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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
Angela Stones: Still Life with Fruit and Bottle mid-20th century oil painting
Located in London, GB
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20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Vintage Signed Surreal Black Farming Figures Modernist Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist surreal landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
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1950s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique American Modern Patriotic Statue of Liberty New York Cityscape Portrait
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist cityscape with the statue of liberty oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Measuring 20 by 27 inches overall and 14 by 21 painting alone.
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Early 1900s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Rare Large Modernist Hungarian Oil Painting
By Emod Aurel
Located in Surfside, FL
EMŐD, AURÉL (Budapest 1897-1958) A pupil of János Vaszary at the Academy of Fine Arts, he then went to Italy, Germany and France on study trips. Not only his master but also the Italian novecento affected him strongly. He worked as an art teacher in Budapest. From 1933 and 1935 he won a scholarship to Collegium Hungaricum. He was included in the exhibition The Art Of Modern Hungary 1931 and other exhibitions along with Vilmos Novak Aba, Count Julius Batthyany, Pal Bor, Bela Buky, Denes Csanky, Istvan Csok, Bela Czobel, Peter Di Gabor, Bela Ivanyi Grunwald, Baron Ferenc Hatvany, Lipot Herman, Odon Marffy, C. Pal Molnar...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Modern French Oil Painting Urban Street Scene with Figures in Motion
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Modern French Oil Painting Urban Street Scene with Figures in Motion by Bernadette Kelly (French b. 1933) Unsigned Medium: oil painting on board, unframed Painting size: 3.5 i...
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Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Original Painting. New Yorker Mag Cover Proposal WPA Mid Century American Scene
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting. New Yorker Mag Cover Proposal WPA Mid Century American Scene Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994) Perplexed Gentleman New Yorker cover proposal, c. 1939 13 1/4 X 8 ...
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1930s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Gouache, Board

Judaica Modernist Oil Painting 'Know Thyself' Israeli Kibbutz Pioneer, Prophet
Located in Surfside, FL
Mortimer Borne, Printmaker, painter, sculptor, and educator was born in Rypin, Poland in 1902 and emigrated to the US in 1916. He studied at the National Academy of Design, The Art Students League, The Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, and with Charles Webster Hawthorne, founder of the Cape Cod School of Art in Provincetown. Painted in a thick impasto style similar in technique to Samuel Rothbort and David Burliuk. Borne himself taught at The New School for Social Research in New York City from 1945-1967. From the 1920s through the 40s he was a prolific producer of New York City cityscapes and genre scenes. In later decades, he adopted a more modernist style apparently influenced by Picasso, producing color drypoints of abstracted figures. His works were widely exhibited in museums in the U.S. and abroad from 1931 and later, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the American Institute of Graphic Arts, Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, New York Public Library, Carnegie Institute, and Royal Society of Painters, Etchers and Engravers in London. He taught at The New School for Social Research in New York City from 1945-1967, and at the Tappan Zee...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

A Humorous 1945 Painting Titled "En Route to VT, Hotel Room" by Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A diminutive & humorous 1945 Painting titled "En Route to VT, Hotel Room" by artist Harold Haydon. Haydon called these diminutive paintings "Thumb Box" paintings. Image size: 6" x...
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1940s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Paper

Modern French Oil Painting Abstract Black Cats in Playful Expressive Scene
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Modern French Oil Painting Abstract Black Cats in Playful Expressive Scene by Bernadette Kelly (French b. 1933) Unsigned Medium: oil painting on board, unframed Painting size:...
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Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

