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
Period: 1920s
East Indian (Impressionist Figure)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Marian D. Harris (1904-1988). East Indian, 1925. Oil on artist's board, 9 x 12 inches; 12 x 15 inches in wood frame. Signed lower right. Annotated on verso by Harris. Signed, titled ...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
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Panel, Oil
'Agay, le château et le Sémaphore'. Oil on canvas. Signed.
Located in Paris, FR
'Agay, le château et le Sémaphore'.
Oil on canvas. +/- 1922
Signed lower right
Measurements : 60 x 73 cm.
This painting will be recorded in the second volume of the Catalogue Raisonn...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
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Oil
Gibson Girls - Set of Two 1920's Portraits, Vintage Fashion Illustrations
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous pair of two 1920's watercolor portraits of Gibson girls, one in blue and one in pink, by Charles Hollman (Dutch, 1877-1953). Each portrait renders...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
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Watercolor, Paper
Moored Boats - Martigues - Impressionist Landscape Oil by Georges Lapchine
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on board landscape circa 1920 by Russian impressionist painter Georges Lapchin. The work depicts moored boats at a port in Martigues in the South of France. It is a bright...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
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Oil, Board
Early 20th Century French Landscape -- Home On The Coast Brittany
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful Brittany, France coastal landscape depicting a cottage and a lone farmer by A. Henry (French, 20th Century),circa 1920. Signed "A. Henry" lower right. Unframed. Image, 16"H...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
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Oil, Canvas
Impressionist Reclining Nude laying on a bed
Located in Woodbury, CT
Count Albert de BELLEROCHE 1864–1944
Painter of portraits and genre, and lithographer; influenced by Impressionism. Born 22 October 1864 in Swansea, of Huguenot descent. Brought up b...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
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Oil
A Cloudy Day, English Impressionist River Landscape with figure and cottage
Located in Woodbury, CT
A Cloudy Day, English Impressionist River Landscape with figure and cottage, circa 1922.
Alexander Fuller Maitland painted coastal subjects and marines. Exhibited thirteen works, in...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
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Oil
"Women at the Well" - Tucson, Arizona Southwestern Figurative Landscape
By William Constable Adam
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous early 19th Century Native American figurative landscape of women at well in Tucson, Arizona by William Constable Adams (American, 1846 - 1931),...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Coucher de Soleil sur la Montagne - 19th Century Oil, Mountain Landscape - Duhem
By Henri Duhem
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Oil on panel by Henri Duhem depicting an elegant woman walking by trees in a landscape with the colours of the setting sun reflecting from the mountains beyond. Signed lower right an...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
In the Lot Valley - Impressionist Oil, Figure in Landscape by Henri Duhem
By Henri Duhem
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and dated figure in landscape oil on panel by French impressionist painter Henri Duhem. The work depicts a woman in a summer dress and bonnet walking beside a tree lined wall ...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
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Oil, Panel
Les Jouers de Cartes (The Card Players), Aquatint Etching After Paul Cezanne
Located in Long Island City, NY
An etching with aquatint by Jaques Villon after Cezanne of the painting Les Jouers de Cartes. Signed and numbered in pencil by Villon, matted and framed ...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
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Etching, Aquatint
Market in Paris, European Town Scene with Figures, American Impressionist, 1922
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Parisian Market" is a European townscape and market Scene by American Impressionist painter Albert Van Nesse Greene, featuring towns people at a busy outdoor market.
The painting i...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Mont Riant sur Vevey - 19th Century Oil, Figure by Lake in Landscape by H Duhem
By Henri Duhem
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Oil on panel by Henri Duhem depicting a lone figure walking across a landscape as the setting sun reflects on the lake beyond as the mountain darken on the horizon. Signed lower righ...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Portrait of a Woman lost in Thought
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated 1924 upper right
Simplified forms, geometricized volumes and restricted color palette characterizes this work.
