Modern Figurative Paintings

Simka Simkhovitch (Russian/American 1893 - 1949) This came with a small grouping from the artist's family, some were hand signed some were not. These were studies for larger paintings. This is a miniature watercolor and gouache vibrant, colorful bouquet of flowers in a vase. Simka Simkhovitch (Симха Файбусович Симхович) (aka Simka Faibusovich Simkhovich) (Novozybkov, Russia May 21, 1885 O.S./June 2, 1885 N.S.—Greenwich, Connecticut February 25, 1949) was a Ukrainian-Russian Jewish artist and immigrant to the United States. He painted theater scenery in his early career and then had several showings in galleries in New York City. Winning Works Progress Administration (WPA) commissions in the 1930s, he completed murals for the post offices in Jackson, Mississippi and Beaufort, North Carolina. His works are in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Born outside Kyiv (Petrograd Ukraine) into a Jewish family who owned a small department store. During a severe case of measles when he was seven, Simcha Simchovitch sketched the views outside his window and decided to become an artist, over his father's objections. Beginning in 1905, he studied at the Grekov Odessa Art School and upon completion of his studies in 1911 received a recommendation to be admitted to the Imperial Academy of Arts. Though he enrolled to begin classes in architecture, painting, and sculpture at the Imperial Academy, he was dropped from the school roster in December because of the quota on the number of Jewish students and drafted into the army. Simchovitch served as a private in the 175th Infantry Regiment Baturyn [ru] until his demobilization in 1912. Re-enrolling in the Imperial Academy, he audited classes. Simka Simkhovitch exhibited paintings and sculptures in 1918 as part of an exhibition of Jewish artists and in 1919 placed 1st in the competition "The Great Russian Revolution" with a painting called "Russian Revolution" which was hung in the State Museum of Revolution. In 1922, Simkha Simkhovitch exhibited at the International Book Fair in Florence (Italian: Fiera Internazionale del Libro di Firenze). In 1924, Simkhovitch came to the United States to make illustrations for Soviet textbooks and decided to immigrate instead. Initially he supported himself by doing commercial art and a few portrait commissions. In 1927, he was hired to paint a screen for a scene in the play "The Command to Love" by Fritz Gottwald and Rudolph Lothar which was playing at the Longacre Theatre on Broadway. Art dealers began clamoring for the screen and Simkhovitch began a career as a screen painter for the theater. Catching the attention of the screenwriter, Ernest Pascal, he worked as an illustrator for Pascal, who then introduced him to gallery owner, Marie Sterner. Simkhovitch's works appeared at the Marie Sterner Gallery beginning with a 1927 exhibit and were repeated the following year. Simkhovitch had an exhibit in 1929 at Sterner's on circus paintings. In 1931, he held a showing of works at the Helen Hackett Gallery, in New York City and later that same year he was one of the featured artists of a special exhibit in San Francisco at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park. The exhibit was coordinated by Marie Sterner and included four watercolors, including one titled "Nudes". He is of the generation of Russian Soviet artists such as Isaac Pailes, Serge Charchoune, Marc Chagall, Chana Orloff, Isaac Ilyich Levitan, and Ossip Zadkine. In 1936, Simkhovitch was selected to complete the mural for the WPA Post office project in Jackson, Mississippi. The mural was hung in the post office and courthouse in 1938 depicted a plantation theme. Painted on the wall behind the judge’s bench, “Pursuits of Life in Mississippi”, a depiction of black workers engaged in manual labor amid scenes of white professionals and socialites, was eventually covered over in later years during renovations due to its stereotypical African American imagery. Simka painted what he thought was typical of Jackson. His impression of pre-civil rights Mississippi was evidently Greek Revival column houses, weeping willow trees, working class families, and the oppression of African Americans. He painted African American men picking cotton, while a white man took account of the harvest and a white judge advised a white family, calling it Pursuits of Life in Mississippi. Though clearly endorsed by the government and initially generally well-received, the mural soon raised concerns with locals as the climate toward racial segregation began to change. The main concern was whether depictions that show African Americans in subjugated societal roles should be featured in a courtroom. The following year, his painting "Holiday" won praise at an exhibition in Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1940, Simkhovitch's second WPA post office project was completed when four murals, "The Cape Lookout Lighthouse and the Orville W. Mail Boat", "The Wreck of the Crissie Wright", "Sand Ponies" and "Canada Geese" were installed in Beaufort, North Carolina. The works were commissioned in 1938 and did not generate the controversy that the Jackson mural had. The main mural is "The Wreck of the Crissie Wright" and depicts a shipwreck which had occurred in Beaufort in 1866. "The Cape Lookout Lighthouse and the Orville W. Mail Boat" depicted the lighthouse built in 1859 and the mail boat that was running mail during the time which Simkhovitch was there. The boat ran mail for the area until 1957. "Sand Ponies" shows the wild horses common to the North Carolina barrier islands and "Canada Geese" showed the importance of hunting and fishing in the area. All four murals were restored in the 1990s by Elisabeth Speight, daughter of two other WPA muralists, Francis Speight...

