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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
Abstract Yellow and Orange Toned Figurative Grid of Nude Bodies Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Yellow toned abstract figurative painting by French artist Christophe Stora depicting human bodies in a grid and in several postures and motions. This...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The gift. 2018, oil on canvas, 70x60 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Igor Maikov (1966) Education: 1981 - 1984 The Art Academy of Latvia 1973 - 1983 Salaspils Primary and Secondary School Exhibitions: 1994 - Group Exhibition «Rol-Art», Latvia ...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Loading. 2018, oil on canvas, 70x110 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Igor Maikov (1966) Education: 1981 - 1984 The Art Academy of Latvia 1973 - 1983 Salaspils Primary and Secondary School Exhibitions: 1994 - Group Exhibition «Rol-Art», Latvia ...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Untitled, Mixed Media Paper Pasted on Board, Red, Blue by Paritosh Sen"In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Paritosh Sen - Untitled 22 x 20.9 inches (unframed size), 1992 Mixed Media Paper Pasted on Board ( Unframed & Delivered ) A stunning work in colors on "red ,Blue Gold in Acrylic on ...
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1990s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paste, Paper, Mixed Media, Board

Paragraph. 2015. Oil, canvas, cardboard, digital print. 59.5x40cm
Located in Riga, LV
Juris Dimiters is among the most intellectual and witty artists of his generation. The characters of his works – paintings and posters – mostly are anthropomorphised fruits and objec...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Cardboard, Digital

Figures at the Beach, Blue and Yellow Human Silhouettes, Acrylic on Paper, 2025
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is a beautiful painting by Alberto de Blobs (Barcleona, 1982). Alberto is a talented painter whose elaborate mixture of figurative and free form abstraction create a highly illu...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

Wedding Day - Norman Rockwell Americana - Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Recently, women artists have been soaring in price to millions of dollars. In many cases, many of these women were quite obscure. For example, recently acknowledged Gertrude Abercrombie, a naive surrealist artist, has recently seen her paintings rise to the area of $400K. Lorraine Fox, who is a consummate female artist/ illustrator whose work rivals any of the recently anointed female stars is still an unknown quantity. She has exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum and is in the collection of the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, and she is a member of the Famous Artists School in Westport, Connecticut along with Norman Rockwell, Today she is relatively unknown and completely off the radar of the so-called art establishment. Wedding Day is a wonderful example of her mid-century, somewhat naive style. The work is signed lower right and was exhibited at the Brandywine River...
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1940s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

French Gouache Painting of Acoma Pueblo Corn Dance in New Mexico
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Gouache Painting of Acoma Pueblo Corn Dance in New Mexico by Emile GALLOIS (1882-1965, French) Signed: Yes Medium: Original gouache painting on thick unframed paper, Si...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Gouache

'Young Woman', Grande Chaumière, Hague Academy of Fine Arts, Brooklyn Museum
By Jan Hoowij
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
An elegant oil portrait of a young Arab woman shown wearing a veil and gazing with candor and interest directly towards the viewer. Signed lower left, "Jan Hoowij" (Dutch-American, ...
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1960s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Painting of a young woman — “The Sky Within”
Located in Zofingen, AG
A contemporary portrait of a young woman, captured in a moment of silence and inner reflection. This painting speaks of trust in oneself - a quiet inner space where there are no clea...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

