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
Oranges. Montilla Oil on canvas. Orange, Yelow, Fuchsia Expressionist Still-Life
Located in Segovia, ES
"Oranges" oil on canvas. Expressionist colorful still life.
Measurements: (H) 61 x (W) 46 x (D) 2 cm.
Framed: (H) 81 x (W) 66 x (D) 4 cm
Expressionist still life with ...
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Two Girls in School, Expressionist Portrait by Philadelphia Artist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Two Girls in School" is a painting by Philadelphia born Expressionist painter Bernard Harmon. The 36" x 40.25" oil on board portrait of two figures is painted in a vibrant color palette. The painting is framed in a new, black wood frame and signed "Harmon" on verso. There is a second portrait the artist painted on the back of the painting. Figurative expressionism in the style of Alice Neel.
Bernard Harmon was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1935. Harmon was primarily a portrait painter and a well loved teacher in the Philadelphia area. A graduate of the Philadelphia Museum School and Temples Tyler School of Art, Harmon traveled extensively in Europe and South America. Beloved by many, Harmon taught in the Philadelphia School District for 32 of his 54 years of life. Beginning his career as an art teacher at West Philadelphia High School, in the early 1960s he became one of the district's artists in residence, traveling from school to school to demonstrate for students how an artist works. Returning to the classroom, Harmon joined the art department at Central High School where he taught for 14 years and became an innovator in art curriculum, developing a program offering advanced placement art classes to gifted students. In his final years Harmon became a supervisor, mentoring teachers and overseeing programs in the Philadelphia school systems District #1. During his short life Harmon taught collage preparatory art classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, summer classes at the University of the Arts, and a Saturday program for gifted children at Drexel University. Among Harmon's portraits were commissioned by Philadelphia Jazz organist Jimmy Smith and Mayor Richardson Dilworth. Bernard Harmon was active in promoting African American Artist throughout his life time. He organized many early shows such as the "Afro American Artists...
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
While I Wait
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
While I Wait is an original painting by Joseph Christian Ekom-Obong. Joseph created While I Wait with Oil on a 36W by 48H inches primed canvas.
The artwork titled "While I Wait" depicts a black young lady who is expectant of love and all the good things that come with it. The artwork is a beautiful representation of hope, patience, and the human desire for companionship and love.
The artwork features a young woman standing in the center of the canvas, with her eyes opened and her arms slightly extended as if she is waiting to be embraced by someone. She is dressed in a simple yet elegant dress, which symbolizes her purity and innocence. Her hair is styled in a natural Afro, which adds to the authenticity and realism of the artwork.
The artist has used a warm color palette in the background, which creates a cozy and intimate atmosphere. The use of warm colors such as orange and yellow also symbolizes love, passion, and warmth, which are all the emotions that the young lady is waiting to experience.
One of the most striking features of the artwork is the expression on the young lady's face. She has a serene and peaceful expression, which indicates that she is content and at peace with herself. However, there is also a hint of anticipation and longing in her eyes, which reveals that she is waiting for someone special to come into her life.
The title of the artwork, "While I Wait," adds to the emotional depth of the piece. It suggests that the young lady has been waiting for a long time and that she is willing to wait patiently for as long as it takes to find the love and happiness that she desires.
The artwork is a beautiful representation of the human experience of longing and waiting for love. It is a universal theme that is relevant to people of all ages and backgrounds. Joseph Christian Ekom-Obong has captured this theme with great skill and sensitivity, creating an artwork that is both visually stunning and emotionally moving.
In conclusion, the artwork titled "While I Wait" is a beautiful and poignant representation of the human experience of waiting for love. The young lady in the artwork is a symbol of hope, patience, and the unending desire for companionship and love. The artwork is a powerful reminder that no matter how long we have to wait, love is always worth waiting for.
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Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gallery)
About Artist
Joseph Christian Ekomobong is a Nigerian-born expressionist artist that specializes in painting and drawing. He holds a National Certificate in Education in Fine and Applied Arts from the Federal College Of Education Osiele Abeokuta Ogun State. He however obtains a bachelor’s degree in Fine and Industrial Arts from the Federal University of Uyo, Akwa-Ibom State.
