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Style: Post-War
"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

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

Materials

Canvas, Paper, Gouache

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)
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1960s Post-War Figurative Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

"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...
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20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings

Materials

Pastel, Archival Paper

Rabbi holding Torah, 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)
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Late 20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

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

Materials

Mixed Media

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)
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Late 20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Rabbi, Modern Oil Painting on Masonite by Donald Roy Purdy
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Donald Roy Purdy, American (1924 - ) Title: Rabbi 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

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...
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1960s Post-War Figurative Paintings

Materials

Enamel

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

"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

"Soil Au Petit"
Located in Austin, TX
By Gérard Valtier Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 21" x 25" Framed This painting by Gérard Valtier (1950), titled "Soil au Peptit," depicts an elegant outdoor gathering scene, bathed in...
Category

Late 20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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, ...
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20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media

"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

"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

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

"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...
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20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings

Materials

Pastel, Archival Paper

"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

"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...
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20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"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

"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

"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...
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20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings

Materials

Pastel, Archival Paper

"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

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

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

Forgotten
Located in Roma, RM
Giovanni Costantini (Rome 1872 - 1947), FORGOTTEN Oil painting on canvas 155 x 90 cm, signed lower left, titled on back. In the years between 1915 and 1921 he painted 45 paintings ...
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Early 20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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...
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20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

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...
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Early 20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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...
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20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings

Materials

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...
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1980s Post-War Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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...
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Early 20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Making Firends", Galina Pshenitsina, Post-War, Figurative, Oil/Canvas, 37x44in.
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...
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Early 2000s Post-War Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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

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

Materials

Mixed Media

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, "...
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Late 20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

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...
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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 ...
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20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

"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...
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20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

"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...
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20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings

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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...
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20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings

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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...
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20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings

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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...
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20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings

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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...
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20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings

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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...
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20th Century Post-War Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

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