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Style: Post-War
Abstract Figural Composition
Located in Astoria, NY
Elfi Schuselka (Austrian, b. 1940), Abstract Figural Composition, Mixed Media on Paper, mounted on board, circa 1965, apparently unsigned, unframed. 8.5" H x 11" W x 0.75" D. Provena...
Category
1960s Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon, Mixed Media, Oil, Board
Figure in Moorland Water VI, 2011
Located in Atlanta, GA
Maxwell Doig was born in Huddersfield. He graduated from Manchester School of Art in 1988 with a BA in Fine Art and went on to pursue his postgraduate stu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
"Le Chat III" Oil Painting 14" x 20" inch (circa 1950) by Zohra Efflatoun
Located in Culver City, CA
"Le Chat III" Oil Painting 14" x 20" inch (circa 1950) by Zohra Efflatoun
Not signed
Zohra Efflatoun came from an artistic family. Her half-sister Inji was a renowned painter from ...
Category
20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Alirio Palacios Paisaje azul, 1997, Natural pigments on paper mounted on wood
Located in Miami, FL
Alirio Palacios
Paisaje azul, 1997
Natural pigments on paper mounted on wood
150 x 160 cm
59 x 62.9 in.
The artwork is signed and dated on the fro...
Category
1990s Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Villageoise II" Pastel on Paper 12" x 20" inch (1987) by Inji Efflatoun
Located in Culver City, CA
"Villageoise II" Pastel on Paper 12" x 20" inch (1987) by Inji Efflatoun
Signed and dated
Inji Eflatoun pursued free studies in art. Since 1942, she has participated in the exhibi...
Category
20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Rabbi, Oil Painting by Donald Roy Purdy
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Donald Roy Purdy, American (1924 - )
Title: Rabbi 2
Medium: Oil on Masonite, signed l.r.
Size: 36 x 24 in. (91.44 x 60.96 cm)
Category
Late 20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Rabbi holding Torah, Modern Oil Painting by Donald Roy Purdy
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Donald Roy Purdy, American (1924 - )
Title: Rabbi holding Torah
Medium: Oil on Masonite, signed l.r.
Size: 36 x 24 in. (91.44 x 60.96 cm)
Category
Late 20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
"El Sayyad" Pastel on Paper Painting 12" x 8" inch by Inji Efflatoun
Located in Culver City, CA
"El Sayyad" Pastel on Paper Painting 12" x 8" inch by Inji Efflatoun
circa 1960
Signed
Inji Eflatoun pursued free studies in art. Since 1942, she has participated in the exhibitio...
Category
20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Rabbi, Oil Painting by Donald Roy Purdy
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Donald Roy Purdy, American (1924 - )
Title: Rabbi
Year: circa 1960
Medium: Oil on Masonite, signed l.r.
Size: 36 x 24 in. (91.44 x 60.96 cm)
Category
1960s Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
$6,000 Sale Price
20% Off
"In the Fields" Pastel Painting 8" x 12" in (circa 1970) by Inji Efflatoun
Located in Culver City, CA
"In the Fields" Pastel Painting 8" x 12" in (circa 1970) by Inji Efflatoun
Stamped by artist's estate
Not signed
Inji Eflatoun pursued free studies in art. Since 1942, she has par...
Category
20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
White Mask on Violet Ground - Mythic mask mountain -
Located in Berlin, DE
Hermann Schütte (1893 Osnabrück - 1973 Hamburg), White Mask on Violet Ground. Enameled copper plate on wooden base, 37 x 29.5 cm, monogrammed and dated "S[chütte] [19]62" in the lowe...
Category
1960s Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
$2,752 Sale Price
20% Off
"Bathing Nude III" Watercolor Painting 24" x 17" inch (1959) by Kawkab Youssef
Located in Culver City, CA
"Bathing Nude III" Watercolor Painting 24" x 17" inch (1959) by Kawkab Youssef
Signed and dated 1959
A short history of Kawkab Youssef El-Assal:
Wit...
Category
20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Le Chat II" Oil Painting 20" x 17" inch by Zohra Efflatoun
Located in Culver City, CA
"Le Chat II" Oil Painting 20" x 17" inch by Zohra Efflatoun
signed & dated
Zohra Efflatoun came from an artistic family. Her half-sister Inji was a r...
Category
20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Boy from Mansos, " Karl Zerbe, Green Figurative "Degenerate" Art Collage
By Karl Zerbe
Located in New York, NY
Karl Zerbe (1903 - 1972)
Boy from Mansos, 1963
Collage and acrylic on canvas
35 x 23 inches
Signed lower right
Provenance:
Lee Nordness Galleries, New York
Karl Zerbe was born on September 16, 1903 in Berlin, Germany. The family lived in Paris, France from 1904–1914, where his father was an executive in an electrical supply concern. In 1914 they moved to Frankfurt, Germany where they lived until 1920. Karl Zerbe studied chemistry in 1920 at the Technische Hochschule in Friedberg, Germany.
