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
Erotic Scene - Original Gouache on Silk
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic Scene is a gouache and China ink original painting on silk, realized probably in the second half of XIX century by an anonymous Japanese artist of XIX century,
From a collection of twelve Japanese erotic silk paintings, wrongly titled "Shunga", mounted under a yellow cardboard Passepartout, cm 37 x 26.8, this modern artwork of little dimensions, but of extraordinary quality represents an erotic scene between two young Japanese lovers portrayed in their intimate situation and with their sophisticated traditional costumes and hairstyle.
Without ever being vulgar or too explicit but with extreme elegance, our ancient Japanese artwork...
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
$423 Sale Price
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Judaica Modernist "The Sage" Rabbi Portrait
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Judaica
Subject: Portrait
Medium: Oil
Surface: Board
Country: United States
Dimensions: 16 x 11 3/4
Dimensions w/Frame: 23 x 19
William Will Coombs (1946-2007) Originally from New Hampshire, a full-time, professional artist known for his work in oils, watercolors, drawings and printmaking, he began his formal training at the University of Washington concurrently with a scholarship to the Charles and Emma Frye Museum School in Seattle. He continued his advanced studies in New York City at the School of Visual Arts, the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design.
In the past 50 years his paintings have been exhibited nationally and internationally and have been awarded over a hundred prizes, among them the Gold Medal, Irish Feis, NYC; First prize Knickerbocker 15th Annual National Arts Club, NYC; Best of Show, North Wildwood, NJ; First Prize, Mystic, CT; First Prize, Moorestown Mall, NJ; First Prize, Ocean City, NJ; Purchase Award, Atlantic City, NJ; First Prize, Ocean City, NJ; Purchase Award, Caldwell, NJ; First Prize, Oyster Bay, NY; Best of Show, Allendale, NJ; First Prize, Shore Mall, Atlantic City, NJ; First Prize, Stone Harbor, NJ. Will Coombs is a Fellow of the American Artist Professional League, a member of the Salmagundi Club, a Life member of the Art Students League of NY, a member of the Ocean County Artists Guild, and the Westfield Art Association.
Over the past 25 years the artwork of Will Coombs has been devoted to and deeply involved with his love of Hot Air Ballooning. His paintings and lithographs of Hot Air Balloons gently soaring over the New Jersey landscape...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Industrial Mid-20th Century WPA Modern Men Working American Scene Social Realism
Located in New York, NY
Industrial Mid-20th Century WPA Modern Men Working American Scene Social Realism
George Pearse Ennis (American, 1884-1936)
"Forging a Gun Tube #1...
Category
1910s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Original Painting Steel Workers Fabric Design Industrial Deco American Modernism
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting Steel Workers Fabric Design Industrial Deco American Modernism
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994)
Steel Workers
Textile design
19 1/4 X ...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Hercules and Omphale - Oil Painting on Canvas - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Hercules and Omphale is an original painting realized in France between the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th Century.
Original oil painting on canvas. Dimensions: 73 x...
Category
Late 18th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Oil Painting of Camlough Lake in Northern Ireland by 20th Century Modern Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Oil Painting of Camlough Lake in Northern Ireland by 20th Century Modern Artist, Patrick O'Neill
Art measures 30 x 20 inches
Frame measures 35 x 25 inches
A beautiful colourful ...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Large Classical Oil Painting Mythological Biblical Figures in Sky
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
European artist, 20th century
signed oil on canvas, unframed
canvas : 28 x 38 inches
provenance: private collection, Wiltshire, England
condition: very good and sound condition, stai...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$975 Sale Price
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Huge Spanish/ French Oil Painting - Baby blue couple
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Dancers
by Maria Tort Xirau (Catalan, 1924-2018)
signed lower corner
dated 1999
oil painting on canvas, framed
canvas: 36 x 55 inches
framed: 41 ...
