Modern Figurative Paintings

Lalu Prasad Shaw - Babu - 21 x 15 Inches Tempera on Board, 2015 ( Unframed & Delivered ) Style : Known widely for his highly stylized portraits of Bengali women and couples, Lalu Pr...

Leonard Creo (American, 1923-2019) Untitled (Children on a Playground), c. 20th century Oil on canvas 27 x 30 in. Framed: 32 1/4 x 35 3/4 in. Signed lowe...

Jirayr Hamparzoom Zorthian was born April 14, 1911 in Kutahya, Turkey, of Armenian parents. At the age of three, he showed considerable talent in drawing and painting. Zorthian went through two Turkish massacres before age eight. He left Turkey at age nine with his family and spent a year in Padua, Italy, waiting for his visa to open to the United States. This period was very important in his life because his father took him to many cities in Europe and exposed him to great works of art. Zorthian arrived in the United States at the age of eleven and settled with his family in New Haven, Connecticut. He obtained his formal education there, after graduating from Yale, the Winchester Fellowship granted him a year and a half at the American Academy in Rome with travel and study throughout Europe. His art career branched into various directions on his return to the United States. As a mural painter his reputation was established. He has forty two (42) murals throughout the United States. Zorthian worked and taught painting at some of the finest art academies on the west coast including both the Chouinard Art Institute and the Otis Art Institute. "The Picture Framer...

Portrait of Giuseppe Garibaldi is an original modern artwork realized in the late 19th Century It represents the "Hero of the Two Worlds", Giuseppe Garibaldi. Mixed colored oil pai...

We are proud to present for the first time in more than thirty years, the original painting of American artist Peter Korling. Peter Korling was classically trained at the Chicago In...

Original oil and acrylic painting on canvas, made under natural light. This artwork is painted using high-quality fine linen canvas and sold unframed. Signed on the front and back of...

Work on canvas

"Heal Heart Heal" Original Oil and gold leaf on arches paper, cracked varnish finish. Matted Signed and dated Image 5" x 7"

Jogen Chowdhury Untitled Dry Oil Pastel on Paper 10.5 x 14.5 inches 2024 ( Framed & Delivered ) Modern Indian artist Jogen Chowdhury executed Still life drawing in Ink, pastel. Al...

Overflight over the city. 1947, paper, mixed media, 23x20 cm Adolfs Zardins (1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter. Only in 1990 his relatives give his arti...

Artist/ School: French School, mid 20th century, indistinctly signed Title: The Sunlit Street. Medium: oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 18 x 15 inches Provenance: privat...

RAGINEL FERRET, André. Painter and illustrator born in Lyon (France) in 1936. He was a student of the Lyon painter Commarmon, and then worked for eight years as a drawing teacher at ...

Genre: Classic Subject: Portrait Medium: Oil Surface: Canvas Country: United States Dimensions: 21.25" x 18.25" Dimensions w/Frame: 28.75" x 25.75" Bacia Gordon (1904-1977) came to the United States from Poland and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. She traveled widely the United States, Mexico, Europe, and Israel. She was a member of, and has exhibited with Artists Equity, Jewish Arts Club, the Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago, The Chicago Art Institute, and in Migdal Ashkalon, Israel. She was also a member of the Chicago Society of Artists. Her work is represented in many private collections in New York, Los Angeles, Detroit, Cleveland, St. Paul, Rockford, Milwaukee, and Chicago. Mrs. Gordon spent much time in Israel in the 1950s and 1960s, and most of the works in this web site reflect her stay there. The New York art critic, Alfred Werner, has said: “I find Mrs. Gordon’s freedom of paint aesthetically rewarding. She blends the reporter’s task of objectively recording appearance with the poet’s privilege of imprinting subjective reaction upon exterior reality... Here is the talent that often omits details, to let the spectator fill in, that prefers an allegorical hint to a straight tale, and that translates the strangeness of Maabaroth and Kibbutzim into terms of universally acceptable humanity” An Israeli critic has written of Mrs. Gordon : “The Jewish Daughter, born in Lithuania and reared in the United States, was stirred by the miracle of the Ingathering of the Exiles. The men, women and children she pictures thrill and pulsate with life because of her warm and loving brush.” "My first encounter with Israel in 1955 was inspiring and productive. It was a birds-eye view of the land and the people – the kibbutz, the village, the settlement, the Maabora, the Huleh project, Lachish at its inception, dedicated Israelis, new immigrants and the military of all ranks. I lived among people of many lands sketching and painting. I felt a great urgency to record and interpret. Working at an accelerated pace – line and color merged as I endeavored to express the universal qualities in these people. It was a tremendously stimulating experience and resulted in rechanneling my creative energy. I sketched and I wandered. I sketched in the Uval Gad where pipes are made to carry water to the Negev. I wandered among the bewildered white-robed bearded men of Morocco in Lachish… and among the older Yemenite settlements in Migdal Ashkalon. In Tiberias I saw people dressed in all garbs, the orthodox mantles of the polish ghetto and the oriental robes...

