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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
Color:  Brown
French Modernist Signed Oil, Figures in Golden Green Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Jostne Gallet Title: ' La Promenade' Medium: signed oil painting on canvas, unframed and inscribed verso. canvas: 28.75 x 21.25 inches Provenance: private collec...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Modern Abstract Figure Painting Featuring the Basilica of Santa Maria Novella
By Adorno Bonciani
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract painting by Italian artist Adorno Bonciani. The work features two abstract figures on horseback playing musical instruments set against the Basilica of Santa Maria Novella...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media

Portrait - Oil Painting on Cardboard - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original oil painting on cardboard, realized by an anonymous artists of the early 20th Century. Sheet size: 13 x 7.5 Good conditions with a trace of time. the artw...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Cardboard, Oil

Beach Series Mixed Media on Paper by Modern Artist Prokash Karmakar "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Prakash Karmakar - Beach Series - 16 x 23 inches (unframed size) Mixed Media on Paper , 2004 Style : Legendary master artist Lt. Prokash Karmakar from Bengal was solely responsible ...
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Early 2000s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media

Stage Design for "Le Cog d'Or"
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant set design by Russian artist Natalia Gontcharova (1881-1962). Two angelic figures are the central focus of this piece, but the rest of the set is laden with details, includin...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic, Laid Paper, Pencil

French Modernist Signed Oil - Nude Women Lovers Figurative Group, 20th century
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, late 20th century, signed Title: Nude Women, Lovers group Medium: oil on canvas, unframed Canvas: 19.75 x 24 inches Provenance: private collection...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Seaside. - Painting by Fioravante Seibezzi - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Seaside is an original modern artwork realized by Fioravante Seibezzi in the mid-20th Century. Oil on wood. Includes frame Fioravante Seibezzi (Venice 1906...
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1950s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paint, Oil

Untitled, Figurative, Oil on Canvas, Brown, Green Modern Indian Artist"In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Jai Zharotia - Untitled - 12 x 12 inches (unframed size) Oil on Canvas Inclusive of shipment in a roll form. Born in Delhi in 1945, Jai Zharotia studied Fine arts from Delhi College...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

‘Claessens ‘ Figurative Female Nude Model Young Woman Seated Ashcan School O/C
Located in Carmel, CA
No description provided
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20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Ancient View of the Bay of Naples - Oil Painting - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
View over the Bay of Naples is an orginal old master artwork realized by Master of Northern Europe School of the second half of 19th Century. Mixed colored oil on canvas. Relined....
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Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

River Landscape with Bystanders - Oil on canvas - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
River Landscape with Bystanders is an original old master artwork realized by Artist of 18th Century. Mixed colored oil painting on canvas. The painting is approachable to traditio...
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18th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Unconscious Female Force
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Unconscious Female Force 1999 Born in 1950 Vina Del Mar Chile. Already when a child his drawings and paintings were noticed by the public. From 1966 to 1969 he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Valparaiso where he received awards every year. Very soon he exhibited his works that document his specific interest in the portrayal of man in Chile. In the age of 24 he went abroad having exhibition in several Latin American countries. In 1983 he joined the League Art Student of New York. Duran developed his style which distinguishes him from present day currents. His work was exhibited in Europe, South America and USA recently his work was exhibited in Chile. Ivan Duran Garlick...
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1990s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Surrealist Fantasy Nude Women Landscape Horses Boats Belgian 1928 LARGE AMAZING
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Louis Buisseret (Belgian) Exhibited at the Pittsburgh International (Carnegie Institute) show of 1928 "Composition" This painting depicts nude women having a picnic in a Surrealist f...
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1920s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Beach Series Mixed Media on Paper by Modern Artist Prokash Karmakar "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Prakash Karmakar - Beach Series - 16 x 23 inches (unframed size) Mixed Media on Paper , 2004 Style : Legendary master artist Lt. Prokash Karmakar from Bengal was solely responsible ...
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Early 2000s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media

