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
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
Landscape Seascape Painting of The Little Bay in Jersey by British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Landscape Seascape Painting of The Little Bay in Jersey by Artist James Longueville PS PBSA (British Northern School)
Oil on board, signed bottom left,...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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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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
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
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
I adore your boogies-woogies. Figurative painting with popular dancers and music
By Igor Fomin
Located in Segovia, ES
I love your “Boogies-woogies”, (Adoro tus "Bugisvugis"). Figurative painting with popular dancers and musicians.
Acrylic on canvas.
Measurements in centimeters: 97 x 130 x 3 cm. Fram...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$14,320 Sale Price
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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...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
1960's Portrait of Parisian Lady in Pearls & Black Dress Signed Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Mrs Helene Kernel, Paris 1964"
by Jacques Falcou (French 1912-1975)
signed, titled and dated verso
oil on canvas, framed in original period French frame
framed: 30.5 x 25 inches
can...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,352 Sale Price
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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...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large French/ Polish Modernist Oil Painting Interior Room Figures Reading & Dog
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Interior Scene
by Jacob Markiel (Polish 1911-2008) *See notes below
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 34 x 30 inches
provenance: the artists estate, south ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Historic American School Modernist WPA New York City Shipping Dock Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist New York City dock scene. Oil on canvas. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a period modern molding. Excellent condition, ready to...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$4,600 Sale Price
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Women - Oil Paint by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is an orignal modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s.
Mixed colored oil painting on canvas.
Signature on the lower margin.
Provenance Galleria Pesaro, Milan...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fall of Ravana, Demon King of Ramayana, Ancient Indian Epic, Mythscape"In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Amitabh Sengupta - Fall of Ravana - 48 x 64.8 inches (unframed size)
Oil on canvas
** This work will be shipped in roll form to save on shipping cost.
Mythscape Series : This serie...
Category
1990s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
City Side (Modern Cityscape Oil Painting of Brooklyn Rooftops)
By Patty Neal
Located in Hudson, NY
oil paint on panel
12 x 12 inches
This contemporary cityscape oil painting is painted on wood panel in a realistic style. The scene is of a Brooklyn skyline where old water towers...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
1940's French Modernist Signed Oil Painting Portrait of Nude Lady with Hat
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Nude Lady
French Modernist, dated 1940
indistinctly signed
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 14 x 9.5 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: very good ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Touch - Large Format Oil Painting, Modern Figurative Beach Landscape
Located in Salzburg, AT
Artodyssey
"Julita Malinowska's paintings belong to those, which once seen - are never forgotten. The open spaces, sometimes cool and bright, at other times heavily saturated with co...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Sock Hop" Mid-Century American Modernism WPA Female Artist 20th Century Realism
By Kyra Markham
Located in New York, NY
"Sock Hop" Mid-Century American Modernism WPA Female Artist 20th Century Realism. 30 x 24 inches. Oil on canvas. Signed on stretcher, c. 1940s. Frame is likely original to the painting.
Realist painter-printmaker Kyra Markham...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
View of Venice - Original Oil on Canvas Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
View of Venice is an original oil on canvas realized in the late 19th Century by a Master of Italian School.
On the reverse: label with inscribed “E. Mareis”
The painting represent...
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
1960's French Modernist Signed Oil Man Driving 1900's Vintage Car
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Jean-Pierre Rousseau (French, b. 1939), signed and dated 1963.
Title: The Vintage Car Driver
Medium: signed oil painting on canvas, framed and inscribed verso.
f...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$924 Sale Price
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"Winter" American Modernism WPA Regionalism Landscape Mid-Century Magic Realism
By Dale Nichols
Located in New York, NY
"Winter" American Modernism WPA Regionalism Landscape Mid-Century Magic Realism. 30 x 40 inches. Oil on canvas, c. 1960s, Signed lower right.
As we list the painting now, the work is currently being cleaned, restored and a hand carved frame is being built. Additional photos will be uploaded as soon as possible.
