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
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...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Colourful Abstract, Artisan Style, Expressionist Original Oil Painting
By Akos Biro
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
AKOS BIRO (HUNGARIAN 1911-2002)
Oil painting on canvas, framed
Framed size: 26.5 x 33 inches
Beautifully colourful, original oil painting by the very popular and highly regarded Hun...
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Late 20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,608 Sale Price
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Life Lessons by Rachael Dalzell. Acrylic on canvas with tray frame
Located in Coltishall, GB
Young Buddhist monks awaiting lessons.
Rachael’s free, expressive use of paint give energy and life to her work. She spent time in Ladakh in the Indian Himalaya and produced a serie...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Tennis. Figurative Oil Painting, Olympic Games, Sport, Realistic, Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
The painting shows two tennis players which is one of the official sports of the Olympic Games. The tennis match has a spectacular character and dynamics well captured in the paintin...
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Contemporary oil portrait of a woman on canvas ""Woman with a red flower"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
In this captivating artwork "Woman with a red flower" , the artist employs a minimalist yet expressive approach to depict a woman whose presence resonates deeply, even in the absence...
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tarrasso square. House in the countryside. Original acrylic painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Les Guilleries. Original acrylic canvas painting
Casimiro Martínez Tarrassó, a painter known simply as Tarrassó. He was trained at the La Llotja School in Barcelona. He completed his studies in Paris, where he got to know first-hand the Fauvist works that were shaking the Parisian art scene at the time. This Fauve influence will continue to be palpable in his work throughout his life in features such as the strong chromatic contrast, the elevated and somewhat exaggerated perspective, the absolute disinterest in the human figure, which appears only sketched as a complement to the landscape, and the representation of trees as electrified, subjected to tortuous inclinations.
It is these formal features that give his works their own vitality and reduce their connection with the referential to a mere pretext. Tarrassó followed in the wake of the great Catalan landscape painters, paying particular attention to Joaquín Mir, although with a clearly differentiated personality due in part to the impact that Fauvism had on his artistic thinking. He cultivated still life and Catalan and Majorcan landscapes. He held his first exhibition in 1928 in Barcelona. Since then his shows have followed in Barcelona, Madrid, Palma de Mallorca and Bilbao. In 1935 he visited Mallorca for the first time, and from 1940 on he will have a studio there, specifically in Palma, where he lived for long periods and developed most of his artistic production.
After the Civil War, during the 1940s, Tarrassó took part in several National Exhibitions of Fine Arts, in their editions of 1942, 1943 and 1950.
Although the landscape was always the center of his production, Tarrassó also made works such as the mural decoration of the church of Santa María de Badalona. In Mallorca he also carried out a unique undertaking, planting his trestle in the Campanet caves to capture the stalactites and stalagmites from their stone cavities, developing a series of works that he presented in 1948.
Throughout his career, Tarrassó was awarded the Pollença Prize of the I International Painting Contest, in 1962; the Santiago Rusiñol...
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1940s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
'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
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$7,000 Sale Price
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JULIEN MEUNIE.15 COAST. MAJORCA original watercolor painting
By Julen Meunie
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
COAST. MAJORCA original watercolor painting.
Julien was born in 1948 in Vichy, France. He studied art and theater in Clermont-Ferrand at the same time as finishing his degree in Fr...
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Late 20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Cardboard
1950's Expressionist Judaica Painting "I Lit All My Candles" Hanukkah Menorah
By Hildegard Rath
Located in Surfside, FL
Hildegard Rath, (1909-1994) painter, author, teacher, and lecturer, Born in Wurttemberg, Germany, in the Black Forest region of Germany. Hildegard Rath became a painter of landscape, portraits, still lifes, and marine subjects and also a muralist. Her father was a bank president, her mother a sculptor, writer, and illustrator of children's books. At the age of 15, Miss Rath painted her first portrait in oil as a birthday present for her father and thereafter every opportunity for study was given to her.
She went to art school at the Atelier House in Stuttgart, Germany and at the Akademie der Bildenden Kunste in Berlin. She studied with Lotte Laserstein...
