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
At The Bar Large Modern Spanish Oil Painting
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Conversation At The Bar
Thick oil impasto on canvas, framed.
Elisabeth Sabala Abelló (Barcelona, 1956). She studied industrial design at the School of Arts and Crafts in Barcelona and has a degree in Fine Arts, a specialty in painting, from the Central University of the same city. Sabala is a convinced figurative who has given all the prominence of her work to the representation of the human being in its most trivial aspects. At a time when the artistic landscape extols abstract and conceptual art focused on the great universal themes, Sabala continues to focus on the small defects that bring us closer to the collective and the human. The artistic progression of Sabala takes place, at first, from a bleak period to another vitalist and, later, from the representation of isolated characters (In the super, Reading the stories of the paintings) to the recreation of great concentrations of its peculiar individuals characterized in an endless number of situations (The Great Dance, The Girls of the Choir). Sabala's work is vital and touching, as well as scathing and satirical: it confronts its characters in the most varied situations, capturing, at the same time, the viewer's attention with an unusual juxtaposition of colors that do not seek chromatic harmony, but expression and movement through matter. In 1980 she won the first prize of a painting of the City of Castelldefels, and the following year she debuted individually in the Caixa Catalunya room, in Barcelona. In 1984, she was selected for the XXIII Joan Miró Drawing Prize, taking part in a traveling exhibition in Japan. Sabala won the first prize in the International Painting Competition of Pollença (Mallorca) in 1985, and the following year she took part in a collective held at the Martano Gallery in Turin. That same year of 1986 she obtained the Scholarship of Plastic Arts of the Generalitat de Catalunya. She continues to hold personal shows in Barcelona, Mallorca, Madrid, and Italy, and in 1989 she debuted in New York with an individual exhibition held at the Scott Alan Gallery. Since then she will reiterate her presence both in that city and in Paris, Berlin, Monaco, Amsterdam, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Hong Kong, etc. Her works have been present at Interactive, ARCO, Art Forum, Art Jonction and New Art, as well as in various Spanish museums.
• Studies: Fine Arts, University of Barcelona
• Industrial Design, School of Arts and Crafts, Barcelona
Main exhibitions
Spain:
• Barcelona:
◦ Arcs & Cracks, 1990, 1992, Anna Benach 1993, Helena Ramos 1993
◦ Maria Jose Castellvi 1996, 1997, 1999, 2001 “a wedding is a wedding” + Performance “Ella”
◦ 2004, 2006 “Fashion satisfaction” + Performance
◦ 2008 “Women's weapons”
• Girona:
◦ Helena Ramos 1990, 1991, 1993, 1995
◦ Cyprus Art...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Walking Home III, Modern Figurative Painting, Landscape Painting, Park Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Colourful figurative landscape set in a park
Discover beautiful artwork by Ana Bianchi online with Wychwood Art. Originally trained as a designer in Paris,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dennis Burlingame, WPA Era, Circus Sideshow "SnakeCharmer" Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist painting of a circus by Dennis Meighan Burlingame (1901 - 1964). Oil on canvas, circa 1935. Signed on verso. Displayed in a period modern frame. Image...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Excitation. 1960, paper, mixed media, 14x10 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Excitation. 1960, paper, mixed media, 14x10 cm
Adolfs Zardins
(1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter.
Only in 1990 his relative...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor
$460 Sale Price
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Meditation II
Located in Atlanta, GA
Sharon Paster is a distinguished San Francisco Bay-area artist Sharon Paster creates her paintings using oil sticks and brushes, a technique that allows her to both draw and paint at...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel, Canvas
Rare Large Modernist Hungarian Oil Painting
By Emod Aurel
Located in Surfside, FL
EMŐD, AURÉL (Budapest 1897-1958) A pupil of János Vaszary at the Academy of Fine Arts, he then went to Italy, Germany and France on study trips. Not only his master but also the Italian novecento affected him strongly. He worked as an art teacher in Budapest. From 1933 and 1935 he won a scholarship to Collegium Hungaricum.
