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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
British mid century painting of children playing in a winter playground
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Jane Taylor (British, fl. 1948 – 1974) Winter games Body colour on paper Signed ‘Jane Taylor’ (lower right) 12.5/8 x 21.1/2 in. (32 x 55 cm.)
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20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper

"Fodder Stacks, Bearsville" Georgina Klitgaard, Modernist Agricultural Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Georgina Klitgaard Fodder Stacks, Bearsville Signed lower right Oil on canvas 18 x 22 inches Georgina Klitgaard’s art has sometimes gotten lost in the critical propensity to assign...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Nude, Ink, Pastel, Charcoal on Paper by Indian Artist Sunil Das "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Sunil Das - Untitled - 8.5 x 7 inches (unframed size) Ink & Charcoal on paper, 1965 (Framed & Delivered) In the sixties Sunil's art was often seen to feature a dialogic discourse be...
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1960s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Charcoal

Overflight over the city. 1947, paper, mixed media, 23x20 cm
Located in Riga, LV
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...
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1940s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor

Radha : the mythological character created by Amitabha Banerjee
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Amitabha Banerjee - Radha - 19 x 22 inches ( unframed size) Etching on paper Inclusive of shipment in roll form. About the Artist and his work : Born : In 1929 born in Barisal, Bang...
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1990s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Etching

Post Impressionist Oil Painting Still Life with Fruit William Meyerowitz WPA Art
Located in Surfside, FL
William Meyerowitz (1887 - 1981) Oil painting on canvas Depicting a still life scene with fruit bowl, bananas, flowers and quilt. Post Impressionist oil painting. Hand signed low...
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1930s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Untitled, Paint on Fiber by Contemporary Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Venkat Bothsa - Untitled Paint on Fibre, 18 x 18 inches Born in 1961, Venkat Bothsa did his B.F.A from Andhra University followed by M.F.A from Banaras Hindu University. His brightl...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paint

Modernist Israeli Rabbis Dancing in Jerusalem, Judaica, Mixed Media Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Moshe Katz (Romanian Israeli), 1937- an Israeli citizen, studied art at the Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem, as well as at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. Although not an expo...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Warrior King, Pen & Ink on Paper, B/W Colors by Indian K.M. Adimoolam "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
K. M. Adimoolam - Warrior King - 19 x 13 inches (Unframed Size) Pen & Ink on Paper , 1998 Inclusive of shipment in roll form. Should you want it framed and ready to hang .. please let us know and we will be happy to assist. About the Artist and his work : Born : K. M. Adimoolam (1938 – 2008) was a well-known Indian abstract artist. He was born in Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu. Education : 1959 - He moved to Chennai where under the influence of the sculptor Dhanapal, he enrolled in the School of Arts and Crafts. 1966 - Completed his Diploma in Advanced Painting. Art Career : He had a natural aptitude for drawing at an early age. After completing his Diploma in Advanced Painting, Adimoolam started a series of black and white portraits of Mahatma Gandhi...
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Early 2000s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Pen

"Pink Lincoln" Modern Pink and Blue Toned Figurative Presidential Portrait
Located in Houston, TX
Modern pink and blue toned portrait of Abraham Lincoln by Texas born artist Clark Fox. The work features an intricate depiction of the former president that ...
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Early 2000s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Beach Series Mixed Media on Paper by Modern Artist Prokash Karmakar "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Prakash Karmakar - Beach Series - 16 x 23 inches (unframed size) Mixed Media on Paper , 2004 Style : Legendary master artist Lt. Prokash Karmakar from Bengal was solely responsible ...
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Early 2000s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media

Women Nude, Heads, Blue Green Ochre, Acrylic Canvas by Indian Master "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
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...
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Early 2000s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic, Oil

