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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
Departing from the System, Mid-Century Geometrical Abstract Mixed Media
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Departing from the System, 1961 Mixed media on paper Signed and dated lower right 36 x 24 inches A surrealist mid-century figural abst...
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1960s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media

“Untitled #2
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on canvas provocative figurative painting by the American artist Martin Rosenthal. Mid century modern. Signed lower left. Circa 1955. Condition is very good. Presentl...
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1950s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Portrait of Young Giuseppe Garibaldi - Oil on Copper - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of young Garibaldi is mixed colored painting realized by Anonymous artist of the XIX century. Oil on copper. Rare portrait of a young Garibaldi. Includes frame 39 x 3 x 29.
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19th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Copper

Certaldo- XXI Century, Contemporary Landscape Acrylic Painting
Located in Warsaw, PL
ANDRZEJ BOROWSKI (born in 1969) He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts , at the Departments of Graphics and Painting in the atelier of professor Zbysław Maciejewski. In 1994 he was a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

"Three Men with Hats in an Alley" Modern Abstract Figurative Portrait Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract figurative portrait painting by Houston, TX artist David Adickes. The work features a central group of three male figures wearing hats set agai...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

"Gathering by the Trees, " Charles Marcon, figurative, abstract, 1959, modern
By Charles Marcon
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born in Terrenoire in the Loire, France, self-taught painter Charles Marcon was encouraged by Madeleine Castaing and Paulette Jourdain. Marcon exhibited throughout Paris and in Arles...
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1950s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Bouquet of flowers
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas This painting depicts an emerald-green vase, delicately placed on a warm-toned wooden table. Dazzling and graceful, the flowers radiate vivid colors: coral-colored tul...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Peacocks - Original Mixed Media on Paper by Lucie Navier - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Peacocks is a painting realized by Lucie Navier in the 1930s. Original tempera painting and pastels on cardboard. Hand-signed by the artist on the lower right corner in red paintin...
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1930s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Tempera, Pastel

Secret Gardens (Oil Painting, Impasto, Impressionism, Mystical, Glow)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Genevieve Hamel Secret Gardens Oil on Wood Canvas Year: 2023 Size: 36x24x1.625in Signed and inscribed by hand COA provided Ref.: 924802-1682 Get Lost in this mesmerizing Secreet Gar...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Modernist Judaica Oil Painting "Old Jew" Jewish Rabbi at Prayer
Located in Surfside, FL
An oil on board Judaic painting by modern artist Ben-Zion Weinman. It depicts a portrait in profile of an old Jew. The work is signed "Ben-Zion". Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual works as a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Influenced by Spinoza, Knut Hamsun, and Wladyslaw Reymont, as well as Hebrew literature, Ben-Zion wrote poetry and essays that, like his visual work, attempt to reveal the deep “connection between man and the divine, and between man and earth.” An emigrant from the Ukraine, he came to the US in 1920. He wrote fairy tales and poems in Hebrew under the name Benzion Weinman, but when he began painting he dropped his last name and hyphenated his first, saying an artist needed only one name. Ben-Zion was a founding member of “The Ten: An Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s avant...
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1940s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Costume - Original Mixed Media on Paper by Alkis Matheos - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Costume is an original painting in mixed media tempera and watercolor on paper, realized by the Greek-French artist Alkis Matheos . Very good conditions. Signed by artist's stamp. ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media, Tempera, Watercolor

Dancing Figures, Oil on Board
Located in Surfside, FL
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...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Jerusalem Samovar Israeli Judaica Eliezer Weishoff Oil Painting Bezalel Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Eliezer Weishoff (Israeli, 20th century) Still life of kettle (Russian samovar) over a warmer, 1973 Acrylic or oil on canvas Signed, dated and signed ...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Flower Handbag
Located in Kansas City, MO
Gregory Eltringham Flower Handbag Acrylic on Panel Year: 2005 Size: 12x12.5x1in Signed and dated by hand COA provided Ref.: 924802-1708 Tags: Yellow, Handbag, Flower, Daisy, Black, ...
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Early 2000s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic, Wood Panel

