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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
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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Nu Assise by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Nude painting
Located in London, GB
Nu Assise by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952) Oil on canvas
 55 x 47 cm (21 ⅝ x 18 ½ inches) 
Signed lower left, Ludovic Rodo
 Executed circa 1910 This work is accompanied by a cer...
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1910s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Blooming
Located in Miami, FL
Her work with signs, symbols and esoteric spirituality reflects her passion for the ancient past. Her earlier works done in shallow relief, break down “form” into the most basic elem...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Seychelles Granite II
Located in Miami, FL
Seychelles Granite II is a colorful painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist, while she was in Seychelles for art residency. The artist uses bright colors in ...
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1980s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, 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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The Scene
Located in West Hollywood, CA
A black and white pointillism feminist figurative painting of Marie Antoinette by artist Maurizio Battifora on view at the "GO LOCO" exhibition at M...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

The Scene
The Scene
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"Awaken 3" Dark Textured Figurative painting by Haleh Mashian
Located in West Hollywood, CA
In Haleh Mashian's piece, "Awaken 3," a portrayal unfolds as the artist captures the countenance of a man who appears to have transcended the pervasive cloud of forgetfulness and dis...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel

"Awaken 1" Dark Textured Figurative painting by Haleh Mashian
Located in West Hollywood, CA
In "Awaken 1," the observer encounters the penetrating gaze of a male figure bathed in inviting warm tones, while the shadows contrast with cool blues and purples. The artist, Haleh ...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel

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...
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1990s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Introspective Woman / Actress on Movie Set. Mid Century Art, Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Lorraine Fox was an American illustrator and commercial artist who illustrated magazines, book covers, and advertisements. Among the magazines, she illustrated for were Woman's Day, ...
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1960s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache, Board, Pencil

The Climb, colorful abstract patterns w figures, earthy red tones
Located in Brooklyn, NY
One of a series on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Here they make the treacherous climb out of the underworld: Now thro' the noiseless throng their way they bend, And both with pa...
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21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Odalisque à la Plume Rose - Nude Cabaret Dancer with Feathers
By Jacqueline Marval
Located in Miami, FL
Jacqueline Marval was close friends with Kees van Dongen and her work is of the same school as, Matisse and Marie Laurencin. Les Odalisques is quite contemporary looking with it's main figure having joyful life and vitality to her. Some refer to her as a Fauve and some as a post-impressionist. Clearly, she is an overlooked female artist. This work is over...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Les homards
Located in Miami, FL
Her work with signs, symbols and esoteric spirituality reflects her passion for the ancient past and represents a symbolic return to the ground from which we emerged. Her work create...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Post- Impressionist Venetian Nude Painting the Bathing Nymphs Signed Seibezzi
Located in Rome, IT
“Bathing Nymphs,” Oil on Canvas cm 115×110 with frame cm 140×135 Fioravante Seibezzi (Venice, 1906-1974), Post-Impressionist Venetian painter, he devoted himself to landscape en plein air, translating the immediacy of impressionism through pure, bright colors. His debut at the Venice Biennale in 1938, participates in the Quadrennial Roman (1931, 1935, 1948, 1951, 1959) and several exhibitions abroad. He received important awards during his long career. In 2010 the exhibition “Settepittori Settemondi. Palazzo Carminati La Bohème “at the Maximilian Tower of St. Erasmus, Venice, sponsored by the Cultural Paolo Rizzi in collaboration with the Institution Lagoon Park – City of Venice. One hundred works from a single collector who chose Aldo Bergamini, Neno Mori, Marco Novati...
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20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Mother & Children - Mid 20th Century Impressionist Piece 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...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media

The Tree Cutters - Children Playing on a Fallen Tree - Saturday Evening Post?
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 ...
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1960s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Gesso, Casein, Wood Panel

Redhead Girl in Window with Flower Pots - Woman Illustrator
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 ...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

