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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
Woman Lying Down on White Cloth - Oil Painting - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Woman Lying Down on White Cloth is an artwork realized by an Italian Artist in mid-20th Century. Oil on cardboard 24x34 cm. Good conditions.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Cardboard, Oil

Portrait. Paper, pastel, 35.5x23 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Portrait. Paper, pastel, 35.5x23 cm The composition focuses on portraying the facial features and characteristics of a man. The artist has employed a linear style, using bold and de...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Pastel, Paper

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

Polish Ecole De Paris Modernist Oil Painting Abstract Dancers
Located in Surfside, FL
Alfred Aberdam (1894–1963) painter and graphic artist was a painter of School of Paris, born in Lvov, capital of Galicia, Austro-Hungarian Empire. Born in Lviv, Krystonopol, East Galicia (now Chervonograd, Ukraine) and received a traditional Jewish education in a Heder while studying Hebrew with private teachers. In 1905–12 he lived in Lvov, where he finished high school. He decided to become an artist at the age of 14. At this time he came into contact with young Yiddish Judaic writers (Melech Ravitch, Abraham Moshe Fuks, and others) and with Zionist youth groups in Lvov. He attended their meetings and their lectures on Jewish Judaica artists. After graduating high school, he organized several conferences in his hometown on Italian and Flemish masters and on the first Jewish painters, including Josef Israels (1824-1911). In 1911 he started to study art at the Munich Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Akademie der Bildenden Künste München. Lemberg/Lwów (today Lviv), studies under Gabriel von Hackl (1843-1926). During World War I he was imprisoned by the Russians and stayed in the camp for prisoners of war in Siberia where he became acquainted with David Burliuk and other Russian futurists. In 1917, Aberdam was appointed People’s Commissar of the Department of Fine Arts by the local soviet, which assigned him the task of reorganizing artistic teaching. A year later, in Moscow, he befriended the poet Vladimir Mayakovski. In 1921 in Poland, he began his studies at Kraków's Academy of Fine Arts under Professor Teodora Axentowicz, then lived in Paris. There he participated in numerous exhibitions, and in a Poland exhibition in the Gallery of Modern Art Editions in 1929. In the latter he organized the exhibition in 1931. In 1932 he exhibited in Warsaw and Lviv. From 1933 he belonged to a group of visual artists known as "Nowocześni". In 1923, while he was staying in Berlin, he met Menkes and Weingart in sculptor Alexander Archipenko’s studio. In 1924, he settled in Paris in the Montparnasse area. In the end of 1925, Jan Sliwinski held an exhibition in his gallery Au Sacre du Printemps, at 5 rue du Cherche-Midi, Paris. His work was exhibited alongside paintings by his Galician friends Leon Weissberg, Sigmund Menkes and Joachim Weingart...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Sybil (The Prophetess), 1970s Abstract Figurative Oil Painting, Pink Blue Red
Located in Denver, CO
Semi-Abstract figurative oil on burlap painting titled 'Sybil (The Prophetess)' by Edward Marecak (1919-1993) painted in 1976. Signed and dated by the artist in the lower right corne...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Burlap, Oil

Bubble Suite, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
20" x 20" x 1.5" original acrylic painting on stretched canvas, with the image continuing around the sides so that no frame is required. It comes wired, ready to hang. Bubble...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

Royal Academy Series-6, Pencil on Paper, Modern Artist Atul Bose "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Atul Bose - Royal Academy Series-6 Pencil on Paper, 15 x 11.2 inches (Unframed Size) 1924-26 (Delivered Unframed in as is condition) Atul Bose was a master artist whose creative journey spanned several decades and left an indelible mark on the Indian art scene. He was born in 1898 in a small village in Bengal and showed an early aptitude for art. Despite facing financial difficulties, he pursued his passion and enrolled in the Government School of Art in Calcutta. Bose's early works were influenced by the Bengal School of Art, which was a movement that sought to revive traditional Indian art forms. However, over time, Bose developed his own unique style that blended elements of Indian art with European modernism. He was particularly influenced by the works of artists like Paul Cezanne and Georges Braque. Bose spent two years, 1924-6, at the Royal Academy. He was heavily influenced there by the post-impressionist Walter Sickert. He refused an invitation to help decorate the pavilion at the British Empire Exhibition in 1924 with Mukul Dey...
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1920s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Ink, Pencil, Conté, Paper, Pen

