Modern Figurative Paintings
MODERN STYLE
The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.
Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.
The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.
Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.
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Style: Modern
Portrait of an Artist on Interview Magazine Back Page 1989 Modernism Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of an Artist on Interview Magazine Back Page 1989 Modernism Watercolor
Possibly a portrait of Maria Helena Vieira da Silva Portuguese artist.
Portrait of a woman on Andy Wor...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Watercolor, Paper
The Journey
Located in Ridgewood, NY
As part of the Journey series,
This paint is a metaphor of a blossom awakening of the mind, where I want to celebrate the power of creativity and self expression.
Great as a headbo...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paste, Wax, Oil, Acrylic
American Diner New Jersey Urban Landscape Painting Contemporary British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
'Bendix Diner' in New Jersey is an American Diner Painting by Leading British Urban Landscape Artist Angela Wakefield, forming part of her Americana ...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint, Acrylic, Board
20th Century Oil Painting, Still Life with Old Wood and Egg, Blue Gray White
By Paul Sample
Located in Denver, CO
Paul Sample (1896-1974) Still Life with Old Wood and Egg, vintage 1965 signed oil painting from the artist's best period. Housed in a custom frame, outer dimensions measure 24 ½ x 3...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
The Berlin Wall in Gouache on Interview Magazine Back Page 1989 Modernism
Located in Soquel, CA
Artist in Gouache on Interview Magazine Back Page 1989 Modernism
Portrait of a man and commemorating The Fall of the Berlin Wall on Andy Worhol's Interview Magazine back page and pai...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Andy Worhol Gouache on Interview Magazine Back Page 1989 Modernism
Located in Soquel, CA
Andy Worhol Gouache on Interview Magazine Back Page 1989 Modernism
Portrait of Andy Worhol on Andy Worhol's Interview Magazine back page and painted over in Gouache by Ricardo (Richa...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Black & White Americana Painting of Ranchito Motel on Route 66 New Mexico USA
Located in Preston, GB
Panoramic Black & White Painting of the legendary Ranchito Motel on Route 66, New Mexico, USA.
A unique original from leading British Cityscape Artist, Angela Wakefield.
Art measu...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint, Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Board, Gesso
Vintage Mid-Century Swedish Framed Oil Painting - Portrait of a Man
Located in Bristol, GB
PORTRAIT OF A MAN
Size: 51 x 36 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas laid to board
A brilliantly executed mid century modernist figure study in oil, painted on to canvas laid to board...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Canvas, Oil
Indian Landscape with Royal Caravan - Oil Painting - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Indian Landscape with Royal Caravan is an artwork realized by an orientalist painter in the mid 19th Century.
The work depicts an elegant Indian coach with a noble company and hors...
Category
19th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Woman Lying Down on White Cloth - Oil Painting - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Woman Lying Down on White Cloth is an artwork realized by an Italian Artist in mid-20th Century.
Oil on cardboard
24x34 cm.
Good conditions.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Oil
Circus Universal, Large Modernist Oil Painting with Clown Harlequin
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Modern
Subject: Other
Medium: Oil
Surface: Canvas
Country: United States
Dimensions: 44" x 27" x 3/4"
Dimensions w/Frame: 52" x 35"
Born (Stella) Molly Friedman to Carlaman a...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life with Buddha and Pomegranates - Painting by Bruno Croatto - 1944
Located in Roma, IT
In this work we find the image of the Buddha and several pomegranates, symbolizing fertility.
The choice of combining objects and materials of different nature becomes an unmistakab...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Venus de Milo - Oil on Canvas by Marthe Delacroix - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Unknown, Venus de Milo is an artwork realized by Marthe Delacroix (French, 1898–1970) in mid-20th century.
Original oil on Canvas.