Antique American modernist surreal landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.

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, knowing it...

This artwork titled "Three Nuns" 1964 is an oil painting on hardboard by Italian artist Leonardo (Leo) De Magistris, 1933-2010. It is signed and dated at the lower right corner by th...

Market in the Puszta is an original modern artwork realized by Artist of 19th Century. Mixed colored oil on board. Includes frame.

Oil on linen canvas mounted on.plywood titled signed and dated on reverse ABOUT Stephen Basso domestic scenario Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romanti...

Unframed Signed and dated lower left 1946

Yasushi Tanaka (1886-1941) was a Japanese painter, best known for his female portraits. Born in Saitama, he emigrated to Seattle and began his artistic career in 1904. He then moved ...

Vertical composition made in oil on linen canvas in the modern style (naiv). Diversity and bright colors with a predominance of light pink, green and orange. Made in several layers w...

Woman with parrot is an orignal modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s. Mixed colored oil painting on canvas. Includes frame Not ...

Woman reading is an modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in the 1930s. Mixed colored oil painting on canvas. The artwork depicts a portrait of a woman.

"Summer at the Lake" - Mid Century Figurative Landscape Mid-century figurative landscape painting of people enjoying the summertime by Santa Cruz, ...

Signed "C. VENARD" at lower right Overall dimensions, including the frame, are 33 3/4 x 18 1/4 inches

Artist: Lucio Ranucci, Italian (1925 - ) Title: Boy on Carousel Year: 1969 Medium: Watercolor on paper, signed and dated u.l. Image Size: 20 x 12 inches Size: 27 x 20 in. (68.58 x 50...

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...

Oil on board, 1978. It depicts an abstracted portrait of a military man in an army uniform with medals. It is signed by the artist verso. Dimensions: sight size-22 inches tall X 19...

Signed "HP" at lower right, and inscribed "Eric Horsbrugh-Porter / Phyllida one week old" on verso. The overall dimensions, including the frame, are 17 x 21 5/8 inches.

A unique, humorous and colorful landscape painting by Harold Haydon depicting the artist painting alongside cows. The painting dates from 1941. Harold Emerson Haydon was born in Fo...

R.P. Overmyer (American, 1948-2010). An original oil painting (this might be acrylic) on canvas. A figural Pop Art work painted in an abstract whimsical style, featuring an interior scene of bloody murder, with corpse figure, bullet riddled wall and chair, picture frame with photograph, and additional forms. Artist signature to bottom R.P. OVERMYER. The artist was a syndicated cartoonist and creator of the popular strip, "Hollywood Dog." Work Size: 29.5 x 39.5 in. Dimensions: 30 X 40.25 X 1.75 in. Overmyer was a longtime LA-based cartoonist and designer. His newspaper clients included LA Weekly and the San Jose Metro Weekly; his animation employers included Fox and Universal Studios. He may be best known for his Hollywood Dog feature, which was nationally syndicated in its current, political-cartoon illustration art form since I believe January 2006 and included the Los Angeles Times among its clients. The feature was originally a comic strip for the Los Angeles Reader, was trademarked for t-shirt production in 1989, and was briefly the basis for a television show in the post-Simpsons 1990s. That show appeared in 1993 and feature Simpsons utility performer Hank Azaria as the voice of the title character. He is from a long line of outsider, alternative, underground comics, cartoonist movement like Robert Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Chris Ware, Harvey Pekar, Ben Katchor, Ralph Bakshi...

' Two Moons ' 2014 oil on canvas 40 x 30 cm signed on reverse by artist. Unique work. About the artist : Katherine Russell is a London based Painter. ...

A Delightful, 1950s Mid-Century Modern Portrait, "Boy in Blue Scarf" by Noted Chicago Artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Artwork Size: 11 3/4” x 9 1/4” (Framed size: 15 1/2” ...

An Introspective, 1950s Mid-Century Modern Portrait "Head of a Young Girl" by Noted Chicago Artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Artwork size: 15” x 12 1/2” (Framed size: 19 1/...