The Magician oil and tempera painting by Julio de Diego
Located in Hudson, NY
Julio De Diego’s Atomic Series paintings made an extraordinary statement regarding the shock and fear that accompanied the dawn of the nuclear age. In the artist’s own words, “Scientists were working secretly to develop formidable powers taken from the mysterious depths of the earth - with the power to make the earth useless! Then, the EXPLOSION! . . . we entered the Atomic Age, and from there the neo-Atomic war begins. Explosions fell everywhere and man kept on fighting, discovering he could fight without flesh.” To execute these works, De Diego developed a technique of using tempera underpainting before applying layer upon layer of pigmented oil glazes. The result is paintings with surfaces which were described as “bonelike” in quality. The forms seem to float freely, creating a three-dimensional visual effect. In the 1954 book The Modern Renaissance in American Art, author Ralph Pearson summarizes the series as “a fantastic interpretation of a weighty theme. Perhaps it is well to let fantasy and irony appear to lighten the devastating impact. By inverse action, they may in fact increase its weight.” Exhibited 1964 Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas This work retains its original frame which measures 54" x 42" x 2" About this artist: Julio De Diego crafted a formidable persona within the artistic developments and political struggles of his time. The artist characterized his own work as “lyrical,” explaining, “through the years, the surrealists, the social-conscious painters and the others tried to adopt me, but I went my own way, good, bad or indifferent.” [1] His independence manifested early in life when de Diego left his parent’s home in Madrid, Spain, in adolescence following his father’s attempts to curtail his artistic aspirations. At the age of fifteen he held his first exhibition, set up within a gambling casino. He managed to acquire an apprenticeship in a studio producing scenery for Madrid’s operas, but moved from behind the curtains to the stage, trying his hand at acting and performing as an extra in the Ballet Russes’ Petrouchka with Nijinsky. He spent several years in the Spanish army, including a six-month stretch in the Rif War of 1920 in Northern Africa. His artistic career pushed ahead as he set off for Paris and became familiar with modernism’s forays into abstraction, surrealism, and cubism. The artist arrived in the U.S. in 1924 and settled in Chicago two years later. He established himself with a commission for the decoration of two chapels in St. Gregory’s Church. He also worked in fashion illustration, designed magazine covers and developed a popular laundry bag for the Hotel Sherman. De Diego began exhibiting through the Art Institute of Chicago in 1929, and participated in the annual Chicago Artists Exhibitions, Annual American Exhibitions, and International Water Color Exhibitions. He held a solo exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago in the summer of 1935. Though the artist’s career was advancing, his family life had deteriorated. In 1932 his first marriage dissolved, and the couple’s young daughter Kiriki was sent to live with friend Paul Hoffman. De Diego continued to develop his artistic vocabulary with a growing interest in Mexican art. He traveled throughout the country acquainting himself with the works of muralists such as Carlos Merida, and also began a collection of small native artifacts...
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1940s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Masonite, Oil, Tempera

Mid-Century Figurative Oil Painting by Fabian Lundqvist - By the Balcony Ledge
Located in Bristol, GB
BY THE BALCONY LEDGE Size: 48 x 56 cm (including frame) Oil on Canvas A soothing and restful mid-century modern painting, executed in oil onto canvas by the established Swedish arti...
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1960s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Golden Fields in Provence French Post-Impressionist Signed Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Huguette Ginet-Lasnier (French 1927-2020), signed lower front Ginet-Lasnier, the wife of the painter Jean Lasnier, was born in the Seine-Maritime region of France an...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings

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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

Social Realist Street Scene Modernist Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Oil Painting Mid 20th century, signed P. Zimmerman Reminiscent of the Mid Century Social Realist and WPA works of Ben Shahn this captures an architectural street scape...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

"THE DANCE" San Antonio Artist MARGARET PUTNAM (1913-1989) BOLD BEAUTIFUL COLORS
Located in San Antonio, TX
Margaret Putnam (1913-1989) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 14.25 x 13.25 Frame Size: 20.25 x 21.25 Medium: Mixed Media "The Dance" Biography Margaret Putnam (1913-1989) Margaret Putnam left an artistic legacy rare even in the art world. Revered for her innovative techniques and inimitable style prior to her death in 1989 , her renown continues today. She was a 20th century woman with a Renaissance soul who lavished her work with brilliant color, always breaking and making the rules to achieve the desired effect. An explorer, Putnam was basically self-taught; it could not be otherwise because no one had the vision that she had. She worked in oil, watercolor, wax resist, casein, and pastel, exploring new avenues, developing new techniques, combining mediums, and creating a unique style, instantly recognizable, unlike any other. A background in fashion illustration was evident in the color, texture, and design that adorned both male and female figures. In abstract work, there was always a keen but unique sense of design. She worked over 8 hours a day, 363 days a year. Even after becoming partially paralyzed from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig...
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1960s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media, Handmade Paper

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

"Ladies of the Twenties" Modern Colorful Seated Female Portrait Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Modern Cubist inspired portrait painting by the iconic Houston based artist David Adickes. The work features a pair of elegantly dressed women. One is standing and wearing a multicol...
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1990s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Twilight of History, 1940s Original Figurative American Modernist Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Twilight of History" is an original oil on board painting by Frederick Shane (1906-1992), created in 1947. This captivating piece depicts a powerful scene reflecting the "twilight" ...
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1940s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Blessing the New Moon, Judaica, Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Simon Karczmar, Polish (1903 - 1982) Born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1903, Simon Karczmar studied art in Paris, where he lived for twenty years. Although he left France for Israel in 196...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Conductor with Singer, Figurative Oil Painting by William Harnden
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: William Harnden, American (1920 - 1983) Title: Conductor with Singer Medium: Oil on Masonite, signed Image Size: 11.5 x 23.5 inches Frame Size: 17.5 x 30 inches
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1950s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