Bohurupee, Shiva & Parvati, Oil & Acrylic Painting, Red, Blue, Orange "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Bijan Choudhury - Untitled - 36 x 42 inches (unframed size) Oil and Acrylic on Canvas Inclusive of shipment in roll form. Style : The Marxist orientation did not allow Bijan Chowdhu...
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Early 2000s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Tantra & Underwater series, Ink & Water Color, Blue, Black, Brown "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Sunil Das - Untitled - 23 x 16.5 inches (unframed size) Ink & Watercolor on paper Inclusive of shipment in ready to hang form. In the mid sixties again he explored diverse cults of popular ritual for pictorial ingredients of an evocative mystic symbolism. An ink-and-wash of 1965 features a figurative image of ambiguous connotation. The motif looks like a cult image worshipped by people practising primitive religion. A squat but monumental figure, it has for each hand several reptilians snaking down from shoulder to the finger-tips, for legs a pair of beastly fore-paws and its dark oval totemic frame...
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1960s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Tango in Venice. 2014. Oil, canvas, cardboard, digital print. 59.5x37.5cm
Located in Riga, LV
Juris Dimiters is among the most intellectual and witty artists of his generation. The characters of his works – paintings and posters – mostly are anthropomorphised fruits and objec...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Cardboard, Digital

1950's French Modernist Mexican Scene Man in Cowboy Hat City Square
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Mexicain' Georges Lambert, French mid 20th century signed oil on canvas, unframed Canvas : 36 x 24 inches Inscribed verso Provenance: private collection, France Condition: very good...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Guglielmo de Giorgio, busy street in Paris, France. Decorative oil painting.
Located in Berlin, DE
Guglielmo de Giorgio, busy street in Paris, France. Decorative oil painting. Dimensions WITHOUT frame in cm 50 x 60 Dimensions WITH frame in cm 6...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Let's Rodeo" Colorful Abstract Modern Cowboy Pastel Portrait Drawing
Located in Houston, TX
Colorful abstract modern pastel drawing of a cowboy by Texas artist Robert Sandman. The work features a man dressed in vibrant clothes holding a cowboy ...
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1980s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Pastel

Portrait of Man - Paint - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on cardboard realized in Italy in 19th Century. Includes a leather frame. Good condition except for some losses of color in the mid-right.
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19th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

New York City Tenement Family Modernist WPA Era Oil Painting Wolins
Located in Surfside, FL
Subject: American Family Medium: Oil Surface: Canvas Country: United States In this painting, Joseph Wolins uses vibrant and complimentary colors and broken brushwork. Joseph Wo...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Theresa Thompson"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Gershon Benjamin (1899-1985) An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon Benj...
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1940s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

America impressionist portrait young boy 1937 Modern Figurative Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
A fantastic modern portrait of a young boy. This work is signed what appears to be Paul Sellers and dated 1937, but we have not found information on the artist. The work dated 1936...
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1930s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Seymour Remenick Figurative Oil Painting "Folk Singers"
Located in Surfside, FL
Seymour Remenick (1923-1999) American; Philadelphia, PA. Oil on canvas painting Folk Singers and musicians.Seymour Remenick (1923-1999), was born in Detroit, Michigan and raised in ...
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1950s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Sur le Canape Rose
Located in Atlanta, GA
Roman Zaslonov is a Russian Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1962. Roman Zaslonov's work has been offered at auction multiple times. Only o...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