' Identikit ' 2014 oil on canvas 40 x 30 cm signed on reverse by artist. Unique work. About the artist : Katherine Russell is a London based Painter. Her current body of work seeks to deconstruct our daily encounter with media images. From war zones to deserts, from solitary figures to candle-lit night markets, her choice of source material is indiscriminate of specific content, yet resonant with the unfamiliar and unsettling nature of our media-driven age. Education: 2014-15 MA Fine Art Painting; City and Guilds London Art School 99-02: BA (Hons) Fine Art Degree; University of Northumbria at Newcastle 98-99: BTEC Diploma Foundation Studies in Art and Design; Wimbledon School of Art and Design Selected Exhibitions: 2019 Made In Britain 82 Painters of the 21st Century, The National Museum Gdańsk, Poland, 14 March - 2 June Contemporary British Painting An Exhibition of 34 Painters, The Hostry, Norwich Cathedral, Norwich, 25 April - 16 May Disposition Summer Salon 1, Bermondsey Project Space, London, March 2018 Contemporary Masters From Britain, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts Museum, China 2017 Contemporary Masters From Britain, Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum, Nanjing, China Anything Goes Contemporary British Painting, Art Bermondsey Project Space, London July - August Contemporary Masters From Britain, Yantai Art Museum, China Contemporary Masters From Britain, Jiangsu Museum of Arts and Crafts (Artall), Nanjing, China 'Why Not Art' Launch Event, The Clock, Marylebone, London, March 2017 2016 30x30x34, Contemporary British Painting, The Crypt, St Marylebone church, November 2016- January 2017 Highly Commended Artist; The Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize 2016, Showcase Exhibition July – December 2016 Contemporary British Painting Summer Exhibition, Quay Arts, Isle of Wight, July – October 2016 Shortlisted Artists; The Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize 2016, London, May- June Rising Stars 2016, Lloyds Register, 71 Fenchurch Street, London, Feb- March 2015 Contemporary British Painting, The Crypt, St Marylebone Church, London, Nov- Jan 2016 Recent Graduates 2015, Affordable Art Fair, Battersea Park, London, October MA Show, City & Guilds London Art School, September Summer Salon, Lubomirov/ Angus Hughes Gallery, August. Documentary Realism: Painting in the Digital Age, St Marylebone Crypt, London, March 16/15, Group Exhibition, The Muse, Portobello road, London, February Priseman Seabrook Collection of 21st Century Painting, Huddersfield Art Gallery, November- March @ Paint Britain, Ipswich Museum, November 2014 - March 15 2014 'The Girl Who Wasn't There.' Solo Show, A&D Gallery, 51 Chiltern Street Marylebone, London, June 'Home,' The Crossley Gallery, Dean Clough, Halifax, June - September 2013 Group Show, Contemporary British Painting, The Crypt, St Marylebone church, London, December-January 'Passing Through.' Solo show, Contemporary British Painting, The Crypt, St Marylebone Church, London, September Press/Print Literature: Made In Britain 82 Painters of the 21st Century, Catalogue Contemporary Masters from Britain, China Touring Show, Catalogue MA Show, City & Guilds London Art School, Catalogue Documentary Realism: Painting in the Digital Age Accompanying Catalogue & Essay Collection, 2015 @PaintBritain, Ipswich Art Gallery, Artlyst review, 2015 Priseman Seabrook Collection of 21st Century Painting Catalogue & Yorkshire Art...

River landscape in the bohemian forest is an Oil on Panel realized by Miloslava Vrbova (1909-1991) in the mid-20th century. Framed, good condition.

