Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
POSTIMPRESSIONIST STYLE
In the revolutionary wake of Impressionism, artists like Vincent van Gogh, Georges Seurat, Paul Cézanne and Paul Gauguin advanced the style further while firmly rejecting its limitations. Although the artists now associated with Postimpressionist art did not work as part of a group, they collectively employed an approach to expressing moments in time that was even more abstract than that of the Impressionists, and they shared an interest in moving away from naturalistic depictions to more subjective uses of vivid colors and light in their paintings.
The eighth and final Impressionist exhibition was held in Paris in 1886, and Postimpressionism — also spelled Post-Impressionism — is usually dated between then and 1905. The term “Postimpressionism” was coined by British curator and art critic Roger Fry in 1910 at the “Manet and the Postimpressionists” exhibition in London that connected their practices to the pioneering modernist art of Édouard Manet. Many Postimpressionist artists — most of whom lived in France — utilized thickly applied, vibrant pigments that emphasized the brushstrokes on the canvas.
The Postimpressionist movement’s iconic works of art include van Gogh’s The Starry Night (1889) and Seurat’s A Sunday on La Grande Jatte (1884). Seurat’s approach reflected the experimental spirit of Postimpressionism, as he used Pointillist dots of color that were mixed by the eye of the viewer rather than the hand of the artist. Van Gogh, meanwhile, often based his paintings on observation, yet instilled them with an emotional and personal perspective in which colors and forms did not mirror reality. Alongside Mary Cassatt, Cézanne, Henri Matisse and Gauguin, the Dutch painter was a pupil of Camille Pissarro, the groundbreaking Impressionist artist who boldly organized the first independent painting exhibitions in late-19th-century Paris.
The boundary-expanding work of the Postimpressionist painters, which focused on real-life subject matter and featured a prioritization of geometric forms, would inspire the Nabis, German Expressionism, Cubism and other modern art movements to continue to explore abstraction and challenge expectations for art.
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Style: Post-Impressionist
"Rome, " Pointillist Woodcut
Located in Chicago, IL
This exquisite painting on wood entitled "Rome" was made by internationally renowned Chinese contemporary artist Ren Hui. Using a style that he calls "uncomplicated and honest, he ce...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Plywood
"Rome II, " Pointillist Woodcut
Located in Chicago, IL
This exquisite woodcut entitled "Rome II" was made by internationally renowned Chinese contemporary artist Ren Hui. Using a style that he calls "uncomplicated and honest, he carefull...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Plywood
The Pekingese (Le Pékinois), drawing of a dog by Georges Manzana Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Le Pékinois by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871 - 1961)
Charcoal on paper
41 x 49 cm (16 ¹/₈ x 19 ¹/₄ inches)
Signed lower centre, Manzana Pissarro
This work is accompanied by a cer...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
Urban Edge, Neo-expressionist black and white figurative artwork on paper
Located in Atlanta, GA
Welcome to Heritage, our carefully curated collection of French vintage and antique paintings. We scour the flea markets and fairs for these gems: poignant portraits of long-gone Me...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
20th Century Russian painting of Lenin by Yevgeny Danilevsky
By Evguéne Danilevsky
Located in London, GB
20th Century Russian painting of Lenin by Yevgeny Danilevsky
Russian, 20th Century
Height 60cm, width 80cm
This fine, perhaps politically motivated painting depicts Russian leader V...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Scuffle
Located in Miami, FL
An illustrator working in a painterly, narrative style as N. C. Wyeth, Howard Pyle, Dean Cornwell from the Golden Age Of Illustration. Surface quality is post impressionist with hea...
Category
1910s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Swinging Harmony" A Black Dancers" Couple by Edgar O'Kiechle - Oil Painting
Located in Pasadena, CA
"Swinging Harmony," is an oil painting on canvas by Edgar O'Kiechle. It transports viewers into a lively dance scene featuring a couple of black dancers swinging at the heart of the...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Nature morte - Huile sur toile, 50x38 cm.
By Isaac Antcher
Located in Nice, FR
Huile sur toile. Dimensions avec cadre: 71x63 cm.
Isaac Antcher est un peintre moldave né le 21 janvier 1899 à Peresecina et mort à Malakoff le 21 av...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Tree Cutters - Children Playing on a Fallen Tree - Saturday Evening Post?
