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
Recognized Seller Listings
Vue de la Côte Normande by Claude-Émile Schuffenecker - Landscape painting
By Claude Emile Schuffenecker
Located in London, GB
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Vue de la Côte Normande by Claude-Émile Schuffenecker (1851-1934)
Oil on canvas
58 x 69 cm (22 ⁷/₈ x 27 ¹/₈ inches)
Sig...
Category
1890s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Washers on the banks of La Touques
Located in Belgravia, London, London
'Washers on the banks of La Touques'
By Eugène BOUDIN (French 1824-1898)
Oil on panel: 12 x 16.25 inches
Framed size: 15.25 x 19 inches
On the reverse of the frame: Old label beari...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Claudine Reading
By Marcel Dyf
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on canvas
Canvas size: 18 x 21.5 inches
Framed size: 26 x 29.5 inches
Signed lower right
Category
20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Beach Tents on Gorleston Beach
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on canvas
Canvas size: 12 x 16 inches
Framed size: 18.75 x 22.75 inches
Signed lower right
Category
20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
L'avenue Des Champs-élysees au Crepuscule
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on canvas
Canvas size: 13 x 18 inches
Framed size: 20 x 25.25 inches
Signed lower right
Category
20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Le Resesquement a l'Advocats (The Legal Reservation)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Le Resesquement a l'Advocats
(The Legal Reservation)
Pastel on paper, c. 1910
signed lower right
Image size: 10 3/4 x 14 inches
Frame size: 23-1/2 x 26-1/2 x 2-3/8 inches
Condition: ...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Courtyard at Noon
Located in New York, NY
Robert Spencer paints a sun-drenched scene of figures moving about outside red clay buildings in his work entitled, “Courtyard at Noon.”
Category
1910s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Wooden Bridge, Old Lyme.
Located in Storrs, CT
This charming, historical scene is housed in a stunning Hassam-style champagne silver leaf frame.
The location is probably Birch Mill Road, which is off Sterling City Road in Old Lym...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Little Models (Reverie)
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right: Irving R Wiles; on verso: Irving R Wiles
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Deauville
Located in Paris, FR
Jean-Gabriel DOMERGUE (1889-1962)
"Deauville"
Oil on panel
Signed lower left and titled on the reverse
Dimensions:
Painting 33 x 24 cm
Framed 62 x 53 cm (24 3/4 x 21 in)
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Young Girl Selling Oranges and Lemons
Located in New York, NY
Signed and inscribed lower right: Charles Sprague Pearce / Paris.
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Vue prise des Collettes, Cagnes by Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Landscape painting
Located in London, GB
Vue prise des Collettes, Cagnes by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Oil on canvas
28 x 45.7 cm (11 x 18 inches)
Signed lower left, Renoir
Executed circa 1910-1911
This work is accompanied by a letter of authenticity from the Wildenstein Institute confirming its inclusion in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Pierre-Auguste Renoir being prepared by the Wildenstein Institute established from the archives of François Daulte, Durand-Ruel, Venturi, Vollard and Wildenstein.
Provenance: Mme Chavan, Lausanne
Sotheby’s London, 2nd December 1981
Sotheby’s London, 4th February 2004
Richard Green, London
Private collection, acquired from the above in August 2004
Stern Pissarro Gallery, London
Private collection, London, acquired from the above
Literature: A.Vollard, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Tableaux, pastels et dessins, Paris, 1918
G-P. Dauberville and M. Dauberville, Renoir: Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, 1903-1910, vol 4, no. 2930
Artist biography:Renoir began his artistic career as a porcelain painter but began copying paintings...
Category
1910s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Seated Woman
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Portrait of a Seated Woman
oIl on canvas, c. 1930
Signed on the reverse in oil paint: "Paul W"
Created while the artist was a student at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Provenance: Estate of the artist
Condition: Cleaned and stretched by Monica Radecki, South Bend, Indiana.
The painting is unframed
Canvas size: 30 x 24 inches
This work created while the artist was in art school.
Winchell studied art at the Minneapolis and Chicago Art Institutes in the 1930’s. He went on to teach at both institutions. Winchell studied under the noted artists Daniel Garber and Leon Kroll. Winchell exhibited at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Art Institute of Chicago and the Kansas City Art Institute. He retired to a quiet life in Painsville, Ohio.
Paul H. Winchell (1903 – 1971) was a printmaker, illustrator, teacher, and gilder according to Crump, 2009 (Minnesota Prints and Printmakers, 1900- 1945, Minnesota Historical Society Press). He was the son of Mrs. Looman Winchell of Shepherd Rd as noted in a 1937 newspaper article (Painsville, O. Telegraph). Winchell grew up in North Perry, Ohio and then studied and worked as an instructor at the Art Institute of Chicago. He studied with Leon Kroll (1884 – 1974), Boris Anisfeld (1878-1973), Daniel Garber (1880 – 1958), Charles Woodbury (1864 – 1940), George Oberteuffer...
