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
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
The beauty of curvature. Paper, mixed media 16x12 cm
Located in Riga, LV
The beauty of curvature. Paper, mixed media 16x12 cm
watercolor and pen on paper
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, Watercolor
‘Woman With Black Hair' Figurative Art Nude Oil On Canvas By Hal Frater
By Hal Frater
Located in Carmel, CA
Portrait Of a Woman Painting - - oil on canvas -- Woman with a Black Hair'
Hal Frater passed away on February 3, 2008, just a month from celebrating his 99th birthday.
Hal Frater had a long and prolific career. He became a sought after commercial artist for over fifty years . All the while he would return to his studio and paint for himself rather than his clients. Yet he always retained his illustration roots in wanting to tell a story on canvas with his keen eye of observation on the human condition.
Often he would join fellow artists in informal sessions and paint from a model - no formal art school training but a mutually beneficial learning experience. His contemporaries that influenced him were Jack Levine, Raphael Soyer, John Sloan, Thomas Hart Benton, Reginald Marsh and Phillip Reisman...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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
The Kabbalists, Hassidic Rabbis Judaica Colorful Modernist Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Joseph Wolins
1915-1999
Wolins was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He studied at the National Academy of Design from 1935 to 1941 under Leon Kroll. He also studied in Europe in ...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Young Girl on a Couch, Oil Painting by Marshall Goodman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Marshall Goodman, American (1916 - 2003)
Title: Young Girl on Couch
Year: circa 1960
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 24 x 30 in. (60.96 x 76.2 cm)
Frame Size: 26.5 x 32 inches
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of an Old Man with Cane, Important Chicago Modernist WPA Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Portrait of an Old Man with Cane, by American artist William S. Schwartz, c. 1940, gouache painting, signed l.l, framed.
William S. Schwartz (February 23, 1896 – February 10, 1977) was an American artist who lived and worked in Chicago.
Schwartz was born in Smorgon in Belarus, then in the Russian Empire in 1896. His parents were Samuel Schwartz and Tauba Reznikoff. At the age of thirteen, he moved to the nearby city of Vilna to attend art school. Four years later, he emigrated to the United States and eventually enrolled in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. After graduating, he put his art career on hold to concentrate on a budding career as an opera singer. When Schwartz returned to painting, he distinguished himself with dreamy, symbolist works and abstractions that tended to bewilder viewers. He also scandalized conservative audiences with numerous lithographs of nude women. During the Great Depression, Schwartz became an artist on the Federal Art Project (WPA) payroll painting murals. He was one of the seven WPA artists who contributed to a mural at Riccardo's, Schwartz (Music), Malvin Albright (Sculpture), Ivan Alrbight (Drama), Aaron Bohrod (Architecture), Rudolph Weisenborn (Literature), Vincent D’Agostino (Painting), and Ric Riccardo (Dance). In 2002 Chicago philanthropist Seymour H. Persky acquired the murals for his personal collection.
Through the WPA, Schwarz received commissions to produce murals in post offices and public spaces. He created his “Americana Series,” a group of four paintings featuring poets, painters, composers and scientists. His Composersdepicts four contemporary musicians, among them, Victor Herbert. The mural was discovered at Glencoe Public Library, IL, in 2007, and include: Americana No. 1 Poets: Mark Twain, Walt Whitman and Edgar Allen Poe; Americana No. 2 Painters: Saint Gaudens, Bellows, Sargent, Innes, Whistler and Homer; Americana No. 3 Composers: Herbert, DeKoven, Chadwick, MacDowel; Americana No. 4 Scientists: Thomas Alva Edison, Steinmetz, Alexander Graham Bell...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
1940s Modernist Geometric Oil Painting 'Basic Form Problem' Red, Yellow, Blue
Located in Denver, CO
This captivating oil on paper geometric painting, created by renowned 20th-century artist Ralph Anderson, showcases a bold composition in rich shades of purple, red, and blue. Ander...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
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
Rabbi 3, 1970s Oil Painting by Donald Roy Purdy
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Donald Roy Purdy, American (1924 - )
Title: Rabbi 3
Year: circa 1970
Medium: Oil on Masonite, signed l.r.
Size: 24 x 30 in. (60.96 x 76.2 cm)
Frame Size: 34 x 39 inches
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
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
Parade
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original egg tempera painting by American female artist Catherine Koenig.