French Night Club, Modern Oil Painting on Canvas by David Rucli
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: David Rucli, Italian (1944 - ) Title: French Night Club Year: circa 1989 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed u.r. Size: 52 in. x 78 in. (132.08 cm x 198.1...
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1980s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Large Archie Rand Abstract Expressionist Cartoon Oil Painting Dusseldorf
Located in Surfside, FL
"Dusseldorf, Germany" 1993, oil on canvas, hand signed and dated lower left, Canvas (unframed):18 X 48. framed: 19.5 X 49.5 Provenance: directly from the artist. Exhibited at Phyllis Kind Gallery in NYC in 1987. Archie Rand (American, born 1949) is an artist from Brooklyn, New York. Rand's work as a painter and muralist is held in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris, and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. His graphic works and books are held by the Metropolitan Museum Of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Art Institute Of Chicago, The Brooklyn Museum, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, and The New York Public Library; and are owned by Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Brown, and Johns Hopkins universities. Born in Brooklyn, Rand received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in cinegraphics from the Pratt Institute, having studied previously at the Art Students League of New York. His first exhibition was in 1966, at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York. He has since had over 100 solo exhibitions, and his work has been included in over 200 group exhibitions. He is currently Presidential Professor of Art at Brooklyn College which granted him the Award for Excellence in Creative Achievement in 2016. Before joining Brooklyn College, Rand was the chair of the Department of Visual Arts at Columbia University. The Italian Academy For Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University presented him with The Siena Prize in 1995. He was awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Foundation Fellowship in 1999 and was made a Laureate of the National Foundation for Jewish Culture, which awarded him the Achievement Medal for Contributions in the Visual Arts. In 2002 he received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching from Columbia University. In 2002 he became the artistic advisor to film director Ang Lee for his production of The Hulk, and was asked by Milestone Films to provide a commentary track for the DVD release of Henri-Georges Clouzot’s classic 1955 film The Mystery of Picasso. Archie Rand’s earliest major works are “The Letter Paintings” (or “The Jazz Paintings”) (1968–71), a radically positioned series of technically inventive, mural-sized canvases. The Letter Paintings, by incorporating the names of mainly male and female African-American musicians, undermined prevailing aesthetic categories by conflating many contemporary movements including Conceptual Art, Color Field, Pattern and Decoration, diary entry and social commentary. In 1974 Rand received a commission from Congregation B’nai Yosef in Brooklyn. Rand was asked to paint thematic murals on the complete 16,000-square-foot (1,500 m2) interior surfaces of the synagogue. The work took three years, and completing this commission made Rand the author of the only narratively painted synagogue in the world and the only one we know of since the 2nd Century Dura-Europos. The religious legal controversy raised by placing wall paintings in a traditionally iconoclastic space was resolved by the verdict of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, then considered to be the world’s leading Talmudic scholar, who declared the paintings to be in conformity with the law. His subsequent turn to figuration may have been influenced by his friendship with Philip Guston, whose own work was transformed in the late 1960s. Like Guston, Rand "chafed at the limitations of purely abstract forms." A near-cult figure who started out as a child prodigy and whose admirers range from John Ashbery to Julian Schnabel. Rand’s paintings display a vast and savvy menu of inventive and finely executed approaches. He has completed many series after the works of Paul Celan, Moyshe-Leyb Halpern, Eugenio Montale, Yehuda Amichai, Rainer Maria Rilke, Samuel Beckett/Paul Eluard and Jack Spicer. Working often with poets, he has produced books and continues to engage in publishing collaborative projects. He maintained a correspondence with the American British Jewish painter R.B. Kitaj. In 2008, on a warehouse wall, Rand mounted the painting, “The 613”, which at 