His works are inspired by the marginalization faced by Africans due to their unique skin color, the beauty it has, rich history, and diverse cultural heritage, and how it reflects the memories of the black community. Joseph expresses himself through utilizing both canvas and card, intertwined with African symbols...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman with horses. 1974. Cardboard, tempera. 37.8x42cm
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...
Category
1970s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Cardboard
What Next?
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Don't feel anxious and frightened, if you worry too much, it turns into a burden that becomes hard to bear and can lead to difficulties in the state of mind. You should not retreat but prevail by standing tall. As you get older, life becomes more challenging. Life is always full of expectations. Never dwell in the past, but Embrace the present and look into the future...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
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...
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
LOVELY MUSIC
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. Certificate of authenticity ...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$3,500 Sale Price
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"Donna con calze Rosse" Olio su cartone cm. 50 x 70 1984
Located in Torino, IT
Figura femminile con calze rosse
Edgardo CORBELLI (Turin, 1918 - 1989)
From the traditional composition of the 1930s, the painting of Corbelli leads to technical and expressive resu...
Category
1980s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
American Modernist Oil Painting Expressionist Vase, Flowers WPA Artist Ben ZIon
Located in Surfside, FL
Ben-Zion (1897-1987)
Flower Piece with Black Vase
Oil on board, Hand signed 'Ben-Zion ' lower right, with the artist 's label and label from Duveen-Graham gallery, NY.
16 x 7 3/4 in., unframed as intended,
Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual works as a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Influenced by Spinoza, Knut Hamsun, and Wladyslaw Reymont, as well as Hebrew literature, Ben-Zion wrote poetry and essays that, like his visual work, attempt to reveal the deep “connection between man and the divine, and between man and earth.”
An emigrant from the Ukraine, he came to the US in 1920. He wrote fairy tales and poems in Hebrew under the name Benzion Weinman, but when he began painting he dropped his last name and hyphenated his first, saying an artist needed only one name.
Ben-Zion was a founding member of “The Ten: An Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s avant-garde group, Painted on anything handy. Ben-Zion often used cabinet doors (panels) in his work. Other members of group included Ilya Bolotowsky, Lee Gatch, Adolf Gottlieb, Louis Harris, Yankel Kufeld, Marcus Rothkowitz (later known as Mark Rothko), Louis Schanker, and Joseph Solman. Over the course of the group's existence, seventeen artists exhibited as members of The Ten at nine different shows. The group's nine shows were held at galleries and locations around New York City, including one international exhibition in Paris. David Burliuk, Lee Gatch, John Graham, Earl Kerkam, Karl Knaths, Edgar Levy, Jean Liberté...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Shepherd. Oil on canvas and cardboard, 24 x 26 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Shepherd. Oil on canvas and cardboard, 24 x 26 cm
Victor Karnauh (1950, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 2012, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine) – a painter, a monument designer...
Category
1990s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Cardboard
Mother's portrait. 1917, oil on canvas, 60x50 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Mother's portrait. 1917, oil on canvas, 60x50 cm
With certificate of authenticity
Romans Suta
Born on April 28, 1896 in the vicinity of Cesis (Latvia), died on July 14, 1944 in T...
Category
1910s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tropical Magic. Tropical Magic. Landscape with Palms and Figures by M. Andrade
Located in Firenze, IT
Magda Andrade (Venezuela, 1912 - Paris, 1984)
Tropical Magic. Landscape with Palms and Figures
Oil on canvas, approx. 80 × 60 cm
Magda Andrade, born in Maracaibo in 1912 under th...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Modernist Family Outing with Dog (Picnic in the Park) Ben Benn Oil Painting WPA
By Ben Benn
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Modern
Subject: People
Medium: Acrylic
Surface: Canvas
Country: United States
Dimensions: 20" x 24"
Scene of a family leisurely gathering together in a park to picnic and enjoying their day by the artist Ben Benn.