1950s "Figure in Shadow" Figurative Gouache Painting America Modernist
Located in Arp, TX
Donald Stacy "Figure in Shadow" c.1950s Gouache paint on paper 24" x 18" unframed Unsigned Came from artist's estate Donald Stacy (1925-2011) New Jersey Studied: Newark School of Fine Art The Art Students League Pratt Graphic Arts Center University of Paris 1953-54 University of Aix-en-Provence 1954-55 Faculty: Art Department of the New School Museum of Modern Art School of Visual Arts Stacy Studio Workshop Exhibitions: Grand Central Moderns George Wittenborn The New School Print Exhibitions, Chicago University of Oklahoma Honolulu Museum Monclair Museum Wisconsin State College Louisiana Art...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Joseph Wolins WPA Artist Dancing, Torah Modernist Judaica Cubist Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Joseph Wolins 1915-1999 Subject: Jewish, Dancing with the Torah (New Torah, Simchat Torah) Hand signed oil painting In this painting, Joseph Wolins uses vibrant and complimentary co...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Large Richard Merkin Painting Harlem Jazz Club, New Yorker Magazine Cover Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Richard Marshall Merkin (American, 1938-2009) Gladys and Half-Pint Hand signed 'Merkin' (center right), Titled, inscribed, dated, and initialed 'GLADYS BENTLEY AND FRANKIE 'HALF-PINT' JAXON 1997/R.M.' verso. Oil on canvas 37 1/2 x 72 in. (95.3 x 182.9 cm) framed 39 1/4 x 74 x 2 in. Gladys Alberta Bentley (August 12, 1907 – January 18, 1960) was an American blues singer, pianist, and entertainer during the Harlem Renaissance. Her career skyrocketed when she appeared at Harry Hansberry's Clam House, a well-known gay speakeasy in New York in the 1920s, as a black, lesbian, cross-dressing performer. She headlined in the early 1930s at Harlem's Ubangi Club, where she was backed up by a chorus line of drag queens. She dressed in men's clothes (including a signature tailcoat and top hat), played piano, and sang her own raunchy lyrics to popular tunes of the day in a deep, growling voice while flirting with women in the audience. On the decline of the Harlem speakeasies with the repeal of Prohibition, she relocated to southern California, where she was billed as "America's Greatest Sepia Piano Player" and the "Brown Bomber of Sophisticated Songs". She was frequently harassed for wearing men's clothing. She tried to continue her musical career but did not achieve as much success as she had had in the past. Bentley was openly lesbian early in her career, but during the McCarthy Era she started wearing dresses and married, claiming to have been "cured" by taking female hormones. Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxon, born Frank Devera Jackson was an African American vaudeville singer, stage designer and comedian, popular in the 1920s and 1930s. He was born in Montgomery, Alabama, orphaned, and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. His nickname of "Half Pint" referred to his 5'2" height. He started in show business around 1910 as a singer in Kansas City, before travelling extensively with medicine shows in Texas, and then touring the eastern seaboard. His feminine voice and outrageous manner, often as a female impersonator, established him as a crowd favorite. By 1917 he had begun working regularly in Atlantic City, New Jersey and in Chicago, often with such performers as Bessie Smith and Ethel Waters, whose staging he helped design. He served slightly less than a year in the United States Army in 1918–1919 and rose to the rank of sergeant. In the late 1920s he sang with top jazz bands when they passed through Chicago, working with Bennie Moten, King Oliver, Freddie Keppard and others. He performed and recorded with the pianists Cow Cow Davenport, Tampa Red and "Georgia Tom" Dorsey, recording with the latter pair under the name of The Black Hillbillies. He also recorded with the Harlem Hamfats. In the 1930s, he was often on radio in the Chicago area, and led his own band, titled Frankie "Half Pint" Jaxon and His Quarts of Joy. Jaxon appeared with Duke Ellington in a film short titled Black and Tan (1929), and with Bessie Smith in "St. Louis Blues" (1929). Cab Calloway's "Minnie the Moocher" (1931) is based both musically and lyrically on Jaxon's "Willie the Weeper" (1927). Richard Merkin, Sometimes described as Rhode Island’s most famous New York artist, Richard Merkin has led a dual life for nearly 40 years - teaching at RISD while enjoying a celebrated painting career based in New York City. He has exhibited in countless gallery and museum shows in the US and abroad and is represented in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution, The Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the RISD museum and many others. In addition to contributing drawings and paintings to The New Yorker (along with, Art Spiegelman, Saul Steinberg, Harper’s, The New York Times Sunday Magazine and several books on Erotica and Baseball, he is a contributing editor for Vanity Fair and a former style columnist for GQ. Merkin’s honors include a Tiffany Foundation Fellowship and the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Museums and Selected Collections : The American Federation of Arts, New York, NY Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA First city Bank, Chicago, Ill Fisk University Art Gallery, Nashville, TN Hallmark Collections, Kansas City, MO Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Maimi-Dade Junior College, Miami, FL Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI Minnesota Museum of Art, Minneapolis, MN Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, RI McClung Museum, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN Pennsylvania Acadamy of the Arts, Philadelphia PA Prudential Insurance Company, Boston, Ma Prudential Insurance Company, Newark, NJ Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA Sara Robey Foundation, New York, NY Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC State University of Brockport, Brockport, NY Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Selected Publications : 1986-Present Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair ..1988-Present, New Yorker... 1988-Present, style column, GQ...1997, Text and Illustration for The Tijuana Bibles, published by Simon & Shuster, 1995, Illustrated book, Leagues Apart: the Men and Times of the Negro Baseball Leagues published by Morrow. 1967 Cover of the Beatles “Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band” Album (Mr. Merkin appears in the back row, right of center) RISD: MFA in Painting, 1963; Professor, Department of Painting special skill: Merging his role as flaneur (connoisseur of city life) with his role as painter and social historian, Merkin retrieves lost cultural artifacts – a Turkish cigarette, a gangster, a bowler and generally “things most people don’t know about” – and reconstitutes their Jazz Age virtues on canvas in cubist, comic-laced landscapes of tropical color. (ala Robert Crumb and Ben Katchor) breaking in: Perpetually on the fly from his middle-class Brooklyn background, Merkin found the perfect escape in the mid ‘60s in George Frazier, a dapper Boston columnist who inspired the emerging New York painter’s overnight reinvention of himself. The elements of structure, stability and surprise he admired in this well-dressed dandy – a cool linen suit, a splash of suspender, a polka dot scarf and pearl-handled walking stick – soon surfaced in paintings peopled by impeccable underdogs of café society along with his personal pop heroes: William Burroughs, Bobby Short and Krazy Kat...
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1990s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil Pastel, Oil