1700 square feet (17’ x 100’) is nearly twice the size of James Rosenquist’s F-111. It is one of the largest freestanding paintings ever made. Reminiscent of “The Segments” paintings it is intimidatingly enormous. Paradoxically, despite the raucous cartoony bytes that shoot colorful flashes from the manic surface, “The 613” glows warmly. Its overall effect is strangely calming and majestic. In an article on a 2011 exhibition of Rand's "Had Gadya" series, David Kaufmann wrote: Rand displayed his work in 15 solo exhibitions between 2008 and 2017, many of them showcasing paintings done after Scripture, or his workings with poets: Including “Had Gadya, 2005”, Borowsky Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (2011); “Gods Change, Prayers Are Here To Stay (after Yehuda Amichai), 2000", Katz Gallery, Atlanta, GA (2014); “Psalm 68, 1994”, Derfner Museum, Riverdale, NY (2014); “The Chapter Paintings”, Tribeca Gallery, NY (2015); “Men Who Turn Back (after Eugenio Montale), 1995", SRO Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2016); “Sixty Paintings From the Bible” & “The Book of Judith, 2012”, Cleveland State University Galleries, Cleveland, OH (2016) & The American Jewish Museum, Pittsburgh, PA (2017); “Archie Rand: Early Works With Poetry: Jack Spicer, 1991 and Samuel Beckett/Paul Eluard, 1993”, St. Francis College, Brooklyn, NY (2017). "The 613" In 2015 Blue Rider/Penguin/Random House published The 613, allotting one color plate per page for each of the 614 units in the painting. The Wall Street Journal labeled The 613 as “dynamic…remarkable…thrilling” The New York Times selected the book as “Editors' Choice” and praised it in two separate reviews calling it “wonderfully garish” and declaring that “nothing prepared the art world for 'The 613.' Recent Activity In 2016 Rand showed two bodies of work that were done in Italy, “La Certosa Di Pontignano, 1995” and “Mount Etna, 2005,” at The Interchurch Center Galleries, New York. From 2016 to 2017 he served as the Curator and Juror for the Governor of Wyoming’s Capitol Arts Exhibition at The Wyoming State Museum, Cheyenne, WY. A 2017 exhibition, “Archie Rand: Early Works With Poetry”, featured two series of work from 1991 and 1993 after poems by Jack Spicer and Samuel Beckett/Paul Eluard. This painting was exhibited in the Phyllis Kind Gallery in NY in 1987. (Phyllis Kind was an American art dealer active in Chicago and New York. She promoted the work of the Chicago Imagists, The Monster Roster and The Hairy Who and outsider artists. Kind opened a gallery in Chicago in 1967. Called Pro Grafica Arte, the gallery dealt in master prints and drawings. In 1975, she opened a gallery on Spring Street in New York's SoHo district. She gave some of the artists in the movement their first solo shows: Jim Nutt and Gladys Nilsson...
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1980s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Proud Chimney Sweep Modern Judaica Shtetl Oil Painting WPA Jewish artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Modern Subject: Klezmer Musicians Medium: Oil Surface: Board, size includes artist decorated frame Country: United States The imagery of Maurice Kish (1895-1987), whether fa...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Old City Jerusalem City Walls landscape Scene Painting, Judaica
Located in Surfside, FL
Vibrant Gouache and watercolor painting by Israeli master JOSSI STERN. on paper mounted to board. 31x34.75, 23.5x27.5 without frame. Hungary, b. 1923, d. 1992 Jossi (Yossi) Stern, son of David and Katerina, was born in the Bakon Hills of Hungary, in 1923. He was already drawing when at the age of ten he moved with his family from the Bakon Hill region to the considerably more cosmopolitan Budapest. Recognizing the looming threat of Hitler and the pending Nazi invasion of Hungary, in 1940, at the age of seventeen, the young artist made his way to Palestine aboard the Sakaria, an old ship heavily crowded with 2,300 other refugees. Before reaching the shores of Palestine, then under the British Mandate, the British Navy intercepted the ship and declared Stern and all those aboard illegal immigrants. Stern was sent to a prison camp where he remained incarcerated by the British for six months. In 1943, having spent a few years doing agricultural work, Stern was encouraged by close friends who recognized his artistic talent to enroll in the prestigious Bezalel School of the Arts in Jerusalem. An outstanding student, he eventually became a highly respected teacher of Graphic Arts at Bezalel. Stern is recognized in Israel as having been one of the country's premier artists...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board