"Sock Hop" Mid-Century American Modernism WPA Female Artist 20th Century Realism
Located in New York, NY
"Sock Hop" Mid-Century American Modernism WPA Female Artist 20th Century Realism. 30 x 24 inches. Oil on canvas. Signed on stretcher, c. 1940s. Frame is likely original to the painting. Realist painter-printmaker Kyra Markham...
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1940s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Radha, Figurative, Mixed Media on Paper by Modern Artist Suhas Roy "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Suhas Roy - Radha Mixed Media on Paper , 12 x 16 inches , 2013 Framed to be 23 x 27 inches Shipment cost estimates : Unframed shipment : 150 USD Cost of Framed shipment to USA e...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media, Charcoal, Oil Pastel, Pastel

Radha, Figurative, Soft Dry Pastel on Paper by Modern Artist Suhas Roy"In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Suhas Roy - Radha - 12 x 12 inches ( unframed size) Soft Dry Pastel on Paper , 2008 Suhas Roy 's mystic woman which he calls 'Radha', either Oil on canvas or soft coloured pastel ...
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Early 2000s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Pastel

The smokers. Figurative painting. Colorful landscape with figures smoking.
Located in Segovia, ES
The smokers. Figurative painting. Colorful Landscape with figures. Acrylic on canvas. Measurements in centimeters: 89 x 146 x 3 cm. / Framed: 114 x 171 x 5 cm. In inches: 35.04 x 57.48 x 1.18 ". / Framed: 44.88 x 67.32 x 1.9 " In the background, a beautiful city with classical buildings and a a forest; in the foreground, a small park where smokers gather next to the fountain crowned by a cupid holding a cigarette between his fingers. It is a group of six men and three women. They all smoke. They enjoy the smoke as they blow it out of their mouths, making shapes with it and interacting with each other in various poses. Hands emerge from the trees of the nearby forest holding lighted matches between their fingers as a lure to attract smokers to the darkness of the forest. A very dreamlike image to represent the temptation of the forbidden. ABOUT THE ARTIST Fomin is a storytelling artist. He is a storyteller in his everyday, anecdotally narrating the funny side of life, and he is a storyteller in his professional life, bringing to the canvas realistic popular scenes set in fairy-tale settings where the subject matter is always treated with irony and humor. The titles of his paintings tell us about eccentric characters of an era, a culture, a society (which one?) - it doesn't matter, it is a distorted reality with a romantic and sentimental touch, which takes us to references such as Brueghel the Elder, El Bosco and Chagall, within an aesthetic and chromatism typical of Renaissance painting where Fomin develops his original scenes playing with the design of spaces, landscapes, buildings, characters and costumes. A stage director who makes us smile, but also reflect on his original interpretation of the human being, because this is the main protagonist of his paintings. ABOUT THE ARTIST Igor Fomin...
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Early 2000s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Getting Hot
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Late in her career, Larisa became a passionate dancer and often painted fellow classmates. Larisa was an important painter who lived the last twenty years of her life in Arizona. She was very popular nationally and was a well-known teacher. The body of work she left behind in private collections is significant in its quality, uniqueness and identifiable style. A secondary market for this artist who passed away in 50's in 2018 is already starting to unfold. “My goal as a painter is to infuse nature around me with spiritual qualities. Everything I observe, whether it is a tree, building, mountain, flower or rock is alive to me. I want to show more than just the obvious beauty in them. I want to show their spiritual nature and how they all combine in harmony. I sometimes carry my initial images with me for months or even years before it becomes a painting. The excitement is the moment I catch the idea!” Over the 20+ years Latvian-born painter Larisa Aukon...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Dreaming Woman with an Oil Lamp - Handsigned oil on canvas
Located in Paris, FR
Jean-Baptiste VALADIE Dreaming Woman with an Oil Lamp Original oil on canvas Signed left bottom Presented in a golden wood frame Total size (with the frame) 47 x 36.5 cm (c. 18.5 x ...
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Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Oil Painting of Camlough Lake in Northern Ireland by 20th Century Modern Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Oil Painting of Camlough Lake in Northern Ireland by 20th Century Modern Artist, Patrick O'Neill Art measures 30 x 20 inches Frame measures 35 x 25 inches A beautiful colourful ...
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Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