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1950s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Secrets thoughts, nude woman, figurative modern, oil on canvas, textured, France
Located in LANGRUNE-SUR-MER, FR
A captivating piece by artist Sophie Dumont, titled 'Secret Thoughts,' this oil-on-canvas female nude, painted with a palette knife, unveils a profound introspection. The canvas port...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Red Odalisque" oil cm. 17 x 12 1947 Offer Free Shipping
Located in Torino, IT
red, odalisque,orange,yellow
Giulio DA MILANO (Nizza, 1895 - Torino, 1990)
Giulio Da Milano was a Giacomo Grosso's disciple and he was very close to the artists that used to patronize La Coupole de Montparnasse (from Kisling to Pascin, from Derain to Vlaminck). He is considered one of most representative exponents of the Turin’s artistic scene in the ‘30s-‘40s, close to the Gruppo dei Sei. His works can be found in the following museums:
Turin, Modern Art Gallery...
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1940s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel
$2,881 Sale Price
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Music of the Senses (Ballerina 2)
Located in Zofingen, AG
In creating this artwork, I embraced the fluidity of expressionism with dashes of impressionism and a touch of pop art allure. I sought to weave the language of music and dance into ...
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, 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
Materials
Acrylic
"Symbolist Composition"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Artist: Unidentified
Dimensions: Framed: 51 x 45 cm Artwork: 13 x 9 cm
Medium: Oil on board/canvas
Period: [Estimate based on style, e.g., Mid-20th Century / Contemporary]
Style: Sy...
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19th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Group of Buddhist Monks, Expressionist Oil Painting by Bui Van Hoan
Located in Long Island City, NY
An original painting of Buddhist Monks heading in a line through the forest by well-regarded contemporary artist Bui Van Hoan (1971 - ). The painting measures 38 x 27.5 inches and ...
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Contemporary vivid expressive still-life acrylic painting of fruits on paper
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This contemporary expressive artwork, "Cherries, Apples, and Flowers," by French artist Natalya Mougenot, is a vivid exploration of the beauty in everyday objects. Part of her “Still...
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, 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
Materials
Canvas, 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!!!.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,688 Sale Price
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'Untitled' Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Portrait by Masri
Located in Carmel, CA
Masri is a passionate Italian, US-based artist whose work has been exhibited in USA, the UK, Germany, Lebanon, Italy, and Norway. His work is varied and known especially in Europe, a...
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Young Girl in Pink
By Béla Czóbel
Located in Chicago, IL
Béla Czóbel, Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, R. S. Johnson Fine Art, Chicago, 1996: no. 60 and reproduced on page 95 of catalogue.
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1960s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
R. Poch Jazz Quartet acrylic painting
By Ramon Poch
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
Materials
Acrylic
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
Materials
Mixed Media
Contemporary expressionist vivid watercolor painting paper " Beachside serenity"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This contemporary vivid expressive painting, "Beachside Serenity', was created by French artist Natalya Mougenot. Using watercolor paints on heavyweight, professional acid-free paper...
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Expressionist Figurative Nude Under the Tree in Oil on Board
By Kristin Cohen Bucci
Located in Soquel, CA
Expressionist Figurative Nude Under the Tree in Oil on Board
A bright, multicolored expressionist nude torso by Kristin Cohen (American, b. 1963). A woman is shown with one arm rais...
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1980s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nude near the Source (Study after Courbet) - Original Oil on canvas, Signed
Located in Paris, IDF
Francois HEAULME
Nude near the Source (Study after Courbet)
Original Oil on canvas
Signed bottom right
On canvas 92 x 60 cm (c. 36 x 24 in)
Excelle...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Miranda
Located in Westport, CT
This beautiful blue painting is by René Romero Schuler. Her expressionistic paintings depict delicate female figures that she paints using a dry-brushed, minimalist hand, leaving her...
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait Of A Man
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Portrait of a man
Oil on artist board 28"x22"
Artist signed lower left, gallery label on verso.
Sylvain Vigny is a French painter born in Vienna (Austria) on April 8, 1903. He moved to Nice in 1934.
He died in Nice on February 4, 1970.
Self-taught artist, coming from Austria like Willy Eisenschitz...