Suzanna and the Elders
Located in Miami, FL
A modern interpretation of the biblical story Suzanna and the Elders. Signed lower right Ink and wash on paper The Downtown Gallery Felix Landau Gallery Ernest Brown & Phillips, Ltd...
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1940s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper

A Day in Venice
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original oil on canvas painting by American female artist Enid Smiley. Enid Smiley (1924-2004) American New York. Born as Enid Ginsberg and later the family name changed to Gilb...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

A Day in Venice
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Dreamline
Located in Zofingen, AG
shipped in roll “Dreamline” captures the moment a woman steps into a journey driven not by directions, but by desire. She’s not following a map — she’s drawing her own invisible lin...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Abstract Figurative Painting NY Gallery Label Mystery Painting Colorful 1940
Located in Buffalo, NY
Abstract figurative painting on board. Carl Bredemier label on the reverse. Framed. Oil on board
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1940s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media, Archival Paper

Original Painting New Yorker Cover Proposal American Scene Modern Santa's Feet
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting New Yorker Cover Proposal American Scene Modern Santa's Feet Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994) Santas Feet At Midnight New Yorker c...
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1930s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Gouache, Board

20th century figurative landscape oil painting pastoral scene farm field cow
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This early work by American artist Sylvia Spicuzza is an excellent example of Regionalism: in the foreground, a farmer in blue stands before a herd of cattle. Beyond the fence of the...
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1930s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Picking the Olives by REUVEN RUBIN - 20th century art, oil painting
Located in London, GB
Picking the Olives by REUVEN RUBIN (1893-1947) Oil on canvas 65 x 81 cm (24 ¾ x 31 ½ inches) Signed Executed circa 1940
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20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Both - Oil Paint by Juan Rodrigo Piedrahita Escobar - 2022
Located in Roma, IT
Applied with a palette knife, brush, and touches of color-based veils. With this work the toy I will take like a or symbol of a reality different with readings for adults, according ...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Boy eating Fruit & Corn, Acrylic, Indian Artist, Influenced by the great Picasso
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Boy eating fruit and corn By Great Modern Indian Artist Paritosh Sen Size 20 x 12 inches each (unframed size) Acrylic and Mixed Media on board ( Set of 2 works ) Inclusive of shipme...
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Early 2000s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Gold

Sephardic Jewish Men Vibrant Judaica Vintage Oil Painting Israeli Artist Goldman
By Albert Goldman
Located in Surfside, FL
This depicts Middle Eastern jewish men of Sefardic descent. At least one appears to be a Rabbi. ALBERT GOLDMAN Born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1922, Albert Goldman started drawing and ...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Newton’s Farm" Georgina Klitgaard, Modernist Hazy Autumn Landscape Painting
Located in New York, NY
Georgina Klitgaard Newton’s Farm Signed lower right Oil on canvas 24 1/2 x 30 1/2 inches Georgina Klitgaard’s art has sometimes gotten lost in the critical propensity to assign art...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Walking Home, Contemporary Figurative Cityscape Painting, Landscape Park Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Walking Home [2023] original Oil on Canvas Image size: H:8.5 cm x W:10 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:46 cm x W:55 cm x D:1.5cm Frame Size: H:60 cm x W:79 cm x D:5cm Sold Fram...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Nymph - Paint by Walter Einbeck - 1915
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on Canvas realized by Walter Einbeck in 1915. It depicts a nymph bathing in a rippling lake, with a knight watching her in the background. The work features divisionist technica...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Yellow Flower Field
Located in Kansas City, MO
Genevieve Hamel Yellow Flower Field Oil on Canvas Year: 2021 Size: 48x30x1.5 Signed by hand COA provided Ref.: 924802-1399
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Carry me away
Located in Lexington, MA
“Carry Me Away” is a 24 x 20 inch oil painting by contemporary artist Craig Greene, blending figurative portraiture with abstract expression. This emotionally charged work features a...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Seated Blonde" Modern Cubist Colorful Seated Female Portrait Against Blue
Located in Houston, TX
Modern Cubist inspired portrait painting by the iconic Houston based artist David Adickes. The work features a seated female figure dressed in aqua against a bright blue background. ...
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Early 2000s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil Pastel

1950's Fashion Drawings
Located in Buffalo, NY
A set of four mid-century fashion drawings signed Lilliana. These works were purchased from an estate out of Palm Beach, FL. These charming works eac...
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1950s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Dancer in black leotard 1969. Oil on canvas, 92.5x92.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Dancer in black leotard 1969. Oil on canvas, 92.5x92.5 cm Painting depicts the slim figure of a woman in a black leotard against a blue curtain with floral patterns. This choice of...
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1960s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Testament of Solidarity - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Women
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (issued by The Gal...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Fabric, Canvas, Charcoal, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Pencil