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Board
Restroom. Paper, mixed media, 14x10 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Restroom. Paper, mixed media, 14x10 cm
Adolfs Zardins
(1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter.
Only in 1990 his relatives give h...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor
Theater Spain. Paper, mixed media, 9.7x8.3 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Theater Spain. Paper, mixed media, 9.7x8.3 cm
watercolor, ink on paper.
Adolfs Zardins
(1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter.
Only in 1990 his relatives gi...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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
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
Lady in red and lady in brown. 1935. Paper, watercolor, 35x25 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Lady in red and lady in brown. 1935. Paper, watercolor, 35x25 cm
Sitting women in summer dresses, mixed media on paper
Adolfs Zardins
(1890 08 II Riga, ...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Nu de dos
Located in LE HAVRE, FR
André LEMAITRE (1909-1995)
Nu de dos, 1980
Oil on canvas
Size : 73 x 60 cm
Signed lower right
Tille and dated on reserve
Painting in very good condition.
Gilded frame offered. Size...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Gordon Barker, It's Snowing, Original Landscape Painting, Winter Art, Bright Art
Located in Deddington, GB
It’s Snowing by Gordon Barker [2016]
original
Acrylic on paper
Image size: H:25.5 cm x W:35 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:25.5 cm x W:35 cm x D:0...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
"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
Popol Vuh (1/3)
Located in San Francisco, CA
Rocca Luis César
Popol Vuh, 2023, (1/3)
Acrylic on canvas
24.40 x 24.40 in
This original painting comes framed as shown in one of the images.
Rocca Luis César (b. 1986, Guadalajara...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
One of The Thieves Was Saved
By Wes Olmsted
Located in Buffalo, NY
"One of The Thieves Was Saved" from Waiting for Godot by Samuel Becket
An original watercolor painting by Westley "Wes" Olmsted. This work is currently featured in the exhibition ...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
Erté, Raspoutine, troisieme mannequin, unique gouache, hand signed
By Erté
Located in Chatsworth, CA
A unique, original gouache on paper by cabaret costume designer, Erté, also known as Romain de Tirtoff. Created in 1959 for the cabaret show, Folies Pigalle. From the private collect...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Resting Nude (Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting, Framed)
Located in New Orleans, LA
A gorgeous nude from 1969 by James Wallace, showing masterful foreshortening (very difficult to pull off this convincingly) and beautifully sensual. One tiny repair visible on back c...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Unwelcome Interruption, Oil Painting by A. Raymond Katz 1935
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alexander Raymond Katz, Hungarian / American (1895 - 1974)
Title: Unwelcome Interruption
Year: circa 1935
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and titled verso
Size: 16 x 20 in. (40...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tellurians XVIII, Henry Walsh, Original Figurative Painting, Affordable Artwork
By Henry Walsh
Located in Deddington, GB
Tellurians XVIII [2020]
original
Acrylic on Canvas
Image size: H:30 cm x W:100 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:30 cm x W:100 cm x D:4cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that insit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
UN Poster Design American Scene Mid 20th Century Modernism WPA World Peace
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
UN Poster Design American Scene Mid 20th Century Modernism WPA World Peace
Jo Cain (1904 – 2003)
We Are All Members of the Human Race: UN Poster Proposal
21 x...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Board
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
Rabbi with Torah, 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: 36 x 24 in. (91.44 x 60.96 cm)
Frame Size: 45 x 31 in...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Abstract Figurative Framed Oil Painting - Montage
Located in Bristol, GB
MONTAGE
Size: 101.5 x 33 cm (including frame)
Oil on Canvas
A unique elongated and narrow semi-abstract figurative composition, executed in oil onto canvas.
Reminiscent of a film s...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Beatificado" Modern Tabloid Inspired Religious Social Commentary Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Modern, large scale social commentary painting by California artist John Valdez. Comes with the original sketch as well as a book about the artist. Inspired by the cover of a Mexican tabloid, Valadez invites the viewer to examine the duality of a society that mourns the death of an iconic religious leader and neglects those close to them who are perhaps deemed not worthy of consideration.