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1960s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Dreamscape, Oil Painting
By Gary Leonard
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
This painting features a woman as the central subject, depicted with bold textures and spontaneous brushstrokes. Her white dress against the deep blue backgro...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Seated Woman - Original oil painting
Located in Paris, IDF
Bengt Lindström
Seated woman
Original oil painting
Unsigned
On paper applied on wood panel 107 x 77 cm (c. 42 x 31 in)
Presented in black wood frame 123 x 93 cm (c. 49 x 37 in)
Ver...
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Late 20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Benavente Solis Campo de Mallorca original expressionist acrylic painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
original expressionist acrylic painting. Framed
During its first exhibition in Paris, the French press catalogs it like "The Catalan Sorolla".
Honorary Member of the MECOART (Medit...
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1990s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Climatic Landscape
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of the artists continual attempt to address the issue of climate change.
Lorena Villalobos is among only twenty-six Costa Rican artists listed under the headin...
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Polish Expressionist Profile Portrait Drawing TWO CHILDREN
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Other
Subject: Figures
Medium: Other, Gouache
Surface: Paper
Country: United States
sight size 17 X 13 inches
Emigrating to Boston in 1913 from Poland with his Russian-Jewis...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Gouache
Untitled (original oil painting)
Located in Aventura, FL
Original oil on canvas painting. Hand signed lower right front by Nicola Simbari. Canvas size 27.5 x 39.5 inches.
Frame size approx 37.5 x 49.25 inches.
Artwork is in excellent c...
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1990s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$9,800 Sale Price
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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
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Raventos Beethoven Mussic original expressionist mixed media painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Beethoven original expressionist mixed media painting
RAVENTÓS Mª Assumpció – (San Sadurní d’Anoia, Barcelona 1930).
Raventos trained at the elite Sant Jordi School of Fine Arts in B...
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Early 2000s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic
Under the Blue Sky, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Two figures bask in the light of the cosmos, their curvaceous forms mirroring the flow of celestial bodies. The varying blue tones represent the sky before nigh...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"The Form of Her Affection" by Celi Jr. - Expressive Abstract - Figure in Black
Located in Carmel, CA
Rizaldy Celi Jr. (American, Filipino-Vietnamese, born 1983)
"The Form of Her Affection" 2024
Oil Paint, Canvas
The artist signed the bottom right of the painting.
In "The Form of He...
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Landscape Scene of Fisherman by Lake" Expressionistic Oil Painting on Masonite
Located in New York, NY
A strong modernist oil painting depicted in 1963 by Russian painter Michael Baxte. Mostly known for his abstracted figures on canvas or street scenes, this piece is a wonderful representation of his figures in water landscapes with expressive use of color, shape, and form. Later in his career, Baxte explores Expressionism, infusing both European and North American stylistic trends. This piece is from later in his career, but we can feel this underlying style throughout.
Art measures 18 x 21.75 inches
Michael Posner Baxte was born in 1890 in the small town of Staroselje Belarus, Russia. For the first half of the 19th century it was a center of the Chabad movement of Hasidic Jews, but this group was gone by the middle of the 19th century. By the time the Baxte family immigrated to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century, the Jewish population numbered only on the hundreds. The native language of the Baxte family was Yiddish. It is likely that the death of Michael Baxte’s father triggered the family’s immigration. Three older brothers arrived in New York between 1903 and 1905. Michael and his mother, Rebecca, arrived in 1907. By 1910 Michael, his mother, and brother, Joseph, were living in New Orleans and may have spent some time on a Louisiana plantation. Around 1912, Michael Baxte returned to Europe to study the violin. In 1914 he, his mother, and Joseph moved to New York City.
Meanwhile, in Algeria, a talented young woman painter, Violette Mege, was making history. Since for the first time, a woman won the prestigious Beaux Art competition in Algeria. At first, the awards committee denied her the prize but, with French government intervention, Mege eventually prevailed. She won again 3 years later and, in 1916, used the scholarship to visit the United States of America. When Violette came to New York, she met Baxte, who was, by then, an accomplished violinist, teacher, and composer. Baxte’s compositions were performed at the Tokyo Imperial Theater, and in 1922 he was listed in the American Jewish Yearbook as one of the prominent members of the American Jewish community. As a music teacher he encouraged individual expression. Baxte stated, “No pupil should ever be forced into imitation of the teacher. Art is a personal experience, and the teacher’s truest aim must be to awaken this light of personality through the patient light of science.”