From 1921 until 1923 he lived in Munich, where he studied painting at the Debschitz School, mainly under Josef Eberz. From 1924 until 1926 Karl Zerbe worked and traveled in Italy on a fellowship from the City of Munich. In 1932 his oil painting titled, ‘’Herbstgarten’’ (autumnal garden), of 1929, was acquired by the National-Galerie, Berlin; in 1937, the painting was destroyed by the Nazis as "Degenerate art...
Category
1960s Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$2,800 Sale Price
30% Off
Abstract Figural Composition
Located in Astoria, NY
Elfi Schuselka (Austrian, b. 1940), Abstract Figural Composition, Mixed Media on Paper, circa 1965, apparently unsigned, wood frame. Image: 10.5" H x 7.25; frame: 11.75" H x 8.25" W ...
Category
1960s Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Lacquer, Oil Crayon, Mixed Media, Oil
"Alpine Village II" Pastel Painting 9" x 12" in (1975) by Inji Efflatoun
Located in Culver City, CA
"Alpine Village II" Pastel Painting 9" x 12" in (1975) by Inji Efflatoun
signed & dated
Inji Eflatoun pursued free studies in art. Since 1942, she has participated in the exhibitio...
Category
20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Untitled
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Nathan Oliveira. "Untitled" is a Bay Area Figurative Painting, oil on canvas in a brown and tan palette by American artist Nathan Oliveira. The artwork is signed in the lower right, "Oliveira 64”.
A Californian whose work is of preeminent importance during the post war period, Oliveira is most often associated with Park, Diebenkorn and the other artists with whom he sketched early in his career. Yet it was not an oversight when Oakland Museum director Paul Mills chose not to include Oliveira in the 1957 exhibition “Contemporary Bay Area Figurative Painting.” All came to figuration by initiating a sophisticated dialogue with abstraction, yet it is Oliveira, the often characterized ambivalent loner among Bay Area artists whose work is most often compared to Alberto Giacometti, Francis Bacon, or Willem de Kooning with whom he shared walls and space at The Images of Man exhibition held in New York at the Museum of Modern Art in 1959.
During the early years, Oliveira’s lone figures often suggested an existential angst similar to that of Giacometti, but there was also a weightlessness and a transcendent aura that envelopes these figures; they appear as elemental, universal and eternal projections of selfless consciousness better understood within the bodiless realm of metaphysics. These qualities would remain in his work throughout his long career, yet he would find other themes to explore — the natural world where the essential nature of birds and animals exist in equal profundity with their human counterparts, the transient world of evanescent perception when memory must reconstruct momentary experience, and later, the ‘site’ paintings and monoprints that suggest the abandoned remnants of a long-lost civilization or tribe uncovered at an archeological dig.
Through and through, flesh to bones, and bones to dust Nathan Oliveira has left us with a legacy of art that will surely remain untarnished by time or changing trends. His work exists within a realm rarely achieved by artists striving in a similar mode of expression. Unclouded by ego or wayward sentiment, it is also in the warmth and humble nature...
Category
Late 20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$125,000
"The Three Hebrew Lads Going into the Furnace"
By Paul Shimon
Located in Astoria, NY
Paul Shimon (American, 1919-2011), "The Three Hebrew Lads Going into the Furnace", Gouache on Paper, 1948, depicting a scene from the Book of Daniel, signed and dated lower right, ti...
Category
1940s Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
"Bathing Nude I" Watercolor Painting 24" x 17" inch (1959) by Kawkab Youssef
Located in Culver City, CA
"Bathing Nude I" Watercolor Painting 24" x 17" inch (1959) by Kawkab Youssef
Signed and dated 1959
A short history of Kawkab Youssef El-Assal:
With ...
Category
20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Untitled (Abstract Figure Study)
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Untitled (Abstract Figure Study)" is an abstract figurative Post War mixed media on paper painting by Hans Burkhardt in 1979. The artwork is 22 1/2 x 15 inches and, with the frame, ...
Category
20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
"Mother and Children"
Located in Austin, TX
This sweet and sentimental painting by Charles Shaw depicts an idyllic scene of a mother watching her children play in a field. One of the children holds up a flower he found to his ...
Category
20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Swiss Countryside II" Landscape Oil Painting 8" x 12" inch by Inji Efflatoun
Located in Culver City, CA
"Swiss Countryside II" Landscape Oil Painting 8" x 12" inch by Inji Efflatoun
circa 1950
Inji Eflatoun pursued free studies in art. Since 1942, she has participated in the exhibiti...
