A frequent exhibitor at galleries and museums and winner of multiple May Show prizes, Andres taught art in the Cleveland Public Schools for 28 years, as well as teaching the University of Buffalo, the Cleveland Institute of Art and the Western Reserve University. Very little in Richard Andres’ childhood would have predicted his love of classical music, mid-century-modern architecture and certainly not his lifelong passion for art and in particular abstract art. Richard’s father, Raymond, had no more than a third-grade education, and his mother, Clara, was one of thirteen children – only three of whom lived into adulthood and none of whom attended high school. They lived, when Richard was a boy, in a dingy area of Buffalo, NY in a walk-up apartment situated above a tavern. Raymond and Clara supplemented the income from their factory jobs in the bar downstairs with Raymond playing ragtime on the piano and Clara serving drinks. This often left Richard and his two older brothers at home alone to fend for themselves. The two older boys, Raymond and Russell, were - unlike Richard- rather rough and tumble and entertained themselves with stickball, boxing and the like. Richard, on the other hand, from a very young age liked to draw, or better yet even, to paint with the small set of watercolors he received for Christmas one year. Paper, however, at the height of the depression, was hard to come by. Luckily, Clara used paper doilies as decoration for the apartment and Richard would contentedly paint and then cut up doilies, gluing the pieces together to create collages. At eight-years-old, he discovered the Albright-Knox Museum (then known as the Albright Art Gallery) and spent several hours a week there studying the paintings. He was particularly fond of Charles Burchfield‘s landscapes, enamored with their ‘messiness’ and thinking that they somehow captured more ‘feeling’ than works he was previously familiar with. For his tenth Christmas, he asked for and received a ‘how-to’ paint book by Elliot O’Hare. Through this self-teaching, he assembled the portfolio needed for acceptance to Buffalo Technical High School where he studied Advertising Arts. In his Junior year, he was encouraged to enter a watercolor painting, “Two Barns,” in the national 1944-45 Ingersoll Art Award Contest and was one of twelve grand prize winners – each one winning one hundred dollars. More importantly the painting was exhibited at the Carnegie Institute Galleries, which resulted in his winning a national scholarship to the Cleveland School of Art (The Cleveland Art Institute). He flourished at the art school under the tutelage of faculty members such as Carl Gaertner, as well as that of visiting artists such as William Sommer and Henry George Keller. He would say in later years that Gaertner, in particular, influenced his attitude toward life as well as art. “Gaertner,” Andres said, “believed that there was no need to be a ‘tortured artist’, that an artist should rather enjoy beauty, family, and life in general.” Free to spend his days as he chose, he wandered the Cleveland Art Museum for most of the hours he was not attending classes or painting; the remaining time was spent drinking coffee at a local hangout with art school friends – which is where he met fellow Henry Keller scholarship winner, Avis Johnson. Richard was immediately smitten with Avis, but being rather shy, it took him the entire summer of 1948 to build up his courage to ask her out. Over that summer he ‘thought about Avis’ and worked in a diner to save money. He also used the hundred-dollar prize money won in High School to visit the first Max Beckmann retrospective in the United States at the City Art Museum in St. Louis. Over a half century later he spoke of that exhibit with a reverence usually reserved for spiritual matters, “I walked in and it was like nothing I had ever seen before... the color...It just glowed.” Returning to campus in the Fall, the first thing he did was go to the coffee shop in hopes of finding Avis. He did, and she, upon seeing him, realized that she was also smitten with him. They quickly became known as ‘the couple’ on campus, and a year later, with Richard being drafted for the Korean war, they were quickly married by a Justice of the Peace, celebrating after with family at Avis’s Cleveland home. As a gift, faculty member John Paul Miller...

"Sensitivity" is a contemporary, expressive figurative acrylic painting depicting a woman by French artist Natalya Mougenot, marking an important shift in her creative journey. As pa...

“You & Me” tells a story that belongs to someone — perhaps to those who once shared quiet afternoons by the water, where time seemed to pause. These four paintings capture fragments ...

Born of his love of the Indian subcontinent Paul Wadsworth created this series of paintings. The canvasses are lavishly painted and imbued with the myriad of colours one associates w...

Solar Holidays Series , 120x65 cm, oil on canvas

Solar Holidays Series , 120x65 cm, oil on canvas

reed , 120x45 cm, oil on canvas

Sleep of the mind , 200x72 cm, oil on canvas

Hecate. Mother , 140x90 cm, oil on canvas

Hecate. The Old Woman , 90х190 cm, oil on canvas

Way , 90х172 cm, oil on canvas

Mágoa, a deeply emotive artwork, captures the essence of enduring heartbreak. The subject, with their back turned to a looming suicide tree, conveys a sense of loss and lingering sor...

"Ricardo" - Abstract Expressionist Self Portrait in Acrylic on Paper Expressive self-portrait by Ricardo de Silva (American/Brazil, 20th C). This piece is fluid and free, using dyna...

The Three Pipers. Large Contemporary Triptych A riotous explosion of colour leaps from this large contemporary canvas. A swirling vibrant cloud of colours are in synchronicity with ...

Large Scale Bay Area Figurative Inspired -- The Young Trumpet Player Compelling Bay Area Figurative Movement inspired painting of a young trumpet player, circa 1990. Unsigned. Unframed. The Bay Area Figurative Movement (also known as the Bay Area Figurative School, Bay Area Figurative Art, Bay Area Figuration, and similar variations) was a mid-20th Century art movement made up of a group of artists in the San Francisco Bay Area who abandoned working in the prevailing style of Abstract Expressionism in favor of a return to figuration in painting during the 1950s and onward into the 1960s. Spanning two decades, this art movement is often broken down into three groups, or generations: the First Generation, the Bridge Generation, and the Second Generation. Many of the "First Generation" artists in this movement were avid fans of Abstract Expressionism, and worked in that manner, until several of them abandoned non-objective painting in favor of working with the figure. Among these First Generation Bay Area Figurative School artists were: David Park, Richard Diebenkorn, Rex Ashlock, Elmer Bischoff, Glenn Wessels, Wayne Thiebaud, Raimonds Staprans, and James Weeks. The "Bridge Generation" included the artists: Henrietta Berk, Nathan Oliveira, Theophilus Brown, Paul Wonner, Roland Petersen, John Hultberg, and Frank Lobdell. Many "Second Generation" artists of this movement studied under the First Generation artists, or were late starters. Among these Second Generation artists were: Bruce McGaw, Henry Villierme...

Joseph Glasco (American, 1925-1996) Seated Male, 1969 Ink on paper Signed and dated lower right 25 x 19.5 inches 27.5 x 22 inches, framed Joseph Glasco was born in Paul’s Valley, Okl...

This artwork Together we are stronger " features three abstract figures standing against a dynamic, impressionistic background. The figures are rendered with broad, sweeping brush...

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...