Antique Shop, Classic American Scene by Morton Roberts
By Morton Roberts
Located in New York, NY
Morton Roberts (American, 1927-1964) Antiques, c. 1950 Oil on canvas 12 1/4 x 15 in. Framed: 15 x 17 3/4 x 2 in. Signed lower left: Morton Roberts He was a promising artist, who die...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Washington Square Park" Georgina Klitgaard, People in Cityscape Modernist Scene
Located in New York, NY
Georgina Klitgaard Washington Square Park, New York Oil on canvas 25 1/2 x 31 inches Georgina Klitgaard’s art has sometimes gotten lost in the critical propensity to assign artists...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Mr. Mute Mops Mouths Silent" - Whimsical Figurative in Acrylic on Masonite
Located in Soquel, CA
"Mr. Mute Mops Mouths Silent" - Whimsical Figurative in Acrylic on Masonite Bright figurative composition with a mime by Frances Mann (American, 20th Century). The figure in this pi...
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Early 2000s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Masonite, Acrylic

Child and Doll - Oil Painting on Canvas - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Child with Doll is original artwork realized in the early 20th century. Mixed colored oil painting on canvas. Hand-signed on the lower right. Unread...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Japanese Nude, Modern Watercolor Painting by Mikhail Turovsky
By Mikhail Turovsky
Located in Long Island City, NY
Japanese No. 2 Mikhail Turovsky, Russian (1933) Date: 1990 Oil Pastel on Paper, signed l.r. Size: 22 in. x 30 in. (55.88 cm x 76.2 cm) Frame Size: 33 x 40 ...
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Early 2000s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor

The Caress of Dawn - Oil Paint by Adriano Bernetti Da Vila - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
Dolomites: The mountains are distant, delicate, basking in the first morning sunbeam. In the lake with its typically alpine colors, the trees of the forest are reflected amidst the m...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Model with Swan - Oil Paint by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Model with swan is an original artwork realized by the Italian artist Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s. Oil on plywood. Beautiful and representative artwork of a female figure. Anton...
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1930s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Lying Woman - Oil on Canvas by Nino Bertoletti - 1930/40s
Located in Roma, IT
Lying Woman is an original modern artwork realized by the artist Nino Bertoletti beetween 1930 and 1940. Mixed colored oil on canvas. Hand signed by the artist on the lower margin Nino Bertoletti (Rome, October 26...
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1930s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

R.E.M. - Murmur (Grammy, Album Art, Iconic, Rock and Roll, Pop, Legendary)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Kerry Smith R.E.M. - Murmur Mixed Media on Crescent board Year: 2022 Size: 21x20in Signed, dated by hand COA provided Ref.: 924802-1633 *Black frame with a mirror-gloss finish avail...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media, Acrylic, Gouache, Board