La Chica de Texas
Located in ATLANTA, GA
A close look at one of Alfredo`s paintings leads to interesting discoveries. The surface is full of rasps and scrapes, stains, impastos, graffiti and lines. This treatment creates an...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Judgment
Located in Miami, FL
Thin edged metal frame Philip Castle is an Irish Painter and husband to artist Barry Castle He is rarely exhibited and Prince Rainier of Monaco once purc...
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1960s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

Landscape - Oil Painting by Fioravante Seibezzi - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original modern artwork realized by Fioravante Seibezzi (1906-1975) in the mid-20th century. Oil painting on board. Hand signed by the artist on the lower margin. ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Jerusalem - Oil by Ludwig Viktor Krämer - 1900
Located in Roma, IT
Jerusalem is an original old master artwork realized by Ludwig Viktor Krämer (1861-1949) in 1900. Oil on Canvas, Includes frame 98 x 145 cm Hand signed by the artist and dated 19...
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Early 1900s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Large French Modernist Cubist Signed Oil - Jockeys on Horseback Parading
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, signed lower corner, late 20th century Title: Parading Jockeys on Horseback Medium: signed oil painting on canvas, framed. canvas: 24.75 x 29 in...
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Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Rosemarie & Young Jim, bright colors abstracted portrait interior flowers
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Panel painting has bright colors abstracted portrait faces, interior, flowers, loose visible gestural brushstrokes C. Dimitri says this painting is a tribute to a painter friend of ...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Gouache, Panel

Familly in a Square - Original Oil on Canvas, Signed
Located in Paris, FR
Henri EVENEPOEL (1872-1899) Familly in a Square, c. 1895 Oil on Canvas Signed bottom left On canvas 51 x 37 cm (c. 20 x 15 in) In a golden wood frame 68 x 54 cm (c. 27 x 21 in) Rar...
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1890s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Illustrated Man
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A mixed media painting showing a seated man with tattoos. In “Illustrated Man” we see a single figure, covered in tattoos; portraits, designs, and patterns coat the man's skin from torso to fingertips. His face remains pure, unscathed from any ink marks; clear-headed and gazing forward. Behind him, Miller presents an obscure tapestry of civilization, an empire of sandy structures under a lapis lazuli night sky. Winding roads lead to city walls, while shadows and foundation-lines melt into creatures; a toothy alligator appears out of a stone façade...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Wood Panel, Pins

Seated Clown
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Philippe Alfieri, Italian/American (1921 - 2009) Title: Seated Clown Year: 1988 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.l. Size: 36 x 24 in. (91.44 x 60.96 cm) Frame Size: 46 x 34 in...
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1980s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Early 20th Century Vibrant Modernist Painting, Still Life, Crane Fountain
Located in Beachwood, OH
William Sommer (American, 1867-1949) The Crane Fountain, ca. 1914-15 Oil on canvas Unsigned 26 x 20 inches 32 1/2 x 26 1/4 inches, as framed William So...
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1910s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Still Life with Mythological Motifs - Oil Painting - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life with Mythological Motivs is an original artowork realized by European Master in the Late 19th Century. Mixed colored oil on Canvas Includes a coeval wooden frame.
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Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

“Woman with Orange Necklace”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on hardboard (a type of masonite) painting by the Russian American artist, Nahum Tschacbasov. Signed, dated 1946 along with a dedication to his wife on their 17th wedding anniversary. Condition is very good. The back of the painting has a sketch as well by Nahum Tschacbasov. Framed in a semi-antique ornate gold frame...
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1940s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

Butteri in the Maremma - Oil Painting - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Butteri in the Maremma is an original modern artwork realized in the early 20th Century. Mixed colored oil painting on board. Hand signed by the artist on the lower right margin V....
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

View of Venice - Original Oil on Canvas Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
View of Venice is an original oil on canvas realized in the late 19th Century by a Master of Italian School. On the reverse: label with inscribed “E. Mareis” The painting represent...
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Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Edgar Yeager Figurative Interior Scene
By Edgar Yaeger
Located in Detroit, MI
SALE ONE WEEK ONLY Yaeger was an American Modernist painter from Detroit, Michigan, who is credited with being one of the first painters in this style. The portrait “Untitled” easil...
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1980s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

“Studio Interior”
Located in Southampton, NY
Modernist oil painting done in miniature on a thick block of wood of a female nude in the artist’s studio. Signed lower left by the well known New York artist, Nicholas Takis...
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1940s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Wood Panel, Oil