Royal Academy Series-4, Conte on Paper, Modern Artist Atul Bose "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Atul Bose - Royal Academy Series-4 Conte on Paper, 15 x 11.2 inches (Unframed Size) 1924-26 (Delivered Unframed in as is condition) Atul Bose was a master artist whose creative journey spanned several decades and left an indelible mark on the Indian art scene. He was born in 1898 in a small village in Bengal and showed an early aptitude for art. Despite facing financial difficulties, he pursued his passion and enrolled in the Government School of Art in Calcutta. Bose's early works were influenced by the Bengal School of Art, which was a movement that sought to revive traditional Indian art forms. However, over time, Bose developed his own unique style that blended elements of Indian art with European modernism. He was particularly influenced by the works of artists like Paul Cezanne and Georges Braque. Bose spent two years, 1924-6, at the Royal Academy. He was heavily influenced there by the post-impressionist Walter Sickert. He refused an invitation to help decorate the pavilion at the British Empire Exhibition in 1924 with Mukul Dey...
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1920s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Ink, Conté, Paper, Pen

Royal Academy Series-4, Conte on Paper, Modern Artist Atul Bose "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Atul Bose - Royal Academy Series-4 Conte on Paper, 15 x 11.2 inches (Unframed Size) 1924-26 (Delivered Unframed in as is condition) Atul Bose was a master artist whose creative journey spanned several decades and left an indelible mark on the Indian art scene. He was born in 1898 in a small village in Bengal and showed an early aptitude for art. Despite facing financial difficulties, he pursued his passion and enrolled in the Government School of Art in Calcutta. Bose's early works were influenced by the Bengal School of Art, which was a movement that sought to revive traditional Indian art forms. However, over time, Bose developed his own unique style that blended elements of Indian art with European modernism. He was particularly influenced by the works of artists like Paul Cezanne and Georges Braque. Bose spent two years, 1924-6, at the Royal Academy. He was heavily influenced there by the post-impressionist Walter Sickert. He refused an invitation to help decorate the pavilion at the British Empire Exhibition in 1924 with Mukul Dey...
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1920s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Ink, Conté, Paper, Pen

Freedom, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Escaping reality without hindrance or restraint while indulging in the elements surrounding oneself in peace. Wired, varnished with matte finish and ready to hang. :: Painting :: Mo...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

Royal Academy Series-7, Conte on Paper, Modern Artist Atul Bose "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Atul Bose - Royal Academy Series-6 Pencil on Paper, 15 x 11.2 inches (Unframed Size) 1924-26 (Delivered Unframed in as is condition) Atul Bose was a master artist whose creative journey spanned several decades and left an indelible mark on the Indian art scene. He was born in 1898 in a small village in Bengal and showed an early aptitude for art. Despite facing financial difficulties, he pursued his passion and enrolled in the Government School of Art in Calcutta. Bose's early works were influenced by the Bengal School of Art, which was a movement that sought to revive traditional Indian art forms. However, over time, Bose developed his own unique style that blended elements of Indian art with European modernism. He was particularly influenced by the works of artists like Paul Cezanne and Georges Braque. Bose spent two years, 1924-6, at the Royal Academy. He was heavily influenced there by the post-impressionist Walter Sickert. He refused an invitation to help decorate the pavilion at the British Empire Exhibition in 1924 with Mukul Dey...
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1920s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Conté, Paper, Ink, Pen, Pencil