Zabriskie Gallery Label on verso
Original period frame
Kenneth Hayes Miller taught at the Art Students League from 1911 until 1951. Some of his students were: Reginald Marsh, George Bellows, George Tooker, Rockwell Kent, Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Patrick Henry Bruce
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
'After Mass, Brittany', Société des Artistes Française, Honfleur Museum, Benezit
By Henri Lucien Joseph Buron
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Henri Buron' for Henri Lucien Joseph Buron (French, 1880-1969) and dated lower right 1927; additionally signed verso and dated.
The painting is displayed in a cu...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Moroccan Battle Scene, Orientalist Painting by Vincent Manago circa 1920
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Vincent Manago, French (1880 - 1936)
Title: Moroccan Battle Scene
Year: circa 1920
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.l.
Size: 26 in. x 36 in. (66.04 cm x 91.44 cm)
Frame Size:...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Hearts Unreasoning, by Sarah Bernhardt The First of Six Romances of the French S
Located in Miami, FL
Hearts Unreasoning, by Sarah Bernhardt The First of Six Romances of the French Stage -
McCall’s Magazine December 1920 interior illustration. The work is related to Shinn's fam...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
1920's Scottish Portrait of Gentleman David Ingles
By David Nicholson Ingles
Located in Soquel, CA
Evocative portrait of Scottish gentleman by David Nicholas Ingles Ingres ARHA (Associate member) (Scottish, 1888-1933), circa 1920. Signed lower rig...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
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Linen, Oil
"Woman Dressing"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to offer this work by Frederick Carl Frieseke (1874 – 1939).
Frederick Carl Frieseke was a member of the third generation of American painters to inhabit and find inspiration from Giverny, France. His use of bright colors and light, to depict the female figure, defined the style of the Giverny group during his residence, synthesizing aspects of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism.
Born in the United States, Frieseke studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League in New York. In 1898, he moved to Paris to enroll in the Académie Julian, where he studied under Benjamin Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens. During this time, Frieseke also briefly studied with James A. Whistler, who would prove to be a great inspiration in Frieseke’s early works. From Whistler, Frieseke adopted a tonalist palette and a decorative approach to figurative painting.
While in Paris, Frieseke’s works were featured at the American Art Association of Paris and in several annual salon exhibitions. His painting, “Before the Mirror...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Figures by a Canal - Impressionist Oil, Autumn Landscape by Henri Duhem
By Henri Duhem
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Oil on panel by French Impressionist painter Henri Duhem depicting an autumnal landscape. Two figures are by the canal beneath almost bare trees while a barge sails by, and the sun s...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
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Panel, Oil
Waterways (Lysekil, Sweden), 1930s Large Framed Seascape Landscape Oil Painting
By Carl Lindin
Located in Denver, CO
Waterways is an original 1920s-1930s signed framed oil painting of sailboats in off the coast of Lysekil, Sweden by Swedish-American Woodstock artist, Carl Lindin (1869-1942). Prese...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Primrose Bouquet
Located in Pasadena, CA
Oil on canvas not framed representing a bouquet of primroses in the style of the fawn impressionist painter. The painting is signed
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tending the Garden - 19th Century Oil, Figure by Cottage Landscape - Henri Duhem
By Henri Duhem
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Oil on panel by Henri Duhem depicting a man digging in a garden beside a cottage. Signed lower left and dated 1928 verso. This painting is not currently framed but a suitable frame c...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Early 20th C. Figurative Landscape - Conversation on the San Francisco Pier
By Gus Johnson
Located in Soquel, CA
Early 20th Century oil painting of men having a conversation on the San Francisco, California pier with boats in the distance by Gus Johnson (American, 19th century), 1928. Signed on the lower right. Unframed. Image size, 23"H x 32"L.
Johnson was a regular outdoor painter on the California coastal regions during the 1920s-50s. He enjoyed painting scenes on San Francisco Bay near Sausalito and Marin California.