A Ballynakill Woman.
Located in Storrs, CT
A Ballynakill Woman. c. 1926. Oil on canvas. 30 x 25. Housed in an elegant gold leaf frame. Signed 'Brockhurst' in green paint, in the blanket, lower right. Provenance: Provenance...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Le Gouter
Located in Sheffield, MA
Gabriel Godard French, Born 1933 Le Gouter Oil on canvas 36 by 29 in. W/frame 38 by 31 in. Signed lower right & dated 62 Gabriel Godard was born on April 28, 1933 in Delouze in Lo...
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1960s Modern Figurative Paintings

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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

Inevitable Day – Birth of the Atom oil and tempera painting by Julio De Diego
Located in Hudson, NY
Julio De Diego’s Atomic Series paintings made an extraordinary statement regarding the shock and fear that accompanied the dawn of the nuclear age. In the artist’s own words, “Scientists were working secretly to develop formidable powers taken from the mysterious depths of the earth - with the power to make the earth useless! Then, the EXPLOSION! . . . we entered the Atomic Age, and from there the neo-Atomic war begins. Explosions fell everywhere and man kept on fighting, discovering he could fight without flesh.” To execute these works, De Diego developed a technique of using tempera underpainting before applying layer upon layer of pigmented oil glazes. The result is paintings with surfaces which were described as “bonelike” in quality. The forms seem to float freely, creating a three-dimensional visual effect. In the 1954 book The Modern Renaissance in American Art, author Ralph Pearson summarizes the series as “a fantastic interpretation of a weighty theme. Perhaps it is well to let fantasy and irony appear to lighten the devastating impact. By inverse action, they may in fact increase its weight.” Bibliography Art in America, April 1951, p.78 About this artists: Julio De Diego crafted a formidable persona within the artistic developments and political struggles of his time. The artist characterized his own work as “lyrical,” explaining, “through the years, the surrealists, the social-conscious painters and the others tried to adopt me, but I went my own way, good, bad or indifferent.” [1] His independence manifested early in life when de Diego left his parent’s home in Madrid, Spain, in adolescence following his father’s attempts to curtail his artistic aspirations. At the age of fifteen he held his first exhibition, set up within a gambling casino. He managed to acquire an apprenticeship in a studio producing scenery for Madrid’s operas, but moved from behind the curtains to the stage, trying his hand at acting and performing as an extra in the Ballet Russes’ Petrouchka with Nijinsky. He spent several years in the Spanish army, including a six-month stretch in the Rif War of 1920 in Northern Africa. His artistic career pushed ahead as he set off for Paris and became familiar with modernism’s forays into abstraction, surrealism, and cubism. The artist arrived in the U.S. in 1924 and settled in Chicago two years later. He established himself with a commission for the decoration of two chapels in St. Gregory’s Church. He also worked in fashion illustration, designed magazine covers and developed a popular laundry bag for the Hotel Sherman. De Diego began exhibiting through the Art Institute of Chicago in 1929, and participated in the annual Chicago Artists Exhibitions, Annual American Exhibitions, and International Water Color Exhibitions. He held a solo exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago in the summer of 1935. Though the artist’s career was advancing, his family life had deteriorated. In 1932 his first marriage dissolved, and the couple’s young daughter Kiriki was sent to live with friend Paul Hoffman. De Diego continued to develop his artistic vocabulary with a growing interest in Mexican art. He traveled throughout the country acquainting himself with the works of muralists such as Carlos Merida, and also began a collection of small native artifacts...
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1940s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Masonite, Oil, Tempera

"Chess", Set of 4 Portraits King-Queen-Bishop-Knight Figurative Acrylic Painting
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
A set of portraits of four chess characters - "the king, the queen, the bishop and the knight". Each of these four acrylic figurative cubist paintings measures 60 cm x 60 cm. A graduate from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Métiers d'Arts in Paris, Françoise Collandre...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"Tommy"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork: Gershon Benjamin (1899 - 1985) An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon Ben...
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1930s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

