Impressionist Figurative Paintings
IMPRESSIONIST STYLE
Emerging in 19th-century France, Impressionist art embraced loose brushwork and plein-air painting to respond to the movement of daily life. Although the pioneers of the Impressionist movement — Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir — are now household names, their work was a radical break with an art scene led and shaped by academic traditions for around two centuries. These academies had oversight of a curriculum that emphasized formal drawing, painting and sculpting techniques and historical themes.
The French Impressionists were influenced by a group of artists known as the Barbizon School, who painted what they witnessed in nature. The rejection of pieces by these artists and the later Impressionists from the salons culminated in a watershed 1874 exhibition in Paris that was staged outside of the juried systems. After a work of Monet’s was derided by a critic as an unfinished “impression,” the term was taken as a celebration of their shared interest in capturing fleeting moments as subject matter, whether the shifting weather on rural landscapes or the frenzy of an urban crowd. Rather than the exacting realism of the academic tradition, Impressionist paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings represented how an artist saw a world in motion.
Many Impressionist painters were inspired by the perspectives in imported Japanese prints alongside these shifts in European painting — Édouard Manet drew on ukiyo-e woodblock prints and depicted Japanese design in his Portrait of Émile Zola, for example. American artists such as Mary Cassatt and William Merritt Chase, who studied abroad, were impacted by the work of the French artists, and by the late 19th century American Impressionism had its own distinct aesthetics with painters responding to the rapid modernization of cities through quickly created works that were vivid with color and light.
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Style: Impressionist
Looking outside
Located in PUIFLIJK, NL
Francien Krieg, a contemporary Dutch artist, gives a new dimension to figurative painting with her penetrating and unfiltered portraits. Krieg, who received her art education at the ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
1950s French Post Impressionist Oil Painting Windswept Beach & Seascape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Windswept Beach
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Gentleman in Tailcoat
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Strong impressionist work by young St. Petersburg-based painter, Ilya Zlobin. Having graduated from the prestigious Repin Academy several years ago, Zlobin is a well-known up-and-co...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Camouflage VI
Located in Singapore, SG
Camouflage VI has been inspired by Klimt's living, breathing woman with a brooding air—rather than a serene, mythical being. As a female subject, she is a strong, expressive woman ca...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Lavandaie, ca 1905
Located in BLARICUM, NL
OTTO VAN REES
Freiburg im Breisgau 1884-1957 Utrecht
WASSENDE VROUWEN I LAVANDAIE
1905
Oil on canvas
43 x 52 cm.
Signed: lower left ‘OvR’
Particularities: ID 35.
Provenance: Pri...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"An Afternoon Along the Seine, Paris" Impressionist Oil Painting on Canvas Scene
Located in New York, NY
An exceptional impressionistic depiction of an afternoon along the Seine in Paris by Mario Passoni, on a spring day with the busy activities of people wa...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Young Woman
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Sergei Besedin was born in the village of Ruska near the Ukrainian city of Lozovaya. He was born into a working class family who were staunch communists. Besedin, shortly after the R...
Category
1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Time Flies but Memory Stays
Located in Singapore, SG
Time flies but memories stay in the mind along with feelings. Some of the memories we may let dry and wither like leaves that fall from the tree and some we...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"l'Auberge de la Place au Manège", Gerard Valtier, Oil on Canvas, French, Hotel
Located in Dallas, TX
"l'Auberge de la Place au Manege" by Gerard Valtier is an original oil on canvas that measures 29x36 inches. Valtier uses many different bright and vivid c...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ginevra de Benci
By Brett Osborn
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Brett Eric Osborn was born in Lima, Ohio in 1963. Both his father and his cousin are artists and influenced the young Osborn during his formative years. Brett recalls being a child d...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sur le Bosphone, On the Bosphorus, Orientalist Beautiful Girl in Boat
Located in Miami, FL
The key to this painting's charm is that the subject is a beautiful young woman who is showing her face. She lounges comfortably in a carpeted boat with a lute by her side, running...
Category
1980s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
In The Bride's Shop, Lord & Taylor
Located in Miami, FL
Signed lower right
Printer's and designer's marks in margins
"Tool pearls in bodice, train & headband & ribbon under bosom."
Ex-collection photographer Frank Paulin...