By Joe Bowler
Located in Miami, FL
This golden age of illustration work was most likely done for an interior story illustration for the Saturday Evening Post. Joe Bowler paints it in a loose but academically correct ...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Casein, Wood Panel
Enfant dans un berceau
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Signed with initials upper left
Category
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Toits Rouges à Menton by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Landscape oil painting
Located in London, GB
Toits Rouges à Menton by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961)
Oil on board
40 x 56.5 cm (15 ¾ x 21 ⅞ inches)
Signed and dated lower left, Manzana Pissarro 1953
The last years of his...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Mother and Child in Tender Moment - Female Illustrator Golden Age
Located in Miami, FL
Female Illustrator of the Golden Age, Ruth Mary Hallock, paints a sensitive, heartwarming portrait of Mother and Child in a post-impressionist style. Richly saturated hues and gestur...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
La Voile Rose (Cognac) by H. Claude Pissarro - Post-Impressionist style painting
Located in London, GB
La Voile Rose (Cognac) by H. Claude Pissarro (b. 1935)
Oil on canvas
50 x 61 cm (19 ³/₄ x 24 inches)
Signed lower left, H. Claude Pissarro
This work is accompanied by a certificate ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bathing Group
Located in Sheffield, MA
John Edward Costigan, N.A.
American, 1888-1972
Bathing Group
Oil on canvas board
Signed ‘J.E. Costigan N.A.’ lower left
12 by 16 in. W/frame 20 by 24 i...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Carroussel
Located in Miami, FL
Carroussel is a painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist. This piece is a part of a flower series, defined by their distinct bright colors, satiny, silky, vib...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Subway works in Paris
Located in Roma, RM
Lionello Balestrieri (Cetona 1872 - 1958), The works of the subway in Paris
Oil painting on canvas 65 x 93 cm signed lower right, label from Galleria Pesaro, Milan, on the back.
Ex...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Neige au Manoir de Miettes (Le Parapluie Bleu) by H. Claude Pissarro - Painting
Located in London, GB
Neige au Manoir de Miettes (Le Parapluie Bleu) by H. Claude Pissarro (b. 1935)
Oil on canvas
50 x 61 cm (19 ³/₄ x 24 inches)
Signed lower left, H. Claude Pissarro
This work is accom...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
May Valley
Located in Miami, FL
May Valley is a colorful painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist, while she was in Seychelles for art residency. The artist uses bright green tons colors in ...
Category
1980s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Orchestra
Located in Miami, FL
Orchestra is a colorful painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist. The artist uses bright colors in this expressionist painting to show how she feels the music...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Le Mois des Moissons, Environs de Meulan by H. Claude Pissarro - Oil painting
Located in London, GB
Le Mois des Moissons, Environs de Meulan by H. Claude Pissarro (b. 1935)
Oil on canvas
50 x 61 cm (19 ³/₄ x 24 inches)
Signed lower right, H. Claude Pissarro
This work is accompanie...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Iris conversation
Located in Miami, FL
Iris conversation is a painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist. This piece is a part of a flower series, defined by their distinct bright colors, satiny, sil...
Category
1990s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Summer Holiday - Late 20th Century of Kids on the Beach by Muriel Archer
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Born on June 25 1911 - she died just before her 100th birthday, fond of drawing and painting from an early age, she did her first drawing when she was four years old. She later studi...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Film Noir Curse of the Golden Cross Magazine - Golden Age of Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Herbert Morton Stoops
American (1888 - 1948)
Curse of the Golden Cross
Magazine illustration, 1925
Oil on canvas
40 x 30 in.
Not signed
Work is framed
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Art Journalism - War Lessons, Illustration for Collier's, Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Marta Sawyers. Illustrator Journalist. She was sent to war-ravaged countries to “Paint the Story”.
What's unique here? This represents the work an Artist Journalist/War Correspondent...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Redhead Girl in Window with Flower Pots - Woman Illustrator
By Lorraine Fox
Located in Miami, FL
Redhead Girl in Window with Flower Pots by Lorraine Fox can be a joyful addition to your home. A beautiful redheaded young girl looks back at us from ...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Dancing Girls
Located in Sheffield, MA
Bencion (Benn) Rabinowitch
Poland 1905 - Paris 1989
Dancing Girls
Oil on Board
14 ½ in. by 21 in. W/frame 21 ½ in. by 28 in.