Ben Benn, Russian/American (1884-1983)
Ben Benn, a Russian-born American still-life and Post Impressionist landscape painter who was part of the first generation of artists in America to try to digest the lessons of Cubism Benn Benn was a pioneer American modernist whose independent style defied stylistic classification. Despite excursions into Cubism and Abstract Expressionist style, Benn “seems always to have been a ‘subject’ painter. Considering this, it is remarkable that he remained visible at all during the 50’s and early 60’s, when prejudice against the representational amounted nearly to a proscription of it.” Benn’s prominence in the art world over 6 decades was reaffirmed at a 90th birthday show at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington , D.C. in 1974.
Benn was born Benjamin Rosenberg in the town of Kamenets Podolsk in the Russian empire in 1884. This town was the regional capital of an area in what is today, SW Ukraine, and was historically known as Podolia. the Rosenberg family chose, along with thousands of others, to immigrate from Podolia to the United States in 1894 or 1899. “Between 1904 and 1908 Benn attended the National Academy of Design and he studied at the Arts Students League In New York City. He spent most of his career in New York City including memberships with the American Society of Painters and Sculptors, American Artists Congress and the Woodstock Artist Association. Academy curriculum stressed portraiture built up with broad, painterly brushstrokes, a technique that remained the foundation of Benn’s style. In his first group show, in 1913, he exhibited with Max Weber and Man Ray. By the mid teens his canvases were bolder in color and more decorative in style. In 1916, Benn participated in the important "Forum Exhibition of Modern American Painters...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
They found the pike but it wasn’t alone
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original oil, oil stick and charcoal diptych painting on canvas by Contemporary female artist Dorothy Fitzgerald.
This monumental work measures 60" (h) x 120" (w)
This work was featured in the recent exhibition of The Corridors Gallery at Hotel Henry...
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
$10,800 Sale Price
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RED SHORE 2 - original painting by Paula Craioveanu Landscape
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"Red Shore 2 ", acrylic on canvas, 40x100cm,
Shipped strected. Comes with a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
American Modernist Oil Painting Gestural Landscape WPA Artist Group of 10
Located in Surfside, FL
Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual works as a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Influenced by Spinoza, Knut Hamsun, and Wladyslaw Reymont, as well as Hebrew literature, Ben-Zion wrote poetry and essays that, like his visual work, attempt to reveal the deep “connection between man and the divine, and between man and earth.”
An emigrant from the Ukraine, he came to the US in 1920. He wrote fairy tales and poems in Hebrew under the name Benzion Weinman, but when he began painting he dropped his last name and hyphenated his first, saying an artist needed only one name.
Ben-Zion was a founding member of “The Ten: An Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s avant-garde group, Painted on anything handy. Ben-Zion often used cabinet doors...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
South. 1993, oil on canvas, 55 x 60.1 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Roman Lapp (1961. 24. VII Moscow) – painter
Artist learned drawing to M. Zuhovickis.
He graduated Art Academy of Latvia, department of monumental painting (1988) with diploma work...
Category
1990s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,681 Sale Price
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"Famiglia" by Enzio Wenk, 2019 -Acrylic Paint on Canvas Figurative Expressionism
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Acrylic paint on canvas.
It features a painted wooden frame.
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Wood
Oil painting on board " Rough sea with sailboat on the horizon " by Marcic 1957
Located in Gavere, BE
Marcic Rudolf (Litija 1882-1960 Lovran)
Rough sea with sailboat on the horizon
Oil on hardboard. Signed and dated lower right. “(19)57”. 33 x 47 cm.
Rudolf MARCIC is an artist born...
Category
1950s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
"Rufous"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
The first my work that was sold in the gallery was a portrait of my cat! This cat walked freely on the street and had a very cool character. I loved him very much! ... Many years pas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Angel above the City 40X50
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this oil painting, I channeled expressionistic energy to capture a guardian of the urban expanse. Her elongated form, draped in ethereal fabric, glides over the cityscape, showeri...
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Christmas wish 60X90
Located in Zofingen, AG
In the soft embrace of oil pastels, I've lovingly woven a tapestry of pure innocence and wonder. My brushstrokes carry the gentle weight of dreams, as this young muse, with fairy win...