Category
1990s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,608 Sale Price
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"Bearsville, New York" Georgina Klitgaard, Modernist New York Wooded Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Georgina Klitgaard
Bearsville, New York
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
26 1/4 x 32 inches
Georgina Klitgaard’s art has sometimes gotten lost in the critical propensity to assign ...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Via di San Leonardo, Florence (Italy) - Oil Paint - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Via di San Leonardo, Florence (Italy) is an oil painting on pressed cardboard realized at the beginning of the 20th Century.
Good condition (light color degradation).
Frame included.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$531 Sale Price
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Beauchamps Chaud a Trouville - Modern Landscape Oil Painting by André Hambourg
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed figures in a landscape oil on canvas circa 1980 by French modernist painter Andre Hambourg. This beautiful piece depicts families enjoying a day out at the seaside - bathers r...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dipinto di Giuseppe Ronchi, Allegoria prima metà del 900
Located in Milan, IT
Olio su tela. Firmato in basso a sinistra.
Il grande dipinto propone due figure : sulla destra un uomo seduto ad tavolino, vestito di una rossa giacca da camera, con un'espressione ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,297 Sale Price
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Elegant Vase Overflowing with Garden Flowers Classical Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Bountiful Bloom
Floral Arrangement,
Continental School, late 20th century
most likely a pastiche work after an earlier composition
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas : 24 x 20 inches
pro...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Contemporary French Abstract Portrait Three Children Standing in Snow signed oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Huguette Ginet-Lasnier (French 1927-2020), signed lower front
inscribed verso
oil painting on canvas
24 x 19.5 inches.
All the paintings we have for sale by this artist have come fr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Captivating Modern Seated Nude in a Studio Interior by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A captivating, Modern painting of a female nude seated in a quiet studio interior by famed Chicago artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). A sensitive, skilled portrayal of a female...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Artist Self Portrait-Modernist Mid-Century Chicago Modernist Oil Painting.
Located in Marco Island, FL
Chicago Modernist, William Schwartz, painted this exceptional self-portrait in 1926. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago shortly after emigrating to the United States from Ru...
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Gray Floral
Located in Dallas, TX
Donald Vogel’s paintings reflect his interest in seeking beauty in life and in sharing pleasure with his viewers. Vogel entreats us to "rejoice and celebrate each new day, knowi...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid-Century Modern X2 #1
By John Ferry
Located in Kansas City, MO
John Ferry
Mid-Century Modern X2 #1
Medium: Oil on Panel
Year: 2020
Size: 4.75x15.25 in
Signed, dated and inscribed by hand
COA provided
Re.: JF-20-10
“Fer...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
1950s "Too Much" Mid Century Nude Gouache Painting
Located in Arp, TX
From the estate of Jerry Opper & Ruth Friedman Opper
Too Much
c. 1940-1950's
Gouache on Paper
15" x 18", framed wood gallery frame float mount 21.5"x19.5"
From the estate of Ruth Friedmann Opper & Jerry Opper. Ruth was the daughter of Bauhaus artist, Gustav Friedmann.
San Francisco Abstract Expression
A free-spirited wave of creative energy swept through the San Francisco art community after World War II. Challenging accepted modes of painting, Abstract Expressionists produced highly experimental works that jolted the public out of its postwar complacency.
Abstract Expressionism resulted from a broad collective impulse rather than the inspiration of a small band of New York artists. Documenting the interchanges between the East and West Coasts, she cites areas of mutual influence and shows the impact of San Francisco on the New York School, including artists such as Mark Rothko and Ad Reinhardt. San Francisco's Beat poets...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
$760 Sale Price
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what do you think
Located in Zofingen, AG
the ground disappears from under your feet when you lose support in the form of consciousness. you don't know whether to trust your eyes or not. it would be much easier if it weren’t...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Till the Clouds Roll By 1945 Frank Sinatra Mid Century Modern Hollywood Film WPA
Located in New York, NY
Till the Clouds Roll By 1945 Frank Sinatra Mid Century Modern Hollywood Film WPA
TILL THE COULDS ROLL BY (Film Set), oil on canvas, 20 x 24 inches signed “Richard Whorf” lower right and signed and dated on the verso “R. Whorf/ Dec. 21, 1945. Frame by Hendenryk.