Non Places 1, Mythscape Series, Heritage, Acrylic on Canvas, Indian Art"In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Amitabh Sengupta - Non Places 1 - 36 x 48 inches (unframed size) Acrylic on Canvas ** This work will be shipped in roll form to save on shipping cost. Mythscape Series : This se...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

CURZIO'S PAW - La zampata di Curzio - Paint by Dario Cusani - 1996
Located in Roma, IT
TECHNIQUE PHOTO-PAINTING The technique used was defined as PHOTO-PAINTING by the art critic Silvia Pegoraro of Ravenna Italy and was and Artist's invention in 1994. In fact, since 19...
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Early 2000s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Woman in a Red Hat - Figurative Study Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Woman in a Red Hat - Figurative Study Oil on Canvas A reclining figure painting by American painter, Patricia Gren Hayes (b. 1932), shows a person in a black dress and a Russian Fez...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Landscape with Houses - Painting by Gino Marzani - mid-20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape with houses is a modern artwork realized by Gino Marzani in the mid-20th century. Mixed colored oil painting Hand signed by the artist on the back. Includes frame
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Oil

BETWEEN-PAST-FUTURE - Tra-passato-futuro - Paint by Dario Cusani - 1996
Located in Roma, IT
TECHNIQUE PHOTO-PAINTING The technique used was defined as PHOTO-PAINTING by the art critic Silvia Pegoraro of Ravenna Italy and was and Artist's invention in 1994. In fact, since 19...
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Early 2000s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

View of Saint Moritz - Oil Paint by Carlo Ferrari - 1907
Located in Roma, IT
Saint Moritz is an original modern artwork realized by Carlo Ferrari in 1907. Mixed colored oil painting on board. Hand signed, dated and place on the l...
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Early 1900s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

“Studio Interior”
Located in Southampton, NY
Modernist oil painting done in miniature on a thick block of wood of a female nude in the artist’s studio. Signed lower left by the well known New York artist, Nicholas Takis...
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1940s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Johnny Hodges - The Big Sound (Grammy, Album Art, Iconic, Rock and Roll, Pop)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Kerry Smith Johnny Hodges - The Big Sound Mixed Media on Crescent board Year: 2016 Size: 21x20in Signed, dated by hand COA provided Ref.: 91-0194 *Black frame with a mirror-gloss fi...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media, Acrylic, Gouache, Board

Three Poses - Nude Figure Study by Patricia Gren Hayes
Located in Soquel, CA
Three Poses - Nude Figure Study by Patricia Gren Hayes Three nude women serving as models in an art class, showing different expressions by American painter, Patricia Gren Hayes (Ca...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Meditation
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Meditation" c.2000 is an oil painting on canvas by Italian/American artist Karl Gasser, 1948-2017. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The size...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

'Portrait of a Young Woman', Philadelphia Modernist, PAFA, Baum School of Art
By Martin Zipin
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Zipin' for Martin Zipin (American, 1920-1991) and painted circa 1960. Displayed in the original, hand-carved giltwood frame. Framed ...
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1960s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Masonite

Vows Are Spoken Only To Be Broken Circa 1965 The Flip Hairstyle Cornish Nude
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Tony Giles. English ( b.1925 - d.1994 ). Vows Are Spoken Only To Be Broken. Oil On Board. Signed Lower Right. Image size 39.6 inches x 29.5 inches ( 100.5cm...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

The Model
Located in West Hollywood, CA
We are proud to present the original paintings of American artist Robert Branham(1926-2012.) Robert Branham was born in 1926, in Louisville, Kentucky. He attended the Art Institut...
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1980s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

