Contemporary Figurative Paintings
CONTEMPORARY STYLE
Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.
Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.
The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.
Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.
Find a collection of Contemporary prints, photography, paintings, sculptures and other art on 1stDibs.
Style: Contemporary
Color: Brown
Oranges - Oil Paint by Elena Mardashova - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
Original oil painting 'Oranges' on canvas 70 x 50 cm, 2023.
Excellent conditions.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Spring", 100cm
Located in Yerevan, AM
My goal is to make the images of classical art sound in a new way in modern
art. In my works I refer to the cultural heritage of the past,
I process and comprehend the masterpieces o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Emotional Cabbage
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Art is and has always been at the very center of my life. In creating I find communication and connection with others that surpasses any barrier or boundary. Through imagery, I can c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Abstraction. Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting, Colorful, Dynamic, Polish art
By Monika Rossa
Located in Warsaw, PL
Abstract painting by Polish artist living in USA Monika Rossa. Painting in style of gestural abstraction with dynamic brush strokes and shapes. Main color is red balanced by yellow a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Derviche II” Painting in Glass Frame 31" x 31" inch by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné
Located in Culver City, CA
"Derviche II” Painting in Glass Frame 31" x 31" inch by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné
Katherine Bakhoum represents art that has been forgotten for a long while. She draws upon the concept...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Glass, Mixed Media
Turned Into a Cat by the Witches Council
By Josh George
Located in Columbia, MO
Turned Into a Cat by the Witches Council
Mixed media on panel
7 x 5
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil
Crowd with Straw Ramparts (Triptych)
By Judith Berry
Located in Montreal, Quebec
The artist thinks of their paintings primarily as landscapes. Lately, these landscapes have taken on a more manufactured feel rather than organic. At first glance, the subjects may a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
The Weight of My Face
By Judith Berry
Located in Montreal, Quebec
The artist thinks of their paintings primarily as landscapes. Lately, these landscapes have taken on a more manufactured feel rather than organic. At first glance, the subjects may a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
French Contemporary Art by Caroline de Piedoue - Cruche, Raisin & Mangue
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic on canvas
Caroline de Piedoue is a French artist born in 1954 who lives & works in Berchères-sur-Vesgre, Eure-et-Loire, France. Her theme of her paintings is largely urban b...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Cringe
By João Cardoso
Located in MADRID, ES
With thoughts on 21st century humans and their future, João Cardoso concludes that technology brings tools for two extremes. Thus, technology, as a much needed tool to explore new me...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Felt Pen
Still Life with Palette and Books - Oil on Canvas - 1969
Located in Roma, IT
Still life with palette and books is an artwork realized by an unknown artist in 1969.
Oil on canvas.
Handisgned and dated in the lower right margin.
47 x 66,5 cm ; 58,5 x 78 cm ...
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Peace of Mind" Painting 31.5" x 31.5" inch by Karim Abd Elmalak
Located in Culver City, CA
"Peace of Mind" Painting 31.5" x 31.5" inch by Karim Abd Elmalak
Karim Abdel Malak's layered multi-media works are influenced by the old masters.
A...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Mixed Media, Oil
Soy capitan Carole Fontana Contemporary painting art flower plant garden colour
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas
Hand-signed and dated by the artist lower left
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Georgian Contemporary Art by Irakli Chikovani - Notre-Dame de Paris
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Irakli Chikovani is a Georgian artist born in 1985 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. In 2010, he was graduated from Tbilisi State Academy. He is member in 2010 of Artists Union of Georgia. He exhibited in many places in Georgia as the Tbilisi National Conservatory, Signani Art Festival, Georgian Art Palace, the MOMA, Didube Plaza, Chateau Mukhrani in Mtskheta, Adjara Museum in Batumi or Hotel Rooms in Tbilisi but also in New York, USA at Emmanuel Fremin Gallery...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Baby Pollock - Oil on Canvas by Mark Kostabi - 1989
By Mark Kostabi
Located in Roma, IT
Baby Pollock is an artwork by Mark Kostabi in 1989.
Mixed Media on Canvas.
cm. 24x30.
Good conditions!