ABOUT THE PAINTING
This painting is from the collection of Barbara and Frank Sinatra, dated December 21, 1945 (just nine days after Frank Sinatra’s 30th birthday), and depicts the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Culver City backlot during the filming of Till the Clouds Roll By, the direction of the film having been taking over by Richard Whorf in December 1945. It is not presently clear if Whorf gave the Sinatras this painting as a gift, as the presence of the Dalzell Hatfield Galleries label on the verso indicates the painting may have been sourced there. Frank and Nancy Sinatra acquired a number of works from Dalzell Hatfield Galleries during the 1940’s, or perhaps they framed it for the couple.
Sinatra performed “Old Man River’ in the film. Sinatra and June Allyson are depicted in the center of the painting.
PROVENANCE From the Estate of Mrs. Nancy Sinatra; Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles.
An image of the Dalzell Hatfield label and the back of the original frame (which we replaced with a stunning Heydenrk frame) are attached.
Nancy Sinatra was Fran's first wife. Nancy Rose Barbato was 17 years old when she met Frank Sinatra, an 18-year-old singer from Hoboken, on the Jersey Shore in the summer of 1934. They married in 1939 at Our Lady of Sorrows Church in Jersey City where Frank gave Nancy a recording of a song dedicated to her titled "Our Love" as a wedding present. The young newlyweds lived and worked in New Jersey, where Frank worked as an unknown singing waiter and master of ceremonies at the Rustic Cabin while Nancy worked as a secretary at the American Type Founders.
His musical career took off after singing with big band leaders Harry James and Tommy Dorsey...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Petite Merchand" Modern Abstract Neutral Toned Seated Merchant Figure Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Modern neutral toned abstract figure painting by French artist Gabriel Godard. The work features an abstract merchant figure dressed in white robes seated with their wares. Signed in...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
20th Century French Modernist Gouache Painting Of Monochrome Flower Arrangement
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
by Paul-Louis Bolot (French 1918-2003)
signed
original gouache painting on thick paper/ card
unframed
condition: very good and sound; the edges have a few curls and scuffs/ edge tear...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Warrior and Pegasus Fight the Kraken - Original Surrealist On Board
Located in Soquel, CA
Warrior and Pegasus Fight the Kraken - Original Surrealist On Board
Dramatic and dynamic fantasy scene by Russell R. Tripp (American, 1942-2025). This piece depicts a warrior atop a...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Leave me alone
Located in Zofingen, AG
"Leave Me Alone" is a manifesto of inner freedom and the beauty of personal emotions. Painted in vivid, lively colors, the work captures the richness of feelings that arise when one ...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Artists Sketching, California, 1940s Large Modernist Gouache Painting, Landscape
Located in Denver, CO
This original 1940s American Modernist gouache painting, "Artists Sketching (California)," captures a dynamic scene of three artists at work against a majestic mountain backdrop. With expressive brushwork and a rich color palette, the piece embodies Frederick E. Shane’s signature blend of realism and modernist abstraction. Signed, titled, and dated by the artist in the lower margin, this remarkable artwork reflects the era’s Regionalist influence and the artist’s keen eye for capturing creative moments in the natural landscape.
The painting is professionally housed in a custom archival frame, ensuring long-term preservation. Frame dimensions: 25.5 x 37.5 x 1.5 inches. Image size: 20.25 x 29.75 inches.
Provenance: Estate of the Artist, Frederick Shane
About the Artist: Frederick E. Shane (1906-1992)
A celebrated Missouri Regionalist painter and printmaker, Frederick E. Shane was known for his compelling genre scenes, landscapes, seascapes, and portraits in a variety of media, including oil, watercolor, gouache, tempera, and lithography. While fundamentally a realist, Shane often incorporated elements of abstraction, expressionism, and surrealism, adding depth and emotion to his compositions.