By 1920 Michael Baxte and Violette Mege were living together in Manhattan. Although they claimed to be living as husband and wife, it seems that their marriage did not become official until 1928. On their “unofficial” honeymoon around 1917, in Algiers, Baxte confided to her his ambition to paint. There and later in New Mexico where the wonderful steeped sunlight approximates the coloring of Algiers, she taught him his heart’s desire. He never had any other teacher. She never had any other pupil. For ten years she devoted all her time, energy, and ambition to teaching, encouraging, inspiring him. Then in 1928, their mutual strivings were rewarded, as his works were being chosen as one of the two winners in the Dudensing National Competition for American Painters. Out of 150 artists from across the country participated in the Dudensing, and Michael Posner Baxte and, Robert Fawcett, were the winners.
In his 1924 naturalization application, he indicated that he was sometimes known as “Michael Posner Baxte.” One of the witnesses to his application was Bernard Karfiol, a Jewish American artist. That’s when Michael may...
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1960s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
"Mexican Landscape Scene with Female Figures and Child" Expressionistic Style
Located in New York, NY
A strong modernist oil painting depicted in the Mid Century by Russian painter Michael Baxte. Mostly known for his abstracted figures on canvas or street scenes, this piece is a wond...
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1970s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
The Triumph Of Love. Contemporary Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
The Triumph of Love weaves symbolism with uplifting imagery. The painting is woven with free flowing brush strokes overlaying the canvas to create a stunning piece that is imbued wit...
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Angela" Oil cm. 100 x 70 1979
Located in Torino, IT
Woman reclining, pink
we send the work anywhere
Edgardo CORBELLI (Turin, 1918 - 1989)
From the traditional composition of the 1930s, the painting of Corbelli leads to technical and ...
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1970s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Balaguer Car Races Jacky Ickx Le Mans 1969 Ford GT40 original painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
BALAGUER , Alex ( Barcelona 1968 )
During early childhood, Àlex Balaguer began to sketch motorcars symbolic of Maranello’s trademark vehicle.
Self-taught in the art world, Balaguer d...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Young Girl in Green
By Béla Czóbel
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
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Gouache Watercolor Painting, Nantucket Harbor Boats American Deaf Modernist Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract harbor scene with boats, in bold, vivid colors on heavy mould made paper.
Hand signed and dated, 1980
22 X 30 not frame
Robert Freiman, deaf from birth, was born in March 1917 in New York City. He attended an oral program near his home and later transferred to the Lexington School for the Deaf when he was six. Early in his childhood, his love for drawing, painting and studying became apparent, and as an adult, he continued his studies in New York at the National Academy of Design, Pratt Institute, the Art Students League and the Parsons School of Design. In Paris, France he studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. Bob Freiman was especially focused on painting portraits and figures in motion in various mediums, especially the mixed-media combination of watercolor, acrylic and pen. Among his subjects were acrobats, ballet dancers, cyclists and other athletes. He as well focused on abstracts for a time, discovering new media in his works with quick brushwork and expressive movements.
In the latter part of his career, his style became abstract and surreal with images of metaphysical landscapes with architectural elements such as arches, towers, pyramids and castles floating in the air. The famed art critic Pierre Rouve wrote: “It is therefore refreshing to see them revitalized by the colourist wealth and virile handwriting of Robert Freiman, probably the best American water-colorist since John Marin. He worked in Provincetown and Nantucket and regularly exhibited there. He showed at Doll & Richards gallery of Boston alongside John Chetcuti, Lloyd Goodrich, Tod Lindenmuth, William Meyerowitz, Dwight Shepler, Elizabeth O'Neill Verner, Stanley Woodward, Andrew Wyeth, and others. His work bears the influence of the mid century school of Paris in particular Jean Carzou. He was a regular exhibitor at the Sidewalk Art...