DAVID ROSEN Toronto, Canada, b. 1912, d. 2004 Painter David Rosen emerged onto the art scene while the country was wrought with unimaginable economic turmoil. Like most other Americans, the Great Depression pummeled artists financially, leaving them destitute and unable to find even conventional labor work. However, in the midst of such devastation, the government implemented arts projects which strove to achieve employment for these artists. The program arose during a memorable era for art and funded the careers of several renowned artists, including Jackson Pollack, Arshile Gorky, and Lee Krasner before they found success. In 1936, Rosen himself joined the program and quickly accompanied his contemporaries in building the next movement of modern art, Abstract Expressionism. Born in 1912, Rosen grew up in Toronto, Canada before pursuing arts in the United States. Upon arriving, Rosen settled in New York City and attended the Cooper Union Art school in 1930. While participating in the Federal Arts Project, he worked for the program's mural department until 1941. As well, he worked with an artist collective, Siqueiros Art Workshop. There, Rosen met fellow FAP artist Jackson Pollack, and together, with artist Phillip Guston, they experimented with new painting techniques and mediums. Art movements are often reactions to the popular styles that precede them, and Abstract Expressionism applied a new and exciting method to Modern Art. Gradually, artists began to break away from an overly-studied, academic approach to painting and liberated their technique. During these workshops, Rosen was introduced to Pollack's groundbreaking "drip painting" before it changed the art world. As America became involved in World War II, the Federal Arts Project wound down, officially ending in 1942. Around this time, Rosen enlisted as a Merchant Seaman with the U.S Merchant Marines. During this time, he traveled to North Africa and Italy before concluding his service and moving to California where, in 1945, he devoted his full attention to building an art career. Within a couple of years, he landed a major exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1947, and his first one-man show, which opened to rave reviews, was held at Hollywood's Contemporary Art Gallery. The exhibition’s success led to mural commissions from Palm Springs' Hotel del Tahquitz, and he scored more solo shows at West Hollywood's Chabot Gallery. The early 1950s brought a surge of recognition for Rosen's career, and while his work was certainly still influenced by Abstract Expression, his painting style included elements of Surrealism, Figurative Art, and Cubism. Like his colleague Jackson Pollack, Rosen produced work inspired by drip painting; however, rather than splattering, his drips were the natural flow marks from painting freely without regard for "mistakes." Throughout Rosen's long career, he would acquire techniques from vastly different art styles which made for a varied, eclectic catalog of work. Rosen continued to build his California art career and settled at a Laguna Beach art colony in 1958. There, he entered his work in the Laguna Beach Festival of Arts and was the first painter to contribute Abstract Art to the event. Rosen would participate in the festival for the next fifteen years. A year after his move, in 1959, Rosen opened his first studio gallery and began a 12-year collaboration with the Laguna Playhouse. For the next two decades, Rosen participated in 17 art exhibitions and 20 solo shows, and received considerable critical praise. Rosen's themes were as varied as his evolving painting style, and one of his themes focused on classic characters like Shakespeare's Hamlet. Rosen's close-up portraits of historical and literary figures, illustrated by the piece To Be or Not to Be: Soliloquy From Hamlet, capture the essence of the characters while remaining loose with the painting and even adding a slight cartoon feel. His ongoing Hamlet series, as a complete collection, makes an impact with the diversity of technique. Unlike the loose style of some of his works, the painting Madaam... that he is mad is true is influenced by the structure of Cubism, the flat dimensions of Byzantine Art, and his utilization of mixed media. After Rosen's death in 2004, the Laguna Beach Festival of Arts sponsored an exhibition of his Hamlet paintings at the Wells Fargo Building gallery. Throughout Rosen's career, he amassed a great deal of critical, industry, and public praise for his work. His beloved town of Laguna Beach bestowed numerous awards that include the Laguna Beach Annual Art Gallery Award and Orange County's Annual Exhibit Award. Rosen's work flourished in California, and he received recognition from the San Diego County Fair, Los Angeles' Miracle Mile...

Oil on panel realized by Miloslava Vrbova (1909-1991) in the mid-20th century. Framed with a beautiful, coeval gilded frame. Good condition.

Kartick Chandra Pyne - Untitled - 42 x 36 inches (unframed size) Acrylic on Canvas Inclusive of shipment in roll form. Style of the Artist : After graduating from the Government Col...

Women is an original artwork realized by the Italian artist Antonio Feltrinelli in the 1930s Original oil on plywood. Beautiful and representative work of a female figure and on ...

Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Air Chamber, 1965 Collage, graphite and gouache on paper Signed and dated upper left 30 x 22 inches Provenance: Descended through the family. Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a level of national artistic success that was nearly unprecedented among Cleveland School artists of his day, with representation by major New York dealers...

Icon is an artwork realized in the 19th century by Anonymous artist. Mixed colored encaustic painting on panel. The artwork depicts a religious scene, following the tradition of re...

Painter David Rosen emerged onto the art scene while the country was wrought with unimaginable economic turmoil. Like most other Americans, the Great Depression pummeled artists fina...

Sharon Paster is a distinguished San Francisco Bay-area artist Sharon Paster creates her paintings using oil sticks and brushes, a technique that allows her to both draw and paint at...

