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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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Style: Expressionist
Colourful Abstract, French Expressionist Original Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
AKOS BIRO (HUNGARIAN 1911-2002) watercolour, signed size: 6.5 x 9.75 inches Beautifully colourful, original painting by the very popular and highly regarded Hungarian/ French paint...
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Late 20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil Pastel, Gouache

Tour de France, original 31x40 expressionist figurative landscape
Located in Spring Lake, NJ
Lithuanian born artist Serge Ovcaruk has used his palette knife to create a figurative sporting landscape that layers the many secrets, hopes and heartac...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

Not Happy About That, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
This painting portrays a woman with an ambiguous expression, adding a mysterious mood to the piece. The blue streaks in her hair and the shadow on her face cr...

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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

Teal Figurative Abstract
Located in Soquel, CA
Dynamic teal figurative abstract by San Jose, California area artist Daniel David Fuentes (American, 1978-2016). From a collection of his works. Signed "Daniel Fuentes" on verso. Unf...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Agres
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Enigmatic outsider surrealist work by Australian artist Airom
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Agres
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Afternoon Rest
By Cillespi
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Just discovered within an exceptional private west coast collection, the signature and inscription on this incredible small oil on paper, is at the moment, undecypherable, we are res...
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1940s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Sneak A Peek, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Sharon Sieben creates a stern portrait of a man who, despite his attempt to appear disinterested, finds himself unable to resist the allure of curiosit...

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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

Night Walk Figurative Joan Brown and Manuel Neri
Located in Soquel, CA
Stunning large-scale, Bay Area Figurative School painting of a couple, dog and clown by Sally Kissinger Wilt (American, 1936-2004). Signed "...
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1960s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

About the bread. 1987, oil on cardboard, 81x99 cm
Located in Riga, LV
About the bread 1987, oil on cardboard, 81x99 cm Aleksandr Rodin (1922-2001) Painter Born in a family of farmers. Wife Rasma Lace - art scholar. Studied at the Stalingrad School of...
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1980s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Cardboard

R. Poch Jazz Quartet acrylic painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
7.-Jazz Quartet 100 x 80 cm acrylic painting Born in Badalona (Barcelona). Photographer and advertising film director. Founding partner of the advertising production company La Cos...
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

The Shield of Heracles, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Title: "The Shield of Heracles" Artist: Derek Overfield The shield of Heracles, wrought by the hands of Hephaestus, appears in the account of the hero's ...
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

"Evening Wash" by Shana Wilson - Intimate Nude Oil Painting - Woman Bathing
Located in Carmel, CA
Shana Wilson (Canadian, born 1966) "Evening Wash" 2012 Oil Paint, Wood Panel The artist signed the back of the painting. Shana Wilson, born in Edmonton in 1966, has carved a distinc...
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

"Undeniable" - Realist Expressionist Chiaroscuro Nude Figurative in Dark Palette
Located in Carmel, CA
Rizaldy Celi Jr. (American, Filipino-Vietnamese, born 1983) "Undeniable" 2024 Oil paint, Varnish, Canvas, Stretcher bars The artist signed the back of the painting. "Undeniable" by ...
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Varnish, Stretcher Bars

"The Rio Grande Near Taos III" (2006) By Joellyn Duesberry, Monotype
Located in Denver, CO
"Rio Grande near Taos" (2006) By Joellyn Duesberry is an original handmade monotype print that depicts an abstracted landscape with a forked river running through it. A self-taught ...
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Monotype

Les falaises, Seascape, Figurative, Oil on canvas, Expressionism, Cliff, Blue
Located in LANGRUNE-SUR-MER, FR
Seascape cliffs worked in palette knife and oil with many layers. The texture is important and can recall that of De Stael Each work contains its share of mystery, but nothing comes ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Like Swimming In A Quarry. Contemporary Figurative Drawing
Located in Brecon, Powys
Like Swimming In A Quarry - 120 feet and dark in the middle. One of Wadsworth's celebrated & innovative Black Cloth series. His sitters pose with a large black cloth & talk about wha...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Ink, Watercolor, Graphite

Lift Up and Let Go - Abstracted Colorful Figure Oil Painting
Located in Boston, MA
Lift Up and Let Go 75.0 x 67.0 x 2.0, 15.0 lbs Oil paint Hand signed by artist Artist's Commentary: "I painted this painting at a pivotal juncture in my life, and it represents l...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