He was included in the exhibition The Art Of Modern Hungary 1931 and other exhibitions along with Vilmos Novak Aba, Count Julius Batthyany, Pal Bor, Bela Buky, Denes Csanky, Istvan Csok, Bela Czobel, Peter Di Gabor, Bela Ivanyi Grunwald, Baron Ferenc Hatvany, Lipot Herman, Odon Marffy, C. Pal Molnar...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dance of the In laws Wedding Scene Judaica Shtetl Oil Painting WPA Jewish Artist
By Maurice Kish
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Modern
Subject: Jewish Wedding Mechutanim
Medium: Oil
Surface: Board, size includes artist decorated frame
Country: United States
The imagery of Maurice Kish (1895-1987), whe...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
American Jumpsuit, Modern Oil Painting by John F. Leonard
Located in Long Island City, NY
American Jumpsuit (12)
John F. Leonard
American (1921–1987)
Date: circa 1965
Oil on Canvas
Size: 30 in. x 20 in. (76.2 cm x 50.8 cm)
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
In Passing
Located in Atlanta, GA
Sharon Paster is a distinguished San Francisco Bay-area artist Sharon Paster creates her paintings using oil sticks and brushes, a technique that allows her to both draw and paint at...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
$5,600
Woman in Yellow Jacket, Oil Painting by Marshall Goodman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Marshall Goodman, American (1916 - 2003)
Title: Woman in Yellow Jacket
Year: circa 1960
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Size: 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 60.96 cm)
Frame Size: ...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American School Signed Illustration Indian Royalty Elephant Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique illustration painting. Gouache and watercolor on board, circa 1920. Signed. Image size, 12L x 11H. Housed in a period frame.
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
$636 Sale Price
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Organ Grinder with Parrot Modern Judaica Oil Painting WPA Jewish artist
By Maurice Kish
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Modern
Subject: Organ grinder with parrot
Medium: Oil
Surface: Board, size includes artist decorated frame
Country: United States
The imagery of Maurice Kish (1895-1987), wh...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Birds in Flight
Located in Buffalo, NY
A modern Chinese watercolor painting depicting birds soaring under a red sun.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Watercolor
$1,100 Sale Price
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Modernist American Judaica Painting Purim, Dancing on Haman
Located in Surfside, FL
In this painting, Nussbaum portrays a joyful holiday celebration of the megillah reading in the synagogue in a sketch-like manner without focusing on any specific details. The vibran...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Simka Simkhovitch WPA Artist Oil Painting American Modernist Landscape w Tower
Located in Surfside, FL
Simka Simkhovitch (Russian/American 1893 - 1949)
This came with a small grouping from the artist's family, some were hand signed some were not.
Thes...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
mr. c and gladys, bright colorful man and dog
Located in Brooklyn, NY
*ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imagina...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Regal Figures, Modern Oil on Board Painting by John F. Leonard
Located in Long Island City, NY
Regal Figures (64)
John F. Leonard
American (1921–1987)
Date: circa 1965
Oil on Board
Size: 26 x 22 in. (66.04 x 55.88 cm)
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Pink glasses. 2009, oil on canvas, 130x130 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Pink glasses. 2009, oil on canvas, 130x130 cm
Large size fantasy painting with man in glasses, he stands in the water and see the tail of a big fish. Modern and bright painting
Kristīne Luīze Avotiņa is a young and bright personality whose talent is appreciated not only in Latvia, but also in other parts of the world. Her deep inner experiences and feelings of the soul are not hidden from the eyes of the audience, but are openly and engagingly narrated: about relationships, man and woman, passion, emotions, about experience and connection with nature.
Characters live in Kristine's compositional solutions, where figurative painting and ornament appear. When painting large-format works, she masters the entire format, composition and color of the work, as well as linear drawing.
Kristīne herself emphasizes: "Relationships between nature and people - it has always been a relevant topic in my painting. The more I work on it, the more interesting it seems to me. It is infinite and unending. With paint I refresh the beauty of nature and love on the canvas and I want to show that nature and love are equal in their beauty.
In my works, I always want to show that nature is beautiful and worthy of admiration - a newly blooming water lily, falling leaves from golden trees, a pink sunset sky... This could go on forever..."
Education:
2009 – 2010 Studies in „Escola Massana”, Painting Department, Barcelona...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$5,762 Sale Price
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Mid Century Hungarian Gilt Oil Painting on Board Modern Judaica
Located in Surfside, FL
From a collection by a long time Miami Beach art dealer on the old Lincoln Rd. This is a piece he brought back from hungary. from a collection of good Hungarian artists and Illustrat...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Four women with puppets. 1947, paper, mixed media, 16.3x11 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Four women with puppets. 1947, paper, mixed media, 16.3x11 cm
Adolfs Zardins
(1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter.
Only in 1990 his relatives give his art...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor
$912 Sale Price
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Erotic motive. Paper, mixed media, 10x14 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Erotic motive. Paper, mixed media, 10x14 cm
Adolfs Zardins
(1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter.