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

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, was a painter, graphic artist, illustrator, etcher, and lithographer. She studied at the Moore Inst. Des.; PAFA; Barnes Found.; San Carlos Acad., Mexico, D.F. Exhibited: PAFA, 1936, 1938, 1941, 1942, 1954; Graphic Sketch Club, 1938 (prize), 1940 (prize); NAD, 1941, 1944-46, 1957, 1958; CI, 1943; MMA, 1943, 1949; Carlen Gal., 1942 (solo); Phila. Pr. Club, 1944 (solo); Phila. YW-YMHA, 1954. Member: AEA; Nat. Lg. Prof. Women Artists; Phila. Pr. Club Work: LOC.; National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Inst.; CI; National Mus. of TV Arts and Sciences; drawings, Phila. Inquirer. Lectures: Mexican Art. Courtroom sketch artist...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Bauernkinder
Located in Wien, 9
The extensive work of Vilma Eckl covers a period of more than seventy years. Her incomparable artistic talent and her essential contribution to the history of art can be seen in her ...
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1920s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Brenda King Venetian Schoolchildren 1974 oil on board Naive Modern British Art
Located in London, GB
To see our other Modern British Art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - or send us a message if you cannot find the artist you want. Brenda King...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

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

Polish French Ecole de Paris Mid Century Modernist Oil Painting Clown Juggler
Located in Surfside, FL
Abram Abraham Krol was born January 22, 1919, in Pabianice (Lodz), Poland. Abram Krol went to France in 1938 to study civil engineering at the University of Caen. In 1939 at the be...
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1950s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Pelligrine Asseolate, Modern Fresco on Board by Mario Toppi, 1959
Located in Long Island City, NY
This piece was created by Italian artist Mario Toppi in 1959. Toppi worked primarily in fresco, creating works that pay material homage to Italy's long artistic history, yet remain m...
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1950s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Plaster, Paint, Board

Woman in Bloom - Figurative Nude Study Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Woman in Bloom - Figurative Nude Study Oil on Canvas A nude woman, seemingly pregnant, sits reclined in a chair with her hands at the base of her belly holding a flower. This striki...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

“Reclining Nude”
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on canvas Signed verso
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1960s 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

Les baigneuses - Eté (summer), '30s - oil paint, 73x60 cm., framed
By Suzanne Blanche Kaehrling
Located in Nice, FR
Oil on canvas by Suzanne Blanche KAEHRLING, representing two girls on the beach. The painting comes with its frame. Suzanne Blanche KAEHRLING, painter from Alsace, lived and worked ...
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1930s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Daffodils for Victory
Located in Zofingen, AG
"Daffodils for Victory" is a painting about rebirth and the power of life. It has become a symbol of the triumph of good over evil, of life over death. The daffodils depicted on the...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Fabric, Mixed Media

Figurative landscape oil painting- Vitality
Located in Beijing, CN
Dai Xiangwen was born in Hunan in 1991 and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Jianghan University, He is a member of China Artists Association, China Designers Association, a painter of Li Keran...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

French Impressionist Oil Painting of an Interior Scene with Draped Fabric
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Impressionist Oil Painting of an Interior Scene with Draped Fabric by Bernadette Kelly (French b. 1933) Unsigned Medium: oil painting on board, unframed Painting size: ...
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Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

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

"Money Lender" WPA American Scene Social Realism Modern Mid 20th Century
Located in New York, NY
"Money Lender" WPA American Scene Social Realism Modernism Mid Century Mervin M Jules (1912-1994 "The Money Lender" 15 1/2 x 20 1/2 inches Oil on board, c. 1940s Signed lower left F...
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1940s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Stuart Somerville oil painting, Portrait study of a nude black woman
By Stuart Somerville
Located in Harkstead, GB
A really striking and stylish portrait of a young black woman, painted with great panache and intimacy. Very attractively presented in a matt and silver frame: ready to hang. Stuart...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Wood Panel, Oil

Golden Cycle Mill Colorado WPA Mining Watercolor, 1940s Grayscale Artwork
Located in Denver, CO
Original 1940s grayscale watercolor painting by American artist Charles Ragland Bunnell, capturing a semi-abstracted view of the Golden Cycle Mill in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Painted in subtle shades of black and gray, this unique WPA-era landscape combines industrial subject matter with expressive, modernist style. A striking piece of American regionalist art from the mid-20th century. The work is presented in a custom black frame. Framed dimensions: 18" H x 19 ½" W x 1 ⅜" D Sight size: 8 ⅛" H x 9 ⅝" W The Golden Cycle Mining and Reduction Company, depicted in this piece, was a major part of Colorado's mining boom in the early 20th century. Located in Colorado City (now part of Old Colorado City), the mill played a significant role in the region’s gold production and industrial development. About the Artist: Charles Ragland Bunnell (1897–1968) Charles Bunnell was a pivotal figure in Colorado’s 20th-century art scene. He worked across multiple styles—from representational landscapes to fully abstract compositions—and was one of the few artists in Colorado to successfully embrace the evolving trends of Modernism, Surrealism, and Abstraction after WWII. Bunnell studied under notable artists at the Broadmoor Art Academy, including Ernest Lawson and Birger Sandzén. His early works, including regional landscapes and mining scenes like this one, showcase a mix of American Scene painting and semi-abstract structure. He later became known for his bold experimentation with color, form, and geometry, producing both expressive oils and ink-watercolor series such as Black and Blue. He participated in multiple New Deal art...
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1940s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor

"War Brides, Wash Sq NYC" American Scene WWII Modernism WPA Mid-Century Oil
Located in New York, NY
"War Brides, Wash Sq NYC" American Scene WWII Modernism WPA Mid-Century Oil. 30 x 40 inches. Oil on canvas, c. 1942. Signed lower right. Titled on the stretcher. Housed in a sensational Heydenryk frame. Our gallery, Helicline Fine Art...
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1940s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The Betrothal Ring
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated lower left: WARREN B. DAVIS 06
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Enfant venu du sable et du silence
Located in Nice, FR
Painter Théo Tobiasse 1927/2012 French and israel born in jaffa Palestine and died in Cagnes s /mer 06 . After winning the prize for young Mediterranean painting in 1961 he then devoted himself entirely to art with works imbuedwiththe exile , for the mother woman . Tobiasse's work is inspired by the judaism of his childhood , traditional jewish themes...
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1960s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas

Girl in a White Dress, Oil Painting on Canvas by Edith Varian Cockcroft
By Edith Varian Cockcroft
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Edith Varian Cockroft, American (1881 - 1962) Title: Girl in a White Dress Year: 1961-1962 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.(signed Cocroft) ...
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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

Contemplation, charcoal and collage, dark female portrait, brown, orange, gold
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Collage and acrylic paint on sintra panel, excellent gift
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media, Panel

"Untitled"
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on canvas painting by the Italian artist, Jean Calogero. Circa 1950. Signed lower left Overall in museum quality gold leaf frame 17.5 by 15.75 inches. Condition: Good. Provenan...
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1950s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Modern French Oil Painting Seated Figure in a Red and Blue Interior Scene
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Modern French Oil Painting Seated Figure in a Red and Blue Interior Scene by Bernadette Kelly (French b. 1933) Unsigned Medium: oil painting on board, unframed Painting size: ...
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Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Floral painting, abstract floral large scale oil painting
Located in Basalt, CO
This 60" x 48" original floral oil painting called "Charmed" is one of the first in Tania's body of large format flower-inspired oil paintings. On a sprawling 60" canvas, hues of gr...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Picnic, Modern Figurative Oil Painting by Anton Refregier
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Anton Refregier Title: Picnic Year: 1959 Medium: Oil on Masonite, signed and dated l.r. Size: 24 x 44 inches (61 x 112 cm) Frame: 31.5 x 51.5 inches
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1950s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