During the summers of 1925-26, Shane studied under Randall Davey at the Broadmoor Academy in Colorado Springs, an institution founded in 1919 by philanthropists Spencer and Julie Penrose. Shane remained closely connected to the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, the Academy’s successor, throughout the 1940s and early 1950s, participating in Artists West of the Mississippi exhibitions and forming lasting friendships with key figures like Boardman Robinson and Adolph Dehn...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
French Gouache Painting of Navajo Weavers in Canyon de Chelly Arizona
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Gouache Painting of Navajo Weavers in Canyon de Chelly Arizona
by Emile GALLOIS (1882-1965, French)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Original gouache painting on thick unframed pape...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Large French Post Impressionist Oil on Canvas, The Port of Cannes at Crépuscule
Located in Cotignac, FR
Large French Post Impressionist oil on canvas view of the Port of Cannes in the South of France by Moroccan Monegasque painter Emmanuel Bellini. The painting is signed bottom left an...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
20th Century German Modernist Oil Painting Lady Reading In Orange Interior
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist: Elisabeth Hahn (German 1924-2021),
Elisabeth Hahn was born in Dortmund, Germany, where she began her artistic studies. In 1953, she moved to Paris. She continued her studie...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
21th Century French Modernist Gouache Painting Colorful Figure Sitting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
by Paul-Louis Bolot (French 1918-2003)
signed inverso
original gouache painting on thick paper/ card
unframed
condition: very good and sound; the edges have a few curls and scuffs/ e...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Still Life with Flowers and Fruit
Located in London, GB
'Still Life with Flowers and Fruit', gouache on art paper, by French artist, Michel Debiève (1964). As is usual with this artist, the joy is in the detail he has rendered. What is no...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
$1,337 Sale Price
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A Beautiful Modern Figure Painting, Two Bathers in a Boathouse by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A beautiful Modern figure painting of two bathers in a boathouse by noted Chicago Modern artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Painted at the Ox-Bow School of Saugatuck, Michigan ...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
National Day : Sailors having Fun - Tall Original Oil Painting, Signed
By Michel-Marie Poulain
Located in Paris, IDF
Michel Marie POULAIN
French National Day : Sailors having Fun
Original oil on canvas
Handsigned in the lower left corner
On canvas 55 x 65 cm (c. 22 x 26 inch)
Presented in golden w...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
1960's French Modernist Oil Painting Fashionable Couple Holding Hands Pink & Blu
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, mid 20th century
Title: The Fashionable Couple
Medium: oil on board
Size: 13 x 9.5 inches
Provenance: private collection, France
Condition: The pa...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Missouri American Modernist famous in Europe - abstracted mid century Venice
Located in Norwich, GB
Meet the genuinely exciting modernist William Einstein, who is probably better known in Europe, where numerous publications on his work have been written, than in his native US!
Eins...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Modernist Gouache Painting Wacky Colors Two Musicians On Violins
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
by Paul-Louis Bolot (French 1918-2003)
signed
original gouache painting on thick paper/ card
unframed
condition: very good and sound; the edges have a few curls and scuffs/ edge tear...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
$287 Sale Price
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Mid Century Modern Vintage Coastal Figurative Oil Painting - The Net Menders
Located in Bristol, GB
THE NET MENDERS
Size: 38 x 48 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
An evocative mid-century modernist landscape composition with figures, executed in oil onto canvas.
The painting ca...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Mid Century Modern Dancers Oil Painting; Listed Artist Albert Michini, ca 1970’s
Located in Baltimore, MD
If you have an association with dance, yoga or working out, this unusual modernist painting might be an interesting addition to your space. Artist Albert Michini used several models ...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Diminutive Painting of Sailors in Hanover, NH by Artist Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A "Thumb Box" (or diminutive) painting of sailors in fort of a store front in Hanover, NH by artist Harold Haydon. Image size: 4 1/2" x 6". Fra...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Reading Girl, Framed Painting by Irving Amen
By Irving Amen
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Irving Amen, American (1918 - 2011)
Title: Reading Girl
Year: circa 1970
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Size: 24 x 20 in. (60.96 x 50.8 cm)
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Couple - Oil Paint attr. Edgar Stoebel - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The couple is an artwork attribuited to Edgar Stoebel (1909-2001).