The bold red headline reads “El cardenal Gabiri será beatificado” (Cardinal Gabiri will be beatified) above a large accompanying image of the cardinal in his casket and two smaller images, one of sobbing mourners and another of the cardinal sitting at the altar. Dividing the image is a subhead that reads, “El pueblo católico está de luto” (the Catholic people are mourning) placed above a depiction of four young boys who seem to be sniffing glue. The adjacent text reads “The indifference of the adults is the cause behind the issues these forgotten children have to live.”
This work was exhibited at the Pacific Standard Time, Long Beach Museum of Art in 2011, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in 2012, as well as the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago, IL in 2013. Signed by artist in front lower right corner as well as titled and dated in front lower left corner. Currently unframed, but options are available.
Artist Biography: John Valadez...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Felt Pen
'Tolly No. 6' - Colorful Figurative Nude Woman - Post Impressionism Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
Bernard Krigstein (March 22, 1919 – January 8, 1990) was an American illustrator and Ashscan school painter who received acclaim for his innovative a...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'In Passing' by Helen Steele - Red and Ochre Modern Figurative Abstract Art
By Helen Steele
Located in Carmel, CA
Helen Steele (German, 1961-2022)
'In Passing' 2010
Mixed Media, Canvas, Stretcher Bars
The artist signed the back of the painting.
"In Passing," a 48" x 24" work by Helen Steele, is...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Stretcher Bars
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
Vintage 1950s Israeli Oil Painting, Signed in Hebrew Kibbutz Worker Reading
Located in Surfside, FL
Murray S. Greenfield Art Gallery (label on verso).
Genre: Modern
Subject: People
Medium: Oil
Surface: Board
Country: Israel
Dimensions: 9 1/2" x 13"
Dimensions w/Frame:16.75" x 20.25"
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Primus Mixed Media on Panel
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Primus
Artist signed, acrylic and collage on panel, 1993
28x27 with the frame 38x38
Patrick Archer (b. 1926). Archer studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts (MFA). 2002
Philip Hulitar Award, Society of 4-Arts, Palm Beach, FL (A national Contemporary Painting competition)
Graduate- Arts & Crafts in Oakland, CA
Undergraduate- Principia in Elsah, IL
Exhibitions:
2002 Merrill Lynch...
Category
1990s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Panel
The Budding Artist urban narrative muted blue colors subway scene
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on linen mounted on board signed and dated on reverse.
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Board, Oil
Erotic motives. 2.pcs., paper, cardboard, mixed media, 7, 7x3 cm, 5x5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Erotic motives. 2.pcs., paper, cardboard, mixed media, 7,7x3 cm, 5x5 cm
small two drawings with erotic motives
Adolfs Zardins
(1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia),...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Cardboard
Kiss at night. Paper, mixed media, 14x10, 3 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Kiss at night. Paper, mixed media, 14x10,3 cm
Adolfs Zardins
(1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter.
Only in 1990 his relatives...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor
Modern Abstract Red and Green Toned Interior Painting of a Nude Female Figure
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract figurative painting by Houston, TX artist Margaret Nobler. The work features a central seated female nude set against a bold red and gr...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pensive With Nosegay Mid Century Modern Oil Painting
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Pensive with nosegay -
Painted in Berkeley CA. painting size 10x8 with frame 16x14x1
Jon (Corka) Cornin 1905-1992
Born in New York City on March 24, 1905, Jon Cornin studied in Ne...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Lerchenfeldner Gürtel (Vienna)
By Ernst Huber
Located in Wien, 9
Ernst Huber war eine zeitlang am Kunstmarkt aufgrund einer Nachlassauktion so omnipräsent, dass mir etwas das Entdeckungsinteresse an diesem sehr guten Kün...
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Wassermannskinder
Located in Wien, 9
Carry Hauser ist einer der faszinierendsten Künstler Österreichs des 20. Jahrhunderts, der über einen sehr langen Zeitraum in unterschiedlichen Stilen relevante Arbeiten geschaffen h...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Blumenkrug / Flower Jug
By Helmut Verch
Located in Wien, 9
Helmut Verch (1923-2002) was born in Berlin in 1923 and worked as a painter and graphic artist. In the 1940s, after his release from Russian captivity, he received artistic training ...
Category
1990s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Clown and Nude
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Marshall Goodman, American (1916 - 2003)
Title: Clown and Nude
Year: 1960
Medium: Oil on Board, signed and dated
Size: 25 x 30 in. (63.5 x 76.2 cm)
Frame Size: 28.5 x 34 inches
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Television, Oil Painting by B.G. Bradley
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: B.G. Bradley, Americn XXth
Title: Television
Year: circa 1950
Medium: Oil on Masonite, signed 'BGB' l.r.