Mark Kostabi (Los Angeles, November 27, 1960) is an American painter a...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Contemporary Art by Danielle Launay - Village en Hiver
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed media on canvas
Danielle Launay is a French artist born in 1954 who lives and works in Paris, France. She started to work in the world of photography by working for L’Oréal as...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
French Contemporary Art by Danielle Launay - Trio Zen
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed media on canvas
Each 61 x 38
Danielle Launay is a French artist born in 1954 who lives and works in Paris, France. She started to work in the world of photography by working f...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
French Contemporary Art by Danielle Launay - Zen
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed media on canvas
Danielle Launay is a French artist born in 1954 who lives and works in Paris, France. She started to work in the world of photography by working for L’Oréal as...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Still Life with Glass and Porcelain - Oil Painting by Paul Walter Erhardt - 1920
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life with Glass and Porcelain is an artwork realized by Paul Walter Erhardt (1872-1959).
Oil on canvas, signed upper right.
60 x 75 cm, f...
Category
1920s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Nuts and Bolts
Located in London, GB
Oil on board, signed (lower left), 40cm x 56cm, (51cm x 67cm framed). The picture is good condition and the work comes directly from the artist.
Painter, draughtsman and teacher, b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Large Latin American Modernist Oil Paintng Women with Fruit
By Alexis Duque
Located in Surfside, FL
depicting two women, deshabille, partially nude with tropical fruit. surrealist.
Alexis Duque
Imaginatively charting the psychological experience of space, Alexis Duque produces pai...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
At the crossroads, 100x120cm
Located in Yerevan, AM
At the crossroads
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life - Oil on Table by Ernesto Alcide Campestrini - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is an artwork realized by Ernesto Alcide Campestrini (1897-1983).
Oil on Table.
cm 50x60; 55 x 66 cm with frame.
Hand signed in the lower left margin.
Good condition.
Alcide Ernesto Campestrini was born in Milan, where the family had moved in 1897.
After the first rudiments of art with his father, from 1914 he was a student at the Brera Academy in Milan, under the guidance of Ambrogio Antonio Alciati.
In 1919 he resumed his painting studies in Brera, interrupted by enlistment. He concluded them in 1922, the year in which he obtained his teaching qualification.
He lived in Milan and in 1923 he exhibited Smiles of other times at the Palazzo della Società per le Belle Arti and Permanent Exhibition: the so-called Brera Biennale, at the following one in 1925, presented with Ultime note and El disperados.
In 1926 he exhibited Porta Volta, at the First Art Exhibition of Milanese Artists organized by the Meneghina family, the contemporary Self-Portrait is one of the first works by him that we know so far today.
He devoted himself to still life, figure painting and the alpine landscape, the Trentino one in particular, with a technique linked to his father's school and to the late nineteenth-century tradition.
He held several personal exhibitions in Milan. The Campestrini family spends their holidays in Valsugana several times, sometimes as guests of Emma Campestrini's relatives.
The painter falls in love with Lake Caldonazzo, depicted several times in his canvases, such as in the 1949 painting...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Chinese Contemporary Art by Wang Dianyu - Dog 2
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Wang Dianyu is a Chinese male artist born in 1983 who lives and works in Beijing, China. He is a bachelor of Oil Painting Department at Minzu University of China. Betw...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Gormley's Dog, Anthony Gormley Style Print, Animal Art, Famous Artist's Dog
Located in Deddington, GB
Gormley’s Dog is a limited edition etching by Mychael Barratt.
Additional information:
Mychael Barratt Gormley’s Dog
Limited Edititon
Print Edition of 100.
Image size: H 22 x W 22 c...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Etching, Paper
Fly agaric collects ripe people, 80x60cm
Located in Yerevan, AM
Fly agaric collects ripe people, 80x60cm
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Abstract Rusted Metal Composition "Red Matisse Study"
Located in Cape Town, ZA
Mark Hilltout has always been drawn to the random, the discarded and the broken. Car dumps fascinate him - he is attracted to the broken edge, not the perfectly straight line. For th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Metal, Steel, Iron
Jimbo Jump - Paint by Sergio Barletta - 1991
Located in Roma, IT
Jimbo Jump is a painting artwork, realized by Sergio Barletta in 1992.
Tempera and white lead on cardboard.
Hand-signed, titled, and dated on the lower.
Good conditions.
Sergio...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Georgian Contemporary Art by Keti Shapatava - Untitled 6
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Keti Shapatava is a Georgian artist born in 1995 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. She was introduced to the world of art at Anastasia Virseladze Art Gymnasium ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still life of Flowers in Cases - Oil on Canvas by G. Salvini - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
"Still life of flowers in vases" is the artwork realized by Giuseppe Salvini.