Portrait of a Woman with Red Hair on a Green Background in Acrylic
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of a Woman with Brown Hair on a Red Background in Acrylic on Artist's Board Portrait of a woman in the style of Amedeo Modigliani by an unknown artist (20th century). The w...
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Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic, Illustration Board

Bing Crosby - White Christmas (Record Label, Ticket Stubs, Setlists)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Kerry Smith Bing Crosby - White Christmas Mixed Media on Crescent board Year: 2018 Size: 12x12in Framed Signed, dated by hand COA provided Ref.: 924802...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media, Acrylic, Gouache, Board

Splash Girl - Original painting, Signed
Located in Paris, FR
Philippe Pasqua (1965-) Splash Girl, 2010 Mixed medias : ink, watercolor and acrylic painting Signed bottom right Authenticated with the artist red stamp On...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor

Large Colorful French Mid Century Oil Painting Michel Marie Poulan Marching Band
Located in Surfside, FL
Michel Marie Poulain (1906-1991) French Musicians. Oil on canvas. Signed lower left. Provenance: Greenwich, CT estate. Dimensions: 21" h x 25.5...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

On the Back Porch, Brecksville, Ohio, Early 20th Century Cleveland School
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964) On the Back Porch, Brecksville, Ohio, c. 1922 Watercolor on paper Monogram lower right 21.5 x 27. 5 inc...
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1920s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor

Huge Cuban Modernist Painting Two Abstract Portrait Figures Contemporary Artist
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Clemente Segrera (Cuban b.1951) signed acrylic painting on canvas, unframed dated 2018 canvas: 31 x 43 inches provenance: private collection, London c...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

'The Harmonica Player', Bay Area Modernism, San Francisco Art Institute, Harp
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Earl Thollander' (American, 1923-2001) and painted circa 1955; additionally signed, verso, on paper and titled, 'The Harmonica Pla...
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1950s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Casein, Board

Royal Academy Series-3, Pen & Ink on Paper, Modern Artist Atul Bose "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Atul Bose - Royal Academy Series-3 Pen & Ink on Paper, 15 x 11.2 inches (Unframed Size) 1924-26 (Delivered Unframed in as is condition) Atul Bose was a master artist whose creative journey spanned several decades and left an indelible mark on the Indian art scene. He was born in 1898 in a small village in Bengal and showed an early aptitude for art. Despite facing financial difficulties, he pursued his passion and enrolled in the Government School of Art in Calcutta. Bose's early works were influenced by the Bengal School of Art, which was a movement that sought to revive traditional Indian art forms. However, over time, Bose developed his own unique style that blended elements of Indian art with European modernism. He was particularly influenced by the works of artists like Paul Cezanne and Georges Braque. Bose spent two years, 1924-6, at the Royal Academy. He was heavily influenced there by the post-impressionist Walter Sickert. He refused an invitation to help decorate the pavilion at the British Empire Exhibition in 1924 with Mukul Dey...
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1920s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Pen, Ink, Paper

Cornish 20th Century artist Frank Dobson 'Newlyn Girl', oil painting
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Frank Dobson RA (British, 1886 – 1963) Newlyn girl Oil on panel 9.3/4 x 13.3/4 in. (24.7 x 35.5 cm.) Provenance: From the collection of Janet Beat Bonhams London Frank Dobson (1886...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Untitled (Three Figures)
Located in Provincetown, MA
Ross Moffett remains a legendary Cape Cod artist. Moffett painted with an intensely personal focus, composing canvases that inevitably reflected the chara...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Figures on River French Modernist Signed Oil Painting Fishing Vacation
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Vacances Huguette Ginet-Lasnier (French 1927-2020), signed lower front inscribed verso oil painting on canvas 24 x 29 inches. All the paintings we have for sale by this artist have ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Vintage Swedish Figurative Oil Painting, Brita Hansson - Market Square
Located in Bristol, GB
MARKET SQUARE Size: 37 x 42 cm (including frame) Oil onto paper laid to board A richly coloured mid century modernist figure scene, painted in oil onto paper laid on board, by the ...
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1950s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board, Laid Paper

