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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
Period: 1970s
"Chief Joseph" Modern Pointillist Figurative Portrait of Native American Figure
Located in Houston, TX
Modern portrait painting of a Native American figure by Texas born artist Clark Fox. The work features an intricate depiction of the figure using pointillism, the practice of applyin...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Linen, Oil

'Eros & Jazz', Large Post Impressionist Figural Oil, Beat Movement, Music, Roses
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower center, 'Bazil' and dated November, 1974. A substantial and lyrical, Post-Impressionist figural oil showing a blonde woman in an evening gown preparing a rose-arrow as ...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Hilly Landscape - Acrylic on Paper by G.-I. Darbois-Gaudin - 1970s
By Germaine-Irene Darbois-Gaudin
Located in Roma, IT
Hilly Landscape is an original artwork realized in the 1970s by Germaine-Irene Darbois-Gaudin Original colored acrylic painting on paper. Hand-signed by the artist on the lower rig...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

Seated 1974. Oil on canvas, 100x60 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Seated 1974. Oil on canvas, 100x60 cm The central focus of the artwork is a nude woman seated in a relaxed position. The artist's portrayal captures the beauty and form of the fema...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Last Supper - Oil Paint - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Last supper is an artwork realized in 19th Century, and depicting the Last Supper. Mixed colored oil painting. Includes frame: 26 x 29 cm Fair conditions
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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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

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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Oil

The Houses - Oil Painting by Claude Decamps - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
The Houses is a painting realized by Claude Decamps in the 1970s Oil painting on cardboard canvas. Hand-signed on the lower. Good conditions. The a...
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1970s 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

Sun Flower - Oil Painting by Claude Deschamps - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Sun Flower is a painting realized by Claude Decamps in the 1970s Oil painting on cardboard canvas. Hand-signed on the lower. Good conditions. The ar...
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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

1970 Haitian Mod Gold Painting Portrait of African American Woman Emilcar Simil
By Emilcar Similien (SIMIL)
Located in Surfside, FL
Feu de Joie 1970 hand signed and dated. Measurements: 25.75 X 25.75 Framed. Image is 23.75 X 23.75 Emilcar Similien, known as Simil was born in 1944 in St. Marc. He finished elementary school in St. Marc and high school in Port-au-Prince. From 1965 until 1971 he studied at the Academy of Beaux-Arts in Port-au-Prince, where he took courses in painting, sculpture, and art history. Simil uses his images of women only as means for displaying patterns, color, and the sparkle of gold jewelry on black skin. He paints with acrylics on Masonite of any size. His surfaces are smooth and polished. Simil delights in beauty, elegance, and grace. This is done in a silhouette style reminiscent of Kara Walker. Emilcar Simil (Similcar) is known for Acrylic painting in high colors of black skinned female figures. He is of the generation of Haitian artists that include Bernard Sejourne, Prospere Pierre-Louis, Levoy Exil, Louisiane Saint Fleurant, Henri Calixte, Paul Dieuseul, Laurent Casimir, Frantz Zephirin, Denis Smith, Philton Latortue, Philome Obin, Préfète Duffaut, Fernand Pierre...
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Acrylic Polymer, Acrylic, Canvas

20th Century Modern British Landscape with fisherman, bridge, trees,
Located in Woodbury, CT
Robert W Hill, 20th Century Modern British Landscape with fisherman, bridge, trees. English painter of landscape, portraits and modern British scenes. He ex...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Original 70's Hand Painted Textile Design Gouache Yellow & Black Color on Paper
Located in ALCOY/ALCOI, ES
Birds design. Sealed on the back with the design studio name and number 98 We offer a small number of these original illustration designs by this design studio based in Alcoy (Spain)...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Gouache, Paper

The Houses - Oil Painting by Claude Decamps - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
The Houses is a painting realized by Claude Decamps in the 1970s Oil painting on cardboard canvas. Hand-signed on the lower. Good conditions. The ar...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Sun Flower - Oil Painting by Claude Decamps - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Sun Flower is a painting realized by Claude Decamps in the 1970s Oil painting on cardboard canvas. Hand-signed on the lower. Good conditions. The ar...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

The Dancers, French Late Mid Century Gouache on Textured Paper
Located in Cotignac, FR
Late Mid Century French watercolour and Gouache on handmade paper of a pair of dancers by Damien Hermellin. Signed and dated bottom right. Pres...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Handmade Paper