Engaged Large Figurative Abstract With Women
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Engaged 1991 Signed, titled and dated, white floater frame. Arbe Berberyan Russian/Armenian Artist born 1958. The son of a distinguished artist, and Professor of Art & Design, Ara Be...
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1990s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Cotton Canvas, Oil

In the Village, Gouache on Paper, Pink & Red color by Gobardhan Ash "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Gobardhan Ash - Untitled - Gouache on Paper 10 x 15 inches (unframed size) Style : Regarded as a pioneer of modern Indian art, Ash’s contribution at the time when India witnessed the advent of Western modernism is significant and colossal. His work was exploratory, visionary and inspiring. He printed with bold courage and a free spirit, never yielding to the rules set by official art. He rejected the preconceived notions of how an artist ought to render his subjects and inevitably rebelled against the academic rules “ If we look at nature in the open, we do not see individual objects each with its own colors but rather a bright medley of tints which blend in our eyes, in our minds.” – Gobardhan Ash (The Statesman, April 24, 1994). His verbal imagery alluded to what was real and relevant in India yet transcended to communicate a deeper, universal message about the human spirit. Disillusioned with the limits and constraints he faced, Ash withdrew into his private introspective world to explore his own mode of artistic expression. And although it was the convention then to paint divinities or exotic female figures on their way to the temple, Ash embarked on a new approach altogether to paint farmers toiling in the fields, workers engaged in intense labor to earn their living, thereby setting a new trend of socio-realistic art in India. In 1945, Ash was brought into the public eye when the progressive writers Association discovered his series of paintings on the Bengal famine. The paintings depict, if not document, the ravages of the 1943 catastrophe. In juxtaposition to the famine series, his impressionist and post impressionist gouaches during the late 40s come as an interesting antithesis. Colors, rich and vibrant, come alive in a pulsating tone to dominate the entire painting. Ash never subscribed to a stringent artistic form or technique. Rather, his works from the 80s display yet another intriguing and jarringly different style in his treatment of portraiture. His colors, with the exception of the apparent outlines, are reduced to smudges and smears so that the painting appear to originate from stained canvas. His subjects, spectral figures that engage and draw us within their profound state of despair and helplessness. To characterize the life works of Gobardhan Ash is to recognize the complexity and spontaneity of his ideas and the enormous richness of his style. An artist who devoted his entire life to art, his paintings have transited and evolved from monochromatic sketches and landscape to portraiture; from naturalistic real-life depictions to abstract expressionism. Whatever the genre style-Ash has demonstrated an eloquent mastery over the diverse style, techniques and medias employed, as evident in the vast retrospective collection. His paintings are conceptual and purposeful, displaying a unique individuality. His art expounds a frank desire to convey the value of uncompromising artistic sincerity. Gobardhan Ash remains today a prolific artist of his time. About the Artist & his works : Born : Regarded as a pioneer of modern Indian art, Gobardhan Ash (1907-1996) was born at the village of Begampur in Hoogly district of West Bengal.. Family : His father was Haricharan Ash and mother Gouri Devi. He spent all his life in this village and died here in 1996 at the matured age...
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1980s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Pastel, Gouache

Behind the Curtain
Located in Wien, 9
August Wilhelm Dressler, Behind the Curtain, 1940, Oil on Wood Panel, 60 x 50 cm. Signed lower left.
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1940s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Wood Panel, Oil

The Entertainment, 20th century American family scene watercolor
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964) The Entertainment, c. 1955 Watercolor on paper Signed lower right 20 x 30 inches Exhibited: 1955 May Show, Cleveland Museum of Art "The first district schools were log houses...
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1950s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor

Lying Woman - Oil on Canvas by Nino Bertoletti - 1930/40s
Located in Roma, IT
Lying Woman is an original modern artwork realized by the artist Nino Bertoletti beetween 1930 and 1940. Mixed colored oil on canvas. Hand signed by the artist on the lower margin Nino Bertoletti (Rome, October 26...
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1930s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Large French Figurative Modernist Signed Oil Painting, Many Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, 20th century, signed Title: Figurative composition. Medium: signed oil painting on canvas, framed and inscribed verso. framed: 25 x 21.25 inch...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Nude Woman On Chair Blue And Orange Figurative Ashcan School O/C
Located in Carmel, CA
Bernard Krigstein (March 22, 1919 – January 8, 1990) was an American illustrator and Ashscan school painter who received acclaim for his innovative a...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