Category
1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Walking with Big Sister
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on board
Board size: 13 x 16 inches
Framed size: 18.25 x 21.25 inches
Signed with initials lower left
Category
20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Gorleston Beach
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on canvas
Canvas size: 20 x 24 inches
Framed size: 28.5 x 32.25 inches
Signed lower right
Category
20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Young Woman with a Toy
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right: H. S. Hubbell –
Category
20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Place de la Bastille
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Gouache on paper
Paper size: 14.25 x 8.75 inches
Framed size: 20 x 14.25 inches
Signed lower left
Category
20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
The Canary
Located in Dallas, TX
The overall dimensions including the frame are 70 x 42 inches.
Donald Vogel’s paintings reflect his interest in seeking beauty in life and in sharing pleasure with his viewers. Voge...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Champs-Elysees
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on canvas
Canvas size: 13 x 18 inches
Framed size: 20.5 x 25.5 inches
Signed lower right
Category
20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Gorleston Stones, Norfolk
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on board
Canvas size: 9 x 12 inches
Framed size: 14 x 17.25 inches
Signed lower right
Category
20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Le Manege sur la Butte, Montmartre
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on canvas
Canvas size: 28.75 x 36.25 inches
Framed size: 34 x 41.5 inches
Signed lower right
Category
20th 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 18-1/2 x 1-5/8"
Heller studied with Weir, Whistler, Amen-Jean, Grasset and Rodin. She won a silver medal in 1903.
Label verso: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1910 (see image)
PAFA Catalog search revealed no mention of the artist
A portrait of the artist was painted by Aman Jean, a photo of which is preserved in the MMA Digital Collections
See image below
Based on the Aman Jean portrait, I believe this is a self portrait of the artist
The following is the research that I have been able to uncover about the artist life and colleagues:
NYPL search:
"Eugenie M. Heller (1868-1952) was an American artist who studied and worked in New York and Paris. During World War I she served on the staff of the American Red Cross."
Archive of American Art search:
Correspondence with other artists, and a one page autobiographical sketch, 1936.
Correspondents include: Edmond Aman-Jean, Jeanne Baraduc, Terese R. Boissiere, Mary Cassatt, Elizabeth Champney, Frank Dicksee...
Category
1890s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Painting in the Garden
By Ken Moroney
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on canvas
Canvas size: 19.75 x 15.75 inches
Framed size: 25.75 x 22 inches
Signed lower left
Category
20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Island, DANIEL RIDGWAY KNIGHT - American Impressionist, Realism, Landscape,
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
46 x 55 cm (18 ⅛ x 21 ⅝ inches)
Signed lower left, Ridgway Knight
Artist biography
American artist Daniel Ridgway Knight was born in Pennsylvania and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. From 1872 he lived and worked at Poissy on the River Seine, just to the west of Paris.
Best known for his landscapes and depictions of peasant women in the fields, Knight earned distinction at the Paris Salon of 1882. He went to be was awarded the Silver Medal and Cross of the Legion d’Honneur at the Exposition Universelle in 1889, the Gold Medal of Honour from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1893 and in that same year was created a Knight of the Royal Order...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Baigneuse
By Marguerite Arosa
Located in Paris, FR
Marguerite AROSA
(1850-1903), French
"Baigneuse" (Bather)
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left
Canvas: 66 1/5" high x 50" wide
Frame: 74 1/5" high x 57 1/2" wide
This painting was e...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Letter
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right: CARROLL BECKWITH.
Category
19th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Impression
Located in Dallas, TX
Donald Vogel’s paintings reflect his interest in seeking beauty in life and in sharing pleasure with his viewers. Vogel entreats us to "rejoice and celebrate each new day, knowing it...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Flower Shed
Located in Dallas, TX
The greenhouse became a favorite subject of Donald Vogel's in the 1980's. As Vogel reflected in the 1998 catalogue published for his traveling retrospective exhibition, "The greenhou...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Pleasant Work (Greenhouse)
Located in Dallas, TX
The greenhouse became a favorite subject of Donald Vogel's in the 1980's. As Vogel reflected in the 1998 catalogue published for his traveling retrospective exhibition, "The greenhou...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Picnic Shade
Located in Dallas, TX
Donald Vogel’s paintings reflect his interest in seeking beauty in life and in sharing pleasure with his viewers. Vogel entreats us to "rejoice and celebrate each new day, knowing it...
Category
1980s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Garden Walk
Located in Dallas, TX
Donald S. Vogel has been a set designer and technical director in the theater, a fine art dealer, and a writer, but first and foremost he is a painter. From a young age he was intrig...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Afternoon Tea
Located in Dallas, TX
Including the frame, the overall dimensions are 31 x 38 inches
Donald Vogel’s paintings reflect his interest in seeking beauty in life and in sharing pleasure with his viewers. Voge...