81 x 54 cm; no frame.
Oil painting on canvas.
Good conditions!
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$765 Sale Price
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The Stonecutter's Evening, Early 20th Century American Scene Oil, Man w/ Violin
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
The Stonecutter's Evening, c. 1915
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right
36 x 27.5 inches
42.25 x 34 inches, framed
Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School painters," though some sources give this appellation to Henry Keller or Frederick Gottwald. Wilcox was born on October 3, 1887 to Frank Nelson Wilcox, Sr. and Jessie Fremont Snow Wilcox at 61 Linwood Street in Cleveland, Ohio. His father, a prominent lawyer, died at home in 1904 shortly before Wilcox' 17th birthday. His brother, lawyer and publisher Owen N. Wilcox, was president of the Gates Legal Publishing Company or The Gates Press. His sister Ruth Wilcox was a respected librarian.
In 1906 Wilcox enrolled from the Cleveland School of Art under the tutelage of Henry Keller, Louis Rorimer...
Category
1910s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Seated Boy, Surrealist Oil Painting on Canvas by Lucio Ranucci
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lucio Ranucci, Italian (1925 - )
Title: Seated Boy
Year: 1973
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated
Size: 28 x 30 in. (71.12 x 76.2 cm)
Frame Size: 35 x 37.5 inches
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Breton fisherman with pipe
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Beige wooden frame
90 x 70 x 4.6 cm
Breton fisherman with pipe
This captivating portrait shows a fisherman with a bushy beard, deep in thought and smoking his pipe. T...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Figure Study" Joseph Solman, Blue and Sepia, Pastel Colors Seated Study
Located in New York, NY
Joseph Solman
Figure Study, circa 1959-60
Signed with initials lower left
Gouache on Racing Form newspaper
Sight 9 x 7 inches
Provenance
Private Collection, Montecito, California
Pr...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Newsprint
A 1940s Painting of a Seated Female Nude in Summer Landscape, Ox-Bow School
Located in Chicago, IL
A beautiful 1940s painting of a seated female nude in a summer landscape by renowned Chicago artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Painted at the Oxbow School in Saugatuck, Michig...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Modernist Painting Of Red Amaryllis Flowers In A Clear Vase
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
by Paul-Louis Bolot (French 1918-2003)
signed
original gouache painting on thick paper/ card
unframed
condition: very good and sound; the edges have a few curls and scuffs/ edge tear...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Vintage Mid-Century Mini Abstract Figurative Oil Painting - Glowing Silhouette
Located in Bristol, GB
GLOWING SILHOUETTE
Size: 33.5 x 21 cm (including frame)
Oil on Board
A small yet striking mid-century semi-abstract figurative composition, executed in oil onto board.
The painting...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Universal - Painting by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Universal bank is an original modern artwrok realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in the 1930s.
Mixed colored oil painting on canvas.
The artwork depi...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paint
20th Century French Cubist Modernist Interior Cafe Scene with Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Cafe Interior
by Guy Nicod
(French 1923 - 2021)
gouache on artist paper, unframed
painting : 20 x 26 inches
provenance: artists estate, France
condition: very good and sound cond...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
$975 Sale Price
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The Demagogue or Tale in a Tub
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Demagogue or Tale in a Tub, 1952, oil on canvas, 24 x 20 inches, signed, titled, and dated verso, presented in a newer frame
The Demagogue is an iconic Bendor Mark painting fro...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Impressionist Portrait of an Elderly Man in Blue Seated in Reflection
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Impressionist Portrait of an Elderly Man in Blue Seated in Reflection
by Bernadette Kelly (French b. 1933)
Unsigned
Medium: oil painting on board, unframed
Painting siz...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Horse - Enamel on Paper by Esperia Gava - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
The Horse is an original artwork realized by Italian artist Esperia Gava.