HAROLD DEARDEN (BRITISH, 1888-1962) THE WINDOW CLEANERS Oil on canvas Signed `H DEARDEN’ (lower left) 30 x 30 in. (76.3 x 76.3 cm.) Dearden studied at Rochdale School of Art under H...

Dramatic, monumental oil painting laid to Masonite by George Matthews Harding (1882-1959). Painter, illustrator and muralist, Harding was born in Philadelphia. He studied at the Pyle...

Still life with flowers is an original modern artwork realized by Antonio Mellone. Mixedc colored oil painting.  Hand signed A. Mellone on the lower margin. Includes frame.

NYC Subway Mid 20th Century Modern American Scene Social Realism Contemporary David Atkins (1910 – 2012) Subway Train Departure 24 x 30 inches Oil on canvas, c. 1960s Signed lower r...

Shooting Gallery Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Abstract Realism Modern *William Kienbusch (1914 – 1980) Shooting Gallery, Sixth Avenue Post...

GLORIA STUART (1910 – 2010) WATTS TOWERS, 1971 Oil on canvas, signed lower right, 24” x 50 ½”. Gloria Stuart, an Academy Award nominated actress was also a painter, illustrator and printmaker. She most recently portrayed Rose in the blockbuster film “Titanic”. She was a Santa Monica native. In 2013 The Los Angeles Museum of Art, LACMA exhibited a nearly identical painting looking from the south, the same size and frame. Last 5 photos show the example at LACMA. One shows theirs in a distant room with a major Thomas Hart Benton painting in the foreground A VERY IMPORTANT MULTI-LEVELED DOCUMENT OF LOS ANGELES AND HOLLYWOOD CULTURAL HSTORYi The following is from her obituary in the Los Angeles Times upon her death in September 2010 at the age of 100 Gloria Stuart, a 1930s Hollywood leading lady who earned an Academy Award nomination for her first significant role in nearly 60 years — as Old Rose, the centenarian survivor of the Titanic in James Cameron’s 1997 Oscar-winning film — has died. She was 100. .......She devoted much of her time to designing and printing artists’ books (handmade, letter-press printed books in limited editions, with her own artwork and writing). Her work is in the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and other museums. Stuart, a founding member of the Screen Actors Guild who later became an accomplished painter and fine printer, died Sunday night at her West Los Angeles home, said her daughter, writer Sylvia Thompson. Stuart had been diagnosed with lung cancer five years ago. “She also was a breast cancer survivor,” Thompson said, “but she just paid no attention to illness. She was a very strong woman and had other fish to fry.” In July the actress was honored at an “Academy Centennial Celebration With Gloria Stuart” at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. “She was a charming and beautiful leading lady in the ‘30s, and I never understood why her career didn’t go further at that time,” film historian and critic Leonard Maltin, who interviewed Stuart on stage at the event, told The Times on Monday. As for Stuart’s high-profile comeback in “Titanic”: “She was thrilled by the attention that that performance brought her and really wanted to win that Oscar. I thought she hit just the right notes in that performance. She was wry and engaging.” As a glamorous blond actress under contract to Universal Studios and 20th Century Fox in the 1930s, Stuart appeared opposite Claude Rains in James Whale’s “The Invisible Man” and with Warner Baxter in John Ford’s “The Prisoner of Shark Island.” She also appeared with Eddie Cantor in “Roman Scandals,” with Dick Powell in Busby Berkeley’s “Gold Diggers of 1935” and with James Cagney in “Here Comes the Navy.” And she played romantic leads in two Shirley Temple movies, “Poor Little Rich Girl” and “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.” But mostly she played what Stuart later dismissed as “stupid parts with nothing to do” — “girl reporter, girl detective, girl nurse” — and “it became increasingly evident to me I wasn’t going to get to be a big star like Katharine Hepburn and Loretta Young.” After making 42 feature films between 1932 and 1939, Stuart’s latest studio contract, with 20th Century Fox, was not renewed. She appeared in only four films in the 1940s and retired from the screen in 1946. By 1974, “the blond lovely of the talkies” had become an entry in one of Richard Lamparski’s “Whatever Happened to” books. Writer-director Cameron’s $200-million “Titanic” changed that. Stuart played Rose Calvert, the 100-year-old Titanic survivor who shows up after modern-day treasure hunters searching through the wreckage of the sunken ship find a charcoal drawing of her wearing a priceless blue diamond necklace. Stuart’s performance as Old Rose frames the 1997 romantic- drama that starred Leonardo DiCaprio as lower-class artist Jack Dawson...

