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Expressionist Figurative Paintings

EXPRESSIONIST STYLE

While “expressionist” is used to describe any art that avoids naturalism and instead employs a bold use of flattened forms and intense brushwork, Expressionist art formally describes early-20th-century work from Europe that drew on Symbolism and confronted issues such as urbanization and capitalism. Expressionist artists experimented in paintings and prints with skewed perspectives, abstraction and unconventional, bright colors to portray how isolating and anxious the world felt rather than how it appeared. 

Between 1905 and 1920, Austrian and German artists, in particular, were inspired by Postimpressionists such as Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh in their efforts to strive for a new authenticity in their work. In its geometric patterns and decorative details, Expressionist art was also marked by eclectic sources like German and Russian folk art as well as tribal art from Africa and Oceania, which the movement’s practitioners witnessed at museums and world’s fairs.

Groups of artists came together to share and promote the themes now associated with Expressionism, such as Die Brücke (The Bridge) in Dresden, which included Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and investigated alienation and the dissolution of society in vivid color. In Munich, Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a group led by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, instilled Expressionism with a search for spiritual truths. In his iconic painting The Scream, prolific Norwegian painter Edvard Munch conveyed emotional turmoil through his depiction of environmental elements, such as the threatening sky.

Expressionism shifted around the outbreak of World War I, with artists using more elements of the grotesque in reaction to the escalation of unrest and violence. Printmaking was especially popular, as it allowed artists to widely disseminate works that grappled with social and political issues amid this time of upheaval. Although the art movement ended with the rise of Nazi Germany, where Expressionist creators were labeled “degenerate,” the radical ideas of these artists would influence Neo-Expressionism that emerged in the late 1970s with painters like Jean-Michel Basquiat and Francesco Clemente.

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Item Ships From: USA
Style: Expressionist
'Museum Musings #3 After Frida, ' Josette Simon-Gestin, Acrylic Painting
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
In this 19.625" x 19.75" acrylic on canvas painting by Josette Simon-Gestin, 'Museum Musings #3 After Frida,' features two young women playfully engaged ...
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Large Israeli Expressionist Orientalist Oil Painting Draped Child Kibbutz Art
Located in Surfside, FL
William (Sunny) Weintraub, Israeli (Born 1926) Oil on masonite William Weintraub (He was also known as Shlomo Weintraub and nicknamed Sonny Weintraub) Genre: Impressionist Subject: Portrait Medium: Oil Surface: Canvas Dimensions: framed 24 X 32.5 canvas 19 X 27 In an ever-changing art world that embraces one movement after the next, the timeless art of portraiture can become lost. Portraiture is often associated with the royal paintings of centuries-old French kings, European nobility, and other wealthy individuals from art history's past. However, styles like Social Realism and Dutch genre painting spotlighted...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Board

After Icarus, ghostly floating figure, black w orange, blue nude
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on canvas ABOUT the artist: Audrey Frank Anastasi is a prolific feminist artist, working in painting, drawing, collage, mixed media, & printmaking. She is also curator, gallerist, educator and arts advocate. Most of Ms. Anastasi's figurative works are painted with her non-dominant left hand. She has created large bodies of works of birds, animals and birch trees. She has had 20 solo & 200 group shows. Her "ref-u-gee" series will be shown in 2020 at Medgar Evers College in collaboration with the Valentine Museum of Art, Brooklyn. Accompanying the show will be a limited-edition monograph w/ over 180 images and a foreword by Phyllis Braff. Ms. Anastasi's collage series was exhibited at Welancora Gallery, Brooklyn, in May, 2019. In 2018, ten paintings were exhibited in "Painting to Survive," curated by Yale critic Jonathan Weinberg. Book and catalog publications include "Stations of the Cross", SPQR press, BREUCKELEN magazine, “Audrey Frank Anastasi”, catalog essay Cindy Nemser, and "Collage," essay by Giancarlo T. Roma. Public art includes a portrait of Jo Davidson...
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