New Mother at the Park -- Day 65
Located in Soquel, CA
New Mother at the Park -- Day 65 Artist Kristin Cohen (American, b. 1963) abstract figurative captures quiet moment of new motherhood while ticking off the days. Signed on verso an...
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1990s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Modern Figurative Study of Three Women in Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Figurative study of women by American painter, Patricia Gren Hayes (b. 1932). Blonde long hair women wearing overalls, side view of same woman and another side view study of a brunette, circa 1970. "Gren Hayes" on verso stretcher. Provenance: Purchased as part of larger collection of artist's work from Larry Miller Fine Art. Unframed. Canvas size: 29"H x 29"W Patricia Gren Hayes (American, b. 1932) is a Bay Area Figurative & Feminist Art Movement artist who studied at Winnipeg Public Art School in 1950. She received early recognition in Museum and Gallery competitions and exhibitions and was awarded a Special Education in Art recognition by the Winnipeg Museum of Fine Art, and was awarded a scholarship to the Banff College of Fine Art. Further studies were at The University of Manitoba. She was a Member of Winnipeg Free Press Sketch Club and was a Cartoonist and paste-up for a French-English bi-weekly, in Eastern Canada; She studied outdoor impressionism in New York in 1960; in 1962, attended The California College of Arts and Crafts, and in 1976 B.A., U.C. Berkeley where she studied under Elmer Bischoff, David Simpson, Joan Brown, Felix Ruvolo, Yolanda Lopez and Vincent Perez. She started a freelance commercial art business in 1963; copyrighted a National Cartoon, 1976, and served as Exhibition Director for San Francisco Woman Artists Gallery and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1976-1978. She was a workshop instructor at the San Francisco Woman Artists Gallery, 1977-1985; and was Manager/Owner Stanton Art Gallery, Alameda, CA, 1976-1982. Solo Exhibitions: Berkeley Marina, 1974; Oakland Center for The Visual Arts, "Images of Women", 1979 Group Exhibitions: Oakland's Dept of Education, 1963, Studio One; Alameda County Fair, 1975, 1976, 1978; San Francisco Art Festival, 1969, 1970, 1976, 1977, 1978; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1976, 1977, 1978; San Francisco Women Artists Gallery Exhibition, award winner - 1970, 1977, 1978; Hayward Bay Fair Art Festival, award winner - 1971; Capricorn Assunder Gallery, 1973; Oakland Art Festival, 1973, 1974; Alameda Art Association, 1978; El Cerrito...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Figure - Oil Painting - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
"Figure" is an original drawing with oil painting on ivory-colorated paper by Anonymous Artist of XX Century. In excellent conditions: As good as ...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Still Life with Bottles and Books - Oil Painting - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life with bottles and books is an artwork with frame, realized by an unknown artist of mid-20th Century. Oil on panel. 36 x 51 cm ; 56 x 70 cm with framed. Good condtions
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Panel, Oil

Rare Polish American 1930s Oil Painting Painting WPA Russian Babushka Jewish Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Abram Tromka was born May 1, 1896 in Poland. At the age of seven he immigrated with his family to the United States, settling in New York City. It was on the boat coming to New York ...
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1930s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Dutch Villa- 21st Century Contemporary Landscape Painting by Eric Schutte
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Introduction to Eric Schutte A publication in the art magazine 'Atelier', made us aware of his work. Very special we found his paintings, square-air paintings where the influences of the weather, the light to a special touch and a very colorful whole. Versatile What we do, when we see an artist's work that appeals to us, is to search for other work. This also applies to Eric. His website taught us that he is very versatile. In addition to paintings, Eric has found a special way of design. With waste plastic, iron and other material he makes the most special installations, commissioned, but also free work. An appointment was made quickly! Eric Schutte lives and works in Ommen, his studio is next to a beautiful mill. At the time of visit it is cold, there is some frozen snow and it is almost dark when I arrive. In the studio it is immediately clear that Eric is busy with everything. Mountains with tubes of oil paint, different donkeys with semi-manufactured paintings, a particularly large pile of waste plastic. Eric is an enthusiastic narrator, besides being an artist, he is a drawing teacher for a few days a week. I can imagine how he knows how to enthuse his students! Eric talks about special assignments that constantly lead to new ideas and new 'free works'. (The free work Eric likes to call 'research'.) For example, a cow, at De Brink in Ommen, produced Eric on behalf of the municipality. He made the cow out of iron. Old iron from all farmers in the immediate vicinity of Ommen. With this old iron he constructed a cow, the iron is particularly visible, but also the cow. Very clever! Environments Eric takes me enthusiastically to his work. The paintings, classical in origin, made with elegant imagination, and the images, beautiful and simple at the same time, and therefore also stimulating to look better. With these paintings Eric is always looking for the edge, during the opening exhibition we have a special work from him. Is it a 6-part, or are it 6 separate paintings of a railway crossing where a train is passing by? Anyway, you keep looking at it. Eric tells about this when I pick up the work: "I see something then, and then I want something with it, and this is it. Yes, otherwise I can not explain it ". Another and special piece during the opening exhibition is also by Eric Schutte. A calf made from almost 2000 yellow ear tags of slaughtered calves and iron. Particularly plastic and very lifelike. Eric Schutte is an artist who makes both conceptual and classical work. Eric himself about this: "The conceptual work consists of a figurative design in which the non-obvious use of materials is part of the imagination. The concept also plays a major role in classical work, but the material (use) is more traditional. I consider making images as a continuous game and research in which the idea and the design are equal and influence each other ". The opening exhibition and the work of Eric that we have kept in stock has been sold for a large part. Particularly enthusiastic and enthusiastic are people who see his work. During the exhibition 'Naar buiten!' We show new work by this special artist. Acrylic paintings made in the snow, outside in the cold. Also a number of works of waste plastic. The artist tells about his painting of a forest made from waste plastic: We make a waste mountain from nature, I make nature from waste again. The work is called biotope, our living environment. Nature, but at the same time, our environment is plastic. If later excavations are made to this time, the main thing that is found will be plastic. We live in the plastic age.
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