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...

ALL AT ONCE Size: 77 x 66 cm (including frame) Oil on Canvas A beautifully textured and confidently executed mid-century modernist figurative composition in oil, painted onto canva...

THE YOUNG PIANIST Size: 53 x 61 cm (including frame) Oil on Board A very pleasant mid-century composition of a well-decorated interior setting, executed in oil onto board. Dominati...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Aldro T. Hibbard Winter in the Valley Signed lower right Oil on canvas 24 x 30 inches Born in Falmouth, Massachusetts, Aldro Hibbard was an Impressionist landscape painter much con...

THE GARDENER Size: 52 x 45 cm (including frame) Oil on Canvas An expressive mid-century landscape composition, painted in oil onto canvas. The painting encapsulates a scene of quie...

MELLOWING Oil on Board Size: 40.5 x 49 cm (including frame) A wonderfully expressive and brilliantly executed figurative portrait composition, painted in oil onto board. Against a...

Kelley Carman Backlog (Still Life, Books, Reading, Hobby, Warm) Oil on Canvas Year: 2024 Size: 11.5 x 15.5 inches Framed Size: 24 x 20 inches Signed and titled COA provided *Frame...

SOUTHERN FARMERS Size: 41 x 49 cm (including frame) Oil on Canvas A subdued and soothing mid-century modernist style composition, executed in oil onto canvas by the established Swe...

FAMILY HOME Size: 50 x 68 cm (including frame) Oil on Canvas A wonderfully detailed modernist composition of an interior, painted in oil onto canvas and dated 1975. This charming n...

WHISPERS Mixed Media on Board Size: 30 x 37 cm (including frame) A wonderfully expressive and brilliantly executed figurative composition in mixed media (oil, watercolour gouache),...

FIGURES BY THE HARBOUR Oil on Board Size: 34 x 64 cm (including frame) Characterised by bold lines, vivid colours and distinct forms, this painting carries a modernist ethos. We s...

Still life with apples and bottle is a modern artwork realized by an Artist of the mid-20th Century. Mixed colored oil painting. Includes frame.

CAROUSEL JOY Oil on Board Size: 43 x 51 cm (including frame) A joyful mid-century composition that captures the vibrant energy of a carousel ring with children, executed in oil ont...

NUDE ON PURPLE CHAIR Oil on Canvas Size: 29.5 x 26.5 cm (including frame) A tender and contemplative composition of a nude portrait, painted in oil onto canvas. The artist explore...

"Looking Out" is a contemporary seascape with a young woman in white admiring the view. Kelly Carmody’s work has been widely exhibited and collected. One of her major figurative wor...

Near the sea. Cardboard, oil, 17x27 cm Laimdots Murnieks has said: "I am a sunny artist. The sun and a woman are the center of the world. It is not for nothing that the sun always c...

The universal farmers market is bustling with action. Geometric stalls with intense color coupled with contrasting blue arches creates the dynamism in this work of art. The Market #...

Flirty. 2006, canvas, mixed media, 100x30 cm

Sublimation or weightlessness. 2006, canvas, oil, 70x90 cm

Portrait of a Woman after Modigliani (see details verso) oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 36 x 24 inches provenance: private collection, England condition: a few minor scuffs but over...

Signed and Dated Modern Line Drawing Oil Painting of Nude Man. Louis Stettner (November 7, 1922 – October 13, 2016) was an American photographer of the 20th century whose work inclu...

The Labourers by Jacob Markiel (Polish 1911-2008) oil on canvas , glued on board, unframed board: 9 x 11 inches provenance: private collection, Marseille condition: a very few light ...