Enamel on paper
Applied on cardboard.
Hand-signed on the lower right.
Very good conditions.
The artwork...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
$585 Sale Price
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British, mid century oil painting by Gerald Rose of London tube station
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Gerald Hembdon Seymour Rose (British, 1935-2023)
Rush hour at the station, London
Oil on canvas
28 x 35.3/4 in. (71 x 91 cm.)
Provenance: from the estate of the late Gerald Rose.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Сover the long way
Located in Zofingen, AG
After a long way, I always want to smile. This is the end of an old way and the beginning of some new, completely unknown one. The memories will not disappear anywhere and will alway...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Female Nude in Front of a Curtain with Clothes - Oil on Canvas - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Female nude in front of a curtain with clothes is an old master artwork realized by an Italian artist in the early 18th century,
Mixed colored oil on canvas.
Good condition.
Category
Early 18th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
1960's French Modernist Oil Painting Green background with Bizarre Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, 1960's period
Title: figurative group, with deep green color background.
Medium: oil on canvas, unframed
Canvas: 36.5 x 26 inches
Provenance: pri...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Vibrant, Colorful Mid-Century Summer Landscape, Oxbow School, Saugatuck, MI
Located in Chicago, IL
A Vibrant, Captivating Mid-Century Modern Summer Landscape Painting by Noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph T. Pen (Am. 1918 - 1989). Painted during the 1960s while the artist taught at th...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
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Telengana Pandit, Acrylic on Canvas by Modern Artist Thota Vaikuntam "In Stock"
By Thota Vaikuntam
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Thota Vaikuntam - Telengana Pandit
Acrylic on Canvas, 23 x 17.75 inches
Thota Vaikuntam is one of the Greatest Artist from the Indian Sub-contitent. He is preoccupied with portraying the men and woman from his region.
Thota Vaikuntam (born 1942) is an Indian Modern painter.His paintings capture simple lifestyle of villagers like the paddy fields, toddy pots on shoulders of men, the household chores, temple rituals etc. His drawings range from stark charcoal on paper, transparent washes and pencil drawings.
Vaikuntam paints colorful and elaborately dressed Telangana region men and seductive women. His muse is the sensuous and voluptuous women of Telangana with their omnipresent vermilion bindis, draped in colourful sarees that highlight their dusky skin.
The stylisation of a painting are a perfect foil to Indian classical dance as the figures seem to dance, as if following their creator in a statuesque movement, reminiscent of temple friezes. He uses the brightest of reds and yellows. The simple women become larger than life as they fill the small format of his paintings draped in bright Sircilla saris.
"I like using rich primary colours, which give a sense of character and depth to my paintings. Like reds and saffron and even orange, because these are essentially Indian colours. I don't like using colours that are mix of two, because they are not natural, they don't exist in surroundings around us, in our everyday life. - T. Vaikuntam”
Style : Men and women of his village are often the central characters of his work. The obsession can be traced back to his childhood, when he used to be fascinated by the male artists who used to impersonate female characters in the travelling theatre groups that performed in his village. He admits finding the women of his village very sensuous and that he only attempts to capture their vibrancy. Vaikuntam’s art has a sense of strength to it, a power that emanates from the paint or charcoal that he applies to the surface, from his controlled lines, and from the fine strokes that he executes. He generally uses only primary colours, as he believes that composite colours do not exist in nature and are therefore, unnatural.
About the Artist :
Born : 1942 in Boorugupali, Andhra Pradesh.
Education :
1970 - T. Vaikuntam completed a Diploma in Painting at the College of Fine Arts and Architecture, Hyderabad.
1972 - Painting and Printmaking from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda.
Solo Exhibition :
1973 - He held his first solo exhibition at the Kala Bhavan in Hyderabad and since then has had regular shows...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
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