"Young dancer" Dancer, Dance, baby Oil cm. 60 x 76 1955
Located in Torino, IT
Italy,Dancer,White ,Grey Little Girl ,Italian Painter Edgardo CORBELLI (Turin, 1918 - 1989) From the traditional composition of the 1930s, the painting of Corbelli leads to techni...
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1950s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Israeli Judaica Old Jewish Woman Sewing Expressionist Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Adolf Adler 1917 - 1996 Adolf Adi Adler was born in Romania in 1917. Attended the Art College of Kluj Romania in 1950. (in Satu Mare, original home city of the Satmar Hasidic group). In 1963, Adler was chief among a group of well known artists who immigrated to Israel. He was awarded the Nordau prize in 1978. He works have been auctioned at Sloan's Auction House in Maryland and Karrenbauer Auction House in Germany and today are represented in the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem. In 1984, a retrospective of his work was held in Rishon Le Zion. He died in 1996. Awards and Prizes 1993 Mordecai Ish-Shalom Prize, Artists House, Jerusalem, for a Special Contribution to Art Artists in Israel for the Defense Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv 1967 Artists: Aviva Uri...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Lumberjack's Dream" - Textured Expressionist Composition in Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
"Lumberjack's Dream" - Textured Expressionist Composition in Acrylic on Canvas Textured abstract composition by California artist Charles "Dave" Francis (American, 1951-2018). Brigh...
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Late 20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars

Birth of the Lamb. Cardboard, oil, 65x60 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Birth of the Lamb. Cardboard, oil, 65x60 cm Aleksandr Rodin (1922-2001) Painter Born in a family of farmers. Wife Rasma Lace - art scholar. Studied at the Stalingrad School of Art, ...
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1970s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Cardboard

Post Soviet Avant Garde Judaica Rabbi Playing Violin (the Klezmer Fiddler)
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Contemporary Subject: People Medium: Oil Surface: Canvas Dimensions: 24" x 18" Yuri Yefimovitch Brusovany was born on November, 15th 1949 in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) Russia. His father was a Jew from Gomel. His mother descended from the prominent family of Samoiloff Actors. This family was well-known all over Russia for a long time. Since 1820 names of the actors from the Samoiloffs' Dynasty never left the theatre posters. It was the largest family tree in the history of Russian scenic art. The central figure in the dynasty was V.V. Samoiloff (1834 - 1877) lived at the same time with Feodor Dostoevsky, Karl Brullov and Leo Tolstoy. V.V. Samoiloff, P.V. Samoiloff and V.A. Michurina-Samoilova were buried at the Alexander Nevsky...
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1990s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Mediterranean Landscape With Medieval Church, Towers, And Agave, Ca. 1930
Located in Firenze, IT
Southern Landscape with Medieval Church, Towers, and Agave, Oil on Canvas, Ca. 1920-1930 Technique: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 61 cm x 74 cm Condition: Good This Southern Mediterran...
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Early 20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Contemporary Intricate Abstract Women Forms in Muted Dark Earth Tones Painting
Located in ALCOY/ALCOI, ES
Title: «Orgia número 7» Collection: Muses Description: Acrylic on canvas, figurative, dark, love, gestural, modern Symbolism of the number 7: love. This image tells us an erotic story about goddesses who embark on a soft and passionate orgy. Seven naked and uninhibited women in a paradisiacal setting." Based on this description, the artwork in question is likely an erotic depiction of goddesses engaging in a sensual and passionate orgy. The symbolism of the number 7, which represents love, adds an additional layer of meaning to the artwork. The artwork is described as paradisiacal, suggesting that the women are enjoying themselves in a lush and idyllic environment. The image may be highly sensual and erotic, with a focus on the beauty and sensuality of the female form. The story being told is one of uninhibited pleasure and eroticism, with the goddesses embracing their sexuality and engaging in a free and passionate sexual experience. Victoria Tsemka...
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

After the Bath Figurative
Located in Soquel, CA
Figurative abstract painting by San Francisco artist Michael William Eggleston (American, 20th century). From a collection of his works. Eggleston is a San Francisco Abstract Expressionist...
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1990s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Two Sculptors
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Oil paint and ink.
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Ink, Oil