Oil painting on canvas 70 x 100 cm, frame included 92 x 122 cm.
Signed lower right G. Salvini.
Good...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Blossom Lights, pink and green art, forest art, tree art, affordable art
Located in Deddington, GB
Amanda Horvath, painter, is available for sale online and in our art gallery at Wychwood Art. Amanda Horvath is a contemporary artist who is influenced by the woods and moors of her ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Tenby Shadows, Eleanor Woolley, Figurative Painting, Seaside Art, Beach Painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Tenby Shadows by Eleanor Woolley [November 2022]
Tenby Shadows is an Original Painting by Eleanor Woolley. Inspired by this Summer's visit to Tenby. Looking down onto the beach from the roadway above. The beach is dotted with bathers, their long shadows appear bigger than they are.
Additional information:
Original
Oil Paint on Canvas
Image size: H:15 cm x W:15 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:15 cm x W:15 cm x D:2 cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look
Eleanor Woolley was born in the Channel Island of Jersey, and moved to Gloucestershire where she was drawn to the outdoors, always taking walks in the landscape. Her first true love for painting came from an inspirational Art...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Loch Levan, landscape art, affordable art, original painting, Scotland art
Located in Deddington, GB
Loch Levan [May 2023]
original
Oil Paint on Canvas
Image size: H:100 cm x W:100 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:100 cm x W:100 cm x D:2cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that insitu i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
David Hostetler Oil Painting Colorful Group Figurative People Anasazi Indian
Located in Nantucket, MA
David was inspired by the Anasazi petroglyphs with these shapes of the figures in this painting. It is an oil painting on Masonite. The frame is black wood- a shadow box concept. The...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Returning - detailed, textured, figurative, mixed media, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Simply gorgeous! Three canoe-shaped vessels appear to traverse the canvas in this recent series of enigmatic works by Heather Allen Hietala. The natural earthy colour palette of her ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Sailing Away
Located in Miami, FL
My intense passion and extreme love of life is the foundation of my creativity. Elation, contentment and ultimate satisfaction are the feelings I experience when reaching the comp...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Epoxy Resin, Acrylic
Still Life with Calla Lily - Oil on canvas by Ugo Celada da Virgilio - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Still life with Calla Lily is an oil painting on masonite realized by Ugo Celada da Virgilio.
Hand-signed on the lower left.
Provenance: Galerie Sigfrid O...
Category
1940s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Healer Also Needs Healing II
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Healer Also Needs Healing" is an evocative portrait that invites viewers to explore the inner world of the subject. The woman depicted exudes a sense of strength and serenity, her e...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Die liebe Katze
Located in New Orleans, LA
STARSKY BRINE’s paintings and drawings captivate audiences with their distinctive style and a recurring theme, the search for the nature of humanity. In his bold works, the artist focuses on characters that are built from a combination of anthropomorphic and zoomorphic features, as well as the appropriation of elements from comics and toys from his childhood.
On the one hand, these characters distort reality to venture into an environment of subcultures and urbanism created by the spontaneous intuition of his strokes and the appropriation of the contemporary iconography. On the other hand, they move within the realm of fantasy. In particular, the animals paired with their human characters evoke associations with fairy tales or comics. They are reminiscent of the world of theatre, in which fantasy and poetry but also comedy often serve as catalysts for the creation of critical meaning.
With his works, Brines often questions the interplay of good and evil against the background of the worldwide socio-political climate. Yet Brines does not interpret his themes as ‘black and white.’ They are complex and nonlinear, with charming disruptions, quite serious and yet full of humor.
Brines is personally influenced by his mother and art historically influenced by Latin American figurative art, the German Neoexpressionism, the Italian Transavantgarde, and the COBRA group. His works oscillate between figuration and abstraction. Brines holds a degree in Fine Art from the Instituto Universitario de Estudios Superiores de Artes Plásticas Armando Reverón...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Ride
By Amanda Brown
Located in New Orleans, LA
Amanda Joy Brown is a visual artist and educator based in Nashville, TN. Brown earned her MFA in the painting program at the Savannah College of Art and Design. During her time there...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Our Easy, Mixed Media OIl on Canvas by Beth Park-Field
Located in Pasadena, CA
Mixed media on canvas, framed.