20th CENTURY FRENCH MODERNIST PAINTING - red eye man
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Man by Jean Marc (French 1949-2019) signed with initials gouache paint/ Watercolor painting: 15.75 x 16 inches provenance: private collection, South of France Superb ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor

Portrait of Young Woman (Self Portrait of the Artist?)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Portrait of Young Woman (Self Portrait of the Artist?) Oil on canvas, pre 1963 Signed lower left edge (see photo) also see photo of signature from another work by the artist Newman Galleries label verso (a leading art gallery in Philadelphia, founded 1860 Condition: Excellent Canvas size: 30 1/16 x 18 1/8 inches Frame size: 32 x 20 inches Exhibited: Newman Gallery, Philadelphia Note: Tatiana was a talented portrait painter and baroness from a wealthy and aristocratic Italian family, who married the American artist Cy Towmbly in 1959. Tatiana married Cy Twombly in April of 1959. They had a son, Cyrus Alessandro, made famous in his painting The Age of Alexander, 1959-1960. Tatiana's brother, Baron Giorgio Francehtti, purchased the famous Venetian landmark, Ca' D' Oro, located on the Grand Canal. He formed a major collection of art. The Baron was a backer of the noted Roma art...
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1960s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Ludwig Gschossmann, Summer Beach landscape with riders, horses, people, Seascape
Located in Berlin, DE
Ludwig Gschossmann, Summer beach landscape with riders, horses, people. Munich artist. Dimensions WITHOUT frame in cm 50 x 60 Dimensions WITH frame in cm 68 x 78 This picturesque ...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Mag 1999, canvas, oil, 74.2x80.3 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Mag 1999, canvas, oil, 74.2x80.3 cm "Mag" is an intriguing artwork created in 1999 by Igor Maikov. It is a large oil painting on canvas, measuring 74.2x80.3 cm. The painting depicts a portrait of an old lady set...
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1990s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

20th CENTURY FRENCH MODERNIST PAINTING - Yoga Style Figure Green Trousers
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Green Trousers by Jean Marc (French 1949-2019) gouache paint painting: 15.75 x 11.75 inches provenance: private collection, South of France Superb original painting by the widely e...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Gouache

The String Puppet, 20th Century Oil Painting
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas, signed bottom left Image size: 30 x 25 inches (76.25 x 63.5 cm) Alice Headley Neave was the daughter of Dr Arthur Henry Headley Huc...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Painting of Caribbean Women, Signed by Gloria Lynn
Located in Larchmont, NY
Gloria Lynn Untitled (Caribbean Women), c. 1970 Oil on canvas 35 3/4 x 27 3/4 in. Framed: 36 1/2 x 28 1/2 in. Signed lower right: GLORIA This intimate yet vibrant subject shows two ...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Enormous French Contemporary Modernist Oil Bathers at Crowded River Estuary Bar
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Grand Loire Huguette Ginet-Lasnier (French 1927-2020) signed and inscribed verso in a thin wooden frame 2 adjoined oil paintings on canvas overall measuring: 64 x 39.5 inches. All t...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