He came from a rabbinic family, his father was an ar...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Bouquet of Lilacs and Orange / Bouquet de lilas à l'orange
By Georges Anatolovitch de Pogedaieff
Located in London, GB
GEORGES ANATOLOVITCH DE POGEDAIEFF 1897-1971
Pogedaievska 1897 - 1971 Ménerbes (Russian/ French)
Title: Bouquet of Lilacs and Orange / Bouquet de lilas à l'orange, 1964
Technique:...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tulips
Located in Miami, FL
Tulips is a painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist. This piece is a part of a flower series, defined by their distinct bright colors, satiny, silky, vibrati...
Category
1990s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Le Marche a Grimaud
By Yvonne Canu
Located in New York, NY
Yvonne Canu (born 1930) is a French artist renowned for her abstract and geometric painting, often focusing on the interaction between color, form, and light. She emerged in the mid-...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ukupahla Praise Respect
Located in Cape Town, ZA
Sibusiso Duma, born in 1978 in Mbumbulu, Durban, is a prominent South African artist known for his distinctive approach to art. Beginning his creative journey as a child, Duma quickl...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The Arrival - New York - Post Impressionist Landscape Oil by Henri Le Sidaner
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed divisionist landscape oil on panel by French post impressionist painter Henri le Sidaner. This stunning piece depicts high rise buildings of New York at nighttime. Lights illuminate the windows in an otherwise dark scene. A steam boat sails along the river.
Signature:
Signed lower left
Dimensions:
Framed: 24.5"x20"
Unframed: 16"x11.5"
Provenance:
Louis Le Sidaner collection
Etienne Le Sidaner collection
Private collection, France
Exhibitions :
Paris, Musée Galliera, "Rétrospective Henri Le Sidaner", April 1948
Brussels, Galerie de l'Art Belge, "Rétrospective Henri Le Sidaner", April-May 1951
Literature:
This work is accompanied by a photo certificate of authenticity from Yann Farinaux Le Sidaner
This work will be included in the forthcoming supplement to the catalogue raisonne currently under preparation by Yann Farinaux Le Sidaner
This work is the only recorded painting...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Jeune Fille Pensive (Pensive Girl)" colorful interior portrait of a woman
Located in Austin, TX
A Post Impressionistic interior scene similar to the works of Matisse, painted by Albert Bertalan (1899 - 1957, Hungarian). The picture features a colorful home interior rendered wi...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Spring
Located in Rye, NY
Duong Viet Nam is a Vietnamese contemporary artist known for his Post-Impressionistic style of painting. He often captures city scenes during busy parts of the day. In his paintings...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Hanoi Style' Impressionist Painting
Located in Rye, NY
Duong Viet Nam is a Vietnamese contemporary artist known for his Post-Impressionistic style of painting. He often captures city scenes during busy parts of the day. In his paintings...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Village Landscape, Trees and The Square, Gassin.
Located in Cotignac, FR
An important oil on canvas village landscape, probably Gassin in the South of France, by noted Dutch painter Willem Anthonie 'Wim' Oepts. The painting carries the atelier stamp botto...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Carlotta
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Literature
Dorival, Bernard & Rouault, Isabelle, Rouault, L’Oeuvre peint(Monaco, 1988), vol. 2, p. 150, no. 1864 (illus.)
Executed in 1937, Carlotta belongs to a group of portraits...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Le carnaval du sage by René Magritte
Located in New Orleans, LA
René Magritte
1898-1967 Belgian
Le carnaval du sage
(The Sage’s Carnival)
Signed “Magritte” (lower right); titled and dated "Le carnaval du sage 1947" (en verso)
Oil on canvas
The enigmatic paintings of René Magritte have become some of the most familiar and celebrated of the Surrealist movement. Among the most influential of the Surrealist painters of the 20th century, Magritte is an artist of international renown, as beloved for his popular appeal as he is for the psychological intensity of his works. The present oil on canvas, entitled Le carnaval du sage, was executed in 1947 at the height of his career, and it is a tour-de-force example of the haunting, mysterious scenes that comprise his oeuvre.
Painted in the years following the Second World War, Le carnaval du sage showcases several recurring themes from Magritte’s oeuvre. Chiefly, a juxtaposition between the visible and the hidden is keenly felt. Throughout his career, Magritte explores the psychological obsession with revealing what is hidden, particularly with regard to the human face. In his Le fils de l’homme, he obscures the face of a man in a bowler hat with an apple, while his Les amants (Metropolitan Museum of Art) conceals the faces of two lovers with white sheets. In Le carnaval du sage, Magritte juxtaposes the blatant nudity of his central figure by masking her face, simultaneously revealing and concealing her from the viewer.