EXcondition
Exploring the common properties of shaping, firing, and glazing clay along with creating collage works with encaustic medium and acrylic has inspired Beth Field to create a wide range of creative pieces.
She draws on her love for color, pattern, and old things of all kinds to craft individual pieces that carry an echo of another time and place.
Beth Fields has followed a wandering path before finding her heart home in McKinney, TX.
After growing up in the North Dallas suburbs, Beth received a BA from Eugene Lang College in NYC, NY and a MEd from Boston College...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Photographic Paper
Golden Days, Contemporary Landscape painting, Impressionist Style Rural Art
Located in Deddington, GB
A celebration of the long, lazy days of late summer, when the early summer greens have muted, and the the wheat and the stubble fields glow a wonderful gold. Framed in a bespoke, han...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Baby Steps"
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Mike Carson is a Minneapolis painter, and graduate of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, whose artwork can be found in private and corporate colle...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Leyli, 150x110cm
Located in Yerevan, AM
Leyli, 150x110cm
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Sagittarius" zodiac, astrology sign, myth, centaur, bright figurative painting
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Sagittarius" (2017) by Clarence Rich
Acrylic on canvas
Zodiac sign, astrology art, figurative centaur image
Vertical orientation, measures 36" H x 24...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Nap Series Two, Interior, Figure Napping On Blue Couch, Black Dog, Green Room
By Mary Tooley Parker
Located in Kent, CT
In this hooked rug tapestry, a quiet and inviting interior scene depicts a male figure in a black T-shirt napping, wrapped in an ivory blanket on a striped blue couch. Just as peaceful as the man, a small black dog snoozes on top of its owner. The color of the couch is offset by vibrant green walls and pink...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tapestry
French Contemporary Art by Alexandre Akar - Home Working
Located in Paris, IDF
Alexandre Akar is a French artist born in 1961 who lives & works in Gennevilliers, France.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
French Contemporary Art by Alexandre Akar - Pink Mobile
Located in Paris, IDF
Alexandre Akar is a French artist born in 1961 who lives & works in Gennevilliers, France.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Playing Under A Tree
Located in Singapore, SG
A picture of the innocence of village children playing under a tree. Their happiness is simple, they don't need gadgets and internet connection, just trees and friends.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Dinner With Family
Located in Singapore, SG
A harmonious family always eats together at the dining table, especially supper as it is an important moment where each family member shares stories about their day.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The Space of Happiness
Located in Singapore, SG
There are certain public spaces where people can come and carry out various activities to refresh and unwind. Starting from children playing with toys, people dressing up in superher...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Russian Contemporary Art by Anna Bukhareva - Prisosalis, Suki
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on board
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Russian Contemporary Art by Anna Bukhareva - Free Willy
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on board
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Russian Contemporary Art by Anna Bukhareva - I Don't Bite
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on board
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Red Drapery” Oil Painting 53" x 27.5" inch by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné
Located in Culver City, CA
"Red Drapery” Oil Painting 53" x 27.5" inch by Katherine Bakhoum Tisné
Katherine Bakhoum represents art that has been forgotten for a long while. She draws upon the concept and the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Feast and Chaos' Large Original Painting on Canvas by Artist Fahri Aldin- 1950
By Fahri Aldin
Located in Belleville, CA
A Fabulous, large, Original painting on canvas by Canadian artist Fahri Aldin. This One of a Kind Masterpiece measures an impressive 78 x 87 inches or 198 x 221 centimetres. It is s...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Coating, Varnish, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Fruitier d'Azur 7
Located in New York, NY
This work is a unique piece. It is a gilded oil painting on linen canvas with 12 carat gold leaf.
CS Art comprises of two artists, one French, the other Norwegian. They have been p...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold, Silver, Foil, Gold Leaf
Untitled, Acrylic on Canvas, Orange, Brown Contemporary Indian Artist “In Stock”
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Rahim Mirza - Untitled
Acrylic on Canvas, 12 x 12 inches (unframed size)
Born in 1969, Rahim Mirza completed his art education at Bharat Bhavan in Bhopal, where he studied printmaki...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Contemporary figurative paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Contemporary figurative paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add figurative paintings created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, purple, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including America Martin, Alexandru Rădvan, Sax Berlin, and Adam Mysock. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Fabric and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Contemporary figurative paintings, so small editions measuring 0.75 inches across are also available. Prices for figurative paintings made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $13 and tops out at $254,827, while the average work sells for $3,411.