"San Sebastian" Awesome Larger Mid Century Austin Texas piece.
Located in San Antonio, TX
Kelly Fearing (1918-2011) Austin Artist Image Size: 42.25 x 30 Frame Size: 48.5 x 36.5 Medium: Oil/Gaouche "San Sebastion" Biography Kelly Fearing (1918-2011) The following information is from the artist's obituary, University of Texas Education News Prominent Artist and Art Educator Kelly Fearing Dies at 92 AUSTIN, Texas — Artist, art educator and University of Texas at Austin Professor Emeritus Kelly Fearing died on March 13 at his home in Austin, at the age of 92 due to congestive heart failure. Fearing was a professor emeritus in university's Department of Art and Art History. He taught at the university from 1947-87, and was presented the College of Fine Arts' E. William Doty Award in 2007, the college's highest honor recognizing him as an individual of distinction in his field who has demonstrated extraordinary interest in the college. "Kelly Fearing was the quintessential Renaissance man," said College of Fine Arts Associate Dean Ken Hale. "He was an artist, an author and an educator. His talent was extraordinary. He worked in almost all traditional mediums and excelled in oil painting and collage. Fearing was very well educated in all of the arts and enthusiastically passed that knowledge on to literally thousands of students. The University of Texas and the state of Texas have benefited greatly from the creativity and generosity of Kelly Fearing. His passing is a loss for us all." Born in Fordyce, Ark., Fearing was raised in Louisiana, studied art at Louisiana Tech University, earned a master's degree from Columbia University and went to Fort Worth during World War II to serve his country in a defense job. While being trained in graphic drafting for a company that was making bombers for the U.S. military, Fearing was introduced to other aspiring artists in the Fort Worth area. This group of avant-guard printmakers and artists became known as the Fort Worth Circle, and Fearing was one of its core members. Collectively, they were instrumental in introducing modernist ideas to Texas art. After teaching at Texas Wesleyan College from 1945-47, he came to The University of Texas at Austin as the Ashbel Smith Professor in Art in 1947. He retired from the university in 1987 and continued to work as a professional artist. His art has been referred to as magical realist, mystical naturalist and Romantic surrealist. As a pioneer in art education in America, Fearing founded The University of Texas Junior Art Project, the first visual arts outreach program of its kind in Texas. The program offered children of all ages and from all economic backgrounds free, university-based instruction and exposure to the arts. Kelly Fearing has been an important artist working in Texas since the 1940s. After doing his graduate work at Columbia University in New York City, Fearing established himself as a surrealist painter and print maker in Fort Worth, and then became one of the founding members of the art faculty at the University of Texas at Austin. He has had recent exhibitions at the Valley House Gallery in Dallas, Texas, and at the Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery in Austin, Texas. Fearing lives and works in Austin, Texas. Courtesy of Flatbread Press and Gallery Added note: Kelly Fearing died of congestive heart failure in 2011 in Austin, Texas. William KELLY FEARING (1918-2011) Born in Fordyce, Arkansas, Kelly Fearing entered college as an accounting major but quickly discovered his intense interest in art. He studied art at Louisiana Tech University and later at Columbia University. He taught public school briefly before relocating to Texas to teach art at the university level in El Paso and Fort Worth before joining the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin. Selected Biographical and Career Highlights · 1918 Born in Fordyce, Arkansas · 1941 BA, Louisiana Polytechnic Institute, Ruston, Louisiana · 1941-42 Teacher, Winfield Public Schools, Louisiana · 1943-45 Guest Professor, Texas Western College, El Paso, Texas · 1945-47 Instructor, Texas Wesleyan College, Fort Worth, Texas · 1950 MA, Columbia University, New York, New York · 1947-87 Professor of Art, University of Texas at Austin, Texas · 2007 Recipient, William E. Doty Award · 2009 Recipient, Texas Biennial Tribute Artist · 2011 Died in Austin, Texas Selected Prizes, Awards · Texas General/Annual: Purchase Prize 1956; Cash Prize 1945, 1947, 1949, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1963; Recommended for Purchase Prize 1949, 1950 1945 Cash Prize, The Aquarist, oil 1947 Cash Prize for Dream of Jacob, oil 1949 Cash Prize and Recommended for Purchase Prize, The Red Sea, oil 1950 Recommended for Purchase Prize, Man in a Tide Pool, oil 1953 Cash Prize, Tobias and the Angel, oil 1954 Cash Prize, Landscape with Peacock, oil 1955 Cash Prize, St. John in the Wilderness, oil 1956 Purchase Prize, Yellow After the Rain, oil 1963 Cash Prize, Sleeping Philosopher in a Landscape Developing, oil · Fort Worth Local: First Prize 1945; Popular Prize 1944 1944 Popular Prize, USO Street Dance 1945 First Prize, The Kite Flyers, oil · Texas Fine Arts: Purchase Prize 1954; Cash Prize 1952, 1955 (2 works), 1956 1952 Cash Prize 1954 Purchase Prize 1955 Cash Prize for Watercolor, watercolor 1955 Cash Prize, Spring Festival 1956 Cash Prize · Other Exhibitions: Purchase Prize 1945 Texas Print Exhibition; Merit Award 1956 DD Feldman; Honorable Mention 1962 Longview National Invitational 1945 Purchase Prize, The Collector, etching, 5th Annual Texas Print Exhibition 1962 Honorable Mention, Longview National Invitational Selected Exhibitions · 1941 Solo, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana · 1944 24th Exhibition of the Southern States Art League, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas · 1944 Fort Worth Local Artists Annual, Fort Worth Art Association Gallery, Public Library, Fort Worth, Texas (popular prize) · 1944 6th Texas General Exhibition 1944-1945, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Witte Museum, San Antonio; University of Texas at Austin, Texas · 1945 Fort Worth Local Artists Annual, Fort Worth Art Association Gallery, Public Library, Fort Worth, Texas (purchase prize) · 1945 7th Texas General Exhibition 1945-1946, circulated: Witte Museum, San Antonio; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; University of Texas at Austin, Texas (cash prize) · 1945 Prints of Fort