Our gallery, Helicline Fine Art, just launched our new digital exhibition: American Art: The WPA and Beyond. Three dozen paintings, works on paper and sculptures which are available here on 1stDibs. In person viewings can be arranged by appointment at our midtown Manhattan gallery.
Provenance:
"Winter" was originally purchased by Stanley Byer. Mr. Byer owned homes in Key West, New York City, and Washington, D.C. He purchased the painting from Dunning Auction in 1984 in Elgin, Illinois. Mr. Byer was related to Abraham Weiss from Florida. Saul Babbin, now deceased was a cousin of Mr. Weiss. I purchased the painting from Joy Babbin, Mr. Babbin's wife, now living in from New Mexico.
Dale Nichols (1905 – 1995) Artist, printmaker, illustrator, watercolorist, designer, writer and lecturer, Nichols did paintings that reflected his rural background of Nebraska where he was born in David City, a small town. Although he did much sketching outdoors, most of his paintings were completed in his studio and often included "numerology, magic squares...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ships - Painting by Bruno Croatto - 1938
Located in Roma, IT
Ships is an original painting realized by Bruno Croatto in 1938.
Signed and datet by the Artist at bottom left.
Includes a wooden frame.
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$3,511 Sale Price
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20th Century French Modernist Oil Painting of a Young Woman in Pensive Thought
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Young Woman in Thought
by Bernadette Kelly (French b. 1933)
Unsigned
Medium: oil painting on board, unframed
Painting size: 11.25 inches (height) x 9.5 inches (width)
Condition: over...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Gouache Portrait Study of Three Navajo and Kumeyaay Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Gouache Portrait Study of Three Navajo and Kumeyaay Figures
by Emile GALLOIS (1882-1965, French)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Original gouache painting on thick unframed paper,
...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Original Painting by Norwegian-American Artist Michael Hoiland
Located in New York, NY
Michael Hoiland (Norwegian-American, 1901-1994)
Untitled (Church, Possibly Chicago), 20th century
Oil on board
13 1/2 x 17 1/2 in.
Framed: 18 3/4 x 21 3/4 in.
Signed lower left: Mich...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
William Fisher Classic American Illustration on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
William Fisher (American, 1891-1985)
Untitled, 20th Century
Oil on canvas/illustration
23 3/4 x 29 3/4 in.
Framed: 31 x 37 1/4 x 1 in.
Signed lower right: William Fisher
William Fis...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rare 1950s New York Modernist Judaica Rabbi Oil Painting signed A. Einstein
By A. Einstein
Located in Surfside, FL
Rare Mid Century Judaic figure of a Jewish rabbi at prayer. signed A. Einstein.
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Better World
By Peter Max
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Peter Max
Title: Better World
Size: 48 x 24 Inches (Framed: 57.25 x 33.25 Inches)
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Edition: Original
Year: 2010
Notes: Max Studio Catalog Nu...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$100,000
Nude Portrait by Arthur Smith WPA Artist
By Arthur Smith
Located in New York, NY
Arthur Smith (American, 1897-1972)
Untitled, 20th century
Oil on wood panel
23 3/4 x 19 1/2 in.
Framed: 29 x 25 x 1 1/4 in.
Signed lower left: A Smith
Arthur Smith is a listed Ameri...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
At the bus station. 2021, paper, acrylic, 25x25 cm
Located in Riga, LV
At the bus station
2021, paper, acrylic, 25x25 cm
Ansis Butnors (1977)
Education:
J. Rozentals Art School in Riga – 1989. – 1996.
Latvian Academy of Art, Painting Department – 19...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Seaside Figure Scene Oil Painting - Drift & Thought
Located in Bristol, GB
DRIFT AND THOUGHT
Size: 35 x 44 cm (including frame)
Oil on board
A mid-century modernist painting that presents a tranquil seaside scene, executed in oil onto board.
The painting ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Circus performance, oil on canvas by French / hungarian artist Marcel Vertes
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Marcel Vertes (French/Hungarian, 1895 – 1961)
‘Circus performance’
Oil on canvas board
Signed `VERTES` (to the reverse)
20 x 24 in. (51 x 61 cm.)