'Toreador', California, Post Impressionist Oil, Santa Monica College
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Goetz' for Jack Goetz (American, born 1919); additionally signed, verso, dated 1998, titled 'Toreador', with artist information. A dramatic figural study of a proud, young toreador shown seated, wearing an embroidered vest and gazing directly towards the viewer. Goetz has painted and exhibited with success for many years and continues to paint at the age of 104. Speaking of himself, the artist says: "I studied arts and languages at Santa Monica College, taking classes in oil and watercolor painting, sculpture, ceramics, art history and music. At the same time, I studied with master painter Sergei Bongart. Because he taught many people in the movie business, I had fun meeting and painting with people...
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1990s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Large Belgian Modernist Signed Oil Portrait of Sorrowful Lady in Blue Scarf
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Pierre LaFille, Belgian late 20th century signed oil on canvas, framed framed: 42.5 x 35 inches canvas: 39 x 32 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: very good and...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Mid 20th Century British Portrait of Lady in Green Dress Signed Large Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a seated woman wearing a green dress Waldron West, British mid 20th century signed oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 30 x 25 inches provenance: private collection, England ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Large French Modernist Painting Girl in Yellow Dress next to Grand Piano
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French contemporary artist oil on canvas, thin wooden frame painting: 36 x 29 inches provenance: private collection condition: very good and sound condition
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2010s 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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Oil, Canvas

vagabonds oil on board painting modernism art
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Oil measures 70x50 cm. Frame measures 83x63 cm. Painter of landscapes and figures, in whose characterization he deepens psychologically capturing the character, Albert Roca has won...
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1990s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Mid Century Modern Mother and Baby Playing Figurative - Nude
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Modern Mother and Baby Playing Figurative - Nude Wonderful small scale ink and acrylic paint of a mother and baby by Dorothea Stevenson Casady (American, 1910 - 2006). Signed lower left corner. Presented in gilt-toned and velvet filet mid-century frame. Image size: 6"H x 8.25"W Frame: 9.5"H x 11.25"W x 2.25"D (velvet liner has age toning) Casady was a painter and muralist and served as Chairman, Oklahoma City University Art Department, 1939-1943; an Art instructor, Classen High School; Education: University of Oklahoma, B.F.A., 1931; M.F.A., Norman, OK; studied with Emil Bisttram, Taos School of Art and Nan Sheets; Foundation des Etats Unis, Paris, Fance, 1935-1936; New York School of Industrial Arts; studied fresco and egg tempera under Professor Leugi Arcangeti, Florence, Italy, 1937; Oklahoma City University; Julian Academy Paris, France, 1936 Memberships: Oklahoma State Artists Association; Kappa Pi, art fraternity; Delta Delta Delta...
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1960s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Ink, Acrylic, Cardboard

Cadets Football New Yorker Mag Cover Proposal American Scene Modern Illustration
Located in New York, NY
Cadets Football New Yorker Mag Cover Proposal American Scene Modern Illustration Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994) Cadets Football Game New Yorker cover proposal, c. 1939 14 1/4 X 1...
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1930s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Board, Gouache

SAMSARA
Located in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato
This painting with a modern style and a mixture between the geometric figurative and contemporary mandala is called Samsara as the cycle of life, that noble change that is the nature...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic

Snowy Night
Located in Columbia, MO
LARRY KANTNER Snowy Night 2021 Watercolor, ink, and collage 11 x 13 inches
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor, Mixed Media, Ink

The Junkman's Serenade oil painting by Gregorio Prestopino
Located in Hudson, NY
This work epitomizes Prestopino's interest in social realism which captures a quiet interlude in the everyday life of an "everyman." It also provides a contrast for our expectations as we view a tough, blue collar worker, with no one watching, as he sings a melody to the birds. In an original frame measuring 49" x 39" x 3.25" Provenance: Edith Halpert's Downtown Gallery (label verso from 13 w. 113th street, where the gallery was located from 1926 until 1939) Private collection, NYC, c. 1935 By descent About this artist: Born in Little Italy in 1907, Gregorio Prestopino first set out to become a sign painter as the son of New York City immigrants. Instead, his talent provided a life-changing scholarship to the National Academy of Design, and for five years he studied drawing under C. W. Hawthorne. He spent the summer of 1934 at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire. His deep involvement with the colony led him to later serve as its director in 1954. Much of Prestopino’s work was in the vein of social realism. During the 1940s and 1950s he became deeply invested in portraying everyday Manhattan and Harlem scenes. He first became interested in the Ashcan school at the National Academy of Design, and remained committed to an interest in working with urban scenes. His lively treatment of people and events revealed his affinity for sixteenth-century artist Pieter Breughel...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