Untitled, Figurative, Batik on Cloth by Modern Indian Artist Laxma Goud-In Stock
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
K. Laxma Goud - Untitled - 24 x 34 inches Batik on Cloth ( FRAMED ALL IN DOOR DELIVERED ) Style : Goud displays versatility over a range of mediums, from printmaking, drawing, watercolour, gouache and pastels to glass painting and sculpture in bronze and terracotta. Over the many years of his artistic career, he is known to have moved from one medium to another with élan. Fellow artist T. Vaikuntam, in one of his interviews, reminisces that it was Laxma Goud who introduced him to the art of sketching and made him aware of the possibilities of this medium. When one looks at Goud’s work, rustic, raw, and potent might be the first words that come to mind. His portraits of men and women represent the dynamic Indian ethos rather than particular individual identities. A recurrent theme with the artist is that of the erotic, treated as an active and powerful aspect of male and female sexuality and existence. Goud’s work is dramatic; his protagonists are raw and vivacious in their appeal, imbibed with energy that reverberates through his strokes and textures. Most of Goud’s art is centered on the rural, recreating landscapes from his childhood as if they were frozen in time. In the artist’s later work, his figures turn softer, more introspective than brash in their outlook. About the Artist and his work : Born : 1940 in Nizampur, Andhra Pradesh...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Textile

Untitled, Mixed Media on Canvas by Modern Indian Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Sunil Madhav Sen - Untitled Mixed Media on Canvas, 27 x 48 inches Born : Purulia, West Bengal, 1910 Died : 1979 Education : Basically self-taught. At the age of nine, learned drawing from a local drawing teacher. Diploma, City College , Calcutta University 1993. Graduated in Law and started legal practice 1938. Visited studios of Abanindranath Tagore, Jamini Prakash Gangooly, Atul Bose and Satish Sinha, received lessons and encouragement from them. For over two years he worked in the studio of Hemen Majumdar...
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1980s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media

Contemporary French Modernist Signed Oil Head Portrait of Lady over Gondolas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Head Portrait Fantasy Study French School, 21st century indistinctly signed oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 14 x 10.5 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: very go...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Couple, Villagers, Watercolor on Paper, Pink, Green by Modern Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Laxma Gaud - Untitled - 5.5 x 7.5 inches (unframed size) Watercolour on Paper Style : Goud displays versatility over a range of mediums, from printmaking, drawing, watercolour, goua...
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Early 2000s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Large Watercolor Painting John Groth, Men Wrestling, Esquire Magazine WPA Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
John August Groth (American, 1908-1988) "Wrestling Match," Watercolor painting, hand signed upper right and inscribed upper left, "Las Palmas Canary Islands Lucha Canary Wrestling". Framed Size: 21'' x 29'', 53 x 74 cm (sight); 28.5'' x 36.25'', 72 x 92 cm (frame). Depiction of a wrestling match in a city square. John August Groth (1908 - 1988) was an illustrator and art teacher. He gained recognition as a war correspondent-illustrator. He studies at the Art Institute of Chicago and at Art Students League with Todros Geller, Robert Brackman, Arnold Blanch and George Grosz. He was a member: Society of American Etchers; American Newspaper Guild; Society of Illustrators; Associate Member of the National Academy of Design; American Water Color Society. Positions : Art Director at Esquire 1933 - 1937, Parade Publications 1941 - 1944; War Correspondent for Chicago Sun 1944; American Legion Magazine 1945; Artist-Correspondent in Vietnam 1967.Teacher at Art Students LeagueHe was the first art director of Esquire Magazine and taught at the Art Students League, the Pratt Institute, and the Parsons School of Design. In 1940, he was included in an exhibition at MOMA, titled, "PM Competition: The Artist as Reporter." The exhibition included Philip Guston, Reginald Marsh, John Tworkov, John Heliker, Adolf Dehn, and Chet La More. Groth began sketching intently during the Great Depression after studying at the Art Institute of Chicago. Following the advice of an editor, he penned 100 sketches a day for years. He learned to increase his speed by listening to sports on the radio and sketching the action as fast as he could. "I would listen to the games on the radio at night, and sketch the plays. It made me very quick." His break came when Arnold Gingrich, an editor for Esquire magazine, approached him at an art show in Chicago and offered him a position. "The way (Arnold Gingrich) told it," John Groth says, "he found this barefoot, bearded kid in the park, and the next day made him art director of the world's leading men's fashion magazine. But I swear I was wearing shoes." Groth went on to work as a correspondent and illustrator for the Chicago Sun, Collier's, Sports Illustrated, and The Saturday Evening Post. He developed a passion for war zones. He covered six different wars and was one of the first correspondents in Paris after its liberation. "It is only at war that I feel complete... There, you meet all sort of men -- farmers, mechanics, college professors. It rains on them and it rains on you. The shells burst in the air, and you are there, too." He would make a splash when he beat out friend and rival, Ernest Hemingway, into Paris in 1944. Hemingway was writing for the Chicago Tribune and Groth for the Chicago Sun. Groth was in the first jeep into Paris and got the scoop. His headline read, "Yanks are in Paris!" Hemingway would later write about Groth's technique. “None of us understood the sort of shorthand he sketched in. The men would look at the sketches and see just a lot of lines. It was a great pleasure to find what fine drawings they were when we got to see them. Groth went on to illustrate such classic books as: A Christmas Carol, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Grapes of Wrath, The War Prayer, and Gone with the Wind. Deborah Churchman described Groth's work in a 1980 Washington Post article: "Groth's pictures center on the day-to-day life of people caught in terrifying circumstances -- armies occupying cities, soldiers sweeping roads for land mines, bullfighters facing death." Bernie Schonfeld, a photographer for Life Magazine said of Groth, "John is one of the gentlest people in the world, and he always gets himself into the wildest hell hole." He joined the First Congress of American Artists Against War and Fascism in 1936, along with Stuart Davis, Peter Blume...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Brave - Ocean Inspired Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reminiscent of the Fauvist movement and Italian classicism, Italian artist Giuseppe Beddru’s bold outlines, dynamic brushstrokes and contrasting use of color make his work visually e...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings

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Plexiglass, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic

"Thoughtful", Blond Woman in Blue in front of a Bouquet Figurative Painting
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
This is a painting work by French artist Françoise Collandre. A graduate from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Métiers d'Arts in Paris, Françoi...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Nude, Acrylic on Paper by Modern Indian Artist “In Stock”
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
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 ...
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Early 2000s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

A Diminutive Painting of Sailors in Hanover, NH by Artist Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A "Thumb Box" (or diminutive) painting of sailors in fort of a store front in Hanover, NH by artist Harold Haydon. Image size: 4 1/2" x 6". Fra...
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1940s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Untitled, Ink on Paper Black & White colours by Modern Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Jatin Das - Untitled - 5 x 8 inches (unframed size) Ink on Paper Inclusive of shipment in a roll form. Style : The multi-faceted Jatin Das has been a part of the Indian art scene for more than four decades, with his paintings, murals and sculptures. The human body holds an endless fascination for him and he pursues his quest for dynamic figures tirelessly, using a linear structure and quick brushwork. The man-woman relationship, in particular, with all its attendant pain and joy is a constant source of inspiration to him. He believes that painting is an intensely personal experience, the results of which cannot always be shared with others. About the Artist and his work : Born : Jatin Das is one of India's most prominent painters. He was born in Mayurbhanj Orissa in 1941. Education : He has completed his education in 1962 from Sir J. J. School of Fine Arts, Mumbai. He has been also involved with art institutions, in several capacities as a teacher at the College of Art, New Delhi, and at the National School of Drama, New Delhi; as a consultant for the Handicrafts Board, and for the Folk Art Museum, Orissa, to mention a few of the positions he held. Solo exhibition : He has held many solo exhibition including : 2010-11 'Hand-held Space', Museum Gallery; Gallery Art and Soul, Mumbai, 2009 The Artists Alley Gallery, San Francisco, USA, 2009 Chelsea Arts Club, London, 1976 Kumar Art Gallery, New Delhi, 1975 Gallery de Sfinx, Amsterdam, 1975 Commonwealth Institute Art Gallery, London, UK, 1975 Schloss Bellevue, Kassel, West Germany, 1975 City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK. Group exhibition : He has participated in many group exhibition including : 1982 ‘Moderene Kunst Heute’, Museum of Modern Art, Darmstad, Kunsthalle, West Germany, 1980 Contemporary Paintings in Miniature Format, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, 1979 All India Exhibition of Prints, Chandigarh, 1979 Asian Arts Exhibition, Fukoaka Art Museum, Japan, 1978 National Gallery of Modern Art (N.G.M.A) Collection, Warsaw, Alleppo, Damascus, Narodini Gallery V, Loden, Prague, Cultural Centre, Niavaran, Budapest. Honours and Awards : 2012 Padma Bhushan by the Government of India. 2007 Conferred the D.Litt. (Honoris Causa), Utkal University of Culture, Bhubaneswar. 2007 Seminar Management Institution, Bhubaneswar. 2007 Bharat Nirman Award. 2007 Order of the Star...
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Early 2000s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Ink