'African Idol' — Mid-Century African-American artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Charles Elmer Harris (Beni E. Kosh), Untitled (African Idol), watercolor, c. 1950s. Estate stamped verso, 'Beni E Kosh COLLECTION' and numbered '570' in ink. A fine, spontaneous wat...
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1950s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor

Lively Hamburg Harbor with Four-Masted Barque and Steamship by F. Harden -1920
Located in Roma, IT
Lively Hamburg harbor with four-masted barque and steamship is an original Modern artwork realized by Friedrich Harden (1861 - 1921) in 1920. Original ...
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1920s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Pair of Romantic Bavarian Paintings by Karl Adolf Wilhelm Chelius - 1889
Located in Roma, IT
Pair of romantic Bavarian paintings is an old master artwork realized in 1889 by the master Karl Adolf Wilhelm Chelius (1856-1923). Mixed colored oil panting on...
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1880s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Still Life with Lobster, Oil Painting by Gerard Sebastian
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Gerard Sebastian Title: Still Life with Lobster Date: circa 1970 Medium: Oil on canvas, signed Size: 36 x 16 in. (91.44 x 40.64 cm) Frame Size: 41 x 21 inches
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Geese
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Gregory Sumida. “Geese” is a landscape painting, watercolor on paper in an earth-tone palette by American artist Gregory Sumida. The artwork is signed in the lower left...
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Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor

1940s Still Life with Flowers Oil Painting, Red, Yellow, Blue, Purple
Located in Denver, CO
Original vintage 1945 oil painting with an interior still life with a vase of flowers, tea cup, and drapery by 20th century Colorado modernist, John E. Thompson (1882-1945). Oil on c...
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1940s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Three Christian Theme Paintings - Oil on canvas - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Peru, colonial style, Early 20th century Oil on canvas, 47,5 x 38 cm (wooden frame) Provenance: Italian private collection.
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Biwi, Tempera on Board by Modern Indian Artist Lalu Prasad Shaw "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Lalu Prasad Shaw - Biwi - 21 x 15 inches Tempera on Board, 2017 Style : Known widely for his highly stylized portraits of Bengali women and couples, Lalu Prasad Shaw’s works lay the most emphasis on his subject’s physical characteristics. Capturing the expressions of his subjects perfectly with the greatest economy of line and colour each of Shaw’s paintings has an intimate feel to it. Influenced by the pre-independence Company School of art, the traditional Kalighat Pat and the Ajanta cave paintings, Shaw’s works, mainly executed in gouache or tempera, like his own person, are simple and graceful, having a very still, well-composed and smooth exterior. This senior artist draws his inspiration primarily from nature and the milieu surrounding the great Bengali middle class, often depicting pleasant and quiet scenes from his own life on his canvases and papers. His style is unique and modern in its adaptation of academic and traditional Indian formats. A particularly notable aspect of Shaw's paintings is their simple yet sophisticated look. One notices a seamless synthesis of different stylistic elements to achieve a phenomenal effect. About the Artist and his work : Born : 1937 in Bengal. Education : completed his education in fine arts at the Government College of Arts and Crafts in Kolkata. International Shows : 1970 - Second British Biennale in London; 1974 - Norwegian Print...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Tempera, Board