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Happy snowman 30X30
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this oil painting, I've captured a moment of pure, childlike wonder—a cheerful snowman set against a winter twilight. Its bright, lively colors evoke innocence and nostalgia, invi...
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Leo Ray, In the kitchen, Acrylic on canvas
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Leo Ray, In the Kitchen, bright colors, Great characters, naive art, figurative, cat on a table, acrylic paint, Israei artist , Israeli art
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sailing Ships, Oil Painting on Board
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Unknown
Title: Sailing Ships
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed "Thoms", lower left
Size: 24 x 20 inches
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Cinderella
By Jackie Felix
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original oil painting by American female artist Jackie Felix titled Cinderella from the artists Argentina Series.
Category
1980s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
"Venice" -Church of Santa Maria della Salute- 1964 oil cm. 73 x 92
Located in Torino, IT
Venice,Italy,Blue,
Edgardo CORBELLI (Turin, 1918 - 1989)
From the traditional composition of the 1930s, the painting of Corbelli leads to technical and expressive results dominated...
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$9,553 Sale Price
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Landscape, Acrylic on Canvas by Modern Artist Anita Roy Chowdhury "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Anita Roy Chowdhury - Landscape - 18 x 24 inches ( unframed size)
Acrylic on Canvas
Inclusive of shipped in roll form.
Style :
Her works manifest human figures, nude or draped in di...
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The Wagner Mirror
Located in Boston, MA
Signed top left: "Polonsky". Titled verso: "The Wagner Mirror".
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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...
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Vinyl
cold snap, strange character dressed for winter, red coat
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on wood
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Oil Painting Titled: Bacall
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Custom framed
Christina Major was born in Concord, New Hampshire in 1982. She has lived all over the world including Hawaii, France, New York and more currently Florida. Christina...
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Third Eye
Located in Buffalo, NY
An unsigned large scale oil on un-stretched canvas, created in the 1970's.
This work is meant to hang pinned to the wall.
Category
1970s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$3,500
Winter landscape. 1984, canvas, oil, 60x80 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Winter landscape. 1984, canvas, oil, 60x80 cm
Slepyshev Anatoly Stepanovich (1932 - 2016) - Soviet and Russian painter, sculptor, graphic artist.
Anatoly Slepyshev was a distinguished Russian artist and a recognised master who had a great talent and a distinctly recognisable style that cannot be confused with anyone. The most characteristic feature of his paintings is a swirl, maelstrom of colourful formations, vigorously, rapidly, almost frantically put on canvas in a burst of sudden emotion, of spontaneous sensuality. The artist brilliantly managed to blend the subjects of the Russian hinterland, simple village life with horse-driven carriages, small humble churches and familiar landscapes with refined, pompous images of French Rococo, the atmosphere inherent in the works of Jean-Antoine Watteau. This liberal, highly personal interpretation of the sophisticated French motifs of the XVIII century, processed by means of dashing Russian folklore, sometimes even containing vulgar, staggering elements, is very typical for many works by Slepyshev.
Solo exhibitions
1967 Exhibition of watercolors by Anatoly Slepyshev. Central House of Artist, Moscow
1970 Anatoly Slepyshev. Drawing. Central House of architect, Moscow
1971 Anatoly Slepyshev. Print workshop, Moscow
1976 Exhibition in the flat of art historian Leonid Bazhanov, Moscow
1981 Anatoly Slepyshev. Painting. House of scientists of the Scientific Center of the USSR Academy, Troitsk
1982–1983 Ausstelung Anatoli Slepyschev, Nicolai Grizjuk. Kleine Galerie Hoger Sweda, Berlin, Germany
1983 Anatoly Slepyshev. Puskin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
1984 Anatoly Slepyshev. Historical-Architectural and Art Museum of the New Jerusalem, Istra
1987 Anatoly Slepyshev. Exhibition of one picture. Dramatic theatre named after M. Ermolova, Moscow
Anatoly Slepyshev. Drawing. Central House of Artist, Moscow
1989 Anatoly Slepyshev. Painting. AZLK Palace, Moscow
Anatoly Slepyshev. MARS Gallery, Moscow
Anatoly Slepyshev. Drawing. Moscow Gallery, Moscow
Anatoly Slepyshev. Painting. Vadim Sidur...