Mint Conditions with de-coloring on margins.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Mid-Century Swedish Figurative Oil Painting, Brita Hansson - Outing
Located in Bristol, GB
OUTING
Size: 34 x 46 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas paper laid to board
A very lively and playful mid century modernist figure scene, painted in oil onto board by the establishe...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Canvas, Oil
Israeli "Inbal Dancers at Midnight" Modernist Dance painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Expressionist
Subject: Figures
Medium: Oil
Surface: Board
Country: United States
Dimensions: 18" x 24"
Dimensions w/Frame: 23 1/4" x 29 1/2"
Joseph Wolins
1915-1999
Wolins ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Modernist Rabbi at Study Judaica Oil Painting
By Ben-Zion
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Judaica
Subject: Religious
Medium: Oil
Surface: Board
Country: United States
Dimensions: 17.5" x 21.75"
Dimensions w/Frame: 24" x 28"
Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrat...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Mid-Century Modern Man - Portrait in Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Subtle and moody portrait of a Pensive man by Joan Tidwell (American, 1930-2002). The sitter in the portrait is a middle-aged man looking slightly downwards, wearing a collared shirt...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Modern Portrait Polka Dot Suit Clown by Joan Tidwell
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of a Man in a Polka Dot Clown Suit - Oil on Canvas
Portrait of a man in a white and red polka dot suit by a Joan Tidwell (American, 1930-2005). The clown is pensive, with h...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“Seduction", Lady Intoxicated by the Music Played by the Man Figurative Painting
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
This is an original painting on canvas by French artist Françoise Collandre.
A graduate from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Métiers d'Arts in Paris, Françoise Collandre entered...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Where Are You ?", with Bridge Pyramid Shape & the Mona Lisa Figurative Painting
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
"Where are you?", at a place where there are an arched bridge, a pyramid-shaped glass building and a portrait of the Mona Lisa. The lady in the painting asks or is asked in the phone...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Passion for Gambling", Portrait of a Person in Game Context Figurative Painting
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Original painting on canvas by French artist Françoise Collandre.
A graduate from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Métiers d'Arts in Paris, Françoise Collandre entered the fine a...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Morning Coffee", Portrait of People Street Background Figurative Painting
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Original painting on canvas by French artist Françoise Collandre.
A graduate from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Métiers d'Arts in Paris, Françoise Collandre entered the fine a...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Swedish Figurative Framed Oil Painting - The Children
Located in Bristol, GB
THE CHILDREN
Size: 36.5 x 66 cm (including frame)
Oil on board
A richly textured and endearing mid century modernist style figurative portrait, painted in oil onto board.
Rendered ...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Swedish Figurative Framed Oil Painting - The Priests
Located in Bristol, GB
THE PRIESTS
Size: 60 x 48 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
A brilliantly painted mid century figurative portrait of 2 priests, executed in oil onto canvas.
Working with a restrai...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage 1950s Israeli Oil Painting, Signed in Hebrew Kibbutz Worker Reading
Located in Surfside, FL
Murray S. Greenfield Art Gallery (label on verso).
Genre: Modern
Subject: People
Medium: Oil
Surface: Board
Country: Israel
Dimensions: 9 1/2" x 13"
Dimensions w/Frame:16.75" x 20.25"
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Indian Modernist Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
God, Keeper, and Maker of all Air Tola-Kina. Figural Abstract Gouache Watercolor Painting.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
Jewish Wedding Chuppah and Marriage Ring Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Judaica
Subject: People
Medium: Oil
Surface: Board
Country: United States
Dimensions w/Frame: 25 1/4 x 21 1/4
Freda Leibovitz REITER (1919-1986), born in Philadelphia, PA, wa...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Countryside Landscape - Painting - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Countryside landscape is an artwork realized by a 19th century artist, probably in Italy.
Oil on wooden panel.
29x37 cm with frame.
Good condtions.
Category
19th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Jerusalemite at the Table, Judaica Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Peter Horowitz, painter, born 1922, Poland. Lived in Hod Hasharon in Israel.