'Grand Canal, Venice', School of Paris, Musee D'Orsay, Toulouse-Lautrec Museum
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left "d'Anty" for Henry d'Anty (French, 1910-1998), titled verso "La Gondole" (The Gondola) and painted circa 1955. A vibrant view of the Grand Canal painted alla prima...
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1950s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Woman with Candle, Oil Painting by Branko Bahunek
Located in Long Island City, NY
Woman with Candle by Branko Bahunek, Croatian (1935) Date: 1992 Oil on Canvas, signed Size: 21 in. x 18 in. (53.34 cm x 45.72 cm) Frame Size: 25 x 22 inches
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1990s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

'Young Man in Repose' by Podlach - Large Figurative Nude Young Man Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
"Man in Repose" is a captivating painting by Betsy Podlach that effortlessly captures a serene and tranquil moment. The artwork portrays a nude, young, and handsome man with closed e...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Boxing Ring. Boxed Knocked to Floor with 10 Count, Red and Black, Esquire Mag
Located in Miami, FL
Illustration legend Bob Peak depicts a boxer that has fallen to the matt and is being given the 10-count by the referee. Peak captures that peak moment of drama and then exaggerates...
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1960s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Untitled Original Figurative Young Women With Black Robe Chinese Art Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
Artist Duan Z. Born in 1955 in Yunnan, renowned Chinese Opera Figure Painter, Educator, Playwright and Producer. Mr. Duan serves as Director of Chinese...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Pigment

Attributed To Benjamin Kopman "The Rabbi"
Located in San Francisco, CA
Benjamin Kopman: 1887-1965. Well listed artist born in Russia, but came to U.S. in 1903. He studied at the National Academy of Design in NYC. He has had auction results over $5000 bu...
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1960s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

20th Century Bucks County Colorful Landscape Painting, Italian artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Louis Bosa (American, 1905–1981) Bucks County, 1934 Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower right 17.5 x 21.5 inches 25.5 x 29 inches, framed Born in Codroipo, a small village only a f...
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1930s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

My Self
Located in West Hollywood, CA
We are proud to have discovered and now present a rare original self portrait by Austrian Expressionist artist, Franz Bergmann (1998-1977) "My Self", is an original oil on canvas, signed, c.1938, with an image dimension of 29 x 24 inches. The painting is in good original condition, the frame has been restored. A biography on the artist appears below, please contact the gallery with any question. Franz Bergmann 1898 - 1977 Franz Walter Bergmann was born on August 6, 1898, in Dimling, Austria, a town northwest of Vienna. His parents were both involved in the arts: his mother was a pianist, and his father was an amateur artist and a violinist. After serving in World War I for three years, he enrolled in the National Academy of Art in Vienna and embarked on a seven-year course of study, focusing on figure painting and portraiture. Although schooled in the academic tradition, Bergmann also adopted elements derived from the more avant-garde German Expressionist style. By 1924 he was exhibiting in Vienna and Stockholm. The following year, he graduated with honors. He left Vienna to tour Europe, and in early 1926 he traveled to the United States. After a brief stay in New York, he moved to Chicago, where he obtained a commission to paint murals for theaters owned by Balaban & Katz. That year his mural sketches were exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago. He then moved to New York, where he joined the staff of the noted Austrian architect and designer Josef Urban...
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1930s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Rooftops, Surrealist Oil Painting by Lucio Ranucci
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lucio Ranucci, Italian (1925 - ) Title: Rooftops Year: 1973 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.l. Size: 30 in. x 30 in. (76.2 cm x 76.2 cm) Frame Size: 37.5 x 37.5 inches
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1970s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Woman Looking Out Window, Oil Painting by Brank Bahunek
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Branko Bahunek, Croatian (1935 - ) Title: Woman Looking Out Window Year: 1991 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated l.r. Size: 25.5 in. x 21 ...
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1990s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Dense
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The painting is about a woman stuck still in time, statuesque and hard looking. The are many layers of strokes to build on the hardness of the figure...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