The New Dog
Located in Columbia, MO
LARRY KANTNER The New Dog 2022 Acrylic and collage 8.5 x 10.5 inches
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media, Acrylic

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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Board, Gouache

Blossom
Located in Columbia, MO
LARRY KANTNER Blossom 2022 Acrylic and collage 8.5 x 6.25 inches
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media, Acrylic

1960’s French Pair Portraits Fashion Ladies Original Paintings
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French School, 1960’s signed pair oil on board, framed framed: 5 x 4 inches board: 4 x 3 inches private collection, France overall very good and sound condition
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

House Beautiful Cover Proposal. American Scene Social Realism Industrial WPA
Located in New York, NY
House Beautiful Cover Proposal. American Scene Social Realism Industrial WPA Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994) Mixing Mortar 12 1/2 X 14 3/4 inche...
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1930s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Board, Gouache

Original Painting. New Yorker Cover Proposal Baseball c. 1939 Modern Cubist Deco
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting. New Yorker Cover Proposal Baseball c. 1939 Modern Cubist Deco Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994) Play Ball New Yorker cover proposal, c. 1939 12 x 8 inches (sight) Framed 18 1/2 X 14 3/4 inches Gouache on board Estate sticker verso BIOGRAPHY: Antonio Petruccelli (1907-1994) began his career as a textile designer. He became a freelance illustrator in 1932 after winning several House Beautiful cover illustration contests. In addition to 24 Fortune magazine covers, four New Yorker covers, several for House Beautiful, Collier’s, and other magazines he did numerous illustrations for Life magazine from the 1930s – 60s. ‘Tony was Mr. Versatility for Fortune. He could do anything, from charts and diagrams to maps, illustrations, covers, and caricatures,’ said Francis Brennan, the former art director for Fortune. Over the course of his career, Antonio won several important design awards, designing a U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Steel Industry and designing the Bicentennial Medal...
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1930s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Board, Gouache