African American Mother and Child by Peggy Dodds Circa 1940's
Located in Rochester, NY
Fashionably dressed African American mother and child by Peggy Dodds (1900-1987). Large oil on canvas. Circa 1940's. Unframed. please, contact ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

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

Untitled, Mixed Media on Paper, Red, Yellow by Modern Indian Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Bijan Choudhury - Untitled - 7.6 x 10.6 inches (unframed size) Mixed Media on Paper ( UNFRAMED ALL IN DOOR DELIVERED ) Style : The Marxist orientation did not allow Bijan Chowdh...
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Early 2000s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media

Mid 20th Century French Post-Impressionist White Figures In Woodland Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
signed oil on board, unframed board: 9.5 x 13 inches double sided provenance: private collection, France condition: very good and sound condition
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Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

The Grizzly Bear Is Huge And Wild
Located in East Hampton, NY
Whimsical painting of a bear. Comes unframed. Gallery wrap with painted sides. Dreamlike. About the Artist: Shanna E. D'Antonio is a mixed-media artist living and working in Hammon...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

"The Cave", Underground Parking Horizontal Urban Landscape Acrylic Painting
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
This artwork depicts a view of a the entrance of an underground parking. Philippe Saucourt is a promising French artist whose figurative artworks (he also makes abstract paintings) ...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Wood Panel, Acrylic

Untitled, Watercolor Acrylic on Paper by Master Indian Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Prokash Karmakar – Untitled – 18 x 12.5 inches (unframed size) Watercolor, Acrylic on Paper, 1991 Style : Legendary master artist Lt. Prokash Karmakar from Bengal was solely respo...
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1990s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor

Donna Con Capo Fiorito - Original Mixed Media Framed Figurative Artwork
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reminiscent of the Fauvist movement and Italian classicism, Italian artist Giuseppe Beddru’s bold outlines, dynamic brushstrokes and contrasting use of color make his work visually e...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings

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Plexiglass, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Radha, Figurative, Charcoal & Pastel by Master IndianArtist Suhas Roy "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Suhas Roy - Radha Charcoal on Paper , 11 x 15 inches , 2015 ( Unframed & Delivered ) Suhas Roy 's mystic woman which he calls 'Radha', either Oil on canvas or soft colored pastel on Paper or board are a series of work where he sees an ethereal mystic godlike and innocent spirit in every woman he meets. Style : He is one of the biggest and the most enduring names in the genre of Indian modern art. Often dubbed the father of female figurative forms. Radha Series and the Christ Series in soft pastel on paper and intense Oil on canvas paintings .Consequently, his recent body of works, "Drops of Silence", executed in oil, pastels and pen-and-ink etchings on backdrops in watercolours, are all studies of "mysterious slightly surreal nude women floating in a void". Roy's forte is Radhika - dark, enigmatic, beautiful Indian women with the slightest smile and ethereal in its quality . About the Artist & his work : Born : 1936, Bangladesh. Education : 1953-58 : Diploma in Painting, Indian College of Art and Draughtsmanship, Calcutta. 1956-66 : Studied graphic art under the guidance of S.W. Hayter, Atelier 17 and mural art at cole Superior Des Beaux Art, Paris. Exhibitions : His works have been exhibited all over the world through exhibitions like the Asian Graphic Prints Traveling Exhibition, USA, the Tokyo Print Biennale, Japan, Contemporary Indian Art...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal, Pastel