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1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Noonday Sail
Located in Greenwich, CT
Painting of a young boy with a toy sailboat in the water.
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Summer Fun - Sand Wagon
Located in Washington, DC
Contemporary impressionist. New
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Meadow Painting Poppies Flowers
Located in Sempach, LU
Meadow painting, vibrant colors of the blossom meadow landscape, textured painting would be a great addition to your oil painting collection. The texture and strokes can be seen in t...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Nude woman
Located in Sempach, LU
“The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.” Lucian Freud.
"Nudes are interesting to paint; I've had people say my Ladies are ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Huge 19th century painting - Musical picnic - Elegant Group in a landscape
By Rudolf Alfred Hoger
Located in Antwerp, BE
Romantic painting depicting a peaceful get-together in a park by Rudolf Alfred Höger
The elegantly dressed people are indulging in a delicious "al fresco" picnic on green hill on a ...
Category
19th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The White Scarf (Self Portrait of the Artist)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The White Scarf (Self Portrait of the Artist)
Oil on board, 1894
Signed and dated lower left: E M Heller '94 (see image)
Framed in a metal leaf Whistler style frame, Frame: 23 x 18-...
Category
1890s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Figures in a Street - Normandy - Impressionist Figurative Oil - Stanislas Lepine
By Stanislas Victor Édouard Lépine
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed figures in landscape oil on canvas circa 1860 by French impressionist painter Stanislas Lepine. The piece depicts a daytime view of a bustling street in Normandy on a cloudy d...
Category
1860s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Impressionist Framed Beach Scene Signed Elegant Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive American impressionist beach scene painting. Oil on board. Framed. Signed.
Category
1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Reverie - Neo-Impressionist Nude Figurative Oil Painting by Georges Lemmen
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and titled oil on board nude circa 1905 by Belgian neo-impressionist painter Georges Lemmen. The work titled 'Reverie' depicts a red-haired lady who is kneeling down and resti...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Portrait of Franklin Atwood Park, VP of Singer Mfg. Co.
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of Franklin Atwood Park, VP of Singer Mfg. Co.
Stately portrait of Franklin Atwood Park by Arthur Trevethin Nowell (British, 1862-1940). Park is sitting for a classical por...
Category
1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
At the Bend - Abstracted Russian Landscape Yuri Gusev
By Yuri Gusev
Located in Soquel, CA
Impressionist landscape of a river at the edge of the woods by Yuri Gusev (Russian, b. 1928). There is a kneeling figure between the trees in the foreground. Presented in a pink-hued...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
"El Omda" Oil painting 19" x 19" inch by Omar Abdel Zaher
Located in Culver City, CA
"El Omda" Oil painting 19" x 19" inch by Omar Abdel Zaher
Abdel Zaher is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Helwan and has been painting for three decades and has notably fea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Egg Girl Flying
Located in Sempach, LU
At first viewing, Egg Girl may come across as humorous, quirky, flippant or even clever. However, there may also be a deeper meaning in the work. The Egg Girl wants to be seen, but she does not want to reveal herself entirely. So, on a human level, Egg Girl is symbolic of the masks we wear, the devices we use to hide ourselves even as we reveal ourselves; to the world and to the judgement of others.
How my Eggs came about.
I wanted something to change my world, a painting that would make that happen. I wanted something I’d never seen before in the art world. I used to sit for hours late at night thinking about what to paint to make that change. It was Egg lady...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Taurus" Oil painting 29" x 29" inch by Omar Abdel Zaher
Located in Culver City, CA
"Taurus" Oil painting 29" x 29" inch by Omar Abdel Zaher
Abdel Zaher is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Helwan and has been painting for three decades and has notably feat...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Hummas Merchant" Oil painting 35" x 35" inch by Omar Abdel Zaher
Located in Culver City, CA
"Hummas Merchant" Oil painting 35" x 35" inch by Omar Abdel Zaher
Abdel Zaher is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Helwan and has been painting for three decades and has no...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Woman in a Forest Glade" Robert Lewis Reid, American Impressionist, French Lady
By Robert Reid
Located in New York, NY
Robert Lewis Reid
Woman in a Forest Glade
Oil on canvas
36 x 27 inches
Provenance:
Petersen Galleries, Beverly Hills, California
Hirschl & Adler Gal...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Historical Painting - First Thanksgiving, Plymouth - Jennie Brownscombe
Located in Baltimore, MD
Jennie Augusta Brownscombe was born in a log cabin in Honesdale, Pa in 1850. She went past her modest roots to attend Cooper Union and the National Academy in New York. By 1890, ...