Tarrasso square. House in the countryside. Original acrylic painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Les Guilleries. Original oil on canvas Casimiro Martínez Tarrassó, a painter known simply as Tarrassó. He was trained at the La Llotja School in Barcelona. He completed his studies i...
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1940s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

John Begg Sr., Expressionist Portrait by Joseph Solman
Located in Long Island City, NY
In the mid-1960s Joseph Solman (American, 1909 - 2008) was commissioned to create portraits of the Begg family. This is a portrait of John Begg Sr., the patriarch of the mid-century ...
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1960s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Young Girl in Green
Located in Chicago, IL
In a letter written to Czóbel after he had become quite ill in 1975, famous Portuguese painter Vieira da Silva writes: “My very dear Czóbel, We em...
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1970s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Women in Purple and Shadow - Figurative Composition in Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Nun in the Shadows - Figurative Composition in Acrylic on Paper A dark abstracted portrait by California-based artist, Ricardo de Silva (American/Brazil, 20th C). This piece is abst...
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1980s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Masquerade heart shaped male figure catching masked female figure cat watching
Located in Brooklyn, NY
*ABOUT Stephen Basso Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imagina...
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Linen, Oil

"Untitled" by Celi Jr. - Contemporary Expressionism - Shaded Seated Young Woman
Located in Carmel, CA
Rizaldy Celi Jr. (American, Filipino-Vietnamese, born 1983) "Untitled" 2025 Oil Paint, Canvas, Stretcher Bars The artist signed the bottom right of the painting. "Untitled" showcase...
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas, Stretcher Bars

Man with Yellow Tie
Located in Los Angeles, CA
ALEXANDER KREISEL "MAN WITH YELLOW TIE" OIL ON CANVAS BOARD, SIGNED RUSSIAN-AMERICAN, C.1935 26 X 19.5 INCHES FRAMED 29.5 X 23.5 INCHES Alexander Krei...
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1930s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Until Tomorrow Tan Yfory South Wales Mining Valleys Framed Original Oil Painting
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Elin Siân Blake. Welsh ( b.1981). Until Tomorrow (Tan Yfory). Oil On Artist’s Canvas Board. Signed Lower Right. Image size 9.5 inches x 11.6 inches ( 24cm x 29.5cm ). Frame size 16....
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Untitled. 1990. Cardboard, tempera. 50.5x39.8cm
Located in Riga, LV
Vladimir Glushenkov (1948-2009) (May 21, 1948, Riga - December 26, 2009, Riga) - painter, graphic artist, poet, translator. Vladimir Glushkenkov was born in family with Russian-Poli...
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Early 1900s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Tempera, Cardboard

Untitiled. 1975. Canvas, tempura. 41.5x36.5cm
Located in Riga, LV
Vladimir Glushenkov (1948-2009) (May 21, 1948, Riga - December 26, 2009, Riga) - painter, graphic artist, poet, translator. Vladimir Glushkenkov was born in family with Russian-Poli...
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1970s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Tempera

Fatuous, oil painting, male figure, art historical classical theme
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Award winning painter Tom Bennett was raised in a painter's household, learned to paint from his father. Born in Norwalk, Ct., the painter/printmaker lived in Brooklyn, NY until movi...
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

"Jazzy" - Very Large Diptych Colorful Expressionist Jazz Band Figurative Scene
Located in Carmel, CA
Natalia Aandewiel (Ukrainian, born 1996) "Jazzy" 2024 Oil Paint, Canvas, Stretcher Bars The artist signed the back of the canvas. "Jazzy" by Natalia Aandewiel is an exuberant expres...
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars

Attitude, Horse, Figurative Expressionism, Oil on canvas, Textured, Impasto Red
Located in LANGRUNE-SUR-MER, FR
"Attitude," an oil on canvas by Sophie Dumont, skillfully employs the knife technique to create a striking and evocative portrayal of a horse. The artwork immediately captivates with...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