Signed lower right, 'Z. Kavin' for Zena Kavin (American, 1912-2003) and dated 1966. Born in Berkeley, California, Zena Kavin studied at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco and, privately, with Kravchenko in Moscow. She lived in Berkeley and in Oakland her entire life, except for four years spent in New Mexico in the late 1930s. In 1949, she married artist Jon Cornin and settled with him in Oakland. Under the peudonym Corka, the Cornins produced cartoons for the Saturday Evening Post and the New Yorker. Kavin worked in various media, including wood engraving, lithography and sculpture. She was a member of the San Francisco Artists Association and exhibited with them as well as at the San Francisco Museum of Art Inaugural (1935), the California–Pacific International Exposition, San Diego (1935), the Golden Gate International Exposition (1939). Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Davis Art Center, the New Mexico Museum of Art and the Oakland Museum of California. Reference: Artists in California 1786-1940, Third Edition, Edan Milton Hughes: Crocker Art Museum, Sheridan Books 2002, Vol. 1, page 610; Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America, Peter Hastings Falk, Sound View Press 1999, Vol. 2, page 1801; Mallett’s Index of Artists, Supplement, Daniel Trowbridge Mallett, Peter Smith...

This painting depicts a man and woman, Adam and Eve, interlocked and embracing one another. The woman holds an enticing apple as they are thrusted from the Garden of Eden. This is an...

Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Torso No. 3, 1967 Acrylic on paper Signed and dated lower right 13 x 9 inches 21 x 17 inches A mid-century figural abstract painting. Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a level of national artistic success that was nearly unprecedented among Cleveland School artists of his day, with representation by major New York dealers...

Prokash Karmakar – Nude – 30 x 22 inches (unframed size) Acrylic on Paper, 2006 Inclusive of shipment in ready to hang form. Style : Legendary master artist Lt. Prokash ...

Composition: The painting is freely inspired by Lake Carezza in the Dolomites. The painting shows a lake with the trees of the surrounding forest reflected in it, whith  a sweeping vista of the Dolomites, with the mountains rising majestically in the distance, The mountains are shrouded in a delicate veil of mist, creating an ethereal and otherworldly atmosphere. As the sun begins to rise, its pink golden rays illuminating the peaks and casting shadows across the valleys. Color Palette: The color palette is soft and muted, with shades of blue and green for the lake, gray/purple, carminium, light blue, and many different shadows of "green" for the trees that as well receive the first ray of sun on the top. The mist is rendered in delicate washes of blue carminium red, green and white, creating a sense of haziness and ethereality. The rising sun is fare out of the scene. Texture: The texture of the painting is varied, with smooth washes of color for the mist, and far trees,  and delicate details for the other fare mountains and for the trees. Freely inspired to Lake Carezza area, the paint aims creating a dreamier atmosphere. Hence, the title is "The Caress...

Costume is an original painting artwork in mixed media on paper realized by the Greek-French artist Alkis Matheos . Very good conditions. The artwork is a very beautiful and colorf...

Jean-Jacques RENÉ Normandy : On a Bench in Etretat Original oil paint on canvas Hansigned 33 x 41 cm (c. 13 x 16.2 inch) Presented with a black lacquered wooden frame Excellent co...

Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Torso No. 5, 1967 Acrylic on paper Signed and dated upper right 25 x 20 inches A mid-century figural abstract painting. Clarence Hol...

A beautiful oil on canvas which has been laid on board by the English artist David William Burley depicting a group of friends playing football in a park. Signed lower right and pres...

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...

"Tar Cart #2" by Joseph Solman (American, 1909-2008) Hand signed recto Joseph Solman (January 25, 1909 – April 16, 2008) was a Jewish American painter, a founder of The Ten, a group...

Portrait of Woman is an original artwork realized by the Italian artist Antonio Feltrinelli in the 1930s. Original oil on board Beautiful and representative artwork of a female fi...

Mersad Berber was a Bosnian painter and printmaker. Known for his particularly skilled draughtsmanship in depicting historical and contemporary Bosnian events, Berber frequently empl...

To see our other Modern British Art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - or send us a message if you cannot find the artist you want. Angela Stones (1914 - 1995) Still Life with Fruit and Milk Bottle Oil on board 41 x 51 cm Signed lower left. A mid-century still life in oils, characterised by Stones' textured brushwork and use of vivid colours. Stones was educated at the Chelsea School of Art, and was a member of an artistic dynasty. Her mother Dorothy Bradshaw (1893 - 1983) studied under Jack Merriott – the artist famous for his British Rail...

Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Pinnacle, c. 1960s Acrylic and collage on scintilla 22 x 8 inches 23.25 x 9 inches, framed A surrealist mid-century figural abstract p...

Powerful mid century American modern painting of 3 musicians. Really well painted mystery piece. It is oil on canvas dated on back with a name of either a...