Provenance: With the Hammer Gallerie...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pranzo, Oil Painting by Lucio Ranucci
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lucio Ranucci, Italian (1925 - )
Title: Pranzo
Year: 1971
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated
Size: 30 in. x 32 in. (76.2 cm x 81.28 cm)
Frame Size: 40 x 41 inches
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Battle Ships at Sea Naval Engagement Signed British Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Battle at Sea
by Gordon Wood Armstrong (British late 20th century)
signed oil on board, framed
framed: 23 x 29 inches
board: 18 x 24 inches
provenance: pr...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,167 Sale Price
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A Woman on a Sofa with Dog - Painting by Francesco Settimj - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on wooden panel realized in the mid-20th Century by Fausta Settimj.
Good condition except for some minor losses on edges.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Delightful 1940 Painting of Two Women Lounging by Artist Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A delightful 1940 painting of two women lounging in the Vermont wilderness by artist Harold Haydon. Haydon had a summer compound in Calais, Vermont, where he often painted. Images ...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Sgraffito, Saltimbanque and the Card Player, Circle of Picasso.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 20th Century sgraffito work on plaster by Jean Pierre de Cayeux. The work is signed and dated on the skirt of the card player, bottom right, and on the stretcher of the chair, bo...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
1960's French Signed Oil Portrait of Young Lady in Blue Hat Modernist Style
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Henri Laville (1916)
'La femme en bleu', cira 1960's
signed oil on canvas, framed
framed: 20.5 x 15 inches
canvas: 16 x 11 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: v...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$968 Sale Price
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Mid Century Modern Swedish Figurative Oil Painting - Figures in Still Light
Located in Bristol, GB
FIGURES IN STILL LIGHT
Size: 56 x 64 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
A nostalgic and introspective mid-century modernist style figurative composition, executed in oil onto canva...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Fashionable 1950s Mid-Century Modern Portrait, "Young Woman in Yellow Sweater"
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fashionable, 1950s Mid-Century Modern Portrait, "Young Woman in Yellow Sweater" by Noted Chicago Artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Artwork size: 11” x 11 1/4” (Framed size...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Huge French Modernist Oil Painting Figurative Group Amazing Bold Colors
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French Modernist School, late 20th century
Title: Abstract figurative group, painted with amazing colors.
Medium: oil painting on canvas, unframed.
canvas: 39.75...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$3,113 Sale Price
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Washerwoman from the back
Located in Genève, GE
Work on wood
Plaster molding frame and gilded wood
36.5 x 28.5 x 4.5 cm
Category
Mid-19th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Beau Temps en Aout - Deauville - Modern Landscape Oil Painting by André Hambourg
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed figures in landscape oil on canvas circa 1980 by French modernist painter Andre Hambourg. This beautiful piece depicts families enjoying a day out at the seaside in the height...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Arroyo Seco, New Mexico" Georgina Klitgaard, Modernist Southwest Oil Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Georgina Klitgaard
Arroyo Seco, New Mexico
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
28 x 42 inches
Georgina Klitgaard’s art has sometimes gotten lost in the critical propensity to assign a...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Gouache Study of Hopi Kachina Mask and Taos Pueblo Textile
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Gouache Study of Hopi Kachina Mask and Taos Pueblo Textile
by Emile GALLOIS (1882-1965, French)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Original gouache painting on thick unframed paper,
...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
The Luberon Valley Provence Superb French Modernist Signed Painting
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
Sketch n. 13 - Original Painting by Giovanni Brancaccio - 1948
Located in Roma, IT
Sketch n. 13 is an original modern artwork realized by Giovanni Brancaccio in 1948.
Mixed colored oil on canvas.
Hand signed and dated on the lower margin.
Good conditions.