Original 70's Hand Painted Textile Design Gouache Orange & Green Color on Paper
Located in ALCOY/ALCOI, ES
Bamboo design. Sealed on the back with design studio name and number 972 We offer a small number of these original illustration designs by this design studio based in Alcoy (Spain), ...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Original 70's Hand Painted Textile Design Gouache Pink & Black Color on Paper
Located in ALCOY/ALCOI, ES
Flowers and pixel design. Sealed on the back with design studio name and number 268 We offer a small number of these original illustration designs by this design studio based in Alc...
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Gouache, Paper

Seated Woman
Located in London, GB
'Seated Woman', oil on board, by François Diana (circa 1970s). This work of sumptuous colour and sensuous subject matter elicits an immediate response. ...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Indonesian Atmosphere - Original Batik - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Indonesian Atmosphere is an original artwork realized in 1970s by Anonymous balinese artist. Batik on paper. The state of preservation of the artwork is good except for some foxin...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Ink, Paper

Visiting the Sick, Modernist Israeli Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Avant-Garde Subject: Figures Medium: Oil Surface: Canvas Country: Israel Dimensions: 13.25" x 16.25" Dimensions w/Frame: 21.5" x 24.5" Avraham Ofek (August 14, 1935 – January 13, 1990) was an Israeli sculptor, muralist, painter and printmaker. Avraham Ofek was born in Burgas, Bulgaria. He immigrated to Israel in 1949, and he lived in Ein Hamifratz, a kibbutz near Haifa. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, as well as in Spain and in London, and later taught art in Jerusalem before being appointed head of the Art Department at the University of Haifa. He was one of the founders of the Leviathan group. He represented Israel at the Venice Biennale in 1972. Avraham Ofek's early paintings of landscape were at both lyrical and rugged; later in his career the landscape was undefined and receded into the background. Near the end of his life, the landscape of Jerusalem became an important motif, reflecting loss and despair. Many of Ofek's landscapes convey a sense of alienation and solitude, as well as nostalgia for the city of his birth, Sofia. His murals can be seen across Israel, notably at Kfar Uria and the Central Post Office Building (Jerusalem). His sculpture "The Binding of Isaac" is on view at the entrance to Safra Square. In 1989 the Jerusalem Print...
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Canvas, Oil

Flowers With Butterflies - Oil Painting by Claude Decamps - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Flowers With Butterflies is a painting realized by Claude Decamps in the 1970s Oil painting on cardboard canvas. Hand-signed on the lower. Good condi...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Central Square (Cambridge, MA)
Located in Boston, MA
Signed and dated lower right: “Trachtman 6-6-73”. From the estate of the artist. Though much of his art was political in nature, Arnold Trachtman also...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

City Scape, Ovoid Geometrical Abstract Green & Brown Structures
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) City Scape, 1978 Acrylic on scintilla Signed and dated lower right 30 x 22 inches A surrealist mid-century figural abstract painting....
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

'Green Village Market, Bleecker Street', Manhattan, New York, Grisaille Diptych
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A very large American School diptych showing this vintage Greenwich Village landmark with various pedestrians passing by as an assistant arranges the produce...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Oriental Scene - Oil Paint by Giulio Rosati - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Oriental scene is an orientalist artwork realized by Giulio Rosati (1857 – 1917) . The artwork depicts an oriental palace with lady and horse rider in l...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Flowers - Oil Paint by Carlo Corsetti - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Flowers is an original modern artwork realized by Carlo Corsetti in the 1970s. Mixed colored oil painting on canvas. Includes frame (fair conditions): 70 x 5 x 58 cm Hand signed o...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

In the Window, Ovoid Shapes Floating Through Windows
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) In the Window, 1973 Acrylic and collage on scintilla Signed and dated lower right 30 x 22 inches A surrealist mid-century figural abs...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

Up the Avenue, Geometrical Ovoid Abstract Acrylic & Collage Cityscape
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Up the Avenue, 1979 Acrylic and collage on paper Signed and dated lower right 15 x 11 inches A surrealist mid-century figural abstract...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic, Mixed Media

Tanzszene
By Helga Hormann
Located in Wien, 9
The dancing couple with a seated lady is painted entirely in the style of New Objectivity. The seated lady in the foreground is depicted extremely frontally and looks directly out of...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Wood

The Mayor, Mid-Century Ovoid Figural Abstract Acrylic & Collage with Eye
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) The Mayor, 1979 Acrylic and collage on scintilla Signed lower right 30 x 22 inches A surrealist mid-century figural abstract painting....
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