Worth Artists, Fort Worth Art Association Gallery, Public Library, Fort Worth, Texas · 1945 5th Annual Texas Print Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas (1st prize) · 1946 8th Texas General Exhibition 1946-1947, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas · 1947 55 Works of Modern Art Owned in Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas · 1947 6th Annual Texas Print Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas · 1947 9th Texas General Exhibition 1947-1948, circulated: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas (cash prize) · 1948 10th Texas General Exhibition 1948-1949, circulated: Witte Museum, San Antonio; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas 1945 Prize, 5th Annual Texas Print Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas · 1948 Watercolors by 16 Texas Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas · 1948 University of Texas Art Faculty Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas · 1949 Solo, Fresno State College, Fresno, California · 1949 11th Annual Texas Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture 1949-1950, circulated: Witte Museum, San Antonio; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas (cash prize and recommended for purchase prize) · 1950 Texas Wildcat, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California · 1950, 1960, 1963 Artists West of the Mississippi, Colorado Springs Art Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado · 1950 12th Annual Exhibition of Texas Painting and Sculpture 1950-1951, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (recommended for purchase prize) · 1951 Newcomers: First Showing of a New Generation, Downtown Gallery, New York, New York · 1952 Annual Juried Exhibition, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas (cash prize) · 1952 Imaginative Paintings by Kelly Fearing, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California · 1952 Young Collections 1952, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas · 1952 Kelly Fearing, Betty McLean Gallery, Dallas, Texas · 1952 Texas Contemporary Artists, M. Knoedler & Company, New York, New York; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas (catalogue) · 1952 Solo, Cotton Memorial Galleries, Texas Western College, El Paso, Texas · 1952 14th Annual Exhibition of Texas Painting and Sculpture 1952, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas · 1953 University of Texas Faculty Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas · 1953 Solo, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California · 1953 15th Annual Exhibition of Texas Painting and Sculpture 1953, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas (cash prize) · 1954 149th Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · 1954 Sacred Art, Catholic University, Washington, DC · 1954 Seventeen Years: An Exhibition of the First Prize Winners in the 17 Annual Exhibitions of Work by Fort Worth Artists Held by the Fort Worth Art Association, Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, Texas (catalogue) · 1954 16th Annual Exhibition of Texas Painting and Sculpture 1954, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, Texas (cash prize) · 1954 Annual Juried Exhibition, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas (purchase prize) · 1954 Religious Art Today, Brown Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts · 1954-56 Artist’s Panorama Traveling Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · 1955 Two Texas Artists (Kelly Fearing and Mildred Wood Dixon), Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas · 1955 Pittsburgh International, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · 1955 Solo, Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, Texas · 1955 The World Around Us: 100 Years of American Landscape, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas · 1955 Annual Juried Exhibition, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas (cash prize for watercolor) · 1955 Spring Arts Festival, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas (cash prize) · 1955 Young Collections 1955, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas · 1955 17th Annual Exhibition of Texas Painting and Sculpture 1955-1956, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas (cash prize) · 1955, 1959, 1963 Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois · 1956 6th Southwestern Exhibition of Prints and Drawings, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, traveled to: Centenary College, Shreveport, Louisiana; Elisabet Ney Museum, Austin, Texas; University of New Mexico, Albuquerque; Texas Tech College Museum, Lubbock; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; University of Tulsa, Oklahoma; Oklahoma A&M College, Stillwater · 1956 Gulf-Caribbean Art Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, traveled to: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburg; Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado (catalogue) · 1956 Young Collections 1956, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas · 1956 Annual Juried Exhibition, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas (cash prize) · 1956 Merit Award, D. D. Feldman Collection of Contemporary Texas Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (1958, Dallas???) · 1956 D. D. Feldman Collection of Contemporary Texas Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas · 1956 18th Annual Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition 1956-1957, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin; Museum, Texas Tech, Lubbock, Texas (purchase prize) · 1957 Survey of Painting in Texas, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, circulated by American Federation of Arts (catalogue) · 1957 22nd Annual Midyear Juried Exhibition, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio · 1957 Summer Group Exhibition, Edwin Hewitt Gallery, New York, New York · 1957 Young Collections 1957, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas · 1958 Religious Art of the Western World, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas · 1958 20th Annual Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition 1958-1959, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio; TFAA, Laguna Gloria Gallery, Austin; Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont; San Angelo Art Club, San Angelo; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas · 1959 Made in Texas by Texans, Dallas Museum of Contemporary Art, Sheraton-Dallas Hotel, Dallas, Texas (catalogue) · 1959 21st Annual Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition 1959-1960, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont; Museum, Texas Tech, Lubbock; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas · 1960 Southwestern Art: A Sampling of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas · 1961 Invitational Exhibition of Painters Born in Arkansas, Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock, Arkansas · 1962, 1963, 1975 Invitational, Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview, Texas (honorable mention 1962) · 1963 University of Texas Art Faculty—Past and Present, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas · 1963 25th Annual Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition 1963-1964, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Centennial Art Museum, Corpus Christi; Beaumont Art Museum, Beaumont; El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso; Witte Museum, San Antonio; University of Texas at Austin, Texas (cash prize) · 1963 The Versatile Shell, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas · 1963 59th Annual Exhibition of Western Art, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado · 1963, 1966 Christocentric Exhibition, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois · 1964 Solo, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas · 1964 New York World’s Fair, Texas Pavilion, New York, New York · 1964-65 The Bird in Art, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona and the Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas · 1966 Solo, Gallery of Visual Arts, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana · 1967 Solo, University of Texas Art Museum, Austin, Texas · 1968 Texas Painting and Sculpture 1968, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas · 1969 Solo, Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas · 1971 Texas Painting and Sculpture 71, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas · 1971–72 Texas Painting and Sculpture: The 20th Century, Pollack Galleries, Owen Arts Center, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, traveled to: Witte Confluence Museum, HemisFair Plaza, San Antonio; University Art Museum, University of Texas at Austin; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth; The Museum, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas (catalogue) · 1974 Solo, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas · 1977 Solo, DuBose Gallery, Houston, Texas · 1978 U.S. Drawings, Museum, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas · 1978 Solo, L and L Gallery, Longview, Texas · 1979 Made in Texas, Huntington Gallery, University Art Museum, University of Texas at Austin, Texas (catalogue) · 1981 Solo, Spencer Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of Arkansas, Monticello, Arkansas · 1981 Solo, Moffett Gallery, School of Art and Architecture, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana · 1983 Images of Texas, Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, Texas, traveled to: Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi; Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, Texas (catalogue) · 1984 Works from the Friends Collections, Art Gallery, School of Art and Architecture, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana · 1985 Solo, Old Jail Art Center, Albany, Texas · 1986 Solo, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas · 1986 Beyond Regionalism: The Fort Worth School (1945-1955), Old Jail Art Center, Albany, Texas · 1992 Prints of the Fort Worth Circle, 1940-1960, Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, Texas · 1992 Kelly Fearing: The Influence of “The Fort Worth School,” 1939-1955, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas · 1995 Solo, Flatbed Press & Gallery, Austin, Texas · 1996 Solo, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas · 1997 Jupiter’s Loves and His Children, Georgia Art Museum, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia · 1998 Early Texas Art: A Collectors’ Exhibition, Museum of the Big Bend, Alpine, Texas · 1999 Kelly Fearing: A Search for Mystical Concepts, Pascal/Robinson Galleries, Houston, Texas · 2000 Solo, Flatbed Press & Gallery, Austin, Texas · 2001 First Light: Local Art and the Fort Worth Public Library 1901–1961 . . . A Centennial Exhibit, Fort Worth Central Library, Fort Worth, Texas (catalogue) · 2002 The Mystical World of Kelly Fearing: A Sixty Year Retrospective, traveling exhibition, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas; Old Jail Art Center, Albany, Texas; Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas (catalogue) · 2002-03 The Eyes of Texas—The Lone Star State as Seen by Her Artists, San Angelo Museum of Fine Art, San Angelo, Texas; Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Canyon, Texas (catalogue) · 2005 Celebrating Early Texas Art: Treasures from Dallas-Fort Worth Private Collections, 1900-1960, Fort Worth Community Center, Fort Worth, Texas (catalogue) · 2007 A Life of Art: 1943-Present, Lotus Asian Art...
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1960s Modern Figurative Paintings

Christ, Symbolic of the Pain & Torture, Mixed Media, Pink, Black "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Suhas Roy - Christ - 20 x 16 inches ( Unframed Size ) Mixed Media on Imported Paper , 2005 ( Framed & Door Delivered ) Suhas Roy depicted the face of Jesus portraying pain and agony...
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Early 2000s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media

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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Canvas, Oil

Place Jean-Baptiste-Clément by Maurice Utrillo - Street scene in Paris
Located in London, GB
*PLEASE NOTE UK BUYERS WILL ONLY PAY 5% VAT ON THIS PURCHASE. Place Jean-Baptiste-Clément by Maurice Utrillo (1883-1955) Oil on cradled panel 51.3 x 76.2 cm (20¹/₄ x 30 inches) Signed towards lower right, Maurice. Utrillo. V. Executed circa 1918 This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from the Comité Utrillo. Painted circa 1918, this Utrillo oil...
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1910s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Panel

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