Category
20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
"Kafr Shokr Farmhouse" Pastel Painting 10" x 12" in (1978) by Inji Efflatoun
Located in Culver City, CA
"Kafr Shokr Farmhouse" Pastel Painting 10" x 12" in (1978) by Inji Efflatoun
Inji Eflatoun pursued free studies in art. Since 1942, she has participated in the exhibitions of the Av...
Category
20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Segreto
Located in Atlanta, GA
Robert Carroll was born in 1934 and was predominantly inspired by the 1950s growing up. Abstract Expressionism prevailed in the 1950s as a primary method of painting, and explored id...
Category
20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$3,900
"Alpine Village III" Pastel on Paper Painting 10" x 12" in by Inji Efflatoun
Located in Culver City, CA
"Alpine Village III" Pastel on Paper Painting 10" x 12" in by Inji Efflatoun
signed & dated
Inji Eflatoun pursued free studies in art. Since 1942, she has participated in the exhib...
Category
20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Figure in a Lanscape
Located in London, GB
Oil on board, 62cm x 42cm, (70cm x 50cm framed). The picture is in good condition.
Plummer trained at the Royal Academy Schools in the early 1950s, championed by Stanley Spencer and Sir Herbert Read, he was the recipient of the coveted Leverhulme Scholarship. In a mixed career which included illustration work for The National Trust, anatomical illustration for Guys Hospital and teaching, painting ran parallel to his commercial work. Plummer specialised in the medium of egg tempera, as well as oil painting, a technique little used since the frescos of the Renaissance, he often worked on a large scale, but in tremendous detail, combining Classical iconography and formal composition with visual exploration evocative of William Blake and...
Category
1980s Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
In the trenches
Located in Roma, RM
Giovanni Costantini (Rome 1872 - 1947), IN TRINCEA
Oil painting on canvas 156 x 170 cm, signed lower left, titled on back.
In the years between 1915 and 1921 he painted 45 painting...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstract Figural Composition
Located in Astoria, NY
Elfi Schuselka (Austrian, b. 1940), Abstract Figural Composition, Mixed Media with Collage Elements, circa 1965, apparently unsigned, wood frame. Image: 9" H x 10.5; frame: 10" H x 1...
Category
1960s Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Mixed Media
Flute Player
Located in Astoria, NY
Naondo Nakamura (Japanese, 1905-1981), Flute Player, Gouache on Paper laid to Canvas, signed with seal lower left, Angle du Faubourg Galerie d'Art label to verso, unframed. 25.75" H ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Gouache
Bacchanal
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Irving Norman. "Bacchanal" is a macabre social surrealism painting, oil on canvas in a dark palette of reds, blues, and blacks by artist Irving Norman. The artwork is u...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$125,000
Figure on rectangle
Located in Atlanta, GA
Maxwell Doig was born in Huddersfield. He graduated from Manchester School of Art in 1988 with a BA in Fine Art and went on to pursue his postgraduate stu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Figure in Moorland Water V, 2011
Located in Atlanta, GA
Maxwell Doig was born in Huddersfield. He graduated from Manchester School of Art in 1988 with a BA in Fine Art and went on to pursue his postgraduate stu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Hammock, 2010
Located in Atlanta, GA
Maxwell Doig was born in Huddersfield. He graduated from Manchester School of Art in 1988 with a BA in Fine Art and went on to pursue his postgraduate stu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Red Boat II, 2006
Located in Atlanta, GA
Maxwell Doig was born in Huddersfield. He graduated from Manchester School of Art in 1988 with a BA in Fine Art and went on to pursue his postgraduate stu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
The trench filled in
Located in Roma, RM
Giovanni Costantini (Rome 1872 - 1947), THE TRINCEA COLMATA
Oil painting on canvas 113 x 203 cm, signed lower left, titled on back.
In the years between 1915 and 1921 he painted 45...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Spring 1945", Galina Pshenitsina, Post-War, Figurative, 38x31, Impressionist
Located in Dallas, TX
Galina Vasilevna Pshenitsina was born in 1940 in the town of Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod). She began her studies at the Art School named after Johanson in St. Petersburg. In 1959, she...
Category
1980s Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Letter
Located in Roma, RM
Giovanni Costantini (Rome 1872 - 1947), THE LETTER
Oil painting on canvas 93 x 88 cm, signed lower left, titled on back.
In the years between 1915 and 1921 he painted 45 paintings ...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Alpine Village I" Pastel on Paper Painting 10" x 12" in by Inji Efflatoun
Located in Culver City, CA
"Alpine Village III" Pastel on Paper Painting 10" x 12" in by Inji Efflatoun
signed & dated
Inji Eflatoun pursued free studies in art. Since 1942, she has participated in the exhib...
Category
20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Ritratto di Camillo Mastrocinque
Located in Atlanta, GA
Robert Carroll was born in 1934 and was predominantly inspired by the 1950s growing up. Abstract Expressionism prevailed in the 1950s as a primary method of painting, and explored id...