Untitled, Figurative, Pen & Ink on Paper by Artist Somnath Hore "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Somnath Hore - Untitled Pen & Ink on Paper, 10.6 x 6.7 inches, 25-03-1987 (Unframed & Delivered) Inclusive of shipment mounted not framed, Should you wish to receive the same framed...
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1980s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Pen

Head with Figure, 2008
By Mersad Berber
Located in Atlanta, GA
Mersad Berber was a Bosnian painter and printmaker. Known for his particularly skilled draughtsmanship in depicting historical and contemporary Bosnian events, Berber frequently empl...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Shopping the Market Israeli Modernist Oil Pastel Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
OIl Pastel on Parer Tel Aviv, 1942 – Israel-born, France-based artist, Daid Azuz is FIGURATIVE painter, with a rich, colorful style. His paintings are masterfully drawn and full ...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil Pastel

Antique American School Modernist Landscape Signed Western Oil on Paper
Located in Buffalo, NY
Signed illegibly lower left. Oil on paper. 10 x 8.
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1920s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Austrian Magic Realist Oil Painting Vibrant Village Landscape Scene Franz Coufal
Located in Surfside, FL
Framed 24.5 x 28.5 image 19.5 x 23 inches. Franz Anton Coufal (Austrian, 1927 - 1999) Painter and sculptor known for figure painting, bronze sculpture, genre paintings and as a graphic artist. After completing an apprenticeship as a locksmith, Franz Anton Coufal attended the Graphic Education and Research Institute in Vienna from 1947 to 1949 as a student of André Roder and from 1949 to 1953 took lessons from Ignaz Schönbrunner. From 1953 to 1959 he finally studied with Fritz Wotruba at the Academy of Fine Arts (diploma and master school award 1959). Coufal then went on study trips to Germany and Italy and then settled in Vienna as a sculptor and graphic artist. His work bears the influence of Austrian Magic Realism and the artists Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Arik Erich Brauer and Ernst Fuchs. THis work also has Expressionist elements to it. He organized exhibitions in Vienna (from 1955), Paris (1962, 1970) and Brussels (1964) as well as in other Austrian cities. His most important works include the honorary grave for Leopold Figl in the central cemetery (1966). In 1979 he provided the design for the face of the silver 100 schilling coin "Festival and Congress House Bregenz", in 1980 he created the Lehár monument for the city park, and in 1987 he received the special prize in the "Danube Region Vienna" competition. A select list of his sculptures in public spaces "Standing youth" (19, Hameaustraße - Celtesgasse, urban residential complex; 1960) "Reclining youth" (22, Kagran [Meißnergasse - Maißauer Gasse - Anton-Sattler-Gasse]; artificial stone, 1962) "Flammender Turm" (16, Thaliastraße 159; marble) Cubist marble sculpture (11, Molitorgasse at 15) Drinking fountain (20, Adalbert-Stifter-Straße primary school; 1968) Figldenkmal (1, Minoritenplatz, 1973) Coufal created some of his later works for the "Harmonie" rest home for the blind in Unterdambach near Neulengbach (memorial for the 144 blind people who perished in concentration camps, unveiled in 2000; stone sculpture "Monument to Humanity" on the terrace; rose-thorn cross and tabernacle for the in-house Odilien- Chapel; bronze portrait sculpture by Robert Vogel in the entrance hall, unveiled July 3, 1994). Bibliography Rudolf Schmidt: Austrian artist lexicon. From the beginning to the present. Vienna: Tusch 1974-1980 Who's Who in the world. Volume 2: 1974-1975. New Providence, NJ: Marquis Who's Who 1974 Who's who in the world. Volume 3: 1976-1977. New Providence, NJ: Marquis Who's Who 1976 Who is Who in Austria with South Tyrol part (Hübner's "Blue Who is Who"). Zug: Who is who, Verlag für Personalenzyklopädien 12 1995 Otto Breicha: Franz Anton Coufal In: Franz Anton Coufal. Österreichische Staatsdruckerei, December 9-22, 1964. Vienna: Staatsdruckerei 1964 The press, July 30, 1963 Of the generation of Viennese artists Alois Mosbacher, Josef Mikl, Oswald Oberhuber, Christian Ludwig Attersee, Peter Sengl, Max Weiler, Franz Ringel, Gunter Brus, Hubert Schmalix, Wilhelm Kaufmann, Paul Flora, Oscar Larsen, Hans Staudacher, Siegfried Anzinger, Ernst Huber...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Judaica Oil Painting Jewish Family Interior Shtetl Scene
Located in Surfside, FL
Peter Horowitz, painter, born 1922, Poland. Lived in Hod Hasharon in Israel. Studied at the Art Academy, Krakow. died in 2005. Studies: Art Academy, Cracow. Peter Horowitz was born...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Radha, Tempera Coloured Conte on Pastel on Paper by Artist Suhas Roy "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Suhas Roy - Radha - 20 x 20 inches ( unframed size) Tempera Coloured Conte on Pastel on Paper , 2005 Suhas Roy 's mystic woman which he calls 'Radha', either Oil on canvas or sof...
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Early 2000s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Pastel, Board, Paper, Conté, Tempera