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Early 20th Century Portrait of a Baby
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of a calm resting baby by a Japanese/American San Jose, California artist circa 1920's in the style of Mary DeNeale Morgan (Carmel, 1868 - 1948). Presented in a rustic woode...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Mother and Child 1920s - with Newcomb Macklin Giltwood Frame
By H. Willard Ortlip
Located in Soquel, CA
Excellent figurative painting of a mother and child by H. Willard Ortlip (American, 20th Century), 1927. Signature and date lower left "H. Willard Ortlip 1927." Presented in a giltwo...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Fairy Tales Watercolor on Paper
By Dewitt M. Lockman
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Fairy tales,
Mixed media on paper, from the artist estate.
actual size 19"x23" framed 34"x39"
Impressionistic style watercolor, drawing, pastel on paper, from the artist Estate.
DeWitt Lockman began painting at the age of four in Brooklyn. By the age of seven, his family had moved to New York, where he worked with the animal painter James H. Beard. He later studied with Nelson Bickford and William Sartain. He was in Europe, principally in France, England, and Holland, from 1891 to 1892 and again from 1901 to 1902. In the years between the two European trips, Lockman painted little, suffering from ill-health. Resuming his artistic activities in the early years of the century, Lockman also served in the Office of Naval Intelligence from 1917 to 1918. He married Evelyn Walker in 1946. Although his oeuvre also includes still life and animal pictures, Lockman was most successful as a portraitist, painting over 500 works in that genre. President Calvin Coolidge, General of the Armies John J. Pershing, and Dr. Nicholas Murray...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Mixed Media
Frank Dickson, Mending The Fishermen's Nets, Oil Painting
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This early 20th-century oil painting by British artist Frank Dickson (1862-1936) depicts a coastal view with fishermen and a woman mending nets.
Dickson hailed from Chester near Liv...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
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Oil, Canvas
1929 Oil Painting of Handsome Man from Life Class
Located in Exton, PA
Fine oil painting on canvass depicting 2 views of a handsome man wearing a white shirt, in repose. The painting is oil on canvass by Marion Butler Ewald, Bucks County and Philadelph...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
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Oil
Winter - Porte St Denis - Impressionist Cityscape Painting by Edouard Cortes
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed gouache on board figures in landscape circa 1920 by French impressionist painter Eduoard Cortes. The work depicts a view of Paris, France in winter. The streets are filled wit...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
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Gouache, Board
Justus Lundegård, Landscape With Farm, Oil Painting
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This spirited early 20th-century oil painting by Swedish artist Justus Lundegård (1860-1924) depicts a buoyant summertime view with a farm, field hand...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Picking Flowers - Impressionist Oil, Figures in Landscape by Marie Duhem
By Marie Duhem
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Stunning signed impressionist oil on original canvas dated 1920 by French painter Marie Duhem. The piece depicts a woman in a pale pink dress and a gre...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Pont Saint Michel, Paris - Impressionist Oil, Riverscape by Jules Leon Flandrin
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on canvas dated 1924 by French impressionist painter Jules Leon Flandrin. This stunning piece depicts the scenery of the bridge Pont Saint Michel over the River Seine in P...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
"Public Aid" Oil Painting, Figurative, Regionalism, Poverty, Wealth
Located in Detroit, MI
“Public Aid” is an oil painting by Lionel Walker, a 20th century African-American artist known for his oil paintings. Three figures dressed for the outdo...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dessert in the Garden
Located in Missouri, MO
Provenance:
This is an early painting by Huldah Mae Cherry (also known as Huldah Cherry Jeffe), done in her "Impressionist years" and painted after a painting by another American I...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Les Cavaliers dans la Parc
By Jean Dufy
Located in Missouri, MO
Jean Dufy (1888-1964)
"Les Cavaliers Dans La Parc" c. 1929/30
Oil on Canvas
Signed Lower Left
Provenance: Arthur Lenars & Co., Paris
*This work has been authenticated by Jacques Ba...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Auto Portrait
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting a lovely self portrait by Swiss artist Juliette Calame’. “Auto-Portrait” is an original vintage oil on panel, signed, c.1925, with an image dimension of 29 x 19.5 inches.
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
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