Category
1980s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$6,496 Sale Price
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Cancer Dentist
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
Equilibrium in the High Wire
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Leandro Velasco, Colombian (1933 - )
Title: Equilibrium in the High Wire
Year: 1974
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated l.l.
Size: 60 x 50 in. (152.4 x 127 cm)
Category
1970s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
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...
Category
1920s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Jeremy on acid - Julien Wolf, 21st Century, Contemporary figurative painting
By Julien Wolf
Located in Paris, FR
Oil on canvas
Signed
Unique work
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cross My Heart
Located in Boston, MA
Signed lower left: “Freeman”. Artist’s frame.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Untitled" - Earth Tone Contemporary Expressionism Oil Painting of a Man
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...
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Stretcher Bars
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.
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Mother and Child by Béla Kádár - Work on paper
Located in London, GB
*PLEASE NOTE UK BUYERS WILL ONLY PAY 5% VAT ON THIS PURCHASE.
Mother and Child by BÉLA KÁDÁR (1877-1955)
Gouache on paper
86 x 56.8 cm (33 7/8 x 22 3/8 inches)
Signed lower right Kádár Béla
This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by Gábor Einspach on behalf of The First Hungarian Painting Expert's Office.
Provenance
Private collection, Israel
The Hungarian artist Béla Kádár was born in Budapest in 1877 to a working-class Jewish family. Following his father’s death, he was forced to start working from an early age after only six years to primary schooling and was apprenticed as an iron-turner. In 1902, Kádár attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest. After leaving the Academy, he worked at a mural painting company. Only when he visited Berlin and Paris and being exposed to the avant-garde art of the time, did Kádár direct his attention to painting once again. In 1910, the artist won the Kohner prize, and the same year he was awarded his first solo exhibition at the Hungarian National Gallery. By 1918, Kádár moved to Western Europe. Today he is one of the most famous members of the early twentieth-century Hungarian avant-garde.
Over the course of his time living in Berlin, Kádár’s style changed. His expressionistic, graphic works were gradually replaced by paintings that were more romantic and delicate in nature. Incorporating and often synthesising stylistic elements of Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, Neo-Primitivism and German Expressionism, Kádár’s decorative and metaphysical subject matter was often based upon traditional Hungarian folklore, and his subject-matter became increasingly narrative. His paintings in this period often feature surrealistic dream-like imagery, reminiscent of compositions by Marc Chagall. Despite his variety of subjects, ranging from abstracted figures and landscapes to interiors and objects, his paintings are typically rendered in a bright, jewel-toned palette and feature a fractured approach to rendering space.
In 1923 in Berlin, Kádár was invited by Herwath Walden to exhibit at the highly influential Galerie Der Sturm...
Category
1930s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Coffee Peloton Series XVIII, Eliza Southwood, Original Coffee Painting, Cycling
Located in Deddington, GB
Coffee Peloton Series XVIII by Eliza Southwood [2021]
original
Coffee on paper
Image size: H:41.5 cm x W:59 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:41.5 cm x W:59 cm x D:0.1cm
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Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Coffee
At the autumn garden. Oil on cardboard, 80 x 57 cm
Located in Riga, LV
At the autumn garden. Oil on cardboard, 80x57 cm
Janis Rikmanis (1901.5.IV – 1968.25.III)
graduated Figurative painting studio of Latvia Art academy (1931).
He took part in exhibiti...
Category
1950s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
$1,528 Sale Price
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He grabs it by the tail - Julien Wolf, Contemporary Expressionist Painting
By Julien Wolf
Located in Paris, FR
Oil on canvas
2019
Signed
Unique work
Julien Wolf is a French painter who was born in Strasbourg in 1981, France.
He graduated in 2007 at the DNSEP Art and Decorative Art section a...