Category
20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Jae Kon Park. "Untitled" is a figurative painting, oil on canvas in blues and browns by Korean, Post-War artist Jae Kon Park. The artwork is signed in the lower left, "...
Category
Late 20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$25,000
Figure with Plaited Hair on Floorboards III, 2011
Located in Atlanta, GA
Maxwell Doig was born in Huddersfield. He graduated from Manchester School of Art in 1988 with a BA in Fine Art and went on to pursue his postgraduate stu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Figure in Moorland Water IV, 2011
Located in Atlanta, GA
Maxwell Doig was born in Huddersfield. He graduated from Manchester School of Art in 1988 with a BA in Fine Art and went on to pursue his postgraduate stu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Still Water Figure, 2012
Located in Atlanta, GA
Maxwell Doig was born in Huddersfield. He graduated from Manchester School of Art in 1988 with a BA in Fine Art and went on to pursue his postgraduate stu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Figure with Plaited Hair on White Sheet, 2010
Located in Atlanta, GA
Maxwell Doig was born in Huddersfield. He graduated from Manchester School of Art in 1988 with a BA in Fine Art and went on to pursue his postgraduate stu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Turkish Beach Scene, 1966 - Euan Uglow (Oil on Panel) Twentieth Century Painting
By Euan Uglow
Located in London, GB
Turkish Beach Scene, 1966 - Euan Uglow (Oil on Panel) Twentieth Century Painting
Euan Uglow (1932-2000)
Turkish Beach Scene, 1966
Inscribed ‘Euan Uglow, Oil’ on label on reverse
Oil...
Category
1960s Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Dancing Señoritas
Located in Austin, TX
This painting by Charles Shaw depicts a group of Latin women dancing on a dance floor wearing traditional dresses. The environment of the scene is obscured in the composition.
20" x ...
Category
20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Price Upon Request
"Cats and Coffins" Oil Painting 15" x 17" inch (1971) by Zohra Efflatoun
Located in Culver City, CA
"Cats and Coffins" Oil Painting 15" x 17" inch (1971) by Zohra Efflatoun
Zohra Efflatoun came from an artistic family. Her half-sister Inji was a renowned painter from Cairo. Whereas Zohra, who lived in Alexandria, studied under the patronage of the Alexandrian pioneer painters Adham and Seif Wanly...
Category
20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Le Chat V" Oil Painting 20" x 14" inch (1971) by Zohra Efflatoun
Located in Culver City, CA
"Le Chat V" Oil Painting 20" x 14" inch (1971) by Zohra Efflatoun
signed & dated
Zohra Efflatoun came from an artistic family. Her half-sister Inji was a renowned painter from Cairo. Whereas Zohra, who lived in Alexandria, studied under the patronage of the Alexandrian pioneer painters Adham and Seif Wanly...
Category
20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Cairo Street Corner" Oil Painting 39" x 28" inch (1974) by Zohra Efflatoun
Located in Culver City, CA
"Cairo Street Corner" Oil Painting 39" x 28" inch (1974) by Zohra Efflatoun
signed & dated
Zohra Efflatoun came from an artistic family. Her half-sister Inji was a renowned painter from Cairo. Whereas Zohra, who lived in Alexandria, studied under the patronage of the Alexandrian pioneer painters Adham and Seif Wanly...
Category
20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Contemplating" Oil Painting 27" x 19" inch by Zohra Efflatoun
Located in Culver City, CA
"Contemplating" Oil Painting 27" x 19" inch by Zohra Efflatoun
Signed
Zohra Efflatoun came from an artistic family. Her half-sister Inji was a renowned painter from Cairo. Whereas Zohra, who lived in Alexandria, studied under the patronage of the Alexandrian pioneer painters Adham and Seif Wanly...
Category
20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
"Le Chat I" Oil Painting 20" x 19" inch (1959) by Zohra Efflatoun
Located in Culver City, CA
"Le Chat I" Oil Painting 20" x 19" inch (1959) by Zohra Efflatoun
signed & dated
Zohra Efflatoun came from an artistic family. Her half-sister Inji w...
Category
20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
"Stroll in the Park" Oil Painting 20" x 28" inch (1970) by Zohra Efflatoun
Located in Culver City, CA
"Stroll in the Park" Oil Painting 20" x 28" inch (1970) by Zohra Efflatoun
signed & dated
Zohra Efflatoun came from an artistic family. Her half-sist...
Category
20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Steel Factory" Oil Painting 39" x 28" inch (1967) by Zohra Efflatoun
Located in Culver City, CA
"Steel Factory" Oil Painting 39" x 28" inch (1967) by Zohra Efflatoun
signed & dated
Zohra Efflatoun came from an artistic family. Her half-sister In...
Category
20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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