"Untitled Female"
Located in Detroit, MI
“Untitled Female" is a colorful piece by Richard Wilson that has meaning for native Detroiters through use of the blues and oranges - their "Tiger" baseball team's colors and the "D"...
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Romanian Israeli Modernist Oil Painting Expressionist Figures Mothers and Babies
By Risa Propst Kraid
Located in Surfside, FL
Risa Propst Kraid (Romanian - Israeli, 1894-1983) Jewish Israeli Woman artist. enigmatic picture of either women picnicking or refugees huddling together. Painting and Sculpture Week, 1969 Painters and Sculptors Association in Israel, Haifa and the North Artists: Mordechai Avnieli, Irene Awret...
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1960s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Guitarist
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
the painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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1960s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Modernist Orchestra Musical Gouache Painting Boston Expressionist
Located in Surfside, FL
Very vibrant, dynamic orchestra scene reminiscent of the work of Mopp (Max Oppenheim) David Aronson, (1923-2015) son of a rabbi, was born in Lithuania in 1923 and immigrated to America at the age of five. He settled in Boston, Massachusetts where he studied at the school of the Museum of Fine Arts under Karl Zerbe, a German painter well known in the early 1900s. Aronson later taught at the school of the Museum of Fine Arts for fourteen years and founded the School of Fine Art at Boston University where he is today a professor emeritus. An internationally renowned sculptor & painter, Aronson has won acclaim for his interpretation of themes from the Hebrew Talmud and Kabala. His best known works include bronze castings, encaustic paintings, and pastels. His work is included in many important public and private collections, and has been shown in several museum retrospectives around the country. He is considered to be one of the most important 20th century American artists. At twenty-two David Aronson had his first one-man show at New York's Niveau Gallery. The next year, six of his Christological paintings were included in the Fourteen Americans exhibition at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art where Aronson’s work was included alongside abstract expressionists Arshile Gorky, Robert Motherwell and Isamu Noguchi. In the 1950s, Aronson turned more toward his Jewish heritage for the inspiration for his art. Folklore as well as Kabalistic and other transcendental writings influenced his work greatly. The Golem (a legendary figure, brought to life by the Maharal of Prague out of clay to protect the Jewish community during times of persecution) and the Dybbuk (an evil spirit that lodges itself in the soul of a living person until exorcised) frequently appear in his work. In the sixties, Aronson turned to sculpture. His work during this period is best exemplified by a magnificent 8’ x 4’ bronze door which now stands at the entrance to Frank Lloyd Wright's Johnson Foundation Conference Center for the Arts in Racine, Wisconsin. In the seventies and eighties, Aronson continued his work in pastel drawings, paintings, and sculptures, often exploring religion and the frailties of man's nature. During this time, in addition to a traveling retrospective exhibition and many one-man shows in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Boston at the Pucker-Safrai Gallery on Newbury Street, Aronson won many awards and became a member of the National Academy of Design in New York. Two years ago he retired from teaching to work full-time in his studio in Sudbury, Massachusetts. included in the catalog Contemporary Religious Imagery in American Art Catalog for an exhibition held at the Ringling Museum of Art, March 1-31, 1974. Artists represented: David Aronson, Leonard Baskin, Max Beckmann, Hyman Bloom, Fernando Botero, Paul Cadmus, Marvin Cherney, Arthur G. Dove, Philip Evergood, Adolph Gottlieb, Jonah Kinigstein, Rico Lebrun, Jack Levine, Louise Nevelson, Barnett Newman, Abraham Rattner, Ben Shahn, Mark Tobey, Max Weber, William Zorach and others. Selected Awards 1990, Certificate of Merit, National Academy of Design 1976, Purchase Prize, National Academy of Design 1976, Joseph Isidore Gold Medal, National Academy of Design 1976, Purchase Prize in Drawing, Albrecht Art Museum 1975, Isaac N. Maynard Prize for Painting, National Academy of Design 1973, Samuel F. B. Morse Gold Medal, National Academy of Design 1967, Purchase Prize, National Academy of Fine Arts 1967, Adolph and Clara Obrig Prize, National Academy of Design 1963, Gold Medal, Art Directors Club of Philadelphia 1961, 62, 63, Purchase Prize, National Institute of Arts and Letters 1960, John Siimon Guggenheim Fellowship 1958, Grant in Art, National Institute of Arts and Letters 1954, First Prize, Tupperware Annual Art Fund Award 1954, Grand Prize, Third Annual Boston Arts Festival 1953, Second Prize, Second Annual Boston Arts Festival 1952, Grand Prize, First Annual Boston Arts Festival 1946, Traveling Fellowship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts 1946, Purchase Prize, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts 1944, First Popular Prize, Institute of Contemporary Art 1944, First Judge's Prize, Institute of Contemporary Art Selected Public Collections Art Institute of Chicago Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Bryn Mawr College Brandeis University Tupperware Museum, Orlando, Florida DeCordova Museum Museum of Modern Art Print Collection, New York Atlanta University Atlanta Art...
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20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Gouache, Board