Studied at the Art Academy, Krakow.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Sun Flower - Oil Painting by Claude Deschamps - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Sun Flower is a painting realized by Claude Decamps in the 1970s
Oil painting on cardboard canvas.
Hand-signed on the lower.
Good conditions.
The artwork is represented through s...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Big Sea Harris - figurative modern seascape study peaceful natural landscape art
Located in London, Chelsea
This original painting by Morag Lloyds creates a figurative impression of a seascape vista inspired by hard to reach, natural areas. Demonstrating a fascination and love for the sea,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
(born 1959) Modernist BRITISH Oil Painting FIGURES IN A LANDSCAPE - R.A Exhibit
Located in Cirencester, GB
ARTIST: Alan Lambirth Sen RBA (1959-) British
TITLE: “Summer Evening”
SIGNED: exhibition labels verso
MEDIUM: oil on board
SIZE: 56cm x 66cm inc frame
CONDITION: very good / exc...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
LAKEWOOD N.J., 1936 Modernist Oil Painting, Judaica
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Modern
Subject: Landscape
Medium: Oil
Surface: Board
Country: United States
Dimensions: 30" x 22"
EMANUEL ROMANO
Rome, Italy, b. 1897, d. 1984
Emanuel Glicenstein Romano was...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Marine Landscape - Tempera by Gian Barresi - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Marine landscape is an artwork realized by Gian Barresi in 1990s.
Tempera on paper.
50x70 cm not framed.
Handsigned on the lower left margin.
Good Conditions
Category
1990s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Harris Beaches - figurative modern seascape study peaceful natural landscape art
Located in London, Chelsea
This original painting by Morag Lloyds creates a figurative impression of a seascape vista. Demonstrating a fascination and love for the sea, the artist has employed bold colours and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Towards Pladda - figurative modern seascape study peaceful natural landscape art
Located in London, Chelsea
This original painting by Morag Lloyds creates a figurative impression of a seascape vista. Demonstrating a fascination and love for the sea, the artist has employed bold colours and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Beautiful French Modernist Signed Oil Portrait of Girl in Pink, swept gilt frame
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Girl in Pink
After Marie Laurencin (a copy)
French School, bears signature
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 29.5 x 25 inches
canvas: 24 x 20 inches
provenance: from a coll...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Swedish Portrait Oil Painting, Hans Osswald - Poppet
Located in Bristol, GB
POPPET
Size: 45 x 37 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
A very striking modernist figurative oil portrait by Swedish painter Hans Osswald (1919-1983), whose works have been exhibite...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Wedding of Rebecca and Isaac - Oil Painting by E. Savini - Mid-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Wedding of Rebecca and Isaac is an oil painting realized by Enrico Savini (1832-1869), in the mid-19th Century.
Artist's name on the bottom plate.
119x159 cm with frame. Very...
Category
19th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Young Painter - Oil Painting - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Young painter is an artwork realized by an unknonw artist of the early 20th century.
Oil painting on cardboard.
A young woman with a delicate face is about to paint with a palette...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Neapolitan Landscape - Painting - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Neapolitan landscape is an original artwork realized by an unknown artist of the 19th Century.
Gouache on cardboard.
54x63 cm with frame.
Good conditions.
Category
19th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Gouache
Moses - Oil Painting - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Moses is an artwork realized in the early 20th century, by an unknown artist.
Oil on paper.
51x37 cm with frame.
Good conditions.
Prophet and legislator of the Jewish people...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper
Distant Islands - figurative modern seascape study peace natural landscape art
Located in London, Chelsea
This original painting by Morag Lloyds creates a figurative impression of a seascape vista. Demonstrating a fascination and love for the sea, the artist has employed bold colours and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
violinist oil on board painting modernism art
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Albert Roca (1945) - violinist oil on board painting
Medidas óleo 47x34 cm.
Medidas marco 62x48 cm.
Painter of landscapes and figures, in whose characterization he deepens psycholog...