Provencal Town Market Square Busy Scene with Many Figures with Flowers
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, early 21st century, indistinctly signed lower front corner Title: The Provencal Flower Market Medium: oil painting on canvas, unframed, signed insc...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Portrait of Child on a Car - Oil Painting - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Child on a Car is an original moder artwork realized between the late 19th and the 20th century by an italian Master. Mixed colored oil...
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Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Judaica Polish Offset Lithograph Hasidic Jewish Prayers, Kapparot
Located in Surfside, FL
Chassidic Man doing Kapparot with his sons. 12.6 x 9.8 canvas, 18 x 14 inches with frame. Simon Natan Karczmar (born November 1, 1903 in Warsaw , died 1982 in Safed ) - Polish and Israeli painter. He was born as Szmaja Karczmar, he studied at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts. He earned a living by importing fur from Russia, which he sold to a cousin who was a furrier. With time, he gained a lot of experience and became an excellent sorter. In 1929 he left for Paris , where he continued his studies in painting. In 1931 he met Nechuma ( Nadia) from Poland, whom he married. Because it was difficult to support the family out of the sale of paintings, he returned to the sorter's work, and his wife started working at perfume Les Lilas in one of the suburbs of Paris. During the Second World War, the persecution of Jews also affected France, so in 1941 he and his family left for Nice. Shortly thereafter the father of Nechuma was denounced to the Gestapo and murdered by a German militiaman. Nechuma was arrested and transported to Auschwitz , Simon joined the partisans at that time. After the war, Nechuma returned to France and reopened perfume. In 1951, the Karczmarów family decided to emigrate to Israel, Simon and his brother-in-law ran a metallurgical plant, but because of losses they had to shut it down. In 1955 they were invited by a friend to Canada, they lived in Montreal where Simon worked again as a fur sorter. In 1959 he got allergies and had to abandon his previous job, he was depressed due to bad financial situation. Simon Karczmar began to paint in a naive way memories of childhood, thanks to which he managed to give them an authentic character and show those places and times through the eyes of a child. His work received positive reviews, he had an individual exhibition at an art gallery in Montreal. In 1960, together with his wife, he left Canada and left for Mexico, where Simon co-organized the Museum of Film Art. At the Centro Deportivo there was a second individual exhibition of his works, and after that he was invited to exhibit paintings in two other galleries. He also received a job offer in the United States and Canada. In 1962 he went to Israel again, where he settled in the art colony in Safed and studied new painting techniques. Although he left France for Israel most of his work evokes his experiences in Eastern Europe. He traveled many times to New York , where he eagerly spent the winter. He died in Safed when he was 79 years old. The Portrait in Palestine, The Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem 13 February, 1934 - 25 March, 1934 Artists: Boris Schatz, Hermann Struck, Jakob Steinhardt, Tadeusz Rychter, Simon Karczmar, Moshe Castel, Avigdor Stematsky, Shmuel Charuvi, Meir Gur Arie, Joseph Budko, Jacob Eisenberg and more. Simon Karczmar's paintings depict the world of his childhood, depict the everyday life of Polish Jews, their culture, customs, celebrations and holidays. You can see the figures of musicians, traders, buildings of Jewish districts and interiors of their houses. Thanks to the naive technique used, viewers look at the world of the painter's childhood through his eyes. The series of paintings entitled Shtetl depicts paintings remembered by the artist from his grandfather's stay in a small Jewish town near Vilnius In this series of images known collectively as Shtetl, (popularized by Sholem Aleichem, Marc Chagall and Chaim Goldberg) Karczmar draws inspiration from his childhood memories of the vacations he spent at his grandfather's house in Lithuania. The word shtetl is Yiddish for little town and refers to the villages with significant Jewish populations that could once be found throughout Eastern Europe. The nostalgia of Karczmar's renderings contrasts with the darker views of life for Jews revealed in the photographs by Roman Vishniac and drawings of Ephraim Moshe Lilien...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Lithograph, Offset

Huge French Modernist Abstract Oil Painting Nude Lady Sunbathing with Cats
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, 20th century, possibly signed lower right Title: Nude Lady sunbathing surrounded by cats. Medium: oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 32 x 5...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Nude by the Mirror" Mid-Century Modern Expressionist and Cubist Figure
Located in New York, NY
Byron Browne (1907 - 1961) Nude by a Mirror, 1958 Oil on canvas 26 x 20 inches Signed lower right Provenance: Doyle New York, Doyle + Design, June 7, 2017, Lot 20 Born in Yonkers,...
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1950s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Pranzo, Oil Painting by Lucio Ranucci
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lucio Ranucci, Italian (1925 - ) Title: Pranzo Year: 1971 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated Size: 30 in. x 32 in. (76.2 cm x 81.28 cm) Frame Size: 40 x 41 inches
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

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