'Portrait Of An Old Woman' Contemporary, Natural, Oil/ Canvas By Leviathan
Located in Carmel, CA
David Leviathan, an Israeli born artist who worked mainly in Holland, is widely known amongst European art collectors. His works are exhibited in several museums in Holland and Fran...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Polish French Jewish Artist Oil Painting Girl with Doll, School of Paris Judaica
Located in Surfside, FL
Framed 27 X 24 inches Sight 18 X 15 inches Walter Spitzer (Polish/French, 1927 - ) born in Cieszyn, Poland. A Polish Jewish Holocaust survivor, he made his first drawings in a concentration camp. Walter Spitzer has lived and worked since WWII in France, where he studied at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris. Walter Spitzer has achieved great renown as a painter and printmaker. Whether in his paintings of Biblical subjects or in lithographs of Shtetl scenes, His humanity was inspired by the writings of Sartre, Montherlant and Kazantzakis, Walter Spitzer is occupied with two great, interlinked themes: man’s inhumanity to man, and the humanity of man. He will surely be recognized in the future as one of the great witnesses to the twentieth-century experience. Walter Spitzer was born in Chieszyn, Poland, the son of a Jewish liqueur producer, and attended the German school there. He began to draw and paint at an early age. In 1939 the Spitzer family was forcibly removed by the Germans to the town of Strzemieszyce, which was turned into a ghetto in 1942. When the ghetto was liquidated in June 1943 Spitzer’s mother was shot, and the sixteen-year-old Walter was deported to Blechhammer, a subcamp of Auschwitz. There he painted portraits of Wehrmacht soldiers and fellow inmates in exchange for food. He was one of the few to survive the evacuation march from Auschwitz to Buchenwald, where to begin with, in late February 1945, he was held in the Little Camp. To enable him to make drawings documenting life in the camp, the Communists organized his transfer to the main camp. While on a death march in early April he made his escape in the vicinity of Jena and was soon in the hands of the Americans. Spitzer served as an interpreter with an American army unit, and at the same time executed numerous drawings depicting the world of the camps. In June 1945 the Americans took him to Paris, where – following the advice of his father, who had died in 1940 – he began to study art at the École des Beaux-Arts in Par the following year. After completing his training as an artist he produced paintings expressing a critical view of the society of his day. In 1955, in commemoration of the camps and the death marches, he executed a cycle of nine etchings in an edition of thirty, which he gave to various museums in Israel and in France. In the 1960s he established himself as an illustrator of exclusive editions of works by such authors as André Malraux, Jean-Paul Sartre, Joseph Kessel and Nikos Kazantzakis. The Six-Day War prompted him to begin painting subjects from Jewish and Biblical history; At age 19, he was asked to make the scenery for the Edouard VII Theater in Paris, which was showing The Dibbuk of Ansky. In 1947 the same theater asked him to make the scenery for the Hill of Life ( Max Zveig). Spitzer has been a member of the Salon d'Automne since 1952. He was the last remaining survivor of the Montparnasse Ecole de Paris. A group of Jewish expats that included Issachar Ber Ryback, Abel Pann, Abraham Mintchine, Isaac Antcher, Alexandre Altmann, Henri Epstein, Mane Katz, Marcel Janco, Gregoire Michonze...
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1960s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Sand Pit Hungarian American Painting Workers Horses European Modernism 1928 WPA
Located in New York, NY
Sand Pit Hungarian American Oil Painting Workers Horses European Modernism 1928 WPA The board measure 10 3/4 x 15 1/2 inches. The work was painted in Hunga...
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1920s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

The Theory on Jazz History
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting is in excellent condition and has only been shown in a gallery setting. The painting measures 78" x 35" and 81"x 38" with frame. Known for his hyperrealist nudes and portraits, Jose Borrell captures both the human form and emotions. Transcending beyond mere documentation, Borrell transmits the personality and essence of his subjects. His latest series focuses on twentieth-century American jazz saxophonist Ben Webster, and true to Borrell's signature trait, the paintings transmit the vibrant energy of the acclaimed musician. Born in 1909 in Kansas City, Missouri, Ben Webster studied violin in elementary school and taught himself piano. In 1927-1928 he played for silent movies in Kansas City and in Amarillo, Texas. After a friend introduced him to basic chords on the saxophone, he devoted himself to the instrument and played with many emerging orchestras in the bustling 1930s Kansas City jazz...
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