The work also incorporates two of Magritte’s most common tropes – the glass of water and the baguette. Lending the scene a strange sense of domesticity, they appear infinitely familiar and distinctly out of place, and thus heighten the uncanny effect of Magritte’s composition. In the background hovers a ghost obscured by a sheet, a figure which was of particular fascination to Magritte beginning in 1946. He once wrote to his fellow Surrealist Paul Nougé: "I saw in a dream an answer to the problem of the ghost: the traditional ghost draped...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"The Clown", 20th Century Gouache on Cardboard by Spanish Artist Celso Lagar
By Celso Lagar
Located in Madrid, ES
CELSO LAGAR
Spanish, 1891 - 1966
THE CLOWN
signed and dated "Lagar 52" (lower right)
gouache on cardboard
10-5/8 x 8 inches (27 x 20.5 cm.)
PROVENANCE
Private French Collector
Cel...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Cardboard
Fishing Harbor, Brittiny
By Hayley Lever
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right and dated 1930.
Lever’s “Fishing Harbor in Brittany” is as much a scene celebrating the boats and quaint architecture of coastal France, as it is a nod to its ...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Place de la République, 20th Century Oil on Canvas by Edouard Léon Cortès
Located in Madrid, ES
EDOUARD LÉON CORTÈS
French 1882 - 1969
PLACE DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE
signed "EDOUARD CORTÈS." (lower right)
oil on canvas
19-3/4 x 25-1/2 inches (50 x 64.5 cm.)
framed: 27-3/4 x 33-3/8 inches (70 x 84.5 cm.)
PROVENANCE
Private Collector, Madrid
An elegant night view of the Parisian Republic Square, with amazing light effects that catch us.
This work executed based on brushstrokes of long and safe strokes that make the forms vibrate with vivid color.
Parisian nightlife is trapped in this corner of Paris. The monumental sculpture that symbolizes freedom and that presides over the square serves as a reference behind the tram between a light chiaroscuro. Meanwhile, the effervecent and lively life of the cafes that surround it vibrate strongly with its bright lights.
Èdouard León Cortés (1882–1969) was a French post-impressionist artist of French and Spanish ancestry. He is known as "Le Poète Parisien de la Peinture" or "the Parisian Poet of Painting" because of his diverse Paris cityscapes in a variety of weather and night settings.
Cortes was born on August 6, 1882, in Lagny-sur-Marne, about twenty miles east of Paris. His father, Antonio Cortés, had been a painter for the Spanish Royal...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Le Panier de Fleurs, L'Arc de Triomphe
Located in Missouri, MO
Francois Gerome (b. 1895)
"Le Panier de Fleurs, L'Arc de Triomphe" c. 1950
Oil on Canvas
Signed "F. Gerome" Lower Right
Canvas Size: 20 x 24 inches
Framed Size: approx. 26 1/2 x 30 ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Quai de Louvre
Located in Missouri, MO
Antoine Blanchard
"Quai de Louvre"
Oil on Canvas
Signed
Canvas Size: approx 13 x 18
Framed Size: approx. 22 x 26
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ocean Park Bench
By Ron Blumberg
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting qn exceptional oil on panel by American artist Ron Blumberg(1908-2002)
Ocean Park bench, is an original oil on panel, signed, c.1957, painted ...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Guitar Serenade
By Ron Blumberg
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting a wonderful example from the late `1950's period of American artist Ron Blumberg(1908-2002.)
"Guitar Serenade", is an original oil on panel, signed, c.1959, with an image...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Practice Session
By Ron Blumberg
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting an original oil painting from the, “Post Impressionist” period, c.1957, of American artist Ron Blumberg, “The Practice Session.”
After his classical training in Paris, Bl...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Before the Mirror
By Ron Blumberg
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting original oil on panel by American artist Ron Blumberg (1908-2002.)
"Before the Mirror", is a large original oil on panel, signed, c.1957...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Two Models
By Ron Blumberg
Located in West Hollywood, CA
About the Artist
A rare original oil on canvas by American artist Ron Blumberg(1908-2002.)
"Two Models" is an original oil on panel, signed, c.1957. ...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Trapeeze Act
By Ron Blumberg
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting an outstanding, theatrical oil painting by American artist Ron Blumberg.
American artist Ron Blumberg was classically trained at ...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
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