Marian Begg, Expressionist Oil on Masonite Portrait Painting by Joseph Solman
Located in Long Island City, NY
In the mid-1960s Joseph Solman (American, 1909 - 2008) was commissioned to create portraits of the Begg family. This is a portrait of Marian Begg, the mother in the mid-century nuclear family...
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1960s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

"More love"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
The still life with the morning sunlight and birds with hearts. A peace of love, love that we need each moment to stay soft in this world!!!.
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Michael Patrix Oil Painting "Head of Woman"
Located in Detroit, MI
"Head of Woman" is a wonderfully exciting example of Mid-20th century Expressionist art. This vibrant portrait is reminiscent of Matisse's Fauvist female...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

'The Leopards' by Byron Z. Tripp - Large Striking Wildlife Leopard Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
‘The Leopards’ is a striking masterpiece that captivates the viewer with its dynamic interplay of black, white, and yellow. The artist’s exceptional use of color and line work transp...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Woman with Flowers III, Oil Painting by Juan Garcia Ripolles
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Juan Garcia Ripolles, Spanish (1932 - ) Title: Woman with Flowers III Year: 1970 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Size: 18 in. x 10.5 in. (45.72 cm x 26.67 cm)
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1970s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Courtney Love and Guitar Abstract Expressionist Figurative
Located in Soquel, CA
Courtney Love playing blues - a dynamic abstract painting by San Francisco artist Michael William Eggleston (American, 20th century). From a collection o...
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1990s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Parade Large Oil Painting
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
"Parade" Oil, graphite on linen canvas, canvas 46x39 with frame 63x55. Jurgen Gorg was born in 1951 in​ Dernbach Germany. His formative years were spent in Koblentz, before moving ...
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1980s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Linen, Oil, Graphite

Edmund Pick Morino Still Life With Chicken
Located in Lake Worth 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

"Woman" Contemporary Figurative in Neon Orange Aromas Artist Frank Thomas Romero
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant contemporary nude figure in neon orange on a purple abstract background by Aromas, California, Monterey Bay Area abstract expressionist artist Frank Romero (American, b-1985)...
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Chevaux, 1928 - huile sur toile, 54x73 cm.
By Peter Pálffy
Located in Nice, FR
Huile sur panneau par Peter Pàlffy, représentant des chevaux. Dimensions avec le cadre: 77x99 cm Peter Pallfy est un peintre autrichien du XX siècle que a...
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1920s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Acrylic on Canvas Titled: "Little Rita”
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Robert was born in 1949 to Dominick and Antoinette Catapano in Brooklyn New York. He is a self taught artist. He began drawing and painting as a child. He says he did it as a way of ...
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

Untitled - Contemporary polish art, Expressionistic portrait, Abstraction
Located in Warsaw, PL
MARZENA KAWALEROWICZ Polish artist. Currently, she lives and works in Warsaw. She has been exhibiting her paintings all over the world. Most important exhibitions were in "Galerie Je...
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1990s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media, Board