Encounters II
Located in Bozeman, MT
When I think of where McCauley fits into American art, as a contemporary painter, sculptor and naturalistic interpreter, I place him in the same philosophical tribe as Walton Ford, A...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Wood Panel

1976 Vintage Mid-Century Figurative Oil Painting - At your Service
Located in Bristol, GB
AT YOUR SERVICE Size: 58 x 43 cm (including frame) Oil on Board A wonderfully textured figurative composition, executed in oil onto board and dated 1976. A figure is captured in t...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

"Audience" Mid 20th Century American Figurative Theatre Performance Contemporary
Located in New York, NY
"Audience" Mid 20th Century American Figurative Theatre Performance Contemporary Leon Bibel (1912 - 1995) "The Audience," 52 ½ x 41 ¼ inches. Oil on canvas, c. 1963. Signed lower right. Framed. BIO Painter, printmaker and sculptor, Leon Bibel was born in San Francisco in 1913. He trained at the California School of Fine Arts and received a scholarship to study under the German Impressionist Maria Riedelstein. He worked in collaboration with Bernard Zackheim, a student of Diego Rivera, to create frescoes for the San Francisco Jewish Community Center and the University of California Medical School. In 1936 Bibel moved from California to join the Federal Art Project at Harlem Art...
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1960s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Détente, 1924-25 - Oil paint, 69x80 cm, framed
Located in Nice, FR
Oil on canvas, signed lower right. Jean Bouchaud (1891 in Saint Herblain near Nantes – 1977 in Nantes) was a French painter. He was fascinated by travel since his childhood seeing s...
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1920s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Oil Painting by Well Known Cartoonist and Illustrator Upper East Side, Manhattan
By Sandy Huffaker
Located in Surfside, FL
An Upper East Side of Manhattan New York city scene of bald guy reading newspaper on bench with East River and tugboat in background. The 1970s were the “glory days,” Huffaker says, for himself and a stable of talented illustrators whose work routinely found itself on the covers of the nation’s premier newsmagazines and in the pages of The New York Times. For the better part of that decade, Huffaker was among an elite breed of commercial artists—his hero and fellow Southerner Jack Davis, the legendary Mad Magazine illustrator, among them—working during a remarkable period when art directors routinely turned to illustration to give comic relief to the country’s deeply serious and dark problems. From civil rights and the women’s movement to Vietnam and Watergate, the gas crisis and inflation to the rise of Jimmy Carter, Huffaker mined a deep well of material ripe for his brand of visual wit and caustic satire. He sent his portfolio to children's book illustrator Maurice Sendak, the legendary “Where The Wild Things Are” illustrator to gauge his prospects, and when Sendak replied, “C’mon up, you’ll do all right,” SELECT HONORS: 2 Page-One Awards (from the New York Newspaper Guild), for work in Fortune Magazine and Sports Illustrated. Nominated 3 times for Cartoonist-of-the-Year by the National Cartoonists Society (illustration category). Desi Award of Excellence (Graphic Design Magazine). 20 Award of Merit citations from the Society of Illustrators. One-man show, Society of Illustrators. Illustrators 22 - annual national exhibition for the Society of Illustrators. SELECT MAGAZINE COVERS Time Magazine (6), Sports Illustrated (2), Business Week (12), Forbes, Saturday Review, New York Times Sunday Magazine, The New Republic, Family Weekly, Madison Avenue, New York Daily News Sunday Magazine (2), Junior Scholastic, ACLU, The Nation , and more EDUCATION BA, University of Alabama. Attended Pratt Graphic Center and The Art Students League, New York City. BOOKS WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED The Dispensible Man (M. Evans and Co.) and The Bald Book (M. Evans and Co.) BOOKS ILLUSTRATED White Is (Grove Press), The Begatting of a President (Ballantine Books), The Biggest Sneeze (Harper-Collins), H. Phillip Birdsong's ESP (Young Scott Books), Kids Letters to President Reagan (M. Evans), The Worlds Greatest Left-Handers (M. Evans), Does My Room Come Alive at Night (HarperCollins), The Man With Big Ears (HarperCollins), Jake Snake's Race (HarperCollins), and more POLITICAL CARTOONING Political cartoonist at The News and Obsever in Raleigh, NC and syndicated during the early 70's. Today, syndicated in 750 publications 3-times a week with Cagle Cartoons. FINE ART SHOWS Allied Artists of America, Salmagundi Club, Phillips Mill Annual (honorable mention), New Hope Shad Festival (grand Prize), Hunter Museum in Chattanooga ( one -man career retrospective), Santa Fe public library (one--man), Rosenfeld Gallery (Philadelphia), Potter...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"The Lamp Lighter" Texas Mid-Century Modern Everett Spruce (1908-2002) EXHIBITED
Located in San Antonio, TX
Everett Spruce (1908 - 2002) Austin Artist Image Size: 18 x 15 Frame Size: 28 x 25 Medium: Oil on paper / Mixed Exhibited at a University of Texas Faculty art show in 1947 Unsigned Biography Everett Spruce (1908 - 2002) The following, submitted by a researcher of the Ashworth Collection of Native American and Western Art, is from the artist's obituary in the Fort Smith, Arkansas "Times Record" newspaper, October 20, 2002. Everett F. Spruce, well-known artist, teacher, professor emeritus, died Friday, Oct. 18, 2002, at age 94. Everett Spruce was born on a farm in Conway to William E. and Fannie McCarty Spruce. He came to Dallas, at age 17, on a scholarship to study at the Dallas Art Institute, under Olin Travis and Thomas M. Stell Jr. In 1931, he became gallery assistant at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts and in 1934 married Alice V. Kramer, a fellow art student. He was one of the "Dallas Nine" group of Southwest artists...
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1940s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Mixed Media