'Old Fishing Boat', Italian Tuscan School
Located in London, GB
'Old Fishing Boat', oil on canvas, Italian Tuscan School, (1972). Glimmering reflections on the water outline the hull of an old fishing boat in the port...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Ablaze, Ovoid Faces Looking Through Geometrical Windows
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Ablaze, 1973-79 Acrylic and collage on scintilla Signed and dated lower left 30 x 22 inches A surrealist mid-century figural abstract...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

Transection No. 3, Ovoid Geometrical Figural Abstract Neon Acrylic Painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Transection No. 3, 1972 Acrylic on paper Signed and dated upper right 30 x 22 inches Provenance: Collection of William H. Milliken Cl...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

Entr'acte - Mid-Century Ovoids in Theatre - Geometrical Abstract Pastel
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Entr'acte, 1977 Pastel on board Signed and dated lower right 8 x 10 inches A surrealist mid-century figural abstract painting. Clare...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Pastel

Quadratic, Mid-Century Ovoid Figural Abstract Acrylic & Collage with faces
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Quadratic, 1979 Acrylic and collage on textured paper Signed and dated lower right 30 x 22 inches 31.5 x 23.5 inches, framed A surreal...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

Vetriculus, Surrealist Ovoid acrylic painting, Figural Abstract work on paper
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Vetriculus, c. 1970s Acrylic on paper 4.5 x 3.5 inches 11 x 10 inches, framed A surrealist mid-century figural abstract painting. Cl...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

Caged, Mid-Century Ovoid Geometrical Abstract Acrylic, Black & Grey
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Caged, 1971 Acrylic on paper Signed and dated lower right 24 x 20 inches A surrealist mid-century figural abstract painting. Clarenc...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

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

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Mixed Media

Untitled - Surrealist Scene - Painting by Albert Debois - 1975
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled - Surrealist Scene is a contemporary artwork realized by Albert Debois in 1975. Mixed colored oil on canvas. Hand signed and dated on the lower right margin. Includes fra...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico, 1970s Southwest Landscape Scene Gouache Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Acoma Pueble (New Mexico) is a gouache on paper painting by Wolfgang Pogzoba (1936-1982) from 1978 of a landscape and an adobe home over a cliff side in the town of Acoma Pueblo, NM. Presented in a custom frame, outer dimensions measure 22 ⅜ x 25 inches. Image size is 12 x 15 inches. The Acoma Pueblo is located approximately 60 miles west of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Painting is clean and in good condition - please contact us for a detailed condition report. Expedited and international shipping is available - please contact us for a quote. About the Artist: Wolfgang Pogzeba...
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Paper, Gouache

Lively Paris street. 1973. Oil on canvas. 54 x 73cm
Located in Riga, LV
Lively Paris street. 1973. Oil on canvas. 54 x 73cm Hiro Yamagata was born near Kyoto, Japan, went to Paris to study art, and considers himself an American artist. In his Los Angeles studio, Yamagata paints minutely detailed scenes of Paris streets, cafes and parks. He captures the essence of the naif style by presenting life in simple terms, and the world in the happiest light. His creative synthesis of photorealist and neo-primitive techniques has won countless admirers and collectors. Yamagata's vision is unequivocally cheerful and his imagery is endlessly inventive. He works from a palette of over 100 shades of acrylic paints, and renders in exacting detail with brushes with as small as two hairs. Serigraphs of some of Yamagata's most popular paintings...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Head Series, Mixed Media on Board by Modern Artist Sunil Das "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Sunil Das - Head Series Mixed Media on Board, 10 x 8 inches, 1997 (Set of 2 works) (Unframed & Delivered) Sunil Das (1939-2015) was a Master Modern Indian Artist from Bengal. Extremely successful right from his college days, Sunil Das has been extremely well lauded by art critics, the press, artists and the art and culture glitterati across the world. Sunil das was the youngest artist to have won the National Award - The Taj Shiromani Kala Puraskar Recipient of the much coveted Govt. of India's 4th Highest Civilian Award: The PadmaShree (2014). Highly talented Sunil Das has done shows all across the world, got fame as early as while he was still in college, youngest recipient of the Lalit Kala Academy Awards and received a scholarship to study at L’Ecole Nationale Superior des Beaux arts, Paris. “There are painters who transform the Sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who, with the help of their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into Sun" - Pablo Picasso. Sunil Das was exactly one such artist. Style : Sunil Das' style of work is very original and shows no specific influence. He had risen to fame like MF...
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Board, Mixed Media