Large French Expressionist Oil Painting, Girl, Poupèe, the Doll, Ecole de Paris
Located in Surfside, FL
Signed on recto and signed verso, titled, and inscribed Montmartre by the artist. This is a large colorful expressionist painting of a girl doll with long blonde or ginger redhead pigtails. It is titled Poupee 1925 and depicts an Art Deco era flapper girl in a beret. Roger Crusat (French Expressionist artist, poet and lithographer) is known for ballet troupe set design and theatre backdrop painting and architectural motifs. Roger Crusat was born in 1917 in Roussillon, Provence, France. Crusat's early works depict the colorful countryside of Provence in the South of France, As a young man Crusat performed many jobs in the troupe, designing costumes, and even dancing. But, most important, he painted the scenery for the troupe's performances. It was while working in this capacity that he learned the essentials of scenery painting that remain evident in his mature work. Crusat was a student of Andre Fons-Godail at Beaux-Arts in Perpignan when he was called to serve in World War II. After being wounded in 1940, he returned to study under Rene Jaudon at Beaux-Arts in Paris. Crusat was known by his contemporaries as "the Catalan painter of Montmartre" where he lived with his wife until his death in 1994. Cracked and peeling walls framed by rusting water pipes are a common sight in Montmartre. What others considered unnecessary, Crusat included. Water pipes were his cherished motif. Supposed by some to be a symbol of decay and monotony, Crusat's Impressionist water pipes like arteries in the body, convey life. Crusat won the prestigious Prix Populiste for his "Descente d'Eau" (Water Pipes) in 1956. Crusat's mature work retains the essentials of good scenery painting. Intricate detail will not be found, but broad, solid abstract shapes abound. His subtle colors, dense in texture, are meant to compliment his subjects, not distract from them. The critics considered him a lyric expressionist and a "painter of Man" in his portrayal of the anguish of daily life and the regrets of the past. Crusat exhibited at many of the same Salons as the post-impressionists and expressionists. Salon des Independants was co-founded by Georges Seurat. Degas had only one exhibition during his lifetime, and it was at the Galerie Durand Ruel in Paris. Gauguin had also exhibited his Tahitian paintings. Crusat's works were exhibited there in 1955. SELECT AWARDS 1954 Le Prix de la Jeune Peintre 1955 Prix des Amateurs d'Art & des Collectionneurs, Galerie Gazette des Beaux Arts, 140 rue Faubourg St. Honore, Paris Les Jardins des Abbesses purchased by the Republic of France, Prix de la Ville de Marseilles, Prix Othon Friesz 1956 Prix Populiste, Prix de Amedeo Modigliani 1957 Grand Prix International de Vichy, Prix de la Fondation Greenshields 1959 IVeme Grand Prix de Peinture du Festival de Vichy 1967 Le Prix des Amis de Brantôme, Perigord, France 1970 Prix de la Critique Academy de Vernet a Vichy,"La Nuit, Premiere Etude" Roger Crusat, Half-closed shutters , poems enriched with four original lithographs (175 numbered copies) drawn on Henri Deprest's presses on February 13, 1975 , Éditions Matignon 34, 1975. Personal exhibitions Durand-Ruel Gallery, Paris, 1955 [ 1 ] . Galerie Rivière, Paris, november 1958 [ 4 ] . Le Roux and Mathias, auctioneers in Paris, Sale of the Roger Crusat workshop , Hôtel Drouot , Paris, Thursday October 27, 1994 [ 5 ] . Jack's American Bistro, Glens Falls , September- october 2004 [ 6 ] . Collective exhibitions Galerie Roger, Lyon , October 1946 [ 7 ] . Salon des Indépendants , Paris, from 1952 [ 8 ] . Exhibition Discover , Galerie Charpentier , Paris, 1955. Populist Salon, Paris, 1956. Salon des Amis de Brantôme, 1957. Hundred painters and oil - Exhibition on the occasion of the centenary of the first oil drilling , Musée Galliera , october 1958 [ 9 ] . “An artist from Roussillon whose invoice calls for a flattering comparison with that of a Soutine or a Rebeyrolle . Indeed, following their example, he focuses on familiar scenes: Girls on the balcony or in the basket , Laundresses weighing heavily on the iron, draft horses or plucked turkeys, who stand next to a magnificent portrait of a man in a red dressing gown . Hasn't the Prix Populiste already crowned its merits? " - Jean Jacquinot SELECT EXHIBITIONS Galerie La Gentilhommiere, Paris La Salle Arago, Perpignan, Salon des Indépendants, Salon d'Automne Biennale de Menton, Menton Galerie des Jacobins, Lyon Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris Salon de la Nationale Galerie Bassano, Paris Salon Populiste Salon de Romans Galerie Motte, Geneva, Switzerland Exposition à Quiberville sur Mer - Normandie Galerie Charpentier Salon Confrontation: Bernard Buffet, Roger Crusat, Jean Jansem, Franck Innocent...
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Located in San Francisco, CA
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