The Flower Water colour on Paper Grey, Brown by Indian Artist"In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Badri Narayan The Flower Water colour on Paper 8 x 8 inches 20.3 x 20.3 cm 8th April 1993 ( Framed & Delivered ) This work features in the Book on Badrinarayan Written by Ms. ...
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Early 19th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

1940s Modern Reclining Nude Oil Painting on Linen
Located in Soquel, CA
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1940s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Panoramic Black & White Painting of Westminster Victoria Embankment London City
Located in Preston, GB
Panoramic Black & White Painting of Westminster from Victoria Embankment, City of London. A unique original from leading British Cityscape Artist, Angela Wakefield. Art measures 2...
Category

2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gesso, Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

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Located in Roma, IT
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Category

2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

1950s "Pink Towel 2" Mid Century Nude Gouache Painting
Located in Arp, TX
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Untitled, Intaglio on Paper Modern Artist Laxma Goud "In Stock" (Set of 2 Works)
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
K. Laxma Goud Untitled, Intaglio on paper Size of the Etching 10.5 x 8 inches 26.7 x 20.3 cm Size of thePaper : 15 x 11 inches ( Set of 2 Works ) ( unframed & delivered ) St...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Intaglio

Le Amiche
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Le Amiche" is an oil painting on canvas by Italian artist Vittorio Maria Di Carlo, 1939-2015. It is hand signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The canv...
Category

Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

The Stooges - The Stooges (Grammy, Album Art, Iconic, Rock and Roll, Pop)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Kerry Smith The Stooges - The Stooges Mixed Media on Crescent board Year: 2017 Size: 21x20in Signed, dated by hand COA provided Ref.: 92-1671 *Black frame with a mirror-gloss finish...
Category

2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic, Gouache, Board

Beach Series, Mixed Media on Paper by Modern Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Prakash Karmakar – Beach Series, 36 x 30 inches (unframed size) Mixed Media on Paper, 2009 ( Unframed & Delivered ) Karmakar is best known for his landscapes and nudes, whi...
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Early 2000s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media

Orange-Toned Painting of Standing Figures by Artist Louis Dimitroff, dated 1970
Located in Chicago, IL
An orange-toned painting of standing figures by artist Louis Dimitroff, dated 1970. Artwork size: 24" x 30". Framed size: 25" x 31". Louis Dimitroff was a Gary, Indiana artist f...
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1970s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

The Touch of the Sun - Oil Paint by Adriano Bernetti Da Vila - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
Title: "The touch of the Sun" Technique: Oil on canvas Composition: The painting is dominated by a sweeping vista of the Dolomites, with the mountains rising majestically in the dist...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Bustling Street VI, Modern Figurative Painting, Industrial Cityscape Artwork
Located in Deddington, GB
Bustling Street VI is an original painting by Sean Durkin. The scene depicts the high street of an industrial town with people going about their usual lives. As with all of Sean's wo...
Category

2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Terrestrial Paradise - Painting by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Terrestrial Paradise is an original modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s. Mixed colored oil painting on canvas. Good conditions Not signed. Antonio Feltrinelli...
Category

1930s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Paint

Henry Ernst Schnakenberg, (Still Life with Skull)
Located in New York, NY
Henry Schnakenberg is mostly known for New York City scenes. This is clearly a departure. It is signed at the lower left and dated '4-53' on the r...
Category

1950s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Two Figures
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Two Figures" is an oil on canvas, by artist Enrique (Kico) Govantes, Cuban born 1957. It is signed, at the lower right corner, also s...
Category

Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

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