20th century painting of monks in Venice, Italian pink figural work
Located in Beachwood, OH
Louis Bosa (Italian-American, 1905–1981) Island of the Monks, c. 1930 Oil on masonite Signed lower right 14 x 24 inches 23 x 33 inches, framed Born in Codroipo, a small village only...
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1930s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Les Vacances 1958 Family at the Beach - Large Expressionist Oil Painting canvas
By Paul Maas
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Provenance: Collection of the Artist Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Robert Warner, Washington, Connecticut Collection of the Washington Art Association, Inc. Private Collection, California...
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1950s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

'Massacre of Tlatelolco', Plaza de las Tres Culturas, Mexican Olympics, Rio MAM
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower center with artist monogram, 'B.S.' for Benjamin Silva (Brazilian, born 1927) and dated with roman numerals, 1968; additionally signed, verso, dated and titled. A dramatic and animated oil painting of a crowd scene showing the feared, mounted police of Mexico City in action against the students in the demonstrations of October 2nd that preceded the opening of the Mexican Olympic Games...
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1960s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Expressionist Painting Titled "Pushing Forward"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind expressionist oil portrait by San Diego artist, Charlene Mosley. It is painted on a circular wood panel. Its diameter is 22...
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Wood

Still Life with Blue Vase
Located in Lawrence, NY
Estate of artist. Russian-Jewish-American artist Nahum Tschacbasov (1899-1984) is known for his intriquing cubo-surrealistic-symbolist works which feature a strong psychological ele...
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1930s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Adhesive, Oil

After with Beagle Everywoman, protagonist, dog painting , feminine archetypes
Located in Houston, TX
Jeanie Tomanek: I don’t intentionally set out to make a calming painting, no, but I do try to have a sense of hope in my stories. I’m an optimist who believes there’s always some way...
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

"Taking a break" - Horizontal figure painting in black and warm colors.
Located in Miami, FL
"Taking a break" belongs to the series Waiting for God. A unique interpretation of Filcer's series of different religious leaders looking for and waitin...
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Masonite, Acrylic

The Game
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Painting is an oil on canvas, measuring 30" x 22". There is a lot of texture on this painting built up entirely of scraped and dried oil paint. This image is a dark one, showing a wo...
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Walking By The Sea
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Walking By The Sea. Nicola Simbari was born in Italy and grow up in Rome. He studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, and in the 1940s he began devoting himself to painting in a studio at Via del Babuino in central Rome. Simbari's early exposure to the architectural world had a lasting impression on his art, as he incorporated geometric forms and architectural structures into almost all of his paintings. He began to develop a distinct style stemming from impressions of life, nature, and the Mediterranean...
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1980s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Cotton Canvas, Oil

Surf N' Turf mermaid mythic figures interior food romantic undertones
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on canvas heavy duty stretcher bars .Framing recommended but not necessary. Signed and dated on reverse. Part of an ongoing series of mermaids by the artist.
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Early 2000s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

'Portrait of a Man' Contemporary Abstract Oil On canvas By Leviathan
Located in Carmel, CA
David Leviathan, is widely known amongst European art collectors. His works are exhibited in several museums in Holland and France. Leviathan's recent works touches the core of life. Indeed Leviathan's work is difficult to digest, it is affirmative and committed to a very great degree, "the whole truth and nothing but the truth." Leviathan is dealing with Abstract painting. White, green, yellow, or red canvases inhabit many layers of paint, imprisoning in them qualities of inner light. 'Portrait of a Man' oil on canvas by Leviathan Represented by American Art Gallery...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

French Israeli Surrealist Judaica Jewish Oil Painting Rabbi at Table, Bottle
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a small oil painting on on panel. A Rabbi at a Farbrengen 15.5 X 14.5 with frame. 6.5 X 5.5 painting alone Zwy Milshtein (Zvi Tzvi Milstein) BIOGRAPHY 1934 Born in Kishinev...
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20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Panel, Oil