WATTS TOWER
By Gloria Stuart
Located in Santa Monica, CA
GLORIA STUART (1910 – 2010) WATTS TOWERS, 1971 Oil on canvas, signed lower right, 24” x 50 ½”. Gloria Stuart, an Academy Award nominated actress was also a painter, illustrator and printmaker. She most recently portrayed Rose in the blockbuster film “Titanic”. She was a Santa Monica native. In 2013 The Los Angeles Museum of Art, LACMA exhibited a nearly identical painting looking from the south, the same size and frame. Last 5 photos show the example at LACMA. One shows theirs in a distant room with a major Thomas Hart Benton painting in the foreground A VERY IMPORTANT MULTI-LEVELED DOCUMENT OF LOS ANGELES AND HOLLYWOOD CULTURAL HSTORYi The following is from her obituary in the Los Angeles Times upon her death in September 2010 at the age of 100 Gloria Stuart, a 1930s Hollywood leading lady who earned an Academy Award nomination for her first significant role in nearly 60 years — as Old Rose, the centenarian survivor of the Titanic in James Cameron’s 1997 Oscar-winning film — has died. She was 100. .......She devoted much of her time to designing and printing artists’ books (handmade, letter-press printed books in limited editions, with her own artwork and writing). Her work is in the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and other museums. Stuart, a founding member of the Screen Actors Guild who later became an accomplished painter and fine printer, died Sunday night at her West Los Angeles home, said her daughter, writer Sylvia Thompson. Stuart had been diagnosed with lung cancer five years ago. “She also was a breast cancer survivor,” Thompson said, “but she just paid no attention to illness. She was a very strong woman and had other fish to fry.” In July the actress was honored at an “Academy Centennial Celebration With Gloria Stuart” at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. “She was a charming and beautiful leading lady in the ‘30s, and I never understood why her career didn’t go further at that time,” film historian and critic Leonard Maltin, who interviewed Stuart on stage at the event, told The Times on Monday. As for Stuart’s high-profile comeback in “Titanic”: “She was thrilled by the attention that that performance brought her and really wanted to win that Oscar. I thought she hit just the right notes in that performance. She was wry and engaging.” As a glamorous blond actress under contract to Universal Studios and 20th Century Fox in the 1930s, Stuart appeared opposite Claude Rains in James Whale’s “The Invisible Man” and with Warner Baxter in John Ford’s “The Prisoner of Shark Island.” She also appeared with Eddie Cantor in “Roman Scandals,” with Dick Powell in Busby Berkeley’s “Gold Diggers of 1935” and with James Cagney in “Here Comes the Navy.” And she played romantic leads in two Shirley Temple movies, “Poor Little Rich Girl” and “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.” But mostly she played what Stuart later dismissed as “stupid parts with nothing to do” — “girl reporter, girl detective, girl nurse” — and “it became increasingly evident to me I wasn’t going to get to be a big star like Katharine Hepburn and Loretta Young.” After making 42 feature films between 1932 and 1939, Stuart’s latest studio contract, with 20th Century Fox, was not renewed. She appeared in only four films in the 1940s and retired from the screen in 1946. By 1974, “the blond lovely of the talkies” had become an entry in one of Richard Lamparski’s “Whatever Happened to” books. Writer-director Cameron’s $200-million “Titanic” changed that. Stuart played Rose Calvert, the 100-year-old Titanic survivor who shows up after modern-day treasure hunters searching through the wreckage of the sunken ship find a charcoal drawing of her wearing a priceless blue diamond necklace. Stuart’s performance as Old Rose frames the 1997 romantic- drama that starred Leonardo DiCaprio as lower-class artist Jack Dawson...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

'Mother and Child with Rainbow Pinwheel', Paris, Rome, New York, AIC, Chicago
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Cabaniss' for Larry Cabaniss (American-Italian, 1926-2007) and painted circa 1975; additionally signed, verso, 'Cabaniss'. Born in...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Brown ocher and grey countryside landscape. Oil postimpressionist style
Located in Segovia, ES
Brown ocher and grey countryside landscape. Oil on canvas postimpressionist style. Dimension art: 24 x 33 cm. Framed: 46 x 55 x 4 cm In inches 9.4 x 13 in. Framed 18 x 21.6 x 1.6 ...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

ESPLENDIDA
Located in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato
Beautiful painting with acrylic paint and oils, mixed technique. Inspired by yoga as a means for meditation and sublime states of consciousness
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Acrylic, Mixed Media

ÉL
Located in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato
Beautiful painting with acrylics and oils, has a gold leaf frame. Inspired by yoga as a means of meditation and sublime states of consciousness.
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic

COMUNICACIÓN
Located in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato
Painting predominantly in the modernist, surrealist, abstract and figurative styles.
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic

Moses - Oil Painting - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Moses is an artwork realized in the early 20th century, by an unknown artist. Oil on paper. 51x37 cm with frame. Good conditions. Prophet and legislator of the Jewish people...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Oil

Modernist American Judaica Painting Rabbi Walking to Synagogue
Located in Surfside, FL
In this painting, Nussbaum portrays a Rabbi walking towards the synagogue in a sketch-like manner without focusing on any specific details. The vibrant colors used in this painting s...
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1960s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

DIVA MEXICANA
Located in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato
It is a painting following the principles of yoga, a practice for meditation, finding through art through patterns and repetitions a sublime sta...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic

Busy Beach Summer with Figures on Sand Contemporary French Modernist Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Summer on the Beach Huguette Ginet-Lasnier (French 1927-2020) signed oil painting on canvas 20 x 24 inches. All the paintings we have for sale by this artist have come from the artis...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

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