Portrait of a lady is a modern artwork realized by Artist of 19th century. Mixed colored oil painting on canvas. On the reverse: Pencil inscription partially covered on the upper m...

Tree-lined street is a modern artwork realized by Giovanni Antoci. Mixed colored painting.  Hand signed on the lower margin. Includes frame. 

THE CLASSROOM Size: 53 x 68 cm (including frame) Oil on Canvas A fun and richly detailed composition in oil, painted onto canvas and dated 1977. This playful oil painting depicts ...

FIGURES IN HATS Size: 29 x 44.5 cm (including frame) Oil on Canvas A well-executed mid-century modernist figurative composition, painted in oil onto canvas. Depicted here are 2 fi...

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...

Figure on blue background is a modern artwork realized by Pino Caruso in 1985. Mixed colored oil painting. Hand signed on lower margin. Signature and date on the back. Includes f...

Rabin Mondal Untitled ( Face ) Acrylic on paper 17.8 x 14 Inches 45.2 x 35.5 cm 2018 ( Unframed & Delivered ) Mondal was a clear observant of the various migrant workers who l...

Still life is a modern artwork realized by Cristianus in the mid-20th Century. Mixed colored oil painting on canvas. Includes frame.

K. Laxma Goud Untitled, Intaglio on paper 10.5 x 8 inches 26.7 x 20.3 cm 2021 ( Set of 2 Works ) ( Framed & Delivered ) Style : Goud displays versatility over a range of medium...

Jolanta Johnsson, experienced Polish artist, graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, PhD of fine arts, university teacher. She currently lives in Sweden. This is how she writ...

Seaside is a modern artwork realized by Egeo Venturi. Oil painting. Hand signed on the lower margin. Includes frame.

Ramananda Bandyopadhyay Untitled Acrylic on Canvas Board 12 x 15 inches 30.5 x 38 cm 2004 ( Framed & Delivered ) Inclusive of shipment without the frame. Style : Lyrical and...

Prokash Karmakar Untitled Acrylic on Paper 28 x 20 inches 71.1 x 50.8 cm 1990 ( Framed & Delivered ) Karmakar is best known for his landscapes and nudes, which are generally pain...

K. Laxma Goud Intaglio 12 x 9 inches 30.5 x 22.9 cm 2022 ( Framed & Delivered ) Style : Goud displays versatility over a range of mediums, from printmaking, drawing, watercolour,...

K. Laxma Goud Intaglio on Paper 6.5 x 10.5 inches 16.5 x 26.7 cm ( Unframed & Delivered ) Style : Goud displays versatility over a range of mediums, from printmaking, drawing, w...

Rabin Mondal King Acrylic on Paper 22 x 15 inches 55.8 x 38.1 cm 2018 ( Unframed & Delivered ) Mondal was a clear observant of the various migrant workers who lived along his h...

K. Laxma Goud Intaglio 13 x 10.5 inches 33 x 26.7 cm 2022 ( Set of 2 Works ) ( Framed & Delivered ) Style : Goud displays versatility over a range of mediums, from printmakin...

Prokash Karmakar Untitled ( Mother & Child ) Acrylic on Paper 28 x 20 inches 71.1 x 50.8 cm 1990 ( Framed & Delivered ) Karmakar is best known for his landscapes and nudes, which...

Ramananda Bandyopadhyay Untitled Mixed Media on Paper 14.5 x 10.5 inches 36.8 x 26.7 cm 2005 ( Framed & Delivered ) Inclusive of shipment without the frame. Style : Lyrical a...

Seascape is a modern artwork realized by Michele Ricciuti in 1980. Mixed colored oil painting on canvas. Hand signed on the lower margin. Signature and date on the back.

Trip to the lake is a modern artwork realized by French painter Pauline Minartz. Mixed colored oil painting on paper.

Abram Abraham Krol was born January 22, 1919, in Pabianice (Lodz), Poland. Abram Krol went to France in 1938 to study civil engineering at the University of Caen. In 1939 at the be...

Badri Narayan The Flower Water colour on Paper 8 x 8 inches 20.3 x 20.3 cm 8th April 1993 ( Framed & Delivered ) This work features in the Book on Badrinarayan Written by Ms. ...

Here is a small (10"x10" ) oil painting by Francis Pavy. Entitled " master accordionist from Crowley. There are many accordion masters from South Loui...