Woman with Arms Crossed
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Woman with Arms Crossed Mixed media collage-painting on stone chip surface, mounted on fabric, mounted on wood support by the artist, 1955 Signed and dated lower center Image size: 1...
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1950s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Other Medium

Colored Frida. (Framed ) Photograph intervened by the artist
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Colored Frida by Efren Isaza Archival pigment print mounted on aluminum, intervened with hand-applied paint, ink and intentionally scratched by the artist 34 in. H x 53.5 in. W x 1 i...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Other Medium

Eternal Recurrence #16 . Mixed media Collage on Paper.
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Eternal recurrence #16 by Natasha Zupan Original photo collage with intervention by the artist Image size: 10 in. H x 7 in. W Framed 2015 All Prices ar...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic, Photographic Paper

Windmill at Knokke, Caran d'ache, Acrylic on Canvas, Mixed media. Framed
By Alan Reid
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Windmill at Knokke, 2014 Caran d'ache, wood and acrylic paint on canvas in artist's frame Image size: 30 in H × 25 in W Frame size: 31 in. H x 26 in. W x 2 in D Hand-signed by artis...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Radha, Mixed Media on Paper, Green, Black, Pink by Artist Suhas Roy "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Suhas Roy - Radha - 20 x 16 inches ( unframed size) Mixed Media on Paper , 2014 Suhas Roy 's mystic woman which he calls 'Radha', either Oil on canvas or soft colored pastel on Pa...
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Early 2000s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media

Fisherman, Watercolor by Lucio Ranucci
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lucio Ranucci, Italian (1925 - ) Title: Fisherman Year: 1982 Medium: Watercolor on paper, signed and dated l.r. Image Size: 15.5 x 19 inches Size: 20 x 26 in. (50.8 x 66.04 cm)
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1980s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor

"The Small Horsewoman", Girl in Red on a Green Horse Figurative Acrylic Painting
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
A graduate from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Métiers d'Arts in Paris, Françoise Collandre entered the fine art workshops in the city of Paris in painting and engraving and has ...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Beach Series Mixed Media on Paper by Modern Artist Prokash Karmakar "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Prakash Karmakar - Beach Series - 16 x 23 inches (unframed size) Mixed Media on Paper , 2004 Style : Legendary master artist Lt. Prokash Karmakar from Bengal was solely responsible ...
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Early 2000s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media