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,620 Sale Price
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An Introspective 1930s Modern Portrait, "Acolyte" by Noted Artist Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
An Introspective 1930s Modern Portrait, "Acolyte" by Noted Chicago Artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Dry watercolor on board. Artwork size: 15” x 12” (Framed size: 18 3/4” ...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Board
Horse Head, Ink on Paper, Black Color by Indian Artist Sunil Das "In Stock"
By Sunil Das
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Sunil Das - Horse Head
Ink on Paper
10 x 8 inches, 2011
( delivered unframed )
Sunil Das (1939-2015) was a Master Modern Indian Artist from Bengal. Extremely successful right from h...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
A Vibrant, Mid-Century Modern Portrait of a Young Woman in a Yellow Blouse
Located in Chicago, IL
A Vibrant, Mid-Century Modern Portrait of a Young Woman in a Yellow Blouse by Notable Chicago Artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Oil on Masonite, dating circa 1945. Artwork Si...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Eternal spring in the garden of my soul
Located in Zofingen, AG
"Eternal Spring in the Garden of My Soul" is an ode to inner renewal and endless life energy. The painting features geraniums — a symbol of resilience and beauty — set against a shim...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Modernist French Oil Painting Reclining Nude Woman Blue Stockings and Shoes
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Modern French Oil Painting Reclining Nude Woman in Stockings and Shoes
by Bernadette Kelly (French b. 1933)
Unsigned
Medium: oil pai...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
20th Century French Modernist Floral Painting Of Pink Explosive Poinsettia
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
WPA Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Workers
Located in New York, NY
WPA Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Workers
Seymour Fogel (1911-1984)
Mural Study, untitled
11 x 49 1/4 inches (sight)
Tempera on board
Provenance:...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Board
20th Century French Modernist Gouache Painting Green Abstract Posed Lady In Nude
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
'Young Woman Wearing a Copper Scarf', Paris, Salon d'Automne, Brittany, Skagen
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'W. Schwartz' for Walter Erwin Otto Schwartz (Danish, 1889-1958), dated 1935 and inscribed 'Skagen' lower right.
A substantial, psychologically penetrating portrait of a young woman with braids, shown dressed in a charcoal wool coat and wearing a copper-colored neck-scarf. The self-possessed sitter stands and meets the viewers gaze directly, proving herself an unusually confident subject for this noted Danish Modernist.
Nephew of the Danish academic artist, Frans Schwartz, Walter Schwartz grew up surrounded by the painters who frequented the Danish art colony on the picturesque island of Skagen. Walter first studied formally (1904-8) with Michael Ancher...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Side Show Barker - Original Modernist American Fair Scene Oil Painting
Located in Marco Island, FL
From the Michael Hall Collection, this is a great American scene showing the excitement of the fair. It depicts a time when men wore coats and ties and women had hats at the fair be...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Floating on a Dream (Window, Skyscape, Warm, Dreamy, ~29% OFF)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Annieo Klaas
Floating on a Dream
2024
Oil on Canvas
40 x 30 inches (101.6 x 30.48 cm)
Signed lower right
COA provided
*On stretcher frame - gallery wrapped - ready to hang
Annieo K...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
$1,777 Sale Price
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'Port of Saint-Malo', French Modern School
Located in London, GB
'Port of Saint-Malo', oil on canvas affixed to board, French Modern School (1984). Although the artist dated this painting '84, it depicts a nostalgic view of the port of Saint-Malo in Western France's, Brittany in 1884 judging by the clothing worn by the characters depicted. The crowd on the shoreline is watching a sailboat regatta starting just inside the port's breakwater. A rather rare sunny day in Brittany brought out the parasols of the sitting ladies on the edge of the old ramparts. The walled city...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
$778 Sale Price
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Mid-Century Modern Man - Portrait in Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Subtle and moody portrait of a Pensive man by Joan Tidwell (American, 1930-2002). The sitter in the portrait is a middle-aged man looking slightly downwards, wearing a collared shirt. This piece is completed in a tan and green palette, creating a somber feeling. Of particular note are the confident, thick brushstrokes - each one is well-placed in the modernist style. Similar in some ways to Picasso's portraits.
Signed "Joan Tidwell" on verso
Unframed.
Canvas size: 30"H x 22"W
oan Gay Tidwell (American, 1930-2002) was born and raised in Hollywood, CA, where she had some success as a child actor. Later, she graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Washington with a Master's Degree in English Literature and Drama. Tidwell moved to the Bay...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,000 Sale Price
20% Off
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