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1980s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
Abstract Expressionist Embrace Earth Figurative
Located in Soquel, CA
Compelling abstract expressionist painting "Embrace" figurative by San Jose, California area artist Daniel David Fuentes (American, 20th Century). From a collection of his works. Un...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,440 Sale Price
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Gregorio Muñoz Montoro (1906–1978) - Técnica mixta - Interior con figuras
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
Firmado en la parte inferior por el artista
Medidas obra: 32 cm. de altura x 23 cm. de ancho
Medidas marco: 55 cm. de altura x 45 cm. de ancho
Se presenta enmarcada la obra con un...
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1950s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The artist and his muse
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original mid century portrait of an artist and his muse or model inside his studio. This work is signed "Simon" although a definitive artist has not been determined.
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1960s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Arroyo Between Nambe & Pojoaque on #113" (1985) By Joellyn Duesberry
Located in Denver, CO
"Arroyo Between Nambe & Pojoaque on #113" (1985) By Joellyn Duesberry is an original handmade oil painting on linen that depicts an expressionist landscape with an arid riverbed.
A ...
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Three Rabbis at The Torah, Expressionist Judaica Painting
By Andre Elbaz
Located in Surfside, FL
In this painting the artist uses gestural brushstrokes, which causes distortion and exaggeration for emotional effect. Andre Elbaz uses as his subject three male figures with tefilin are depicted during prayer.
André Elbaz (born April 26, 1934, El Jadida, Morocco) is a famous Moroccan painter and filmmaker.
Elbaz studied art and theatre in Rabat and Paris from 1950 to 1961. He started painting only at the age of 21, until which age he had been interested mainly in theatre. A few years later, he managed to combine his two passions into a new approach in art-therapy, inventing together with his wife, a psychiatrist, the Pictodrame, which brought him world recognition.
His first exhibition, which was very successful, took place in Casablanca in 1961 and earned him an appointment as Professor at the Beaux-Arts school in Casablanca. Years later, in 1976, he exhibited his paintings at the Tel-Aviv Museum.
In parallel to his career as a painter, Elbaz is also known as a filmmaker. He produced several short films in France, Canada and the United States. One of them, La nuit n'est jamais complète (The night is never complete), won a prize at the "5th Biennale de Paris in 1967". Among the themes chosen for the many films he produced, there was a short one about the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, as well as a series of drawings entitled Seuls (Alone), with texts written by both Elie Wiesel...
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20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
"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...
Category
1950s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Untitled" by Celi Jr. - Expressive Stoic Figurative Portrait in Earth Tones
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.
In this intimate po...
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Costal Landscape
By Albert Berne
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Coastal Landscape" 1961 by noted Cincinnati artist Albert Berne, 1877-1973 is an oil painting on canvas board. It is signed and dated at the lower right corner by the artist. The canvas board size is 16 x 20 inches, framed is 26 x 21.5 inches. The artwork is in very good condition, the frame is in fair condition, it has been unprofessionally restored and has scratches.
About the artist.
Albert Berne (German/American 1877-1973) Schooled in music at the Cincinnati Conservatory, Berne studied piano in Berlin, Germany with Arthur Rubinstein. Here he experienced the radical ferment in the arts in Europe during the pre- WWI years. Later he returned to Cincinnati, where he was a baritone and teacher of music. At the age of 56, he began painting in earnest. Berne received instruction in painting at the Cincinnati Art Academy with Frank Myers and Carl Zimmerman...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Jazzy" Diptych by Natalia Aandewiel - Large Expressionist Jazz Band Figurative
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...
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Walking Buddhist Monks, Impressionist Oil Painting by Bui Van Hoan
Located in Long Island City, NY
An original painting of Buddhist Monks heading in a line through the forest by well-regarded contemporary artist Bui Van Hoan (1971 - ). The painting measures 38 x 27.5 inches and ...
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Couple Dancing at Sunset - Bay Area Figurative School
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderfully expressive Bay Area Figurative School piece featuring a silhouette of a couple in a dynamic and colorful sunset landscape scene ...
Category
1970s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Shuk Machane Yehuda Jerusalem Market Israeli Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
similar in style to David Azuz a new Expressionist Israeli market scene possibly by Roz Rice.
Category
1970s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Graphite
Hello Loretta
By Rob Lynch
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original oil on MDF by contemporary conceptual painter Rob Lynch.
This work was part of a recent pop up exhibition The Dreamer Who Dreams, which was curated to raise money for Th...
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Fiberboard
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