Untitled, Tempera on Board by Modern Indian Artist Lalu Prasad Shaw "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Lalu Prasad Shaw - Untitled - 25 x 20.5 inches Tempera on Board, 2015 Style : Known widely for his highly stylized portraits of Bengali women and couples, Lalu Prasad Shaw’s works lay the most emphasis on his subject’s physical characteristics. Capturing the expressions of his subjects perfectly with the greatest economy of line and colour each of Shaw’s paintings has an intimate feel to it. Influenced by the pre-independence Company School of art, the traditional Kalighat Pat and the Ajanta cave paintings, Shaw’s works, mainly executed in gouache or tempera, like his own person, are simple and graceful, having a very still, well-composed and smooth exterior. This senior artist draws his inspiration primarily from nature and the milieu surrounding the great Bengali middle class, often depicting pleasant and quiet scenes from his own life on his canvases and papers. His style is unique and modern in its adaptation of academic and traditional Indian formats. A particularly notable aspect of Shaw's paintings is their simple yet sophisticated look. One notices a seamless synthesis of different stylistic elements to achieve a phenomenal effect. About the Artist and his work : Born : 1937 in Bengal. Education : completed his education in fine arts at the Government College of Arts and Crafts in Kolkata. International Shows : 1970 - Second British Biennale in London; 1974 - Norwegian Print...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Tempera, Board

Bengali Woman: Browns, Grays, Reminiscent of Old Bengal by Modern Master Artist
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Shyamal Dutta Ray - 'Nostalgia' : A Stunning renidition of a old bengali woman in her bengali home with the bengali mirror metaphorically talking abo...
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1990s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Nude Woman, Reclining, Water color on Rice paper, Green, Yellow, Blue "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Kartick Chandra Pyne - Untitled - 18 x 29 inches (unframed size) Water color on Rice paper Inclusive of shipment in roll form. Style : After...
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Early 2000s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor, Rice Paper

Fireman Textile Fabric Design 1920s American Scene Modern Working Men Art Deco
Located in New York, NY
Fireman Textile Fabric Design 1920s American Scene Modern Working Men Art Deco Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994) Firemen Textile design, c. 1929 19 1/4 ...
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1920s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Gouache, Board

Portrait of an Israeli Boy
Located in Surfside, FL
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...
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1950s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Biwi, Tempera on Board by Modern Indian Artist Lalu Prasad Shaw "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Lalu Prasad Shaw - Biwi - 21 x 15 inches Tempera on Board, 2017 Style : Known widely for his highly stylized portraits of Bengali women and couples, Lalu Prasad Shaw’s works lay the most emphasis on his subject’s physical characteristics. Capturing the expressions of his subjects perfectly with the greatest economy of line and colour each of Shaw’s paintings has an intimate feel to it. Influenced by the pre-independence Company School of art, the traditional Kalighat Pat and the Ajanta cave paintings, Shaw’s works, mainly executed in gouache or tempera, like his own person, are simple and graceful, having a very still, well-composed and smooth exterior. This senior artist draws his inspiration primarily from nature and the milieu surrounding the great Bengali middle class, often depicting pleasant and quiet scenes from his own life on his canvases and papers. His style is unique and modern in its adaptation of academic and traditional Indian formats. A particularly notable aspect of Shaw's paintings is their simple yet sophisticated look. One notices a seamless synthesis of different stylistic elements to achieve a phenomenal effect. About the Artist and his work : Born : 1937 in Bengal. Education : completed his education in fine arts at the Government College of Arts and Crafts in Kolkata. International Shows : 1970 - Second British Biennale in London; 1974 - Norwegian Print...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Tempera, Board

Radha Krishna, Mythology, Oil on Canvas, Blue, Grey by Indian Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Wasim Kapoor - Untitled - 42 x 42 inches ( unframed size ) Oil on Canvas. This work will be despatched in a roll form or framed as per the need of the buyer An estimate to ship fra...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

French Modernist Gouache Painting Of Bright Yellow Flowers In Green Vase
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
by Paul-Louis Bolot (French 1918-2003) signed original gouache painting on thick paper/ card unframed condition: very good and sound; the edges have a few curls and scuffs/ edge tear...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Gouache

20th Century French Painting Of A Monochrome Black and White Flower Arrangement
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
by Paul-Louis Bolot (French 1918-2003) signed original gouache painting on thick paper/ card unframed condition: very good and sound; the edges have a few curls and scuffs/ edge tear...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Gouache

French Portrait Painting Of A Sophisticated Lady Dressed In White
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...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Gouache

French Modernist Painting Red, Blue and Yellow Portrait Of Young Boy
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...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Gouache

French Modernist Portrait Painting Of A Young Girl Playing Cards
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...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Gouache

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