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Odalisque yellow" Oil , cm. 40 x 50 1937 free shipping
Located in Torino, IT
Odalisque ,yellow,orange, orient
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...
Category
1930s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$6,496 Sale Price
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"Donna con vestito rosso" olio cm. 50 x 70 1979
Located in Torino, IT
woman,red, Italian painter
Edgardo CORBELLI (Turin, 1918 - 1989)
From the traditional composition of the 1930s, the painting of Corbelli leads to technical and expressive results do...
Category
1970s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$5,374 Sale Price
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Collective farmer. 1980, watercolor on paper, 57, 5x58 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Collective farmer. 1980, watercolor on paper, 57,5x58 cm
Dzidra Bauma (1930)
Dzidra Bauma works in watercolor technique. She paint figural compositions,...
Category
1980s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$917 Sale Price
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Research & Development Figural 3 & 4
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
A pair of paintings in one singular frame presentation by American contemporary artist Bruce Adams
Art is the R&D for culture. Artists Conduct the R&D for society. In the late tw...
Category
1990s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
"Il motivo di un viaggio" by Enzio Wenk, 2006- Acrylic on Metal, Urban Landscape
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "The reason for a trip"
Acrylic on metal plate.
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Metal
Pilgrims Waiting at the Gate, Women in the Arts, Hope and Wisdom, Oil, Nature
Located in Houston, TX
Pilgrims Waiting at the Gate shows that flowers, birds and snow are symbols for emotional states or story elements. Dogs sometimes accompany the pale bald “Everywoman” protagonist on her journeys that often take place beneath a starry moonlit sky. She has been called a mythic artist, telling ancient stories that never grow old. Pilgrims are beneath the Moon approaching the Gate as seen in Pilgrims at the Gate in the oil painting on canvas. LOOK FOR 1STDIBS DISCOUNT CODE ON SHIPPING OR GALLERY QUOTE
The artists says: "I love to show the strength and optimistic attributes of women. Even when they are in a quandary or in danger, I always try to show a glimmer of hope and wisdom—that they will solve the riddle and make it through, stronger and with dignity. Being bald and shorn of any particular identity, they become all women.”
She is also a published poet and her paintings have appeared as cover art for literary journals and poetry collections. Recently her painting “Thoreau’s Pumpkin” was included in the Hudson River Museum...
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Woman portrait. 1955, oil on canvas, 50.8 x 40.6 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Woman portrait. 1955, oil on canvas, 50.8 x 40.6 cm
Provenance Bonhams
Category
1950s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$11,464 Sale Price
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Shark Attack
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original mixed media acrylic and ink painting by French American artist James Beaudin.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Ink, Panel
Freelance., Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Igor Shulman
Located in Yardley, PA
The era of freelancing is long overdue. And some all think that this is some kind of misunderstanding. Global changes have improved my life. But I've been freelancing all my life. An...
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fish and Bicycles # 12
By Bruce Adams
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original oil on paper by contemporary artist Bruce Adams from his Fish and Bicycles series. This work is currently part of an exhibition at Benjaman Gallery "Over the Fence".
This piece comes framed in an archival natural wood frame presentation.
The Fish and Bicycle series employs a similar strategy as my Men at Work series. This time the subject matter includes both men and women (exhibited in pairs) representing a range of gender identities. The title is derived from Irina Dunn’s witty statement (often erroneously attributed to Gloria Steinem...
Category
1980s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper
Untitled (Support series)
By Robert Fleming
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original oil on mylar by American contemporary artist Robert Fleming from the artist's Support Series.
The work is 36" (h) x 40" (w) unframed.
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Oil
Divine Joanna Flatau Contemporary art portrait painting colour woman red blue
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas
Unique work
Hand-signed lower right by the artist
Joanna Flatau was born in Varsaw, Poland.
She graduated from Varsaw History of Arts University and from th...
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Sing it Cindy or High C
By Jackie Felix
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original oil painting by American female artist Jackie Felix titled Sing it Cindy, or High C.
Category
1980s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Expressionist figurative paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
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