Modern Abstract Red and Green Toned Interior Painting of a Nude Female Figure
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract figurative painting by Houston, TX artist Margaret Nobler. The work features a central seated female nude set against a bold red and gr...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Portrait of a Man
By Yvonne Guégan
Located in London, GB
'Portrait of a Man', oil on canvas, by Yvonne Guégan (circa 1970s). This is not a portrait of the reclusive billionaire, Howard Hughes. Regrettably, we d...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

At the Table in a French Restaurant
Located in London, GB
'At the Table in a French Restaurant' oil on board, French School (Initials JR dated 1970). The scene depicted in this colourful pa...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Colorful Purple, Pink, & Green Modern Portrait of Man Playing Billiards or Pool
By Gerald Garston
Located in Houston, TX
Colorful modern figurative portrait of a man playing billiards or pool by Connecticut artist Gerald Garston. The work features a man in a blue bowler ha...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Suburbs - Painting by Renzo Vespignani - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Suburbs is an original modern artwork realized by Renso Vespignani in 1970s. Mixed colored tempera on canvas. Stamp behind the artwork. Provenance: Vivaldi Collection.
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Tempera

Café de la Place
Located in London, GB
'Café de la Place', gouache on paper, by Raymond Debiève (circa 1970s). A solitary stroller in a small French town crosses the street in front of a café al...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Tom Davison "Morning Rush", Oil on board
Located in Glenview, IL
"Morning Rush" by British painter Tom Davison (1934 - 2018) is a large oil on board representing human figures moving about in what appears to be a large l...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Modern Yellow Toned Figurative Abstract Painting of a Young Girl Laying on a Rug
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract painting by Houston, TX artist Margaret Nobler. The work features a young girl with a bow in her hair laying on a matching rug. Signed b...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Beatificado" Modern Tabloid Inspired Religious Social Commentary Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Modern, large scale social commentary painting by California artist John Valdez. Comes with the original sketch as well as a book about the artist. Inspired by the cover of a Mexican tabloid, Valadez invites the viewer to examine the duality of a society that mourns the death of an iconic religious leader and neglects those close to them who are perhaps deemed not worthy of consideration. The bold red headline reads “El cardenal Gabiri será beatificado” (Cardinal Gabiri will be beatified) above a large accompanying image of the cardinal in his casket and two smaller images, one of sobbing mourners and another of the cardinal sitting at the altar. Dividing the image is a subhead that reads, “El pueblo católico está de luto” (the Catholic people are mourning) placed above a depiction of four young boys who seem to be sniffing glue. The adjacent text reads “The indifference of the adults is the cause behind the issues these forgotten children have to live.” This work was exhibited at the Pacific Standard Time, Long Beach Museum of Art in 2011, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in 2012, as well as the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago, IL in 2013. Signed by artist in front lower right corner as well as titled and dated in front lower left corner. Currently unframed, but options are available. Artist Biography: John Valadez...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Felt Pen

Secrets, Oil on Canvas, Brown, Black, Yellow by Modern Indian Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Annu Naik - Secrets - 36 x 50 inches ( unframed size) Oil on Canvas , 1970 ( ROLLED AND DOOR DELIVERED ) Annu Naik was born in 1943 in Karnataka. She graduated with a diploma in F...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Chimeras, mid-century figural abstract blue acrylic painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
Chimeras, 1974 Acrylic and pastel on textured paper Mid-century figural abstract blue acrylic painting Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a level of national artistic success that w...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Pastel, Acrylic

Birds - Oil painting on canvas by Jean Pierre Gouysse - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
Birds is an original contemporary artwork realized by Jean Pierre Gouysse in 1972 Mixed colored oil painting on canvas. Hand-signed and dated on the lower right margin Jean Pierre...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

The Cyclists Rest Stop in Honfleur
Located in London, GB
'The Cyclists Rest Stop in Honfleur' by Jean-Marie Luc Blanpain, oil on canvas (circa 1970s). The artist's depiction of the terrace of the well known Honfleur restaurant, 'Au Relais ...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The Gold Coast, Mid-Century Pastel Pink & Green Painting of Ovoid, Miami
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) The Gold Coast, 1979 Collage and acrylic on scintilla Signed and dated lower right 22 x 30 inches Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Modern figurative paintings for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Modern figurative paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add figurative paintings created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, yellow, purple and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Antonio Feltrinelli, Sunil Das, Suhas Roy, and Clarence Holbrook Carter. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Oil Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Modern figurative paintings, so small editions measuring 1 inches across are also available. Prices for figurative paintings made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $1 and tops out at $743,750, while the average work sells for $2,376.

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