Only in 1990 his relatives give his artistic heritage to ...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor
$460 Sale Price
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Sleeping Mother and Child, Oil on Canvas by Carlos Irizarry
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Carlos Irizarry, Puerto Rican/American (1938 - )
Title: Sleeping Mother and Child
Year: 1969
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 24 in. x 36 in. (60.96 cm x 91.44 cm)
Frame Size: 32....
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Minimalist Figurative Drawing by Cuban artist Juan Carlos Vazquez Lima
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Minimalist Figurative Drawing by Cuban artist Juan Carlos Vazquez Lima.
Original Unique Piece.
Juan Carlos was born in Havana Cuba June 30th 1986. He Studied at Eduardo Garcia Delg...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Ballpoint Pen
Rabbi, 1970s Oil Painting by Donald Roy Purdy
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Donald Roy Purdy, American (1924 - )
Title: Rabbi with Torah
Year: circa 1970
Medium: Oil on Masonite, signed l.r.
Size: 30 x 22.5 in. (76.2 x 57.15 cm)
Frame Size: 38 x 31 i...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
"People on Horseback" Eva Peron Mural Sketch
Located in Austin, TX
By Gustav Likan
This piece depicts a couple on horseback followed by a man in a red military uniform. A dog runs by the group. This pieces is from the Eva Perón commissioned mural sk...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Mario Toppi, "Trio, " Fresco on Board, circa 1960
By Mario Toppi
Located in Long Island City, NY
This piece was created by Italian artist Mario Toppi circa 1960. Toppi worked primarily in fresco, creating works that pay material homage to Italy's long artistic history, yet remai...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Plaster, Paint, Board
Portrait of a Child
By Will Barnet
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original modern abstract portrait of a child by American artist Will Barnet. The work has a letter of provenance from the artist's wife. The i...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
$9,750 Sale Price
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Duo with a Flute, Judaica Klezmer Musicians Modernist American Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Ervin B. Nussbaum was born in Columbus, Ohio on November 11, 1914. His father, Marger, had arrived as part of the great Russian Diaspora of the time, when many Jewish families settle...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Vetriculus Egg, Surrealist Ovoid acrylic and collage painting, Figural Abstract
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Vetriculus Egg, 1965
Acrylic and collage on textured paper
Signed and dated lower right
30 x 22 inches
A surrealist mid-century figura...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
SLR
By Milton Figen
Located in Surfside, FL
Milton Figen 'SLR', Mid-Century Modernist Figurative Acrylic on Paper, SIGNED.
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic
$1,200
Terror of History No. 1, Mid-Century Abstract Acrylic & Sand, Blue and Yellow
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Terror of History No. 1, 1962
Acrylic and sand on scintilla
Signed and dated upper left
23 x 30 inches
Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a level of national artistic success that was nearly unprecedented among Cleveland School artists of his day, with representation by major New York dealers...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Modernist Rabbi at Study Judaica Oil Painting
By Ben-Zion
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Judaica
Subject: Religious
Medium: Oil
Surface: Board
Country: United States
Dimensions: 17.5" x 21.75"
Dimensions w/Frame: 24" x 28"
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 Judaic 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...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Antique American Impressionist Ashcan School Junk Collector Cityscape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist cityscape painting titled "The Junk Collector" by Clarence E. Van Duzer (1920 - 2009). Oil on board, circa 193...
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,796 Sale Price
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Small Town, 1950-60 - oil paint, 61x76 cm, framed
Located in Nice, FR
Oil on canvas, signed lower left.
Gérard Altmann, né à Paris le 23 septembre 1923 et mort à Paris le 19 avril 2012, est un peintre français.
Il est le p...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Oil on Canvas Titled: The Case of Goof and Spoof
By Wayne Timm
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Wayne A. Timm MFA
In the 1960's, Wayne Timm rubbed elbows with the likes of Warhol, Lichtenstein, Rauchenburg and many others, in the time he had an Art studio loft in New York City ...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Caterwaul by Orovida Pissarro - Animal painting
Located in London, GB
Caterwaul by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Oil on canvas
51 x 61 cm (20 ¹/₈ x 24 inches)
Provenance
Estate of the artist
With John Bensusan-Butt, cousin of the artist
G Hassell, 25th...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Sea Salt" a striking figurative painting of a glowing fisherman
Located in Edgartown, MA
About the Artist
A Rhode Island native, I earned a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design. Since then I’ve worked as a freelance artist, decorative painter, teacher and master paint...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Archaic dancer. 1933, paper, mixed media, 20x9.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Archaic dancer. 1933, paper, mixed media, 20x9.5 cm
Adolfs Zardins
(1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter.