Priest dark muted color somber religious subject figure human condition theme
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Although painted 10 years ago the artist feels it is an appropriate image for these troubled times.
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Gouache Painting Jules Pascin Hand Signed Woman in Boudoir German Expressionism
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: German Expressionist Subject: Woman Medium: gouache paint Surface: Paper board This is hand signed lower right. Framed it measures 17.25 X 15.5, sheet 12 X 10 This came from a Jewish estate. there was no additional paperwork or provenance. Julius Mordecai Pincas (March 31, 1885 – June 5, 1930), known as Pascin Jules...
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Early 20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Cardboard, Gouache

COLD SNAP seated female figure on subway cool blue winter tones
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil painting on plywood signed on reverse. There is a rough texture to the surface of the painting a technique used by the artist on many of his wood paintings.
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Plywood, Oil

'Ne vois-tu rien venir #1, ' by Josette Simon-Gestin, Acrylic on Canvas Painting
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This 39" x 47" acrylic on canvas painting by Josette Simon-Gestin depicts a colorful summer imaginary seascape with female figures. "I painted this series of three works when I was c...
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

'Portrait Of An Old Man’ Contemporary Natural Colors Oil On Canvas By Leviathan
Located in Carmel, CA
David Leviathan, an Israeli born artist who worked mainly in Holland, is widely known amongst European art collectors. His works are exhibited in several museums in Holland and Fran...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Chess Game Set French Israeli Surrealist Watercolor Gouache Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a large hand signed mixed media paiting on Arches French paper. A chess game encounter. Figurative Abstract Expressionist painting. Zwy Milshtein (Zvi Tzvi Milstein) BIOGRAPHY 1934 Born in Kishinev (Bessarabia) Russian, Romanian border region. He fled the Nazi Holocaust and in 1948 Arrived in Israel via Cyprus, where he studied with Rafael Ben­ Zvi. Studies in Tel­ Aviv with Mordecai Ardon, Aharon Avni, Moshe Mokadi and Marcel Janco founder of the Dada art movement. Studies at The Bezalel Art School, Jerusalem. 1956 Awarded a scholarship by the Israel​ American Fund. In 1991, Roland Topor invited him to participate in the last exhibitions of the Panique group and collaborated in the review Le Fou Parle. Select Group Exhibitions 1950­ 55 Israeli Artists​ Exhibition, Tel­ Aviv Museum 1956 Cimaise de Paris, 1958 "School of Paris", Charpentier Gallery, 1959 Les Grands et les Jeunes Aujourd ​hui Salon National 1960 Les Grands et les Jeunes d ​ Aujourd ​hui Contemporary Israeli Art, Museum of Modern Art, Paris 1961 Russian Artists of the Paris School , Ecole du Paris ​1961​ Salon de la Jeune Peinture, 1964 Salon des Indépendants, Grand​ Palais, Paris 1965 Salon d'Automne, Grand​ Palais, Paris 1966 Lauréat for the Gravure du Prix de la Critique 1967 Biennale, Paris 1970 stay with Theodor Ahrenberg, the eminent Swedish art collector. MILSHTEIN has an exhibition at ARC, in the museum of modern art in Paris. Drawings suspended in a liquid contained in a bottle thus creating a three dimensional effect. 1978 An retrospective exhibition of his etchings engravings is held at the Bibliotheque Nationale; the publication of a book illustrated with 33 drawings : Le rite du chat, on exhibit at Artcurial in Paris. Milshtein has also written several plays and has worked in etching intaglio carborundum, lithograph techniques. listed in adec artprice. He has exhibited at galleries in Germany, France and Switzerland with Theodore Theo Tobiasse, Mane Katz, Raya Sorkine, Avigdor Arikha and Abram Krol. A fine Judaica artist. Since 2007 Milshtein has had his workshop in the Rhône in Gleizé where he also lives. Personal exhibitions 1952: Tel Aviv (Israel), Studio Avni 1955: Tel Aviv (Israel), Museum 1957: Paris, Galerie Saint Placide 1958: Paris, La Cave de la Galerie Saint-Placide - Paris, Galerie Katia Granoff 1959: Tel Aviv (Israel), Museum Dizengoff House 1960: Paris, Galerie Katia Granoff 1962: Tel Aviv (Israel), Chemerinsky Art Gallery - Jerusalem (Israel), Musée National Bezalel —New York (United States), Bodley Gallery - Bat Yam (Israel), Bat Yam Museum 1963: Geneva (Switzerland), Museum of Art and History, Cabinet des Estampes 1964: Paris, Galerie Katia Granoff 1965: Paris, Librairie-Galerie Alexandre Loewy 1966: Paris, Galerie Saint-Placide - Brussels (Belgium), Galerie Le Creuset...
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20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media, Watercolor, Gouache