Category
1970s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Montigny-sur-Loing
Located in New York, NY
Dated, signed, and inscribed lower left: 1876 WILL. • H • LOW MONTIGNY sur Loing
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Landscape
Located in Storrs, CT
Brilliantly-colored oil on canvas depicting the French countryside, with "les flâneurs," (people strolling) along the bank of the river. The eye of the viewer follows the river past ...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Mediterranean Harbour
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on canvas
Canvas size: 15 x 22 inches
Framed size: 22.5 x 29.25 inches
Signed lower left
Category
20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Hat Shop
Located in Dallas, TX
Donald Vogel’s paintings reflect his interest in seeking beauty in life and in sharing pleasure with his viewers. Vogel entreats us to "rejoice and celebrate each new day, knowing it...
Category
1970s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Figure in Garden
Located in Dallas, TX
Donald Vogel’s paintings reflect his interest in seeking beauty in life and in sharing pleasure with his viewers. Vogel entreats us to "rejoice and celebrate each new day, knowing it...
Category
1980s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Afternoon
Located in Dallas, TX
Donald Vogel’s paintings reflect his interest in seeking beauty in life and in sharing pleasure with his viewers. Vogel entreats us to "rejoice and celebrate each new day, knowing it...
Category
1980s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Parco (Park)
By Antonio Gravina
Located in Storrs, CT
A large Impressionist-style colorful painting of a park with fountain. Oil on canvas measures 36 x 24; frame dimensions measure 44 1/2 x 32 1/2 x 1 1/2. Artist's signature, lower lef...
Category
1970s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Storage Shed
Located in Dallas, TX
The greenhouse became a favorite subject of Donald Vogel's in the 1980's. As Vogel reflected in the 1998 catalogue published for his traveling retrospective exhibition, "The greenhou...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Greenhouse Yellows
Located in Dallas, TX
Donald Vogel’s paintings reflect his interest in seeking beauty in life and in sharing pleasure with his viewers. Vogel entreats us to "rejoice and celebrate each new day, knowing it...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Greenhouse in Bloom
Located in Dallas, TX
The greenhouse became a favorite subject of Donald Vogel's in the 1980's. As Vogel reflected in the 1998 catalogue published for his traveling retrospective exhibition, "The greenhou...
Category
1970s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Japanese Corner
By Elliott Daingerfield
Located in New York, NY
A child of the American South, Elliott Daingerfield was born in Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, and raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina, where his father, C...
Category
19th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Friendly Visitor
Located in Dallas, TX
Donald Vogel’s paintings reflect his interest in seeking beauty in life and in sharing pleasure with his viewers. Vogel entreats us to "rejoice and celebrate each new day, knowing it...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Tennis Match
Located in Dallas, TX
Donald S. Vogel has been a set designer and technical director in the theater, a fine art dealer, and a writer, but first and foremost he is a painter. From a young age he was intrig...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Cool Light, Greenhouse
Located in Dallas, TX
The greenhouse became a favorite subject of Donald Vogel's in the 1980's. As Vogel reflected in the 1998 catalogue published for his traveling retrospective exhibition, "The greenhou...
Category
1980s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Care of Ferns
Located in Dallas, TX
Donald Vogel’s paintings reflect his interest in seeking beauty in life and in sharing pleasure with his viewers. Vogel entreats us to "rejoice and celebrate each new day, knowing it...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Plant Pruner
Located in Dallas, TX
Donald Vogel’s paintings reflect his interest in seeking beauty in life and in sharing pleasure with his viewers. Vogel entreats us to "rejoice and celebrate each new day, knowing it...
Category
1980s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Greenhouse Shadows
Located in Dallas, TX
Donald Vogel’s paintings reflect his interest in seeking beauty in life and in sharing pleasure with his viewers. Vogel entreats us to "rejoice and celebrate each new day, knowing it...
Category
1990s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Greenhouse
Located in Dallas, TX
Donald Vogel’s paintings reflect his interest in seeking beauty in life and in sharing pleasure with his viewers. Vogel entreats us to "rejoice and celebrate each new day, knowing it...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Many Colored Flowers
Located in Dallas, TX
Donald S. Vogel has been a set designer and technical director in the theater, a fine art dealer, and a writer, but first and foremost he is a painter. From a young age he was intrig...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Parisian Boulevard
By André Gisson
Located in Storrs, CT
Beautiful Impressionist painting featuring elegantly-dressed Parisians out for an afternoon stroll. Bouquets of flowers rest in a tub to the left of the streetlamp, while a horse-dra...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Shaded Path
Located in Dallas, TX
Donald Vogel was inspired by gardens throughout his painting career. Before moving to Dallas, as a student at the Art Institute of Chicago in the late 1930's, Vogel's studio was a block away from Chicago's Lincoln Park...
Category
1980s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
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