Only in 1990 his rel...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor
$912 Sale Price
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"Truck Gardens" Georgina Klitgaard, Modernist Country Landscape With Train
Located in New York, NY
Georgina Klitgaard
Truck Gardens
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
26 x 36 inches
Georgina Klitgaard’s art has sometimes gotten lost in the critical propensity to assign artists to ...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Original oil painting the boys LES GARCONS by Carole Grandgirard. France 2024.
Located in Antwerp, BE
Painting the boys, LES GARCONS.
By Carole Grandgirard, title and signature on the back of the canvas.
Oil on canvas.
Contemporary, France 2024.
Carole Grandgirard is a French pai...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Portland's Finest: Viva la Fem - Figurative Painting By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
A cubistic, playful cityscape of Portland, with its famous bridges crossing the river is a backdrop for this female biker, clad in vintage wear and a red hat.
Portland's Finest: Vi...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Painting beach with lifeguards by Carole Grandgirard, France 2023.
Located in Antwerp, BE
Painting beach with lifeguards LES MAITRES NAGEURS.
By Carole Grandgirard, title and signature on the back of the canvas.
Oil on canvas.
Contemporary, France 2024.
Carole Grandgi...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Visiting the Sick, Modernist Israeli Oil Painting
By Avraham Ofek
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Avant-Garde
Subject: Figures
Medium: Oil
Surface: Canvas
Country: Israel
Dimensions: 13.25" x 16.25"
Dimensions w/Frame: 21.5" x 24.5"
Avraham Ofek (August 14, 1935 – January 13, 1990) was an Israeli sculptor, muralist, painter and printmaker.
Avraham Ofek was born in Burgas, Bulgaria. He immigrated to Israel in 1949, and he lived in Ein Hamifratz, a kibbutz near Haifa. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, as well as in Spain and in London, and later taught art in Jerusalem before being appointed head of the Art Department at the University of Haifa. He was one of the founders of the Leviathan group. He represented Israel at the Venice Biennale in 1972.
Avraham Ofek's early paintings of landscape were at both lyrical and rugged; later in his career the landscape was undefined and receded into the background. Near the end of his life, the landscape of Jerusalem became an important motif, reflecting loss and despair. Many of Ofek's landscapes convey a sense of alienation and solitude, as well as nostalgia for the city of his birth, Sofia.
His murals can be seen across Israel, notably at Kfar Uria and the Central Post Office Building (Jerusalem). His sculpture "The Binding of Isaac" is on view at the entrance to Safra Square.
In 1989 the Jerusalem Print...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lulav and Etrog Benediction, Judaica Oil Painting, Early 20th Century
Located in Surfside, FL
Samuel Seeberger (Sieberger) was a known artist and post-card designer who lived in Paris and was active around 1900-1940. He was arrested for being a Jew when the Germans occupied Paris in the 1940s. He was brought into a concentration camp...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
At night. 1961. Paper, mixed media, 14x10 cm
Located in Riga, LV
At night. 1961. Paper, mixed media, 14x10 cm
Adolfs Zardins
(1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter.
Only in 1990 his relatives give his artistic heritage to...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor
$460 Sale Price
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Model. 1968. Oil on canvas, 118x65 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Model. 1968. Oil on canvas, 118x65 cm
Blond woman in magenta dress
Laimdots Murnieks (1922-2011) studied at Cesis and Jelgava teachers’ institutes (19...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$16,768 Sale Price
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The Dacha. Contemporary Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Early work was impressionistic and hard abstract. Carola later developed a more mature way of working in a colourful exploration of the subject.
Colour was her main interest and she...
Category
1990s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Gouache
Spanish Dancers, 1964, Oil on Board by Lou Fink
By Lou Fink
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lou Fink, American (1925 - 1980)
Title: Spanish Dancers
Year: 1964
Medium: Oil on Board, signed, dated and titled verso
Size: 10 in. x 14 in. (25.4 cm x 35.56 cm)
Frame Size:...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Säugling / Infant
Located in Wien, 9
August Dressler is one of the painters of the New Objectivity. He is one of the lesser-known artists of the Weimar era, but he too, like his famous contemporaries Georg Grosz, John H...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oil
Yellow dress. Paper, mixed media, 8x5.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Yellow dress. Paper, mixed media, 8x5.5 cm
Adolfs Zardins
(1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter.