Crying Clown Portrait in Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Crying Clown Portrait in Oil on Canvas Portrait of a sad clown by San Francisco artist John Peers (American, 1922-2009). This portrait is closely fra...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Indian Modernist Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
God, Keeper, and Maker of all Air Tola-Kina. Figural Abstract Gouache Watercolor Painting.
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20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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India Ink, Watercolor, Gouache

Trumpet Player, 1960's Oil Painting by Marshall Goodman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Trumpet Player Marshall Goodman, American (1916–2003) Date: circa 1960 Oil on Canvas Size: 30 in. x 24 in. (76.2 cm x 60.96 cm) Frame Size: 32 x 26 inches
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1960s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

20th Century German Modernist Oil Painting Abstract Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist: Elisabeth Hahn (German 1924-2021), Elisabeth Hahn was born in Dortmund, Germany, where she began her artistic studies. In 1953, she moved to Paris. She continued her studie...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

1970s Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico Southwest Landscape Gouache Painting, Signed Art
Located in Denver, CO
This stunning gouache painting by Wolfgang Pogzeba (1936-1982) captures the beauty of Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico, depicting a dramatic cliffside landsca...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Gouache

Sitzende Frau
By Fritz Schmidt
Located in Wien, 9
signed on the lower left The painting can be categorised in the tradition of New Objectivity. The picture shows a real scene, the woman depicted stares into space with a serious and...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Till It All Withers 3 -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Mixed Media, Men
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube. This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. About Artist Samson Olatubos...
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19th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Photographic Paper

Falling II, 2011
Located in Atlanta, GA
Harry Holland is widely regarded as one of Britain’s finest figurative artists. Using classical techniques to realise his contemporary figurative paintin...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Girl with red hair. 1996. Oil on cardboard, 90x83 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Girl with red hair. 1996. Oil on cardboard, 90x83 cm This depiction of young nude woman with red hair on green-pink-blue background shows the artist as a master of forms and color field areas. Laimdots Murnieks...
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Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Cardboard

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