Category
1910s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Stowe Vermont Village Sleigh Ride, Mid Century Winter Figurative Landscape
By Walter Thomas Sacks
Located in Soquel, CA
Stowe Vermont Village Sleigh Ride - Mid Century Winter Figurative Landscape
A bright, crisp morning and a sleigh ride through new snow in Stowe, Vermont...
Category
1940s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Lilacs on the table in the garden" Oil cm. 140 x 125
Located in Torino, IT
Lilac, garden, flowers, violet,Ukraine
Very important work
Georgij MOROZ (Dneprodzerzinsk, Ucraina, 1937 - St. Petersburg, 2015)
1937: he was born in Dneprodzerzinsk, Ucraina.
1949-56: he began artistic studies in Dneprodzerzinsk and later he attended the School of Fine Arts in Kiev.
1956-62: he attended the Academy of Fine Art of Saint Petersburg.
1960: he began his activity taking part in many exhibitions in Russia and abroad.
1973: member of the Union of the Artists.
1980: exhibitions in Austria, Hungary, Japan...
Category
1990s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
" lilac" Spring, Flowers, Violet, Pink , Impressionistcm. 70 x 64
Located in Torino, IT
Lilac,Spring,Flowers,Violet,Pink,Russia,impressionist
Published in a monographic catalogue
Georgij MOROZ (Dneprodzerzinsk, Ucraina, 1937 - St. Petersburg, 2015)
1937: he was born ...
Category
1990s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
English River landscape, with Swans on the Thames at Temple Lock near London UK
Located in Woodbury, CT
English River landscape, with Church and River at Sunset, Abingdon on the Thames. England
Wonderful scene of Abingdon on the Thames by one of Englands best known landscape painters....
Category
1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman by The Lake - Late 19th Century Figurative Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous 19th Century figurative landscape of a woman by a lake looking wistfully at boaters by J. Glover (American, 19th Century), c.1870's. Signed lower left "J. Glover." Unframed....
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Clown with Birthday Bouquet - Oil and Ink on Cardstock
Located in Soquel, CA
Clown with Bouquet - Acrylic and Ink on Cardstock
Colorful portrait of a clown holding a bouquet of flowers by Jassen Marek (20th Century). A sad clown in a suit with a straw hat ho...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Illustration Board, Oil, Pen
French School - Summer in La Baule VI Oil painting Iconic Post Impressionist
Located in Sempach, LU
Summer in La Baule VI Sun Bathing
Summer Scene: Women enjoying sunbathing in La Baule VI
Technique: oil, acrylic, and ink on old book pages on wooden frame 30x30cm ■■ 11,8x11,8 inc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Oil, Acrylic
Plateau de Vaucluse, Mt Ventoux - 21st Century Plein air Landscape Painting
By Jos Leurs
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Jos Leurs
Plateau e Vaucluse Mont Ventoux
60 x 70 cm
acrylic on canvas
not framed, frame is possible.
Jos Leurs is a Dutch Impressionistic Plein Air Painter who lived in France for ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Egg girl in green
Located in Sempach, LU
02 / 10 / 2023 I signed a book contract for Egg Island; it will now go through the publishing process and will be in print next year.
I was overwhelmed by the editorial board's fee...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Reclining Nude Figure
By David Hunt
Located in Soquel, CA
This original painting is a beautifully depicted nude figure study in a cozy interior space with southwest elements by San Jose, California artist David D....
Category
1990s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Landscape oil on cardboard painting impressionism spanish
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Joaquin Terruella Matilla (1891-1957) - Landscape - Oil cardboard
Oil measures 33x41 cm.
Frame measures 47x55 cm.
Joaquim Terruella Matilla (1891 - 1957)
Joaquim Terruella Matilla,...
Category
1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
MAURICE MAZEILIE-FRENCH IMPRESSIONIST SIGNED WATERCOLOUR- Figure On Cloudy Beach
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Watercolour Beach Scene"
signed by Maurice Mazeilie (French)
watercolour painting on paper, unframed
stamped verso
painting: 7.5 x 10.75 inches
A delightful original oil painting ...