Only in 1990 his relatives gi...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor
$432 Sale Price
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Mirror. Paper, mixed media, 10x14 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Mirror. Paper, mixed media, 10x14 cm
Adolfs Zardins
(1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter.
Only in 1990 his relatives give his artistic heritage to publici...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor
$460 Sale Price
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Erotic motives. 3.pcs., paper, mixed media, 12, 6x4, 3 cm, 6, 1x3, 2 cm, 6, 9x3, 2 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Erotic motives. 3.pcs., paper, mixed media, 12,6x4,3 cm, 6,1x3,2 cm, 6,9x3,2 cm
small three drawings with erotic motives
Adolfs Zardins
(1890 08 II Riga...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Mixed Media
La Chica de Texas
Located in Atlanta, GA
A close look at one of Alfredo`s paintings leads to interesting discoveries. The surface is full of rasps and scrapes, stains, impastos, graffiti and lines. This treatment creates an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Old Jew Taking Children to School (the Refugee)
By Marian Kratochwil
Located in Surfside, FL
Marian Kratochwil, Modern British artist (1906-1997)
Painter and writer, born in Kosow, Poland, whose early training was in the studio of Stainislaw Batowski.
First one-man exhibition in 1936 at Zacheta Gallery in Warsaw, brought him immediate success, the author Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, became a collector, buying the first picture sold at the exhibition.
He read philosophy and history at University Lwow. After active service in World War II he painted in Scotland, then London, chronicling the life of the city, also painting widely in Spain.
As a young impoverished artist he had the good fortune to inherit the estate of the artist Dame Ethel Walker. Dame Ethel in her seventies had met the young artist and had seen the promise in his work and unknown to Kratochwil had made him her beneficiary.
In 1961 he married the artist Kathleen Browne, assisted in the running of her school and late in life published a perceptive monograph on her work.
Like other Polish artists of his generation he made his escape in dangerous circumstances from occupied Europe and rejoined the Polish army...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
the boulistes, a game of pétanque
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Dimensions with frame :90 x 132 x 2.5 cm
This captivating work depicts an urban scene where a group of people are gathered for a game of pétanque. The figures, seen fr...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Freddy Wittop “Kelly” Costume Illustration / Drawing
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Freddy Wittop (1911-2001)
Marking(s); notes: signed, marking(s); 1965
Country of origin; materials: Dutch/American; mixed media on paper
Dimensions (H,...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Paper
Girl on a Buick Painting on Metal Cut Out Sculpture Wall Hanging
Located in Surfside, FL
Seymour Chwast, B. 1931, American, 'Girl on a Buick', Painted Sheet Metal. A label on the reverse reads: "Seymour Chwast, 'Girl on a Buick', Metal Cut-Out, $2,000" Provenance: Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent CT
Seymour Chwast (born August 18, 1931) is an American graphic designer, illustrator, and type designer.
Chwast was born in Bronx, New York, and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cooper Union in 1951. With Milton Glaser, Edward Sorel, and Reynold Ruffins, he founded Push Pin Studios in 1954. Often referred to as "the left-handed designer," Chwast's unique graphic design melded social commentary and a distinctive style of illustration. Today, he continues to work and is principal at The Pushpin Group, Inc. in New York City.
In 1979, he was hired by McDonald's to design on the first box for their Happy Meals. He is the font designer of Chwast Buffalo, Fofucha, Loose Caboose NF, and Weedy Beasties NF. He is a member of Alliance Graphique International (AGI). In the pantheon of American (nay, world) illustration, he stands, albeit slightly shorter and a little more rumpled, beside N.C. Wyeth, J. C. Leyendecker, and Normal Rockwell...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Metal
The old sinner and the female figure. Paper, mixed media, 13x15.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
The old sinner and the female figure. Paper, mixed media, 13x15.5 cm
watercolor, ink on paper.
Adolfs Zardins
(1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurm...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$460 Sale Price
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Femme d'un Soir, 1995, signed Aden - oil paint, 107x67 cm., framed
Located in Nice, FR
Oil on canvas, signed Aden lower right
Category
1990s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Morning Glory No. 2 (Bees, Birch Panel, Botanicals, Butterflies, Floral, Gold)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Katrina Revenaugh
Morning Glory No. 2
Archival Pigment Ink, Acrylic and Spray Paint on Birch Panel with a UV Matte Varnish with Natural Wood Edges.
Year: 2022
Size: 24×24in
Signed: O...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Birch, Oil Pastel, Archival Ink, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Panel
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