The New Wife
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The painting is an oil on canvas, measuring 48" x 36". The painting is multilayered to show skin texture, and source of light. The painting shows a young woman fixing her shawl, an a...
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"4 Koi 20" Expressionist Bright Red, White and Orange Koi in Light Filled Water
Located in Wellesley, MA
"4 Koi 20," 2020, Oil on Canvas, 24 x 24 Inches is a complex work of koi fish swimming underwater filled with light and brilliant color painted in a lush and fluid style bordering on...
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Missed Call
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This painting is an oil on canvas measuring 36" x 29". Portrait was stylized on artist owned images. Framing is available based on buyers preference. The image depicts a middle aged...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Bargain Aunty
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The painting is an oil on canvas, measuring 45" x 33". There is a lot of texture on this painting created by cigarette butts and ash mixed with oil paint, smeared on the canvas to highlight the hair. The painting shows a character inspired by Bollywood, in the market, reflecting on all the patterns and designs she sees in a South Asian jewelry...
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

STILL WINTER SNOW
Located in Aventura, FL
Original oil on canvas painting. Hand signed on front; signed and titled on verso by the artist. Canvas is stretched. Artwork is in excellent condition. Stretched. Certificate of au...
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20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Holy Roman Empire, Batman (apologies to van Dyke) classical & abstract gesture
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Loose, expressionist homage to a baroque equestrian painting by Van Dyke. Oil over board, earth colors with primary color pops.
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Contemplation
Located in West Hollywood, CA
We are proud to present for the first time in more than twenty years, the paintings of Austrian/American artist Gustav Rehberger (1910–1995). G...
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1980s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media

Energy Worker, bright colorful swirling patterns mystical yoga Wild Woman
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This painting is in a series called the Wild Woman which is also printed in a pocket sized book. Watercolor, mixed media, using resists. Janet Morgan’s...
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Holder of Light, Wild Woman Series, bright color blue yellow
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This painting is in a series called the Wild Woman which is also printed in a pocket sized book. Watercolor, mixed media, using resists. Janet Morgan’s...
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Expressionist Figurative Acrylic Painting, "Warrior Woman"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original expressionist acrylic and vinyl painting on canvas. Its dimensions are 36"x36". It is unframed. A certificate of authenticity will follow delivery of this work. This is a figurative painting of a warrior woman...
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas, Vinyl

French Mid-Century "The Polytechnique Students" Painting by Bernard Cornille
Located in Pasadena, CA
The 14th of July is the National Day in France. That night every high school in Paris have an orchestra playing in the streets. This painting is depicting musicians students expres...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Expressionist Oil on Canvas Painting, "My Black Shoes"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original figurative oil painting on canvas by San Diego artist Shahla Dorafshan. Its dimensions are 48"x36". It is unframed. A certificate of authenticity wil...
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"The peasant" - Horizontal painting with figure and landscape.
Located in Miami, FL
This peasant is part of a unique collection requested by a cardboard factory named DRT in Querétaro, México.
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Cardboard, Acrylic