Category
1990s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Vallèe D'Ax - Painting By Reynold Arnould - 1940
Located in Roma, IT
Vallèe D'Ax is a Gouache realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980).
Good condition, included a white cardboard passpartout (51x59 cm).
Titled and signature on the ...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Busy Beach Summer with Figures on Sand Contemporary French Modernist Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Summer on the Beach
Huguette Ginet-Lasnier (French 1927-2020)
signed
oil painting on canvas
20 x 24 inches.
All the paintings we have for sale by this artist have come from the artis...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Farmer with Sheep & Dog in Valley Fields Contemporary British Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Sheep Farmer
by Ben George Powell, British contemporary artist
signed
acrylic on board, framed
framed: 19 x 22.5 inches
board: 16 x 20 inches
provenance: private collection of th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Vieille France -Painting by Jean Lereu - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Vieielle France is an original oil painting on canvas realized by Jean Lereu, in the late 19th century.
Hand-signed in red, in the lower left margin.
49.5x69 cm with frame.
Good...
Category
19th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vieille France - Original Painting by Jean Lereu - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Vieielle France is an original oil painting on canvas realized by Jean Lereu, in the late 19th century.
Hand-signed in the lower right margin.
49.5x69 cm with frame.
Good condit...
Category
19th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1950's French Modernist Signed Oil La Visitation Surrealist Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French School, signed verso
circa 1950's
'La Visitation'
oil painting on canvas, unframed
painting: 10.5 x 9 inches
provenance: private French collection
condition: overall very good
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Post Impressionist Oil Painting Still Life with Fruit William Meyerowitz WPA Art
Located in Surfside, FL
William Meyerowitz (1887 - 1981)
Oil painting on canvas
Depicting a still life scene with fruit bowl, bananas, flowers and quilt. Post Impressionist oil painting.
Hand signed low...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
homeless with dog oil on board painting modernism art
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Albert Roca (1945) - homeless with dog oil on board painting
Medidas óleo 70x50 cm.
Medidas marco 83x63 cm.
Painter of landscapes and figures, in whose characterization he deepens p...
Category
1990s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Henry Ernst Schnakenberg, (Still Life with Scull)
By Henry Ernst Schnakenberg
Located in New York, NY
Henry Schnakenberg is mostly known for New York City scenes. This is clearly a departure.
It is signed at the lower left and dated '4-53' on the reverse.
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Swedish Animal Figurative Framed Painting - Safari
Located in Bristol, GB
SAFARI
Oil on Board
Size: 34 x 45 cm (including frame)
A very striking mid century oil composition, presenting a landscape scene where a woman in a red and blue dress and a hat is...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Golden Flute, Acrylic Oil ,Charcoal on Canvas by Master Indian Artist “In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Shuvaprasanna Bhattacharya - Golden Flute - 25 x 25 inches (unframed size)
Acrylic & Charcoal on Canvas
Should you wish to receive it framed and ready to hang it would measure appro...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Oil, Canvas, Charcoal, Mixed Media
The Saxophonist
Located in Geneva, CH
Oil paint on canvas sold without frame
Born in the canton of Friborg, Gilbert Pauli (1944 - 2020) lived in Geneva, where he devoted himself to painting and sculpture, a passion he ...
Category
1990s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Bustling Street VI, Modern Figurative Painting, Industrial Cityscape Artwork
By Sean Durkin
Located in Deddington, GB
Bustling Street VI is an original painting by Sean Durkin. The scene depicts the high street of an industrial town with people going about their usual lives. As with all of Sean's wo...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Vows Are Spoken Only To Be Broken. Ca 1965.The Flip Hairstyle.Blonde Nude Female
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Tony Giles.
English ( b.1925 - d.1994 ).
Vows Are Spoken Only to be Broken
Oil on Board.
Signed lower right.
Image size 39.6 inches x 29.5 inches ( 100.5cm x 75cm ).
Frame size 42.3...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
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