No Sad Songs
Located in New York, NY
Pointillist painter Alec Montroy depicts a crowd assembled beneath the marquee of the Broadway musical The Phantom of the Opera in his painting “No Sad Songs,” with theatergoers walk...
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20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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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...
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1970s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media

Child in Prayer Cover of Good Housekeeping Magazine
Located in Miami, FL
Famed female illustrator Jessie Willcox Smith paints the " Ideal Child" in a spiritual moment for the Christmas cover of Good Housekeeping. The accompl...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media, Gouache

Meaning & Nothingness #8
Located in Bozeman, MT
By placing figures into fantastical landscapes, I allow the viewer a glimpse into what might be reality, or not. This practice allows me to push the boundaries of what a past/present...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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House Paint, Panel, Archival Paper

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...
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20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Reclining woman with man in background illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Most likely for a magazine like Saturday Evening Post interior editorial spread. The empty space to the right was for the art director to surprint type. The empty space acts as a com...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

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...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media

Post- Impressionist Venetian Nude Painting the Bathing Nymphs Signed Seibezzi
Located in Rome, IT
“Bathing Nymphs,” Oil on Canvas cm 115×110 with frame cm 140×135 Fioravante Seibezzi (Venice, 1906-1974), Post-Impressionist Venetian painter, he devoted himself to landscape en plein air, translating the immediacy of impressionism through pure, bright colors. His debut at the Venice Biennale in 1938, participates in the Quadrennial Roman (1931, 1935, 1948, 1951, 1959) and several exhibitions abroad. He received important awards during his long career. In 2010 the exhibition “Settepittori Settemondi. Palazzo Carminati La Bohème “at the Maximilian Tower of St. Erasmus, Venice, sponsored by the Cultural Paolo Rizzi in collaboration with the Institution Lagoon Park – City of Venice. One hundred works from a single collector who chose Aldo Bergamini, Neno Mori, Marco Novati...
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20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Bouquet of Lilacs and Orange / Bouquet de lilas à l'orange
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:...
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1960s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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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 ...
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1980s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Sunflower fields
Located in Miami, FL
Sunflower fields is a painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist. This piece is a part of a flower series, defined by their disti...
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1990s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Dipinto post impressionista figurativo toscano del XX secolo
Located in Florence, IT
il dipinto (olio su tela 44.5 x 35 cm; with cornice in legno 64 x 54,5) è firmato Maccari in basso a sinistra e titolato "L'insidia" e datato 1956 a penna sul retro. La scena raffigu...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Drunk man at party, Golden Age of Hollywood
Located in Miami, FL
During the Golden Age of Hollywood no illustrator chronicled the great stars, pin-ups and good girls better than Jaro Fabry, Work is Framed i...
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1940s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor

Picnic by the Seine - Impressionist Figurative Oil by Albert Dubois-Pillet
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on paper laid on board figures in landscape circa 1890 by French Neo-Impressionist painter Albert Dubois-Pillet. This pointillist piece depicts and elegant couple enjoying...
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1890s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board, Laid Paper

Le Marche a Grimaud
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-...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

"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...
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Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

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'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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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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...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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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...
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1930s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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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...
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20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

"The Clown", 20th Century Gouache on Cardboard by Spanish Artist 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...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Gouache, Cardboard

Fishing Harbor, Brittiny
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 ...
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1930s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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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...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Boulevard de la Madeleine on a Snowy Day", Oil on Canvas by Édouard Cortès
Located in Madrid, ES
EDOUARD LÉON CORTÈS French 1882 - 1969 BOULEVARD DE LA MADELEINE ON A SNOWY DAY signed "Edouard Cortès" (lower right) oil on canvas 19-3/4 x 25-1/2 inches (50 x 64.5 cm.) framed: 27-...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

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 ...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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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
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Guitar Serenade
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...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Two Models
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. ...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Trapeeze Act
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting an outstanding, theatrical oil painting by American artist Ron Blumberg. American artist Ron Blumberg was classically trained at ...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

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