Onyx blue tone and black female nude sculptural qualities
Located in Brooklyn, NY
An early experimental work by the artist it combines a loosely painted head combined with a hard sculptural body.
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1980s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Harvest" Working Women Hungarian European Modernism Expressionism 1926 WPA Era
Located in New York, NY
"Harvest" Working Women Hungarian European Modernism Expressionism 1926 WPA Era. 10 x 11 inches oil on board. Painted in Hungary. Stephen (Istvan) Csoka was born in Gárdony, Hungary on January 2, 1897 and died in New York in 1989. He is best remembered as a painter and etcher of portraits, nudes, landscapes, genre, and horses. Csoka studied at the Budapest Royal Academy of Art and his memberships include Associate of the National Academy of Design in New York City; the Society of American Etchers in Brooklyn, NY; the Society of Brooklyn Artists; and the Hungarian Etchers Association. Csoka's exhibitions and awards include a medal at the Barcelona International Exhibition in 1929; a prize at the City of Budapest Exhibit in 1930; prizes at the Society of American Etchers in 1942 and 1945; prizes at the Library of Congress in 1944 and 1946; a prize at the Society of Brooklyn Artists in 1944; a prize at the Philadelphia Watercolor Club in 1945; the Corcoran Gallery of Art in 1945; the Carnegie Institute in 1943, 1944, and 1945; the Art Institute of Chicago in 1944; the Los Angeles Museum of Art in 1945; the National Academy of Design from 1940 through 1945; one-artist shows at the Contemporary Artists in 1940, 1943, and 1945; and the Minneapolis State Fair in 1943. *Stephen continued to recieve awards and exhibit his work throughout his life. In 1997, Hofstra Museum sponsored a Retrospective/Centennial exhibition in honor of his birth. Collections representing Csoka's work are the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; the British Museum, London, England; the Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio; Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell, MA; the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; the Sheldon Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN; the Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL; the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN; the Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM; the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary; Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, the Museum of the City of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary; the Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA; Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA; Hofstra Museum, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY; Holocaust Museum, Glen Cove, NY; National Academy of Art, New York, NY; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; New York Historical Society, New York, NY;New York Public Library, New York, NY; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Peabody Museum, Cambridge, MA; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA; Livingston Arts Center, Mount Morris, NY; Ball State Teachers College, Muncie, IN; City College, New York, NY; Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY; Hungarian Consulate, New York, NY; Hungarian Heritage, New Brunswick, NJ; Hunter College, New York, NY; IBM Collections; Princeton Print Club...
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1920s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Board, Oil

Untitled Biomorphic
Located in Lawrence, NY
Estate stamped and accompanied by a COA from the estate. The history of the New York School painters is still being written, but Price earned a well-deserved place from the beginnin...
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1940s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Edmund Pick Morino Still Life With Chicken
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Still Life With Chicken, Oil on canvas singed and dated 1923, from the Collection of Bass Museum Of Art. Canvas size 14 1/5x17 1/4 framed 21 3/8 x 23 7/8 Edmund Pick-Morino was the ...
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1920s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

1950's Expressionist Interior Oil Painting Still Life with Flowers and Trumpet
Located in Surfside, FL
Herbert Katzman 1923-2004 (American artist active in New york, Illinois and Italy) Oil Painting Dated 1946. Signed. Dimensions; Sight-16" x 20", Frame-23.5" x 27". Provenance: this bears an old stamp verso from Christie's auction house. Herbert Katzman was born in Chicago on Jan. 8, 1923, His father believing that discipline was a good teacher, sent Herbert and Bob to St. John's military academy for their elementary education but it wasn't long before Herbert found his way to the Art Institute of Chicago where he wanted to study sculpting. His Father vehemently objected and refused to finance his studies, but that wasn't enough to discourage the young artist. He put himself through school working as a student janitor and a few other odd jobs. At 17 he entered the Advanced School of the Art Institute, his interest having turned to painting. His study there was briefly interrupted by a short stint in the navy (1942-44). After receiving a medical discharge, he returned to Chicago to work with Boris Anisfeld, who introduced him to German and French Expressionism...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Acrobats bright tropical colors man and toucan birds humorous narrative
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on canvas signed and dated on reverse. Part ot a human and animal series by the artist
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Flock of Sheep, Mid Century Abstract Expressionist Figurative Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
A figure on horseback presides over a flock of sheep that roams through a verdant landscape, done in highly expressive brushstrokes and thick impasto, b...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Santa Maria Novella Firenze
Located in Lawrence, NY
Note: oil pastel on paper Gandy Brodie (American, 1924-1975) studied dance and jazz before teaching himself to paint, inspired by the paintings of Van G...
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1950s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil Pastel

Warm Reflections Florida theme water pool exterior warm colors tranquil theme
Located in Brooklyn, NY
oil on linen canvas heavy duty stretchers framing recommended but not necessary. signed on reverse
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

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