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20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
1930's French Portrait of Lady Impressionist Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Impressionist artist, circa 1930
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 22 x 18 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: very good and sound condition
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Impressionist School - PS 239 Sed Non Satiata - Oil
Located in Sempach, LU
PS 239 Sed non Satiata
Portrait of a naked woman with blue hair.
Structural analysis:
Such as Impressionist painting, the subject is firstly a study of light on human body, creat...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Oil, Acrylic
River Seine Banks by René THOMSEN
By René Thomsen
Located in Pasadena, CA
THOMSEN René
Born in Paris in 1897 and died in 1976 in Paris.
20th century. French.
Painter of figures, nudes, portraits, landscape, still life, flowers.
Pupil of Louis ...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Knud Sinding, Kitchen Interior With Mother & Child, Oil Painting
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This charming early-20th-century oil painting by Danish artist Knud Sinding (1898-1947) depicts a kitchen interior with mother and child.
A gentle br...
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1910s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Gardeuse de Moutons - Impressionist Figure in Landscape Oil by Julien Dupre
By Julien Dupré
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed impressionist oil on canvas figure and animals in landscape by French painter Julien Dupre. The work depicts a shepherdess resting on a log as her sheep graze in the green mea...
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1880s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"The Kiss - In Paris" Figures Kissing in Paris with Poodle Oil Painting on Paper
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
Exploring the purity of the feminine form and the excitement of High-End Fashion, artist Cindy Shaoul creates a dialogue between the figurative and the abstract. Her spirited composi...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Archival Paper
Capitola, California, 1950s Framed California Seascape Marine Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Capitola (California) is an oil on board painting by Jon Blanchette (1908-1987) circa 1955. Marine seascape painting with crashing waves and buildings along the coast painted in shad...
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1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
1890's French Impressionist Oil Painting Studio Portrait of a Nude Lady Model
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Studio Model
French Impressionist artist, circa 1890's
oil on canvas: 27.5 x 16.5 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: very good and sound condition
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tom Nicholas, N.A., AWS, figure and landscape painting "Wash Day, Vermont"
Located in Rockport, MA
A wonderful 16"x20" Tom Nicholas.
Tom Nicholas, N.A., AWS was born in Middletown, Connecticut in 1934. From 1953 to 1956 he was a scholarship student at the School of Visual Arts, N...
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20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Freight Dock
By John Rockwell
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Freight Dock" is an original oil on canvas by noted American artist John Rockwell, 1902-1960 It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist, and also signe...
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1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Woman in Black Dress Pulp Art Portrait/Couple Dancing Figurative, 2 sided
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful two-sided mid century pulp art figurative painting of a woman at party in black evening gown and formal gloves, and on verso couple dancing by unkno...
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1960s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic, Cardboard
Semi-Nude Lady in the Courtyard of the Harem
Located in West Sussex, GB
Konstantin Razumov
(Born 1974) Russian
Semi-Nude Lady Standing in the Courtyard of the Harem
Oil on canvas: 16 x 11 inches. Frame: 23 x 18 inches.
Konstantin Razumov's work has ...
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2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Wagon on the Road, Early 20th Century Landscape with Donkeys
Located in Soquel, CA
Quaint early 20th century landscape of an old man traveling down a dirt road in a covered wagon led by two donkeys and a dog, through rolling hills and wildflowers, by S. Bassett Wei...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Spanish flamenco dance oil on board painting impressionism Spain
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Joaquin Terruella Matilla (1891-1957) - Flamenco - Oil board
Oil measures 35x39 cm.
Frame measures 40x44 cm.
Joaquim Terruella Matilla (1891 - 1957)
Joaquim Terruella Matilla, neph...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Female figure woman oil on canvas painting portrait
By Joan Palet
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Joan Palet (1911 - 1996) - Female figure - Oil on canvas
Oil measures 27x22 cm.
Frame measures 44x39 cm.
Joan Palet was born in Barcelona on March 28, 1911 in a family of sculptors ...
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1970s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
1950s French Oil Painting Sand Dunes Beach with Huts & Boats Atmospheric Work
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
1950s French Post Impressionist Green Landscape Distant View over Fields
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
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