Size: 20 x 24 inches
Frame: 25 x 29 inches
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
Face, 2003 - gouache, 31x23 cm., framed
By Mas Jean
Located in Nice, FR
Gouache on paper. Framed
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
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
Woman Artist in Studio Pastel Drawing Polish Ecole D'Paris, WPA, Bezalel Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Jacques Zucker was born in 1900 in Radom, Poland. He was a notably famous Jewish American artist mostly known for his expressionist figure paintings. In his young years he traveled t...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Modernist American Judaica Painting Gaon and his Disciples
Located in Surfside, FL
In this painting, Nussbaum portrays a Rabbi, or Rebbe outside the synagogue The vibrant colors used in this painting seem to overlay each other without being previous mixed.
Ervin B...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Woman - Drawing by Antonio Mellone - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is a modern artwork realized by Antonio Mellone in 1970s
Oil pastel on paper.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
Woman in Kimono
Located in Surfside, FL
Boris Vassiloff, Russian/American (1906 - 2000)
Artist Boris Vassiloff was born on March 24, 1906 to Julia Nikolaevna and Boris Ivanovich Vassiloff in Russia. He died peacefully on D...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Flowers - Oil Paint by Giovanni Antoci - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Flowers is a modern artwork realized by Giovanni Antoci in the mid-20th Century
Mixed colored oil painting
Hand signed on the lower margin
Incudes frame
Category
Mid-20th Century 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
DAVID AND GOLIATH - Davide e Golia - Paint by Dario Cusani - 1996
Located in Roma, IT
TECHNIQUE PHOTO-PAINTING
The technique used was defined as PHOTO-PAINTING by the art critic Silvia Pegoraro of Ravenna Italy and was an artist's invention in 1994. In fact, since 196...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
HEAVENLY ROME - Roma Celeste - Paint by Dario Cusani - 1995
Located in Roma, IT
TECHNIQUE PHOTO-PAINTING
The technique used was defined as PHOTO-PAINTING by the art critic Silvia Pegoraro of Ravenna Italy and was my invention in 1994. In fact, since 1964 I had been working with photography and painting which had never been united.
In 1994 I returned to Naples, the city where I was born and had been missing for 10 years after moving to Rome in 1984. I returned to see the MIRACLE achieved by the G7 with the Presidents of the most powerful countries led by Bill Clinton, US President. It was a wonderful visit to my city reborn in its ancient splendor! I took over 5,000 photos of the squares and monuments of Naples with my Nikon. I returned to Rome and had all the photos printed and put them on various tables and assembled all the various pieces. I immediately realized that parts were missing which I completed with paint. A spontaneous gesture with which I had unconsciously achieved a great innovation: I had combined the REALITY of photography with the DREAM represented by painting. Silvia, my muse who knew me well, when I showed her the first work IMPERATING MALE (R:0176) that I had done she said to me: "Dario you have united the TWO WORLDS of your life: that of your childhood with the sensitivity of the dreamer with the concrete one that they gave you taught your parents with education, studies (degree in Economic Sciences) and work started at 15 years old in your family's copper industry. These formative years had distanced myself from those of childhood when I studied the piano and dreamed of becoming an orchestra conductor. I also drew and painted with my imagination in search of the affections I was missing. In fact my parents were busy in the factory (copper production) rebuilding Italy destroyed by the recently ended war. I then refined PHOTO-PAINTING which developed into DIGITAL PROCESSING having replaced the BRUSH with the MOUSE to fill the gaps left by the photography and complete the REALITY which with painting became another FANTASTIC reality.
PLACES OF MEMORY Cities
This work is part of the "research" PLACES OF MEMORY Cities revisited by me in a fantastic way. In fact I use my exclusive PHOTOPAINTING technique with a photographic element to which I add painting (oil or acrylic) to create a NEW REALITY.
HEAVENLY ROME
This is the first painting made of Rome with the PHOTOPAINTING technique 10 years after my move to Caput Mundi! Notice (on the right) two glimpses: The first desecrator is the façade of Montecitorio, seat of the Italian parliament, which is collapsing... and from the date of the painting 1995...
Category
1990s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
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